News America Marketing Reviews

Pros

- career path is clearly laid out
- great compensation
- good benefits packet
- all entry level aka young company
- open door policy
- great hand on experience with sales

Cons

- have to somewhat suck up to upper level management
- some managers treat you like their slave
- portfolio is somewhat difficult to engage with and find interesting
- can have very long hours of extreme busy work
- some account coordinators work 9-5 while others work 8 to anytime after 7

Advice to Senior Management

- continue to have an open door policy
- try harder to get to know all of the account coordinators, don't favor the ones who suck up
- try to balance the work load so nobody stays later than others constantly
- continue to reward hard work

Pros

Opportunity to learn many systems and expand your knowledge in several areas of management. Great insurance and company benefits including discount with various companies.

Cons

Can be a very stressful job because of system errors and outsourcing errors. Time off for vacation is not covered properly by HR.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in an appropriate way to cover full time employees so they can take vacations and not have to work while they are off.

Pros

I liked the flexibility of being an In-Store marketing rep. The job itself wasn't hard.

Cons

Management likes to micro-manage and isn't there for support unless you do something wrong. The pay wasn't that great considering all the driving that needed to be done. Supplies were often late or missing.

Advice to Senior Management

Less micro-managing and make sure area managers communicate with field reps more.

Pros

You can pretty much make your own hours.

Cons

You dont get paid for the first 30 miles you drive or 30 min you work.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay me from the time I leave my office (house) till I get back to the office.

Pros

Nice offices-nice coffee bar, great cafeteria
Friendly employees
Plenty of interns
Paid internship
Allowed interns to make a large presentation to executives at the end of the summer and show off all they've learned - chance to make a good impression on influential people

Cons

Could only intern for 2 summers
Often had to help out other departments with monotonous, tasks that they didn't feel like doing themselves, but that is probably typical of an internship at any company

Advice to Senior Management

Great internship program

Pros

Young culture, good transition from college to working world, competitive salary once you have worked there for a while

Cons

Can be a lot of favoritism, success at the company can be based on luck of assignments and timing (true for a lot of sales), a bit out of touch with developments in sales (too strict on sales call requirements, long hours are seen positively regardless of need)

Advice to Senior Management

Take the time to understand how your sales employees are able to be successful, this will be a better predictor of future success for the individual employees than just looking at their sales as this can be based on luck. This will also help you better assign senior sales people to the appropriate accounts.

Pros

flexible hours, get to work with friendly in-store people

Cons

low pay, low mileage, not enough hours

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your field reps about their working situation

Pros

Flexible schedule, no micro-management, get to work from home, monthly gas card.

Cons

Pay scale is low (hourly vs. salary). Hours vary each week.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your part-time workers more money and allow greater room for advancement for those without bachelor's degrees who have equivalent experience and have proven themselves otherwise.

Pros

Flexability
Great program managers
manager support

Cons

I can only comment on the division I worked for. While as a contracted employee,I understand the client calls the shots. Having said that,when the client says jump,and NAM says how high...NAM gets the short end of the stick. The client can treat NAM any way they choose.This program would have been more productive if the client would have offered a few more bucks to actually educate NAM employees on building business. I only met NAM employees in my district twice in 10 years. How to punch a number in a computer.

Advice to Senior Management

If this client optes to pay 40,000-60,000 a year in salary, to employees in a rapidly declining industry not counting insurance,car,benefits. Their call.
I don't like being out of work...but.I get it. I hope the employees are selling, what they're being paid

Pros

Great chance to learn and advance your career if you are willing to put in the work and solve problems.

Cons

The annual review process is very political and formal with strict practices on low pay increase regardless of what you accomplished.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay people what they are worth so they stay on longer and stop making everyone where suits especially when it is hot in the summer.