National Federation of Independent Business Reviews

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Could get lonely for the wrong person.

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No downside to working at NFIB.

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Unrealistic Sales quotas were needed to earn decent pay

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The leadership is not good. Inexperienced in managing people, nit-picky and babysit. If you want to grow, this isn't the place. If you want to come to work and get paid for being there without having any ideas or doing anything exciting, this is the place for you. The structure is old and outdated with poor HR policies and little to no actual culture. Health insurance benefit is mediocre at best.

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100% Commision, there is no consistency. Everyday is different. The job remains mentally challenging.

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Somewhat of an Absentee CIO. Really only engages the team once/month in an all hands.

Antiquated sales model - door to door.

 Cynicism, negativity, and bad attitudes are predominant culture, particularly in IT middle management. Solid professionals with positive energy won't subject themselves to it for long once they realize that's part of the fabric of the culture.

Antiquated employee policies. Typical with a company this old.

Losing relevance and subscribers/members at net loss clip of around 3,000/quarter. No real plan to recover.

Technology is not seen as a business differentiation, rather just a support system of the business. Product development is rarely, if ever, directly tied to growth or sales initiatives. Most front office technology is outsourced.

No focus on talent management. It's all about tenure.

High turnover & attrition rate.

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Although they have an iPad presentation, they need more modern ways to sell to today's business owner. A lot of people do not want to give you any money without doing their research.

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-Depending on the political cycle, there can be a lot of turnover

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Parallel telephone sales division sometimes overly aggressive during membership renewal process.

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There really isn't a place to start here. You're selling plaques people and that's it. They are always looking for their next Rookie of the year and even if that was you don't expect them to remember past yesterday. They are constantly paying you less money. Not one single field representative is making more money this year than last (oh yeah and we learned that right before our New Years Day off that we don't get paid for). I don't care how good you are at this, you will run out of places to go. The people up at the top just keep changing things to try to justify their existence when the fact is the only position that can't be replaced at NFIB is the field rep and they're never consulted before anything (even if you are a part of the leadership development you are clueless about changes around the corner). They're cons to say the least. All the time I've been with them I've worked with my manager for half a day. If they want to cut expenses that is where they need to cut from. District Managers do NOTHING but talk on the phone and eat out. They are the laziest group of people you'd ever see. There is no need for management in this job, we manage ourselves, I make six figures doing this because of myself (it has not a single thing to do with who is above me).