MLive Media Group Reviews

Pros

There is a true passion to do the right things for our clients. This client first mentality makes it a great environment to work within. I have worked here for many years and it has been a great place to build my career. I have always recommended this company as a great place to work in Michigan. Benefits are excellent and work life balance is important to leadership. MLive invests in it's people and is best...

Cons

You need to be open to traveling within Michigan for meetings. Sometimes upper leadership is absent so you need to be able to be self motivated to get work done.

Pros

The Health Benefits are fair, speaking for a single individual. The 401k is comparable to other organizations. You'll get a company cell phone and laptop but that also makes you completely accessible 24/7. The two best things about MMG are: Your Colleagues (non managerial) I've never worked with such a great group of individuals who will help any way they can. Training - At least when I was there they were constantly...

Cons

-100% Upper Management (Director & above) - They haven't left MMG because they would not succeed outside of this cult like organization. -Work Life Balance ... does not exist. Yes, you may be able to get in a doc appointment here and there but once you establish a few accounts you will work weekends, while on vacation and holidays while managers are completely unresponsive. -Every person wears 2 or 3 hats. And...

Advice to Management

Sad to hear about some of the recent lay offs of management that were actually trying to make a difference. Stop leading by fear and help your employees grow into the sales and account people you're looking for. Quit changing compensation packages halfway through the year making goals unachievable. Lastly, if you don't trust employees to do the right thing when you're not watching them, then why did you hire them in...

Pros

Good Pay and good benefits

Cons

Not a clear path for the company

Pros

-Great place for starting journalists. -Learn different ways to use multimedia in reporting. -Good mix of reporters with plenty of experience and those starting out. -Overall friendly environment. -Decent technology provided. -Decent amount of paid time off.

Cons

-Hard to get a raise -Lots of moving around and restructuring

Pros

Flexible, phone and laptop provided.

Cons

Finding the right fit for management positions, lack of proper training for new hires, individuals promoted and employee development, company morale, work/life balance and lost sense of self and values.

Pros

Good benefits. Some flexibility in schedule. Good work and life balance.

Cons

Low pay, was promised a raise for over a year, two years ago. Still nothing. Poor communication.

Advice to Management

Direct supervisor is great but upper management shows no appreciation.

Pros

Decent Pay - when you make a commission as long as they don't change your goal at the last minute. Flexible depending on your direct manager.

Cons

- We need more digital support staff. WE ARE SALESPEOPLE. When you have a car salesman, they sell the car, they take the paperwork and they hand it off to a management staff. When we sell a campaign, we prospected the client, go through the sales process, sell the campaign, and THEN we are responsible for all their creatives, all of their fulfillment on the backend, plus maintain the account, swap creatives, and make...

Advice to Management

Your entire sales staff is overworked - underpaid- unhappy, and thinking about leaving the company. We feel unappreciated, undervalued, and stressed on a constant basis. Hire more fulfillment staff, incentivize us better, create a commission plan that actually pays us what we should be making. Because at the end of the day, if you can sell one thing you can sell anything. And there are a lot of places we can walk into...

Pros

My coworkers are great. You have some flexibility for doctor appts and kids class trips depending on your manager.

Cons

Workload just keeps piling on a sales as upper management lightens their load and fires people who can help. No time to be a salesperson due to lack of proper help and fulfillment process issues. They keep adding more things that we have to do without help and then call it "freaky fast" but fast for who when it just leads us to more emails and questions from 3-5 different people since there is not 1 person working on...

Advice to Management

Let your salespeople sell then you will start making money and stop panicking about if you will make it as a business. Care about the "little people" who honestly do not matter in your world. Better payment plans and incentives where we could actually get paid on what we sell now versus constantly climbing uphill to a goal that isn't always achievable. Get a better model for salespeople to sell: In car sales the...