Senior Area Manager Please Read !!! - Senior Area Manager SMS Employee Review

1.0
Jan 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is some very good training and some very nice people but.....

Cons

Please Read this review in it's entirety. Stay away from this company and this position. This is a very fraudulent company. They promise their sales people qualified leads but they most often are completely unfounded. Between 80% and 90% of the "appointments" are blatantly false. They have a "business coordinator" set up appointments for you that have contact names, address and times. The vast majority of the time you show up to vacant buildings or locked doors or the "contact" is not there. The client has no idea that you are coming. SMS does not pay your expenses so you are simply out the money for your time, car and gas. The clients have no knowledge of these so called appointments. SMS sets between 3 and 6 "appointments" for you each day and you will be lucky if 1 is actually there and very little chance they know why you are there or care to hear you out. This is all at your expense. They then mandate that you collect 10 business cards each day (cold calls) for which they use for telemarketing. You do not get paid for this activity. You only bear the expense and time for which you DO NOT GET PAID. They then require you to check in 4-5 times per day and have mandatory calls and sales reports during the week. They advertise this as a $100,000 opportunity but that is highly unlikely. The turnover is incredible. This is simply not a legitimate career opportunity. You could put hundreds of miles on your car each week and have no return....

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Pros

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Cons

1. They lied about the job description in the recruiting process (said you don't need to self-generate your own leads/sales, but it is pretty much impossible to succeed without doing so.) 2. 100% commission based, so no safety net salary to ramp up. 3. Witnessed managers acting abusive and (put bluntly) unacceptably offensive to staff in office. 4. Terrible lead generation process, most leads seem to be either unwilling to meet, insisting that they never agreed to meet, or upset by the tactics used to schedule meetings. 5. Awful online presence (the more you look, the worse it gets.)

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