Bad outweighed the good - Anonymous employee APPCO Employee Review

3.0
21 June 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The morning started off with loud chants within the group, goals for the day, key things to remember when successfully completing a sale, and a vibrant manager giving a motivating speech for the day. That was pretty much the best part of the job. The people were cool, office was always playing music.

Cons

The job is definitely not for everyone, including me. Its a door to door sale job sometimes (at events or shops) and your are basically working as a fundraiser to raise money for a certain charity. Although it is for a good cause, the pay was under minimum wage if you didn't have any sales for the day, and you'd be out from 12 till the sun goes down, even later if you still were pushing for at least one sale. At the end of the day, the work to pay ratio wasn't worth it to me. Probably why there was such high turnover there. However, there were a few people that did well, but majority did about 1-2 sometimes 3 sales a day if sales were made.

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4.0
7 July 2017
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
27 Apr 2019
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Pros

Learn a lot about sales, build a lot of inner confidence, meet a lot of interesting people.

Cons

Punishingly long days for which you will not get paid more than 4 or 5 an hour due to the commission structure. You will hear a lot of very inspirational and motivational speeches, and meet the few in the company who have risen to the top. You will not be one of those people. 1% or less of anyone who works for Appco is blessed with the sheer sales TALENT -- meaning something you are born with, not something you can work for -- will ever be able to climb to top of the corporate structure and make an actual good living. But, if you are that talented, why log the insane hours appco requires? If you're that good at sales, work for a normal company, 40 hrs a week, and make the same or possibly more.

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