Advantage Sales and Marketing Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Advantage Sales and Marketing

Pros – Easy to get on. can arrange schedule when needed

Cons – Lowered from $.34 to $.29 per mile without notification, was promised that I would not have to drive more than 50 miles and then required drive up to 300 miles in a day. Use of my own car, camera, computer and printer (no compensation for paper or ink) use of my home and car for storing and transporting supplies for the job . Was promised succession training....nearly a year ago (now I am not to mention it). Can see problems with work load, especially channel teams. Low pay, no incentives, no drive to do a better job.

Advice to Senior Management – Wake up!! The Company is continually gaining clients while failing to increase the work force. Impossible to give the clients what they are paying for. I know it ,you know it, they (the client) will figure it out. ASM needs to step it up.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Advantage Sales and Marketing

Pros – EH could be better for sure

Cons – too many to list on here

Advice to Senior Management – Hire competent people. Nothing great can be accomplished when the decision makers have no idea what they are doing. Thanks

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Advantage Sales and Marketing

Pros – When the company is doing full store remodels, this can be an ok place to work. The available benefits are also nice.

Cons – The company can be very wishy washy when it comes to getting consistent hours, and without getting into specifics I was very disappointed with the managers and how they treated their employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to treat your workers fairly, and perhaps appoint people who actually know what they are doing, as current upper management clearly do not know what they are doing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Advantage Sales and Marketing full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – have had good immediate supervisors who know that we can't get all our work done, but they have no power or control of workload

Cons – upper management on walmart team deceitful, demanding, have bad attitude toward rsms, gps us but it's not reliable. gas cards taken away, car allowance taken away most clients aren't getting coverage

Advice to Senior Management – somebody needs to see what is wrong on walmart team. moral of rsms is really low, lay offs and firings are wide spread and seem to be worse for those who have been here the longest

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Advantage Sales and Marketing part-time for more than a year

Pros – Job was fun in first,had a really nice DSM

Cons – They strive by bullying people, very disorganized and deceptive. At one point i sensed racism which was covered up when i tried to use their so called "Open door policy " to address an issue i had

Advice to Senior Management – People in the field do all the work to make you look good, dont make their jobs harder by the games of deception that is played

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Advantage Sales and Marketing full-time for more than a year

Pros – The biggest "pro" to ASM is that it is easy to get hired. Unfortunately, that leads to many of the "Cons"!

Cons – ASM has plenty of nice, dedicated employees who are grossly underpaid yet as you look at their corporate staff you see underskilled, undereducated management without the diverse experience that will give them a broad enough perspective to see the problems and fix them. Overall there is a severe lack of professionalism.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop the churn and burn. Hire managers from outside the company who are coming in at the top of their specialty. Listen to your individual contributors and field managers and take it seriously.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Advantage Sales and Marketing full-time for more than a year

Pros – If this is your very first job, than it would be perfectly fine. It's a stepping stone for anyone coming out of college.

Cons – There is no growth in the company. Upper Management make promises of growth, as long as you are willing to do additional work that is not part of your job description and they keep promising you hope. If you are willing to move from state to state, that is the only chance you will see promotion. If you want stay in the state you are in, chances are you will be out of luck. Raises are horrible. Depending where you live, you can't afford to survive on their wages. The mileage program is completely bogus. I repeat you will pay out of pocket to work for a company that requires you to travel. Territories will get bigger and bigger if they lose accounts. You will have no choice but to accept the territory or look for another job.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Advantage Sales and Marketing

Pros – I stayed at Advantage because I loved working for our client, Mars Confection North America division.

Cons – Pay rates, increases, auto allowance. Our division was managed by FEAR. The person you put in to run the Mars SF team was a very poor choice.

Advice to Senior Management – The people in the field are your greatest resource, treat them with respect, give them pay raises they deserve.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Advantage Sales and Marketing

Pros – There are only a few positives I can think of that could be said about working at Advantage Sales and Marketing. One would be if you are straight out of college it would be an opportunity to have employment experience on a resume. The other would be if you are desperate and in-between jobs.

Cons – The Question is what happens to this company? The company once paid at least what most would deem as a decent wage. With more and more elevated responsibilities the company is bleeding their employees by taking away car allowances and gas cards and replacing that compensation with on average 36 cents per mile. They expect the federal government to pick up the differential in government allowance for mileage. Employees are getting their year end taxes done to find out that after spending hundreds of dollars out of their own pocket that they will now get a tax return refund of maybe 200 dollars for all the gas they paid for all year long. Why is such a large company expecting the Federal Government to pay for what should be Advantages cost of doing business? As low as the wage is for current employees it is even lower for new employees. Benefits are very high in cost. From what I can see and hear there are a ton of openings because so many current employees are leaving, the rest are looking. They are hireling peer trainers at a dollar an hour more with no gas card or car allowance an expect you to drive all over heck when territories open. Warning you will ruin your car in no time. Not that I ever supported unions but this company really needs one.

Advice to Senior Management – Why give advice, I am sure you don’t care anyway it is evident. It is all about how much revenue the corporation can take in without give out anything. For both Advantages employees and clients let’s hope the saying “What Goes Around Comes Around” comes true.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Advantage Sales and Marketing

Pros – My peers are wonderful, hard-working, dedicated people who have gone far above and beyond... We took a rough start up, and ran! We succeeded...

Cons – We succeeded despite, or maybe it's in spite of, very little training.
Extremely long days.
Outright lies, from corporate, to ESthat we have to take the heat for.
No actual recruitment, but CS are responsible for the recruiters not recruiting.
Insane, immediate action emails, sent in the middle of the night.
Insane application pool, due to non recruiting, forcing us to hire inferior employees we can't manage or get rid of.
Can't keep the few good ES we have because we can't give them any raise or incentive, unless it came out of our pocket. Yes, ES, your boss pays for what little incentive you do get.
Unrealistic goal expectations for event execution. Hello, perfection isn't possible!
No escalation when Sam's Club managers force your teams to work in unsafe conditions, or won't follow their end of the contract, at club level.
Very little HR support. None on the critcal days we actually work.
No ability to take an entire day off.
Benefits are a joke.
You want me to wear what!?! I don't think so!
No way to keep event schedules stable, to be able to schedule ES fairly.
Big coherences, just to tell us we can't ask questions, (Guess what Sam's corporate, questions were "planted", but you probably knew that).
Open Door policy is a joke. We are flat out told not to talk to anyone above our direct supervisor, and not to give contact information to ES.
I seriously could go on.... All this for a 30,000ish salary; I average 60 hours per week.

Advice to Senior Management – Enough all ready. Get a plan, stick to it, and respect your employees. I feel so completely humiliated, devalued, and disrespected, by YOU. If YOU can't respect why would you expect the ES or Club managers too. And, where is that CS council? Afraid you might get the truth, which is nor what you asked for, of course. Yeah, I know you lurk on hear, reading! Enough, act with some integrity. For crying out loud, just act.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend