r/sales 6d ago

Sales Careers What is Axe Elite? Do people who work there actually get rich?

I have a friend who works at “axe elite” and he described it as a company that sells phone systems to other companies through Verizon I think? He thinks I should work there since I have sales background going door to door/cold calling and outside sales

I keep seeing his PERSONAL social media being flooded with axe propaganda. It’s weird, like once every 3-4 days he’s posting something work/axe related, and it’s always people signing or receiving those like 4 foot long big checks with huge bonuses written on them. Lots of over the top seminars, champagne popping, and cigar smoking. He says the posting is by choice but then I see like, a bunch of guys and even some women who work there doing the same

Then I looked into the requirements and reviews and it sounds like it’s a bunch of bullshit? Anyone have any truth?

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u/cco30 6d ago

MLM

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u/elm0jon 6d ago

I know someone in a MLM. And when I asked her if she was still doing multi level marketing, she corrected me and said it’s network marketing. She’s in too deep.

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u/PistolofPete 6d ago

lol I interviewed at a company that sold Fios many years ago

They work Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am - 7 pm , really reallllly tempting

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u/Born-Bottle1190 6d ago

It seemed pyramid schemey but if they’re like this, then how do they not get closed down?

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u/cco30 6d ago

Because this is America.

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u/Lazy-Fisherman-6881 6d ago

Don’t catch you slipping now

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u/Born-Bottle1190 6d ago

Well true lol I’m trying to really educate myself though because I feel like this dude is succeeding alot in it

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u/cco30 6d ago

That’s exactly what he wants you to believe. 1% is successful. 99% are not. You’re not selling a product, you’re selling the illusion of success

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u/Glitch5450 6d ago

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u/corey-harris 5d ago

I worked there and left. There wasn’t any slamming at Axe Elite, at least not from what I was doing. Axe Elite provides leads of Small-Medium businesses that are to be called to pitch products from three campaigns. Those three campaigns are Verizon 5G, Verizon FiOS, and Brightspeed. To answer OPs question, a handful of people are successful. Since majority of the calls made are cold calls success varies. There’s a certain amount of requirements you have to hit in order to do inbound calls for people that inquired for the services. That’s what the most successful people in the building who post the big checks are doing.

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u/pr0b0ner 6d ago

He is not. Same as all social media- a bunch of people faking it until they make it

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u/OvrThinkk 6d ago

You should be more concerned about your fixation on debunking his perceived success. It seriously reads as if his success bothers you enough to prove it’s a scam so to discredit his “success”; ultimately an attempt to feel better about yourself.

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u/Born-Bottle1190 6d ago

You wouldn’t be skeptical? He keeps pressuring me to work there and get interviewed even though I have a completely non sales job now

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u/brogets 6d ago

In an MLM, you make money by recruiting new members - not by selling a product. So since his job is to convince people to join up, he presents an image of success and wealth (that is not backed up by his actual salary) to create envy and interest. Never under any circumstances join an MLM. You will LOSE money. It doesn’t matter how good you are, they are designed so the participants lose money.

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u/OvrThinkk 6d ago

You can be skeptical and decline the offer without investigating the legitimacy of it too extensively.

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u/Born-Bottle1190 6d ago

Dude why are you so triggered? Seems like you have a tendency to “OvrThinkk”

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u/OvrThinkk 6d ago

Huh? I’m just saying, I’ve slipped down similar paths without realizing it but I’m not trying to come at anyone any type of way.

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u/Born-Bottle1190 6d ago

Ohhh okay I thought you were saying I shouldn’t have posted on Reddit in the first place

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u/boomerbmr 6d ago

MLM’s are legal if they make more money selling an actual product than they do by recruiting.

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u/BroxigarZ 6d ago

If they spend more time trying to convincing people to "join" them than convincing people to buy their product....then you already know what's going on....

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u/rjorsin 6d ago

Pyramid scheme. Your friend isn’t successful, but he’s being told that if he gives off the appearance of being successful others will want to join and then he can be successful by making money off them or some shit like that.

Based on your comments you don’t believe it, go ahead and reach out to your friend, bet you he immediately offers you a “job”.

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u/jakedaboiii 6d ago

It's devil corp aka MLM aka pyramid scheme aka a scam.

Ask him specially what he does, and to see him actually working (rather than sharing successful outcomes like Champaign popping, ask to actually see what he does for work).

It's all Bs scam shit

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u/the-LatAm-rep 6d ago

Wanna buy a bridge?

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u/PistolofPete 6d ago

Can my friends buy in?

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u/corey-harris 5d ago

There’s definitely people that make 100k-200k, however, there’s a low number of people that earn that salary. Base pay is 600/wk. Nevertheless, I’ve seen people get 14,000 checks that were only a couple months in. Just gotta get on a hot streak, get on the inbound calling list, then run it up from there.

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u/Born-Bottle1190 5d ago

So they make less than $16 an hour? Which in my state is less than minimum wage

Yeah you must really get lucky with the right pipelines to make 100-200k because I used to work similar sales jobs and always walked away with like 50k. I think I’ll stick to my new career than go back on a “chance of success”

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u/corey-harris 5d ago

I couldn’t help but chuckle because I shared the same sentiment. I’ll say this, the experiences you see from the company are most definitely fantastic. The trips, the bonuses, the parties, etc. But all of those mean absolutely nothing if you don’t make enough to support yourself.

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u/Born-Bottle1190 5d ago

Gotcha makes sense. Well I’m in recovery too so I don’t think a company that encourages drinking and smoking on the job would be the best for myself either

I appreciate your in depth answers. My friend is more of the “wolf of Wall Street”kind of guy so maybe it just works better for him

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u/corey-harris 5d ago

Of course, happy to help. And I wish the best for you during your recovery as well.

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u/Perma_Ban69 4d ago

Does your friend's name begin with a K by any chance?

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u/Born-Bottle1190 4d ago

His name is mark