Carlson Marketing Reviews

Pros

Good working environment,Good perks

Cons

There is not much employment opportunities

Pros

- Higher than average market pay
- Some young new talent in Interactive and Social Media group
- Analytical team make the company look good

Cons

- Continues to lose clients
- Revolving door of top management
- Employees are always worried they will be laid off
- Direction of company is not competitive to win new business

Advice to Senior Management

Stop worrying about how to be like the other guys and create something better on your own!

Pros

Salary was fairly good, great co-workers

Cons

Two people can destroy a huge company. New upper management fired the most talented and most experienced (older & higher salaried) in a classless and insulting manner, then claimed our work as their own.

Advice to Senior Management

Too late.

Pros

1. The Flexibility
2. The People
3, our client--who deserve better

Cons

1. Lack of vision and focus
2. Poor communication regarding direction of the organization
3. Lack of leadership
4. Not progressive
5. Boys Club

Advice to Senior Management

Listen better to the people doing the work about what and who is needed. You have cut employees that were providing leadership and direction. Now it's a place based on favortisum and not performance.

Pros

Variety of work, Large clients with big brand names, Loyalty Marketing is taking off again, get to live in Minnesota

Cons

No one looks out for your career. It will only advance if you make it happen. Work life balance is sometimes challenging.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure everyone understands your strategy. Not everyone knows you actually have a strategy. For those that do know you have one, they are not sure it is the right strategy.

Pros

Work Life Balance and great colleagues are two of the best reasons to work at CMW.

Cons

Clients can be very demanding however; can be very challanging at the same time.

Pros

Great work experience - learned a ton

Cons

Ever changing senior management made the direction change frequently

Advice to Senior Management

pick a direction and stick with it

Pros

large company. good networking internally

Cons

dont know what they want to be

Advice to Senior Management

need focus

Pros

- good people
- good client contacts
- good name in the industry

Cons

- compensation continues to shrink
- little opportunity for growth/change
- client services support continues to be reduced

Advice to Senior Management

seems top heavy right now, would be good to streamline into one sales force. need to improve technology offerings to better match thought leadership - right now we're out of sync. we can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk very cost-effectively or efficiently.

Pros

- Casual Dress
- Professional by informal communication between employees
- Accessible Executives
- Company events frequently for moral
- Convinient location/Free Parking
- Group Aeroplan Owned

Cons

- Longer commute (for me)
- Some old world culture

Advice to Senior Management

Offer communication to employees as quickly and directly as possible.