What is the salary like at Best Version Media?

Flexible, easy, can work as much as you want, remote

Pay is low, lots of clients to keep track of, not paid for revisions. Pay is $10 per ad. I had to put an hourly rate.

Comprehensive Training, no micromanagement, innovative company

The pay is low with little room for negotiation

his role may appeal to someone who prefers a highly controlled environment with little need for independent strategy or creativity. Expectations, messaging, and processes are clearly dictated, and there can be downtime depending on call attendance

The culture is unsupportive and can feel intimidating rather than developmental. Onboarding is about one week and largely consists of watching pre-recorded videos, with zero real coaching. There is no opportunity for outbound outreach, everything is scripted, and you are required to use company email templates without deviation. Calls are pre-set (3-4 a day) and labeled as “qualified,” but the show rate sits around 30%, making quota extremely difficult to achieve. At the time of my tenure, no one on the team was hitting quota, and the base salary is low relative to expectations. Questions are not always welcomed, and feedback may be delivered publicly (you will be made an example of) Direction is limited; new hires are expected to figure things out using a vague document that covers only a handful of scenarios. Job security can feel uncertain, with reports of employees being let go abruptly and with little explanation. CEO likes to call people out in a group setting.

Work from home, create your own schedule

As a career media sales professional, having successfully worked for some of the largest and well-known media companies in the country, the opportunity to work locally from home was exciting. HOWEVER, the publisher on my magazine was "secretly" re-signing my accounts a few months prior to the end of their contracts. I only discovered this when one of my accounts reached out to me to let me know this was happening. The Publisher would receive 80% by moving the accounts into his name. If they stayed in my name we essentially split the commission. The publisher contacted these business owners saying "you need to work with me for the best deal, not the associate publisher" This left me with no customer base. Management only cares about the bottom line, these actions were seemingly encouraged. The only solution management suggested was that they wanted me to start my own magazine so I wouldn't have to deal with splitting commission or losing my own accounts. There is NO WAY I would stick around and trust them after not backing me. GOOD BYE - I have found a new role elsewhere, my salary has quadrupled and I have full benefits. Sorry BVM, you are broken.

The opportunity to make good money working for yourself.

Pay is 100% commission where you revieve 80% of total revenue after making about $6000 in sales (10-15 medium tier offerings). Customer is locked into year long contracts.

Work from home Meet incredible people in your community decent pay for time worked

sometimes it can be challenging working with business owners as they are very busy and unable to provide content needed to fulfill their contracts

The freedom and opportunity The people you work with in the company The people you work with in the community 100% commission + bonuses Residual income

I don't have any. I do want to point out that there is not an option in this review for a 100% commission so I had to put $1 in the salary area in order to progress to the next questions. The pay is so much more than that if you're handling your business, taking care of your clients, and truly enjoy helping your community and being active in it!

It's great getting to work in your community.

You're essentially working without pay, juggling various tasks such as self-training, writing multiple articles, conducting interviews, and preparing content months in advance within a tight time frame of 20 hours. Additionally, you're expected to cover the entire magazine production process, including content planning and execution, without any financial compensation until the magazine is published, which could be a 2-3 month wait. This workload translates to an extremely low hourly rate of around $3 or less. When I raised your concerns about this unsustainable situation, I was met with dismissive responses, being labeled as incompetent and dramatic. Furthermore, attempts to pre-purchase magazines for individuals featured in the magazine were thwarted by restrictions limiting sales to specific neighborhoods, meaning people could be in the magazine to fill it so ad space can be sold but you can not buy a copy despite offering pre-sales for the cover story family during pre-production. Overall, this situation appears to be exploitative and unreasonable, with your efforts undervalued and underappreciated. It's clear that such conditions are not conducive to fair compensation or professional growth, and I would advise against workmen for them.

My team and my direct boss are amazing. Some great people work here. Working from home is awesome.

All about the numbers and appearance of a successful company. They don't care if salespeople aren't ready and prepared to launch the magazines, they don't care if they're not making money, they just want the numbers to look good. Publishers are jumping ship like crazy. Wages are awful, not market value. Health insurance is bad. Employee turnover is getting worse (no surprise based on the wages). Salespeople are allowed to be rude and throw tantrums to get their way, no back-up from higher-ups.

Hybrid work model gives me opportunity to collaborate with my team and other departments in person on in-office days, and allows me to to be ultra-productive on days that I work from home with little distraction. Another plus is that all of the Directors/Leads have the best interests of the sales field in mind during decision making. I also like that my department shares in the successes of the sales field.

The pay is a constant point of conversation with my team. I would like to see some standards in place as far as what they can expect in dollar amounts/increases based on level of performance. I feel like I am always in a battle when increases come around.