"The Best Company Ever!!!" lol. - Salesmen Venture 88 Employee Review

1.0
31 Jul 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There can be a positive atmosphere, albeit due to it being pre-planned and created as a technique to motivate people and "sell" the company. Good progression, although there isn't an equal opportunity and 0.001% actually "make it". You get to suit up everyday.

Cons

First off, the company is a sales company, a fast paced sales company with targets to hit, where everyone starts at the bottom. Thus the guys at the top are incredible salesmen and can talk rubbish and manipulate you into almost anything. This is important to concept before joining the company or currently working there. Everything the company offers is based on hope and is methodically carried out through impulse. The managers will impulse the staff, the same way as you would impulse the customers to sign up, to get you why they want you to do. They will paint a picture in your head of your dreams and use it against you. They will want to find out about you, your purpose, your hobbies and use them them to motivate you as well as change them and/or take them away. They say everyone has an opportunity, however at no point will they ever promise or even use the word equal. They will hire people who they know have no chance so make people feel like they are progressing when they aren't as they know the people will leave. And they always give the best interviewees to certain people. So for many people the real progression will never work. The company will take you out for meals and your leader/manager will become almost your best friend. This is so you "buy" into them so you will do what they want easier. They will sometimes hire out cars or something similar, maybe get you to sit in it but again, this is just to make you hungry for success so you work harder, making the few at the top money. They treat workers like material, not selling get the cut. They will cut the bottom 20% every so often. They will "belt loop" everyone. You'll never find a genuine conversation. For everyone reading this here is a few questions, if the opportunity was that good why is it only young people are in the company? Why can't you find much information on the Internet? Why won't they let you speak about it with your friends? Why do they need to plan their conversations? Why do so many people leave? How have so little people have made it? The company is in ruins, word has it that you need to make 500k+£ for the company to make profit. Yet they sell the idea that after 18 months you'll have you're own office. Now try and Find anyone in the company that has their own office after 18 months. I could go on and on. Ps. They teach you how to "overturn". This is when a customer doesn't really want something but you overturn them and make them want it again. Turning all negatives into a positive. I'd expect them to the same with this. If you find "Glasgow Interactive" on this, you'll notice their admin frequently does it as well. Guess you would in sales though.

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2.0
30 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lots of room to go further in the company Everyone starts off at the same level

Cons

Role was advertised as an events marketing assistant (or something similar) after completing an events management degree I thought this would be perfect. I went to the interview and was delighted to be asked to the next stage. Only then I realised it wasn't events marketing as I had hoped. The reality of it is you're sent to a different location everyday with an iPad and stop people and ask them to fill in a survey for blue chip companies. I later found out that the company class anything or anywhere with a great deal of people to be an event. They focus heavily on the fact there is lots of room for growth which is attractive to most people but they also said after a certain amount of time and progression employees are enrolled on to a managerial course (I think it was) which would be two hours and the end of every shift, meaning your day would be 10 hours, with the travel to and from the office to home it would make my day over 12 hours which wasn't for me. I was looking for actual events not one of those people stoping others in the street. I didn't make it past the trial day as it was just not for me at all. I can see how the progression element can be desirable but it's really not what the job is advertised as.

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2.0
24 Feb 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people are positive towards you which makes you feel good (if you've done well!) and if you haven't, the director will not be happy because you didn't make him any money.

Cons

The company works an 'events based face to face sales company' but in reality it's standing in the street selling gas and electric, don't be fooled by the fancy job titles. During my time at the company, I went from £40 a day for 10 hours work(!!) to commission only, this added a lot of pressure on my shoulders, thus forcing me to leave the company because I was making next to no money. The management hides a lot of information away from you so in their mind everything you know about the company is good. When you leave, they give you none or very little of your commission you are owed for the 2 weeks before hand, the director keeps it for himself and tries to play it off like you did less sales than you know you did. You also had to pay for travel to every event you went to, so if on the Monday you went to warrington, you'd need to fork out around £10 for a train ticket and there's a chance you may not even make that money back if you have a bad day!!

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