SMS Reviews

In any job where I made a sale, I got paid. NOT HERE FOLKS!! Your salary in every position is dependent on what they guy involved in the process after you does. If he fails you don't get paid. Let me break it down for you. The idea is to get a consulting project for the company. It starts with a Business Coordinator doing some appointment setting for a sales rep. IF he gets an appointment (and the leads are absolutely terrible/ wrong names, wrong addresses, out of business, income incompatible; 65% of the companies leads in its decade old database are no good) the sales rep that goes to the appointment MUST convince the client he needs an Analyst for you to get your commission!!! Once the sales rep/ SAM sells it (if he does) He doesn't get paid unless the Analyst he sends in after he leaves collects an analysis fee (which the client has an option not to pay, given to him in writing) Also even if the client is convinces he needs an Analysts, the company has way less Analysts than reps so they may not even send the Analyst, thus no pay for the rep. If the Analysts is successful in convincing the client he needs consulting, the Analysts doesn't get paid until the consulting fees are collected! SO IN A NUT SHELL, YOU CAN BE THE VERY BEST AT YOUR JOB AND NEVER MAKE A CENT!! I was an INSIDE sales rep which is the same as an outside one in pay structure but i did my sales over the phone. I made quite a few Analysts appointments in my short time in that department but they didn't send out an Analyst even once!! (in my opinion, due to work place politics: If your not in bed with the management, your last on the list) So I moved to the Business Coordinator department to do appointment setting. Even with horrible leads I managed to begin the upper 50% of my department in performance from day one in the department. I was only there for 3 weeks and generated 50 SOLID leads for the reps. The clients I had told me everything about their companies and my reps knew exactly what they needed to do. Out of 50 leads generated only 2 resulted in an Analyst being sent and only 1 fee collected. Long Story short: AFTER 10 YEARS AS A SUCCESSFUL SALESMAN, I WAS REDUCED TO MINIMUM WAGE!! I stayed with SMS (and their list of alias names) for 3 months and never saw more than $320 for a weeks work!! When I put in my 2 weeks notice, I was told not to worry about two weeks and to just take it as time off (unpaid of course) so I was essentially fired. Luckily I had another job with a former employer in less than an hour. I quit on a Monday and was supposes to have received a paycheck the prior Friday!! Its been several days since payday and nobody knows where my paycheck is........they get real butt hurt if you quit, so if your stuck at SMS, I suggest you quit right after receiving your paycheck and pray they send the ones still owed to you in the mail.

Please Read this review in it's entirety. Stay away from this company and this position. This is a very fraudulent company. They promise their sales people qualified leads but they most often are completely unfounded. Between 80% and 90% of the "appointments" are blatantly false. They have a "business coordinator" set up appointments for you that have contact names, address and times. The vast majority of the time you show up to vacant buildings or locked doors or the "contact" is not there. The client has no idea that you are coming. SMS does not pay your expenses so you are simply out the money for your time, car and gas. The clients have no knowledge of these so called appointments. SMS sets between 3 and 6 "appointments" for you each day and you will be lucky if 1 is actually there and very little chance they know why you are there or care to hear you out. This is all at your expense. They then mandate that you collect 10 business cards each day (cold calls) for which they use for telemarketing. You do not get paid for this activity. You only bear the expense and time for which you DO NOT GET PAID. They then require you to check in 4-5 times per day and have mandatory calls and sales reports during the week. They advertise this as a $100,000 opportunity but that is highly unlikely. The turnover is incredible. This is simply not a legitimate career opportunity. You could put hundreds of miles on your car each week and have no return....