Couldn't work for free - Anonymous employee Best Version Media Employee Review
2.0
May 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
Former employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Positive people and company, but have to convince business operators to buy ads into your startup magazine.
Cons
No national ads or chain store leads from home office to help get you reach high baseline. Most would be best off starting their own magazine from scratch.
Best Version Media Response
11y
We appreciate the reviewer taking the time to express his/her feelings. A few points:
1. The average failure rate of independent magazines is 75% with a few years. We have a 99% success rate. So, the odds are infinitely higher to find success with BVM.
2. Many of our publishers ran their own private magazines and are with us because our baselines are WAY below what they would be independently.
3. We have never failed to open a market due to demographics. And there hasn't ever been a market that we attempted 4 or 5 times.
Everyone - from publishers to designers and corporate office staff - is helpful and eager to see the whole team succeed. Other content coordinators are wonderful about sharing information that would be relevant to magazines outside of their area. Quarterly webinars also keep us abreast of what's new.
Cons
Some things within the software can occasionally be clunky; but IT listens to suggestions and always works to make improvements.
Best Version Media Response
3mo
Thank you for sharing your experience as a Content Coordinator with us! We're so glad to hear everyone has been so accommodating and helpful. We truly appreciate the feedback and will continue to refine our tech and systems to better serve our local writers.