I won't lie, I knew what I was getting into when I took a job with McLemore Advance Concepts. Event marketing is indeed common business lingo for "promotional sales", usually of the type that no self-respecting business person wants to do, but with the idea that the end game is worth it. However, it is the ethics of the company and job that I have a real problem with.
The entire company is built and thriving upon deception. You are deceived by the website and the first interview with Ryan McLemore which tell you that they do "event marketing", which is code for "standing at a D.A.R.E. Table and selling cheap items at a ridiculous markup to gullible consumers, " but Ryan will never tell you this until you've already been taken out on the job for your "second interview."
You are deceived during the second interview when a team leader tells you that you will make an average of $350-550 a week starting, but they don't tell you that it's ONLY if you sell roughly $1200-1600 (more when you count taxes on your check) of the cheap goods weekly to make your 35% commission equal that promised pay. Oh yeah, you also only make the full 35% commission if you're working by yourself, otherwise it's split in half with the person you're working with. At the same point in this conversation, they will also tell you that being promoted to Leader will make you $550-750 a week, but between you and me, several Leaders have told me that they haven't seen a check larger than $250. All in all, you end up working 6 days a week from 7:30am-6:30pm for what equates to about $1.00 per hour or less.
Even past all of this, the deception thrives throughout the office. You are encouraged to deceive your potential customers by informing them that proceeds go to benefit the D.A.R.E. Program, when in truth, only 5% of the money spent on the items goes to D.A.R.E. While 35% pays the sales people and the other 60% goes to the company. Ryan's response to this is "5% of something is better than 100% of nothing." They also discourage talking about employees that no longer work there because it's "negging out", and Ryan's pep talks in the morning have even encouraged employees to not describe the business to their family members but to rather tell them to mind their own business. He even went so far as to tell the team that choosing graduate school over a career at M.A.C. Was just plain stupid.
This company is not a scam, nor is it in any way illegal. However, unless you want to build your career in a business with absolutely no honesty or ethics, I would steer clear from them.
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