If you're reading this it probably already to late for you but I'll say it anyway, RUN!!! Run far away from this "opportunity of a lifetime to run your own marketing office". The job you are being offered is a scam. If you accept a position with this company you are not entering a management training program you are entering a slaughterhouse of naive, opportunistic, and bright people.
This is basically the porno industy of sales. They will use you to make money for their "business" (i.E. Themselves) and they will spit you out the bottom of the industry, just like porno director seymour butts uses and destroys young women to line his own pockets.
You'll go on a interview with one of the "senior accounts managers" to show you the business. Then after they've totally glamourized the business for the last 8 hours or so (Oh, by the way, it's door-to-door sales of the worst kind. No business card, contact #'s, or any info for your clients to contact you) they'll take you into an office and let you sweat because they have you believing that they'll only accept the best, when in truth they'll hire anyone.
Case in point, I once saw them hire a deaf guy. It's fu*ing sales, you know, a business of communications.
Then of course, your hired. HORRAY! You have job. Oh, by the way, did I mention that it's 100% commission sales of a product that is close to impossible to sell without feeling you screwed someone over (if you want to succeed, and I did, you have to check your ethics and integrity at the door because you'll find yourself blatantly lying to everyone, your clients, the people you interview for the job, and most importantly your family.)
Sounds great right? A few more things to mention. You don't get paid for the first 3 weeks. The job requires that you drive your own car up to 300 miles a day to get to your territory and you must use your own gas. Not to mention that you're doing all this 65 hours a week and there are no benefits.
They'll tell you that "succussful reps" make $600 to $800 a week. I was a successful rep and I averaged just under $300 a week for the 6 months i work. Oh, and I was a successful rep. I was so good that my manager sent me to even more intensive brainwashing in L.A. Where I got to spent a whole weekend with the top of the pyramid scheme and learn how to better brainwash people into starting the job, all on my bosses dime.
I don't blame my former boss or my any of my old co-workers though. I blame the people I meet in L.A., those are the people that started this whole sweatshop of sales and I truly believe they should be punished by law for what they're created, which is a omnipresent outsourced sales company that preys on impressable kids with lies and promises of running there own marketing offices.
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