2 bedroom, $600/mo, utilities included, 1st month free, and no background check please - Anonymous employee Promove Employee Review

1.0
Jan 13, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Because of the different kinds of people that you have to work with, you will develop great communication skills as well as sales tactics that can be beneficial in other jobs. You won't be afraid to pick up the phone and talk to people and your presentation skills can be really sharpened. Stick with the company for 2-3 years and when you start looking for other jobs, it will go a long way with other employers when they see you stuck around a 100% commission job (it will most likely mean you had some success there as well.)

Cons

Insane turnover. This is due to how often you're working, people you have to help, the ROI for the amount of time and work you put in. They lost even their best people a year or so ago due to this. 100% commission with a company that is pretty obsolete now. Their business model is primarily set up to have people come into an office to meet with you and go over all their property options (only properties Promove is affiliated with, hence part of the problem.) We're in an era now where people can get the same information online. They did build a small online team awhile back to work with this but it's not even close to being enough. You are forced to work with anyone with a heartbeat. So there will be several calls you go into knowing immediately it's going to lead to nothing and the person is a waste of time. As this continues to happen with each call, you are going to become more and more frustrated. 100% commission sounds like you can make a ton of money if you really do well but when you see you are working 6 days/week, you'll discover the ROI is terrible compared to most others. Bonus potential is laughable. Only the top of the top sellers get bonus money and it's hardly a bonus at all. Realistically, probably 3/4's of your money will be made during the summer when everyone's (with actual money,) lease is up. The rest of your time you're working with people who can only spend $600/mo The breakdown: When a lease is signed, Promove get's 50% of the first months rent and a Property Specialist will get 16% of that half. Ex: Lease is $600/mo. Promove gets $300 and 16% of that = $48 for you. Enough said. But I'll even use the summer when it's the best time (by their standards) Ex: Lease is $1800/mo. Promove gets $900 and 16% of that = $144. Not that great either, especially when this hardly happens. They will try to sell past this 2 different ways. The first is churn and burn. The more people you help, the higher potential of making more money (duh.) The other is the property bonuses. This is where the money can be good but unfortunately the team that is in charge of getting these is terrible now. The property bonus breakdown is you get 32% of that bonus (if you hit their minimum number for a "promotion" for the year, it goes up to 46%.) So going back to the summer example where you made $144 on the lease. Throw in a $500 (ranges from $100-$500,) property bonus. 32% get's you an additional $160 for a total of $304. This would make the job worth while but the problem is, those big time leases and bonuses are very rare. You're stuck with those $600 leases and possibly a bonus. And you have to pray they did refer you and don't move because if they leave within 90 days (I may be wrong on how many days,) for any reason, they take that money back out of your paycheck! So long story short, to possibly hit $100K for the year, you need to avg. 20 placements/2 weeks for around $200/lease. TRUST ME, very few accomplish this or even come close to it. Heck to get around $75K, you have to have the same amount of leases/2 weeks and avg $150/lease.

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Promove Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We strive to provide an unrivaled work experience for our staff as well as exemplary service to our customers. PROMOVE is a sales-based company, providing a free service to a wide variety of renters in Atlanta. Our customers have a range or search criteria and budgets to be considered, and we do our best to accommodate those expectations. We assist both renters needing budget conscious apartments and those needing the newest luxury high rise. Our service is far from obsolete; that’s pretty clear based on our handling of over 10% of apartment leases in metro Atlanta (and growing) along with 91% 5 star customer satisfaction rating and a high rate of repeat of customers and referrals. We service70% of our customers online via both our store personnel and our growing dedicated online division. We are making ongoing significant investments in the online customer experience and CRM tools to help our people close. As with all sales jobs, the close rate isn’t 100%, but it is competitive and increases dramatically as our people gain experience and add more value to their customer searches, well beyond simply providing a list of apartments. Sales and commission positions naturally require more time on-the-job to be available for customers. In an effort to make the position more rewarding for our employees, our sales compensation and sales bonus plans were overhauled in early 2015 which increased both take home pay and benefits. More than 25% of our sale staff received month and quarterly bonuses last year. Also, as of December 2015, our average revenue generated per lease increased 20% over the prior year, largely due to an increase in “property bonuses”, which has further increased earnings potential. While it sounds as if PROMOVE wasn’t the best fit for you, we do have many tenured and successful sales representative as well as tens of thousands of happy customers. As always, if there’s anything we can do to improve the experience for our staff or customers, we are all ears. Thank you again for your service and feedback.

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