American Marketing & Publishing Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"I have had such a positive experience since starting with this company in April 2022. The training and support we get in the sales field are really impressive. In my first month, I had a trainer ride with me 4 different times, about once per week. Training starts with a day of online virtual training and then you are with an experienced sales trainer for your first day in the field. It really helped to watch the trainer a few times before trying it on my own. The script they make us memorize was super helpful too! I was glad to have those words already in my brain to help me answer customer questions that I probably would not have known the answers to without the script. I've done a lot of sales and have to say the customer response to Google Street View is very positive. People in my town were excited about the idea of getting their photos updated on Google and Google Maps and that we could attach them to their official business listings. The hardest part was actually getting to a decision-maker, but once you have them in front of you, it becomes an easy decision for them. After hitting the first goal of selling 8 GSV (which was not very hard) I got trained on OPTIMA which opens a whole new door to sales opportunities, and commissions! In my first month, I made $1345 in bonuses and another $1465 in commissions! You definitely have to make the calls and work full days, but the opportunity is there if you follow the system they lay out for you."

"I beg anyone who sees this review to avoid this company at all costs, no matter how good their pitch to join them sounds!! I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I went through with this company. All I got from them was lies and was just stabbed in the back. Was promised yearly earnings of $50K to $60k or even more, which with their commission structure in entirely cold call sales would be near impossible to achieve. Was told I would be given the tools and training to succeed and all I got was a day of online lectures that didn't really teach anything that was useful for me in the field and a half day out in the field with my manager. After that I was sent out with a beat up iPad and a couple of binders of training material to try to flounder my way through, I had made a few sales out on my own but wasn't getting the results I wanted to achieve and I was always begging for more field training and guidance and I was never given any. Despite my best efforts of making all my 30 sales calls per day and giving the pitches the best I could following their sales plans and methods to a T, I recieved a text out of the blue from my manager about a half hour into my sales day saying they were in town and wanted to meet in the usual spot, I was thinking at that point "Great! A little short notice because I have a sales appointment scheduled I have to get to right away, but I'm finally going to get the near full day of sales training I've been wanting for so long!" but I met him there and he said he didn't want to move forward with me due to a couple day rough patch of not having any sales, despite the fact I had 2 or more appointments that day that would have likely turned into big sales scheduled for that day, and after asking him to give me more training and a proper chance of success he told me he already made up his mind and wanted me to part ways with the company. PLEASE I BEG YOU for your own good if you are reading this dont make the same mistake I did by"

"Unstable with compensations and bonus pay."

What do you like about working at American Marketing & Publishing?

"There was always a very positive upbeat attitude from the executives. Before the compensation plan changed, I liked the way I was being paid."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"AMP's ideal candidate is someone who is in their 20's and is high energy with no debt, no overhead, and no family life."

What don't you like about working at American Marketing & Publishing?

"You are expected to make 40 sales calls per day - and many to home based businesses. You are expected to work in the dark, until 7 or 8 pm at night, knocking on a home based business door without an appointment and that is not only challenging but dangerous. There was a lot of favoritism in my office and the Manager had his favorite people and gave them renewals to pump up their business and earnings - very unfair."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When I started I had a low base and then made a commission on top of that - there was no threshold, I was paid on everything I sold. Within a couple months that changed and I then had to meet a pretty high threshold before I would be eligible for commission. But - once again the compensation plan changed (all of this in 4 months) so that we would only be paid once per month - and it would be half way through the following month! Our earnings were dinged for cell phone charges even though we were required to listen to up to 15 minutes worth of cheerleading from the executives every morning, and if we did not collect a high percent of the payment from the business who bought an advertisement up front, our salary was further decreased. You can't expect sales people to pay to put gas in their cars daily to be able to cover a large territory and make all these calls when you do not have frequent pay checks."

"Over promise, under deliver!"

"The hours are not healthy for any one"

What do you like about working at American Marketing & Publishing?

"Fellow team members"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Beware!!!"

What don't you like about working at American Marketing & Publishing?

"The way treated people"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work on keep people not disposing of them like junk mail"

"Be prepared to work fast and uner consatant observation for very little compensation."

What do you like about working at American Marketing & Publishing?

"Nothing unfortunately."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Look for design work outside of DeKalb Il."

What don't you like about working at American Marketing & Publishing?

"Intense deadlines, quick turnover, high consumer rates for ads and low expectations for designers, quantity over quality is the motto here. I always felt like their clients were getting ripped off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't be such penny pinchers. Allow the creatives to be a 'lil creative. Keep middle management from constantly pushing you to produce faster. Basically allow more than 15 minutes to produce a 1/4-1/2 page ad a client is paying upwards of $1,000 for."