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Professional Sports Publications

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Professional Sports Publications reviews

3.1

55% would recommend to a friend

(485 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 485 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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485 reviews
1.0
Dec 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy commute. Full benefits. Base salary. No dress code. They will never fire anyone because they're so cheap and don't want to pay unemployment.

Cons

-Was completely lied to in my interview about position and salary. -Management is filled with drama queen, egomaniac, sociopaths who will lie to your face and talk behind your back to get what they want. -They say the hours are 8:30-5:30 but if you don't show up early and leave late every day you're "not doing your job." -Expectation is 300 calls per day, if you're not on the phone for literally 2 minutes, you're called out about it. Don't even think about using your cell phone during work hours, or eating. -Clear hierarchy and nepotism. Some people are allowed to work from home but the same opportunity isn't offered to people who aren't related to upper management. -The product is a complete scam and there is absolutely no training. You're just handed a script and expected to know what you're doing. -If management doesn't like you, they will berate you and harass you until you quit. - Every single person in upper management has worked at this company since they were a college graduate, so they don't know any better. They genuinely believe their ways are the only ways because they've never experienced anything else. If you have a new idea, better keep it to yourself.

1.0
Jan 21, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None that I can think of

Cons

The entire job, I kid you not.

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Professional Sports Publications Response
7y
Thank you for your feedback. We hate to hear you did not enjoy the job. This job is definitely not for everybody. As with any sales job, there are ups and downs and not everybody has success. Happily, we have a few hundred extremely happy sales people and support staff at PSP. We are proud to say our sales team people constantly rave about the culture, the perks, the benefits and compensation here. Obviously an inside sales job is not for everybody so there are those like yourself who would disagree. We're proud to report however, that these people are the exception and not the rule. We appreciate your advice to shut down the company. However, we have no plans to end our 30 year run as an industry leader, of tremendous growth, or our partnerships with almost every team in the 4 major professional sports, over 500 Colleges and Universities, etc. While a huge percentage of our portfolio is digital, our significant revenue increases year after year suggest that people do, in fact, want to advertise in print Gameday Programs and Yearbooks at the largest sporting events in the United States.
1.0
Mar 2, 2017

Salesman

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you have nerves of steel and can sell via cold call, then $45,000 per year in the Phoenix market ain't bad for a 22 year old.

Cons

Literally everything else. It's dreadful work. Boiler room tactics. The entire training program is oriented toward making their salesman sketchy and dishonest. The work is somehow both incredibly boring and horrifyingly unethical at the same time. Your job can literally be summed up as follows: You get a phonebook on your computer full of small businesses who do almost no business with a university. You call these small businesses, use seedy language to convince them you are "with the athletic department", and then try to convince them that if they drop about $800 on a small ad in the university's football program, the university may look favorably upon giving them business at a later date. For 75% of business owners, they will immediately recognize this sort of arrangement as nonsense and irrelevant to their model; it would make no sense for them to advertise this way. 90% of the remaining 25% are smart enough to realize the product your selling is overpriced. 99% of the remaining 2.5% are incompetent, can't afford the ad, and/or are impossible to get a hold of. 80% of secretaries are smart enough to stonewall you before you even get to the people I just mentioned. A sizable majority of the sales representatives here last less than a year.

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Professional Sports Publications Response
9y
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you did not have a positive experience at PSP. This is certainly not typical and we would welcome the opportunity to discuss this further with you. Please reach out to our HR department at your convenience. We take great pride in training our people to sell, and we receive tremendous feedback from both current and former employees on the sales foundation they receive here. Our people generally go on to excel in sales careers, due largely to the training they receive at PSP. Obviously sales is about building relationships, and selling in an unethical manner is counter to this philosophy. Quite obviously not what we teach, as evidenced by our stellar reputation and decades long relationships in the sports industry. Sales is certainly not for everyone and we are sorry it did not work out for you. Again, please reach out if you would like to discuss further.
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