YellowBook Employee Reviews for Account Representative

What do you like about working at YellowBook?

"The people I worked with are quality and many have remained friends."

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

"The comapny is still going through changes but things are getting better,especially in Irvine"

What don't you like about working at YellowBook?

"The company was going through major changes and reorganization ."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Things happened slow from Corporate but reps had to react and chnage to rapidly."

"Great Experience"

What do you like about working at YellowBook?

"Get to help businesses grow and meet financial goals through advertising"

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

"You will learn a lot and can be very successful if your willing to work hard"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep it up, your doing great"

"As honest as it gets"

What do you like about working at YellowBook?

"I pretty much made my own schedule and was free to do my own business as I wanted. Life was great ."

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

"Beware of companies that churn 75% of their sales force in the first 90 days. There is a reason for it. Talk with the current employees first."

What don't you like about working at YellowBook?

"Hypocritical management was got caught with their pants down way too many times. Nepotism is a very bad thing but was rampant at this company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"You had a great business model and worked. Then you tried to fool Wall Street and found out that this is impossible to do. You can't put a bandaid on a severed artery. It will not work."

"I was only with the company for six months."

What do you like about working at YellowBook?

"I liked the creativity of designing an ad for a customer and then going over it with the customer and watching it grow."

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

"For someone who is just entering sales, this could be a good starting point."

What don't you like about working at YellowBook?

"I did not like the fact that after building a relationship with a customer, the following year, it would be reassigned to another rep."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"That the company may find it more beneficial if customers have a point of contact they trust each year. I believe the upsale would be musch better than starting each year from scratch again with a new rep."

What do you like about working at YellowBook?

"The opportunity for career advancement as well as income potental. I enjoyed the challenge of earning the trust of new clients and helping them to built there customer base with my products."

What don't you like about working at YellowBook?

"Some of the management needed to attend leadership classes."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to realize that outside sales representatives get beat up some days, and when they come back to the office they need to have a positve, upbeat atmosphere."

"Quick Glimpse"

What do you like about working at YellowBook?

"Obtaining new business and renewing contracts."

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

"Be confident, be ready to prove your numbers and as always, dress for success!"

What don't you like about working at YellowBook?

"The revolving door when it came to employee retention."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your employees more."

"AS true as it can be."

What do you like about working at YellowBook?

"Working with the customers and the other representatives."

What don't you like about working at YellowBook?

"Charge backs, the way the industry is changing the time requirement to succeed(Iworked usuallly 60 or more hours a week)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Help reps get a better balance of life and work."

"great training program, and great environment to learn and get pumped up about sales"

What do you like about working at YellowBook?

"great training and we always left pump up and ready to make sales out on the streets.Loved the respect and the freedom."

What don't you like about working at YellowBook?

"working some of those smaller markets made it hard for us to make money"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"get the commission rates stronger in the weaker markets"