WORK HERE IF YOU HAVE NO OTHER OPTION - Local Marketing Consultant ShopperLocal Employee Review

1.0
Sep 29, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-The first time through a town or selling a new customer it's the easiest money you'll ever make. -They'll hire anyone, so it's a great place to get sales experience

Cons

-Even with ensuring tape never runs out in stores, clients have good offers, and ad copy is designed to attract business, renewal rate is about 20-30% -After your first year to six months, the pay plan is built on renewals, so without those you are constantly starting over and can't ever make the kind of money promised. -Pay plan changes without notice -No freedom, you are constantly being checked in on and micro managed by your manager and the amount of reports will shock you -Conference calls every morning, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays you'll have one in the evening -Once you get home at night, you'll have to submit another report, as well as re-organize for the next day so your average work week will consist of a 60-70 hour work week -You will have to drive anywhere from 45 min to 2 hours to your market and back each day with only $50 in gas allowance per week -You are treated like a number, not an employee -They will literally hire anyone willing to work for this company, no background checks, don't care about criminal background history -Doesn't work for the majority of customers you have to sign up in order to make money, so you're literally stealing from them -Customer support is a joke, and you'll get no support from upper management -No one can spell properly or use the words there/their/your/you're etc. correctly. I highly doubt the majority of management have a college degree and the grammatical errors in emails you'll receive are embarrassing to say the least. If you have a college degree, seek employment elsewhere

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ShopperLocal Response
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We are sorry to hear that you had a bad experience at ShopperLocal. We assure you that we have one of the best renewal rates in our industry, thanks to our years of accumulated knowledge and implementation of protocols derived through the immense experience that we stand proud of. We make it of the utmost importance to ensure that the work-life balance of our employees is well maintained. We do understand that a good balance is what fuels the performance of a great workforce. Our allowance and other benefits are derived through careful analytical study which is an ongoing process within itself. We assure you that we take the hiring process very seriously and we hire the very best people and hence, follow the best practices. Only the best of the people may represent us. Our customers have been associated with us for years now and they enjoy the strong results delivered to them by our programs. And for all customer grievances we have a dedicated team of customer support comprised of the most qualified and experienced professionals. We would love to get in touch with you and hence, request you to write in at humanresources@shopperlocal.com so that we can resolve your grievance(s).

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Way too much patience for people who don't do their job!

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