Review - Client Engagement Executive iPromo Employee Review

A. Positive culture B. Supportive leadership C. Collaborative environment with talented coworkers

There aren't any cons working at iPromo.

The HR lady and the trainer were wonderful people. There were some fun employee engagement activities and perks. The products and industry itself are great (I worked with another promotional products company prior for at least 6 years and the work culture was competitive but healthy).

Not what I signed up for. Initially we were told we weren't going to be calling cold leads, the required daily call numbers would fluctuate as well with new management being brought in, plus constant transitions to new systems and methods, we all would adapt but straight out of training, my sales goal was a whopping $46,000+ and without a proportionate amount of resources. I was lead generating on my own half the time. They insisted I had a sales goal in May right after training (the nesting period) of about $28k (which means I needed to be closing at least $1k in sales daily as a newbie). I asked all my peers and they confirmed none of them were aware of it either but they took that against me in saying I wasn't meeting goals. I started 2nd week of April and was unceremoniously let go of at the end of June (same-day notice as I was making sales calls). No PIP, no memo. Early on, I proactively tried to ask for the rules of engagement when it comes to meeting sales goals and in hindsight maybe they kept that open in order to be able to change policy at any given time. It would've been nice to at least be aware of how things stand. I wasn't absent once, I went above and beyond by attaining the masters degree level of expertise during training and I would go out of my way to help others, I attended every team event and I was always in the top 5 in activity levels. I was reprimanded for trying to price quote competitively in the way I deemed appropriate in order to close a deal and so I increased my pricing to meet company standards and lost 2 big deals that would've met or even exceeded the unexpectedly high sales goal given to a new hire. Given that I didn't have any real performance issues, it's almost like they just didn't like me. I expressed trepidation about punitive action in having adhered to company standards at the expense of not closing new business. It wasn't for lack of my fortitude or opportunities that I stayed on top of. It was too soon to fire someone who was in fact showing up everyday and had deals in the pipeline. I felt that by following their pricing guidelines, I lost the sales I desperately wanted but it was taken against me at the end of the day.