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It's a scam - Sales - "Direct Marketing" Cooper Concepts Employee Review

1.0
Dec 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

No pros. They lie about a base salary. There is no base salary - despite telling me on the phone that the base starts at 40 to 80 grand. Flagrant lie. It's door to door sales on 100% commission.

Cons

The door to door sales model is outdated. It doesn't work anymore. You're trying to sell things to people who don't want to hear the pitch, and couldn't afford the product if they did. It's terrible. Not to mention, the employees I went out with, to shadow on their day refused to tell me what you get from each sale- It was absurdly deceptive. (And after 7 hours and countless miles walked, they didn't get a single sale and got kicked out of virtually every place we went to). This "company" plays the "numbers" game, and you're the number - if you get a sale, great, they win. If you don't, it doesn't cost them any money (as you're on 100% commission), but also, you don't get to eat that day. Don't waste your time. Stay home and watch the Maury Show.

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Cooper Concepts Response
10y
Dear Reviewer, I appreciate your feedback and the opportunity to improve on your interview process. Despite you writing a review as an employee, I'm afraid that you were never employed by our company. Nonetheless, I am happy to address your concerns. 1) We do offer a base pay + commission structure within our company and have individuals earning between $40,000 - $80,000. Although we do have a said base, we don't finalize compensation rate until our third interview, which both of us chose not to move forward with. 2) In representing our portfolio of Fortune 500 & 1000 clients and large corporations, all with annual marketing budgets, we can assure you that they would not be investing their money into an outdated sales model. Quite the contrary actually. Face to face marketing and sales methods allows firms to bypass traditional mass marketing methods, focus on relationship building through one on one interaction with customers and statistically creates longer lasting customers. 3) Our firm relies on transparency which is exactly why you were able to shadow one of our current marketing & sales team members for a full day of job observation. You were able to see firsthand the daily responsibilities of an employee, as well as the residential sales campaign we do. We are unsure how you felt that you were lied to when you had this opportunity before we were to ever offer a position. Regardless, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and we're very sorry that yours wasn't of higher regard. All the best of luck in your future endeavors! Sincerely, CEO/Apryl Christensen

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5.0
Feb 4, 2016
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Pros

Very fun, energetic group of people to work with. Patient team, could tell they wanted to train me to do well and advance with them. Saw multiple people getting promoted with in company.

Cons

When they say work hard play hard, they mean WORK HARD. Now, that doesn't seem like a con for everyone because with that, it was fun and everyone got recognized for their results too.

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Cooper Concepts Response
10y
Dear Reviewer, I love the title that you labeled your review, as we feel that our Management Training Program is a complete set of building blocks for individuals to advance from entry level positions into management...WITH hard work like you mentioned! I think the team we have at Cooper Concepts are some of the THE hardest working I've ever had the pleasure of working with, yourself included. We believe that hard work always pays off and as the saying goes, "The first 40 hours of work are for survival. Everything after that is for success." Sincerely, Apryl Christensen
5.0
Oct 12, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

attending BBQ's, karaoke, professional sporting events, etc. The company is also involved with the community and philanthropy. Management and account managers are approachable and very supportive. There is great opportunity for advancement within the company. It's an entry level position so I was trained to know everything that I needed to be successful. I learn new skills and responsibilities on a weekly basis. Also, the structure is based off of no seniority so the timeline of an employee is not a determining factor for advancement, it's all merit based. Great position for anyone that feels they're competitive, hard working and outgoing, and looking for a change of pace.

Cons

It's important to set goals early on to give direction to your career path. You need to have short-term as well as long-term goals to maintain motivation in order to keep moving towards the end goal. Also it's very important to celebrate not only the big but small victories. You can't get anywhere if you don't know where you are going.

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Cooper Concepts Response
10y
Dear Reviewer, We really appreciate your kinds words and especially your advice to management to recognize not just the big promotions but also the smaller daily victories that occur as our team members are growing professionally in our Management Training Program! We are so glad that the extra curricular team bonding events and philanthropy events we coordinate weekly have made an impact on your time here at Cooper Concepts. Keep up your great work! Sincerely, CEO/Apryl Christensen
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