I worked for a company called O. C marketing for about 4 months after I graduated from college. I am writing this not because I have any malice towards Jason (owner of OC Marketing) but because I would like to do what I can to keep other young people from making the same mistake that I did. I found OC Marketing immediately after I had finished with college. I was searching on as well as and I found what I though was a wonderful opportunity for a management training program. I was surprised by how quickly they responded to my inquiry and my resume, to be quite frank it felt good to be wanted. They asked if I would like to set up a time for an interview and I agreed. I will not bore you with the interview process because this has been touched on by previous reviewers of Cydcor, DS Max and all of the other big pyramid schemes. Let's just say that it was exactly as they described it, quick and impersonal. Don't get me wrong, Jason is an incredibly charismatic character, a true BSer if there ever was one. I immediately liked him; his easy banter and his * eating grin was pretty darn irresistible.in hindsight I basically joined OC marketing because Jason seemed like such a nice guy.
Here's the how it really breaks down: OC marketing is a branch of Cydcor (a textbook MLM scheme). The campaign that was working on was Quill. The most interesting thing about Quill is that it is actually owned by Staples, however if one is to mention that to a customer it is grounds for termination. Apparently it is part of Cydcor's contract with staples that its employees act as if Quill is a separate entity, which makes perfect sense from a business perspective because it increases staples market share. Every time an OC marketing employee makes a sale, we were forced to call the Quill corporate office on our own cell phones (you should have seen the bill) to place the order. More often than not the corporate office would attempt to disprove that the sale was legitimate. An OC marketing employee only gets paid if the customer has not made a purchase with Quill within the last 6 months. If I recall correctly, an OC marketing employee gets 12% of a successful order but the order caps out at $2000.00. Do the math; lets say you manage to make the sale of the year and you convince some poor sap that he needs a biometric hand scanner, 100 reams of paper (do you know how much paper that is) and a new printer, you get paid a total of $240.00 before taxes. Keep in mind that on most cases your considered a helluva salesman if you clear $60.00 a day with consistency. You make no base salary and you are expected to pay for your own gas and cell phone bills. The whole idea of building a relationship with customers is complete hogwash because you only get the opportunity to make any commission off of the deal once every six months.in most cases when you are given a territory that has already been burned by about 3 people in the last 6 months. This brings me to my next point, turnover rate.in the couple months that I worked for OC marketing I saw a content influx of new faces. Most of them got wise and saw that this so called marketing firm was a complete sham. It was my job as a leader to keep the energy in the room as high as possible and to sell the newcomers on the business. The goal of the business is to keep as many feet on the street as possible and to keep newcomers from getting realizing that the business is actually going nowhere. It was pretty amazing when people quit because nobody seemed to notice, it was taboo to even mention their name. If their name was mentioned it was in private and usually in a whisper. These were people that we had worked with OC marketing months before I even started and one day they just disappeared. One day I decided that it was my time to disappear, I doubt many people noticed with all the new faces coming in. The way the business model works is that for every sale an employee of OC Marketing makes, Jason, Cydcor and Quill all get a cut.
It is my understanding that Jason got a bigger cut of his employee's sales than the actual employee who's walking the streets of some ghetto neighborhood, cold calling every car dealership, business center preschool and church in the area. Everyday the entire team gathers goes over sales drills and tries to build energy for the day. After we are sent out into the field the office is empty and Jason starts another day of quasi-interviews. It's not unusual for him to interview up to 35 people a day. The only way that he will not call you back is if you're too over qualified and he doesn't have a shot of hiring you anyway. The only way for Jason to keep people in his office is to keep a constant flow of new employees. His turnover rate is so ridiculous that most people don't last more than a couple of weeks before they figure out what's going on. If you insist on going for an interview with OC marketing be sure to ask if this is a multi-level marketing business. He will answer no but it should be fun to watch him squirm when you bring up the information that I have mentioned above.
If you have any more OC marketing questions you can reach me at. This is a service that I hope to provide in order to make up for all of the people whose time that wasted trying to convince them to join OC Marketing. There are tons of marketing companies out there that function exactly like OC Marketing; be careful because the road leads nowhere.
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Irvine, California
U.S.A.
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