The Marketing Store Worldwide Reviews

Pros

There is something to be said about a private small agency environment that works for big name clients

Cons

Collaboration between offices could be better.

Advice to Senior Management

More communication is needed from Executive Management

Pros

If they are successful in building something new there, you would be getting in on the ground floor and that could lead to great opportunities. You get the opportunity to work with the world-class McDonald's brand.

Cons

Decision making happens by committee at TMS. Risk mitigation is the number one driver above any other factor, including profitability. Client pressure from the McDonald's jaggernaut to eliminate risk completely from every decision ever made (without compensation for the excessive overhead this demand creates), is the barrier standing in the way of TMS's successful future.

Advice to Senior Management

If Legal positioning and risk avoidance is the number one influencing factor - which it is - you have to have a Lawyer on staff who can make intelligent decisions about the presence of acceptable risk. Outsourced lawyers do not need to care about the balance between risk avoidance and cost of Operations. Segregate the Digital team completely from the remainder of the company until successful momentum is underway. After there is a successful Digital core, then begin folding the rest of the organization back into the newly created seedling organization.

Pros

The people are friendly and nice. They have nice friday lunches and the christmas parties are very nice too. Not bad for a company.

Cons

Things have changed for the marketing store. A lot of people are leaving and coming. More leaving than coming. Location is difficult to get to.

Advice to Senior Management

look at where you want to be. Treat your employees better. Listen to your employees. They are your intellectual property.

Pros

Great Benefits and Fun environment (brand marketing & making toys for Happy Meals). Global exposure to supply chain and mfg. New Top management is starting to shape vision for the future... which has been blurred by constant flux at CEO position in the past 4 years.

Cons

Limited advancement opprotunities is some departments. With exceptions... Many of senior management act too distant for a small company/department, and are taking advantage of cushy posts, putting forth minimal effort . Organization is quite top heavy as of 2010, yet they consistantly have made layoffs of junior level staff.

Advice to Senior Management

Firm is not competitive b/c there is too much bloat at the executive level. Challenge junior members to produce, and not only will you be satisfied and more efficient, you might actually retain some of the talent you are bleeding.

Pros

Nice people. They were very accomidating. Communication was fairly open and they didn't have an overbearing heirarchtical structure like you see in some marketing / communications firms.

Cons

Awful suburban locations, not anywhere near you want to be if you're not already married with children. (Married without kids, you still want to be elsewhere.) The food selection could be better if you need to grab something quickly, but that's the land of strip-malls for you.

Advice to Senior Management

Open an office in the city. Your younger employees hate the commute and/or where the offices force them to live.