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Professional Sports Publications

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3.1

55% would recommend to a friend

(483 total reviews)

Jarred Metze

61% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Professional Sports Publications has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 483 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Professional Sports Publications employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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483 reviews
2.0
Jun 25, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Working at PSP taught me to have a very thick skin and pushed me out of my comfort zone. It was a good place to learn and gave me an opportunity to make money straight out of college. I left on good terms with the company and did see some people manage to work their way up, but those people were few and far between

Cons

This company is unethical. Im not sure who all of these VP of sales reviewers are because the only one I ever met resigned a couple months after I quit. I never got my last paycheck or the commission I earned. While working at PSP I was verbally abused by my “manager” (what they call managers in the interview process are actually just senior sales people with no sort of management training who get paid extra to criticize you). This specific one literally told me to “fix my voice” along with other things I don’t want to repeat. I was constantly told I’d be fired if I didn’t start performing better even though I was performing the same as, or better than, some of the guys in my training class.

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Professional Sports Publications Response
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​We are sorry to hear you did not have a positive experience here. ​I​ can tell you that we generally get extremely positive feedback from our employees regarding the culture here. Most describe it as a very friendly and positive environment. ​As far as being unethical, it's really tough to fathom what you mean by this. ​Also, no one is ever "threatened" ​here ​and certainly not "abused." Anyone making this claim is being dishonest. Of course, in a sales job you are expected to sell. We place very high value on communication here and will always let you know where you stand, whether its good news or bad. Unfortunately it does not work out for everyone and we probably have a much higher patience threshold for low sales than do most sales companies.
1.0
Apr 24, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I DARE YOU TO ASK THEM, HOW LONG PEOPLE STAY AT THIS COMPANY? Pros?? None. Bully type management, their way or the highway, you know nothing, they know all. Make you feel stupid for asking questions. greedy jerks abusing and exposing young business professionals by wasting their time, and not caring about them or their professional growth...they say they do, but trust me, they don't...more fun!! A lot of micromanaging, they will listen to your calls, tell you what to say while you're on the phone, read your emails etc bad pay. Suffocating. Depressing dungeon. Old school managing. No fun at work, just work, work, work! Make them rich, and be happy with your joke paycheck...Hence why nobody stays there past a year. What they do is immoral. They abuse young business professionals, use them, suck their blood, and then throw them away and hire more people that won't last long either. It's a Human Resources scam they have been using for over a decade. If you like an absurd amount of monotonous, mentally draining, robotic, scammish type work, with management who would never want their kids working there and getting paid horrible, this is your dream job!

Cons

Selling a crap product. Nobody wants to buy overpriced PAPER advertising with no ROI...The real reason (and they'll give you a bunch of BS on why they don't) they don't share ROI is because if you told the customer the real ROI, PSP would be out of business. Nobody would buy because it's a terrible investment for them. Scamming poor small business with dreams that won't deliver and giving them tickets to make them forget. A lot of people hang up on you. You're annoying people all day with an archaic product. They pressure you to do everything you can to scam people on your 1st time speaking with them by using outdated tactics to get them to buy...in reality, no business owner is stupid enough to make an impulsive buy with a complete stranger. BUT, they blame YOU! It's 2017! They don't understand it doesn't work like that, especially for paper advertising when everything is going digital. You go there being wishful and couple of days in you realize management doesn't give af about u. You're just another young person they use while they can and either you get fired for bs reasons, or you wake up knowing youre in hell, and with a horrible company, then you're stuck looking for another job while you're mentally drained from the suffering you endure at work.

1.0
Feb 24, 2016

Sales

Recommend
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Pros

The only good parts about this position is some of the people you work with a pretty cool and you get tickets to sporting events

Cons

I don't even know where to begin because there is so many different things wrong with this place. Their overall process of developing you into sales is horrible. They pay you a decent Draw Salary so you stick around. 1 out of 15 people who were in there first year made commission that's not including the 15 people who left the company. They're overall training for the year is terrible. Somehow people get slipped through the cracks and don't get trained properly. Management is terrible and you receive emails saying how much you suck at sales not just to you but to the whole team because everyone sucks at sales. It's very difficult to make it at this position. Some people there do well but the have been there for a long time and those people aren't allowed to help you out because the company doesn't want them helping you out. I feel I gained nothing from working with them but a pay check. Their data is very outdated I had leads that closed their business in 2007.

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