Working at ReachLocal in Boston, MA: 2 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Boston, MA Area

"If they come a calling head for the hills! If you take the job get ready to work long days"

What do you like about working at ReachLocal?

"The people and the core products. The base pay is reasonable. The laptop bags rock."

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

"If you are not a cold calling machine you may want to avoid ReachLocal. Tell them you love to hunt."

What don't you like about working at ReachLocal?

"The compensation package is weak until you get your book of business over 50K. The amount of cold calls to appointments is awful. Management has you pushing too many products to prospects. If you like grinding out cold phone calls everyday all day this is the place for you."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to advertise more so potential prospects know that RL is not six guys in a boiler room in India.The training for new IMC's is weak. Do not treat the new hires as just a number. Come up with a better marketing plan than Bang Out More Phone Calls!"

"Must love Cold Calling and Hard Work - That's the reality of it"

What do you like about working at ReachLocal?

"I like the people I work with and the office atmosphere"

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

"Just make sure you are willing to hustle especially in the beginning because you are building your business from the ground up. You also must be willing to work a lot of hours at least until you get it down, so be realistic if you have children etc.. may not be a good fit. You need to be honest about your ability to cold call, its 50% of the job everyone who comes here that doesn't cold call I have not seen last its a high activity based job, you are always prospecting and managing accounts so you have to like to do both because you are judged on both. This is not said to discourage people it is just the truth about the job, so if these are things you don't think you would like or can handle I recommend moving on. If you enjoy a challenge and don't mind cold calling and working a lot, you can make a lot of money and get to a point where all you are doing is managing your current clients and getting referrals it will be like having your own business you can come and go as you please as long as you are producing. If you like Internet Advertising this is HANDS DOWN the best product out there - you wont find another company that does what RL does"

What don't you like about working at ReachLocal?

"The amount of sheer work and expectations. You are required to handle all your accounts, manage them (which is very time consuming) be the customer service dept, handle all support questions and work with support to resolve them and sell new business. Its a really hard balance and you must truly love what you do or else it just will not be a good fit, I've seen a lot of people come and go."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To be a bit more realistic as it pertains to goals and work load. The reality is there are the superstars in this company who manage to get over 100% but if you look at the company as a whole this is not true, many people are struggling to balance all this work, to have a sales person be responsible for all of this is really in a way un realistic and I beleive they lose a lot of great people because of it."