We just looked at our first quarter numbers yesterday.
Sales are down 40% over this time last year. And last year SUCKED.
We just looked at our first quarter numbers yesterday.
Sales are down 40% over this time last year. And last year SUCKED.
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Yah, that’s what I’ve seen on the sales side as well. I’ve had more jobs in sales in this recession than I care to admit and at every one of them the numbers have been falling. One job I switched because they didn’t make payroll two checks in a row. Had to hold the check over the weekend to the Monday following twice. Haven’t heard anyone say, “yup, it’s turned around for us now.” Most recent job was a 4 year old startup where the year before they had a puff piece published that they were going to expand their sales force from 30 to 70 in the upcoming year (the sort of puff piece that the “start a business and sell it” types know how to get done for them). When I came in they had 28 salesmen . . . 3 months into the next year after they allegedly started with 30 and were expanding to 70.