First off I would like to say that there are many people in the comapny that I respect and think are good people.
Granton Marketing... Where to begin. I worked at Destiny Advertising for about 6 months. When I first read the ad in the paper it said paid training and $350-$450 per week. Sounds like a very solid paying job for someone looking to get their feet on the ground. When you go in for your first round interview you will either talk to a guy named Ryan K. (aka Kid) or Krik L. I respect Kid very much and have no issues with him. They will then go on to tell you about the major clients they have and how they are a top notch advertising firm looking for "Champions". They will proceed to tell you that you would be in a management training program and would work your way up. They will then tell you that if you make it they will give you between 3-6 of that day you interviewed. They give you a call right around 6 telling you that you made it and asking if you can come in for the 2nd round interview. When you come in you fill out a little questionairre and sit around with 5 other interviewees. Kirk will then come out and tell you his rags to riches story. You will then be walked into a room one at a time an introduced to the person that will take you out for the day and they will ask you 7 questions and make it seem like that you are way out of your league. Their goal from there is to just get you in the car without you knowing its a door to door sales job because they know about 95% of people would've just left right away. They will break down at lunch their management training program which I must admit is a good idea the way they have the business set up. You will then spend the rest of the day walking around asking whoever your with tons of questions about the business. When you come back you will probably notice you are the only one left out of the 5 and the reason they tell is that they were not good enough to be a manager and they weren't going to waste their time training when in fact the people just saw through the bs and left. You will then talk to a lot of people in the office and eventually sit down with Kirk or Ryan. They do a tremendous job selling the business to you and tell you the potential amount of money you can make in the business.
Training: You will have 3 days of training where you get paid $50 a day which breaks down to about $2.40 an hour since you come in at 9 and don't leave until about 9:30 or 10. On the 4th day you will be sent on your HOF day where you can earn some bonus money for hiting a certain sales number. The training is when the brainwashing begins. Your leader will teach you the basics of sales and talk about the potential in the business all the time, never saying one bad thing about the business. You will be invited to all kinds of little morning gatherings and after hour gatherings with the owner or asst. Manager and they will pitch you all day every day about the business.
Negatives about the business: Hours: expect to work from 8:45-10pm m-f and 9-6 on saturdays. You have to pay for your travel which is very unprofessional and you don't get any gas or car allowance and expect to put on about 1k-1500 miles a week on your car. The owners will tell you about how much money they make but you will never see one that seems to own their own house or a nice car for that matter. They gaurentee that an owner will pull in 100k profit. But yet they all drive crap cars and live in small apartments. Supposedly they are just trying to save money to build their "empire". Their job is to minipulate people into staying even when they aren't making any money. You do get paid cash everyday but expect half of that to go towards gas, food, training (you pay for the training of the guys you bring on your "team") and any other random expenses.
I truly feel sorry for people that have been trapt into the business, they will try and get you to shack up with other employees so that you will spend all of your time together. Very Cult like. Your social life will become non-exsistent and your mind completely warped into thinking this is your only way to strike it rich. They constantly bash having college degrees and they bash the traditional corporations. You are most likely going to be living pay check to pay check at these jobs.
I won't lie and say the system doesn't work because I did see some people get promoted. But they life they talk about having is all but a dream.
My Experience: Like I said I was in for about 4 months, I made it to leadership in 2 weeks. I went on two road trips in the first two weeks one to nashville and one to colby. The nashville trip was good because it was paid for as it should be by the company. The second one wasn't bad because we made a killing but it was sort of odd that we were paying for the rooms and transportation to go out and make kirk money. Once promoted to leadership which means you sold 60 cards in a week your let in on all the little tricks of locking and interviewee to put on your team. Lets just say the interiewing process is very unprofessional. The downfall is that the business has a very high turnover rate and its nearly impossible to build a quality team of people when you have the kind of idiots you do working there. I believed in the business... Unfortunately. Its very odd how you are not allowed to have a bad day because if you do you are like a cancer to the program. They know that it is very unstable and one person like a virus in a computer can crash the whole system. I also had the gerat honor, HA, to meet Mark Kernan the vp. What a joke he was, yes I said a Joke! The man was an idiot. He doesn't have a drivers license and supposedly makes millions of dollars and still drives around in a 2003 acura TL (a nice car but i don't see to many millionaires driving around in those). The pieces of the Granton puzzle don't match up, all of the big names they talk about making millions and millions of dollars never show up on the fortune 500 list. They are never featured in Forbes, and you never hear anything about them except from what the owners tell you. It seems to me that the owners have just realized that they have put in so much time and effort that it will just have to work out but nothing they offer is out of reach for the college grad at a good corporation.
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