The companies included are The Ad Group aka TAG, LA Marketing Firm, California Marketing Team, Marketing Concepts Inc, US Marketing Alliance, BE Marketing Concepts. These are all CYDCOR offices. Not Granton, DS Max, Scanno, or any of the other MLM companies.
If you are called by these guys, you will be invited in for a 1st round preliminary interview to meet with management. Pretty much the only way not to get invited in for a 1st round interview is if you have 40 years of work experience, because they dont want to hire old people. 1st round interview lasts either 3 minutes, or 15 minutes. 3 minutes if they dont want to hire you based on appearance (if you look like shit) or communication skills (ESL). By the end of the interview or by the end of the day you should be invited back for a FULL DAY, 2nd round interview, which means you will be shadowing a rep to see a day in the life.
Here is where my issue lies. The shadow day is designed for you to make the decision as to whether this position is right for you or not. The other people filing reports are telling you to save your time. I on the other hand, want you to go on the 2nd interview so you can make the decision on your own, based on what you experience, not what you read. Reading the highlights of the Laker game saying they kicked ass is different from watching them kick ass, agreed?
So, if you are invited back for a 2nd interview, here are the time breakdowns:
If you are invited back for times that start at around 7:30 to 9am, and conclude at 5:30pm, you will be shadowing a rep on Quill Office Supplies, Verizon B2B or Innovative Merchant Solutions. These are outside sales positions. No base pay. No car allowance. No cell phone reimbursement. Entry Level Sales with Potential for Management. Can you make money? Yes.
If you are invited back for times that start at around 10 to 11am, and conclude at 7pm, you will be shadowing a rep on AT &T. Same as above, except instead of business to business, you will be going door to door. Yes, peoples houses.
First Question: If this was a scam, would Verizon, AT and T, IMS, or Quill do business with them? Probably not. Also, what would be the benefit of them "wasting a day of your life" by trapping you on a full day 2nd interview? It obviously wouldn't benefit anyone. Think of it this way, every company wants to expand. If a company wants to hire 1 rep, they need to conduct over 100 interviews. A lot of people decline these position because it is commission based. So they have to invite back a large number of 2nd interviews. If 100 people go on a 2nd round interview, 3% will get angry and write about it on this website. Not everyone else likes the job, but people who aren't concerned with a couple hours of their life usually appreciate the time spent with a CYDCOR rep, because most of them are cool, motivated and work extremely hard.
During a shadow day, the average CYDCOR rep should be closing between 1-4 accounts, or sales. If that rep doesn't make any sales, usually its because they are new, or they are a piece of shit. The 2nd interview is designed to show you that sales can be made, rather than just telling you. Yes, bitches, it is 8 hours of hard work. The hours are EXTREMELY LONG. 7:00am to 7:00pm on business to business (including office time). 9am to 9pm on residential.
At the end of the day, you will be invited to sit down with the manager. No matter how much the CYDCOR rep or manager impulses you, the decision is yours as to whether you take the position or not. Yes, they want a decision that day.
Lets say you take the position. It is commission based. If you dont make any money, how much does the company make? None. If you make a shitload of money, how much does the company make? A shitload. So what would they rather have you make? They will train you. Train you very well. But who in the hell would want to work commission based B2B or door to door sales? They dangle a carrot in front of you. Management, run an office like this one, live the life you always dreamed of. But here is the issue IF you get to management, because EVERYONE in the office is trained to want an office, but less than 1% do. And that issue is there is only opportunity if you are willing to relocate. Because all of these offices are in SoCal, the only offices that are available are those outside of SoCal. Even if there happens to be an opening in SoCal, it probably wont be in the city you currently live in. So if you are in LA, you would have to move to Santa Clarita, San Diego, OC, Corona, or Riverside.
These CYDCOR guys are kind of like politicians. The politicians now guarantee a new energy policy to get us away from oil, but you know it wont happen even if you get re-elected and serve an 8 year term. CYDCOR dangles the carrot of opportunity in front of you, trains you to believe the carrot is within reach, and for a lot of people, that carrot disappears. They tell you anyone can make it to management, but if they dont like you, guess what? You still arent going to get an office, even if you hit all the required standards.
So, a little bit of info for potential interviewers. There is opportunity with CYDCOR. It's a completely legit business model. They dont really want to waste anyones time, but it is a natural byproduct of the time of business they run. There are some very successful people who do make it to management with CYDCOR, but it is EXTREMELY RARE. You never really know unless you try. Don't listen to the other idiots on this website. Check out a 2nd interview. If you like it, try it for a couple weeks. If worse comes to worse, you lose a couple weeks but still make a few hundred bucks.
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