It has been four years since I came across this company. Lonnie Mulligan, a smooth-talking con man who could easily get almost anyone to trust him, was the field representative of the company at the time. To his credit, he did try hard to establish a working branch in Manassas, VA that sold comcast cable products to (most often) lower income neighborhoods in Prince William County. Comcast, the corporation, had us jumping through hoops just to get credit for the sales we made.
In one instance, Lonnie told us (because he said he was told the same) that we could take a picture of a lease agreement, to prove it was a new resident living at an address that had a previous outstanding balance. After comcast bascially stole the client from us, we asked what the problem with the paperwork was, and they said a picture wouldn't suffice because nothing was legible. It was legible. I asked her to bring it up (Regina the sales rep) and she looked at it quickly and said "see, i cannot read anything." I pretended to agree with her momentarily, and said, "oh ok... Which address was that again? I had two sales on that street." She couldn't find the paperwork, and I asked her to bring the pictures back up, and to go to the last page. She said she wouldn't be able to read it, but after explaining that I am technically savvy, and could work magic with images, she opened the file. I asked her to click on the little-magnifying-glass-with-a-plus-sign-on-it button and it became legible, and after entering the address from the picture, she was able to pull up the new work order. For some reason, representatives working directly for comcast were able to generate a new work order, and make a new sale without needing the lease in writing at the time of the call.
So there were legitimate issues, in dealing with corporate Comcast, as a sub-contracting company that had an unorganized leader. It is my understanding that Lonnie shortly left Clear Results, as there were discrepancies between him and Hal Crews. Hal was saying that Lonnie was stealing from the company, and that there was none left to pay me my last few checks (totalling around $500.00 to $600.00). Lonnie exclaimed that Hal's accusations were false, and that the account he set up with comcast was indeed the same account of Clear Results Marketing. The strange part of that was that he offered that information to me. I never asked him for it. I was speaking with the Comcast manager person (who will remain nameless) about an unrelated issue, and when I came out of the office is when he told me that. I once saw that Lonnie was getting paid $1,500 per week, to keep the "office" going... Even though the office was a motel room.
I used to think that Lonnie and Hal and Russel were all working together to quickly pull out of a market that had major issues without having to pay up on employee paychecks, or early termination fees on a contract with corporate comcast. Now I do genuinely think that Lonnie was probably a bad egg, but the rest of them aren't much better. They use lies and deceit and confusion to better themselves in whatever way possible. They use a pyramid-scheme pay structure, only paying on commissions of sales. And the numbers they use as examples to judge an "average" weekly paycheck are much higher than any week we had. Their preferred customers are those with less income. If you don't make any sales, or even if you make sales, and any number of things happen, you do not get paid.
I recommend that everyone stay away from anyone in the Clear Results Marketing Group family, simply because their foundation (Hal Crews) is tainted, and dishonest. Lonnie Mulligan, also cannot be completely trusted. However, I feel there is hope for Lonnie. If you are already employed under any of these people, start building a case on them as early as possible, should it provide useful later on. I started way too late. I still have some things, but there's still so much room for speculation so I never pursued it. And it was only $500-something that I would have been disputing. Either way, if you are currently employed by them, and you're reading this, be on guard. Find something else to do (professionally) as soon as you can, because a company who uses their tactics will not survive. Don't let them know that you are looking, however. Just make something up.
It has been quite some time since all this, but I will never forget it, and I will always support anyone trying to get these guys.
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