Marketing Associate - Marketing Associate Golden Events Group Employee Review

Honesty and Transparency. I probably should have asked further inquisitive questions, however, the process of exactly how each associate will become an executive manager isn't truly explained until you are wearing a business suit or a blazer and slacks, standing while taking notes in the cramped, hot office with walls covered in framed inspirational quotes, successful executive managers and consultants, photos of the staff and white boards to help trainees practice and learn. After two weeks of the training system, you slowly realize that the position isn't a generic do-well-and-get-promoted to train others. To become an executive manager, not only must you complete roughly six to 12 months of "successful" selling of products in Sam's Club and Costco, traveling as far as McKinney and Rockwall (covering the majority of your own travel expenses), but also beginning your two hour morning meeting at 8 am, working at either 11 am or 1 pm, ending around 7 or 8 pm, attend, at a minimum ,2-3 "business dinners" a week, go to weekly book club and morning "one-on-ones" with consultants and other people with more experience than you and just give up your whole life to the program. I would mention to my significant other about their morning "goal circle" to which he referred as the "cult meeting". As I watched the "Leaders" of the company chant their goals, I tried to imagine myself leading these same chants with vigor and enthusiasm and nearly threw up in my mouth. In the end, it wasn't for me. I couldn't lie to and deceit other young people to work for me in my own office. Young people populated the majority of Kaitlyn's office. Golden Events Group's Linkedin job postings are intriguingly vague, yet, still contains enough information to sound legitimate to any recent marketing/management graduate/intern. Climbing up the ladder at GEG equals dedicating your life's work to molding others into product selling machines at Costco, Sam's Club and Kroger; from your own selling success to leading and giving advice in morning meetings and going home to still lead and give advice over phone calls to other offices. If this is something you can picture yourself doing the rest of your life, go ahead and sign up for the job as they will literally hire anybody (and make you feel special as if you were hand-selected out of 50-60 candidates). The end result is incredibly nice (consultants allegedly earn in the millions), however, that end result will take at least 10-20 years. As mentioned before, once you reach that point, you'll still have to give advice and training. I couldn't see myself doing that job for life and became dispassionate. Most of the people there still lived at home, didn't have many bills or had a significant other who took care of them; otherwise that job is not sufficient enough to cover bills while you're trying to move up to "executive manager", especially once you take out food, coffee, business attire and travel expenses. If you have no problem interrupting people while they're shopping and getting shot down at least 30 times a hour, go right ahead and apply there. This company is essentially a no-pay MLM organization, their set-up is a little different in that you're not reaching out to family and friends on Facebook to purchase your products, but bothering people at the store to make an impulsive $50+ purchase at least 10 times a work day, only to earn a paycheck that's roughly $300-$700 (in the interview process, they will tell you the monetary benefits are hourly plus commission, but during orientation, Kaitlyn lets you down by breaking the payment system down further; in actuality, you earn how many hours you worked and ONLY commission that has exceeded the total amount of hourly wages earned. She will also tell you that the company covers travel expenses on days you come in to the office and go to work after, but that is only if you work the 11 am shift. Like I said before, if you don't have any bills to pay or live at home and want to gain some selling experience, go right ahead. This job was not for me and I write this review to serve as a cautionary tale to others.