No Limit Agency Reviews

This is a sales job, but without the commission. You're forced to cold call reporters at small town newspapers and TV stations literally all day. You get yelled at if they don't hear you on the phone. They created an email account that the CEO monitors, and you're required to BCC the email address on every email you send. They also count your phone calls. People get fired left and right simply because they're not the CEO's favorite. Some of the clients may seem like fun brands to work on, but don't let that fool you - you don't do actual PR or consumer marketing work for clients, but you instead work under the brands' franchise development departments whose goal is to sell more franchises... you have zero budgets, and just have to get small, pointless media placements for them. Oh, not to mention the CEO Nick Powills will make you work overtime to promote his personal brand/his book, which is ironically about bullying. It's also a very hostile work environment. Not only do people get fired a lot, but it's a threatening culture. The CEO and his one-person HR team/CFO (who just so happens to be his wife) have even been forcing current employees to write positive Glassdoor reviews (one at a time, and giving a deadline so he can monitor who is posting which one. No joke - I'd bet money that they'll do it again after this wave of reviews to push the negative ones back down!). I learned more in my new job in a day than I learned at NLA. No matter how desperate you are for a job, I would consider looking elsewhere and taking literally anything else you can get, as this place will leave you hating PR and will not prepare you for future jobs you'll want. If you're a client considering hiring No Limit, be aware that your brand's name will be blasted out to media who have literally asked No Limit to stop calling them. Not a good look.

Where do I start? I lasted about 4.5 months before leaving, but just after the first month, I was all ready looking elsewhere. It was the type of job where, after a month, I knew there was not a whole lot more I would learn that would be helpful for any future job (only exception being a telemarketer IMO) No Limit's version of "media relations" means one thing: phone calls. 40 calls a day, pitching stories either about the the umpteenth franchise opening in a 10 mile radius, or the very newsworthy (not!) pitch about how x company MAY be looking to open (made up number) of locations in the area. There's a huge lack of organization that always showed at the end of the month when we were expected to meet a monthly interview goal. There would be pressure to get interviews for clients where we never even discussed the slightest pitch or story idea to annoy writers with. It might make sense to think of something, anything to pitch for x client before it's 2 days before the end of the month and you harp on us for not getting an interview. CEO is not open to new ideas or suggestions. I thought I might be better suited in a different role, where I'd be doing more writing (besides emails) and was told, sure, I could move within the company. I was then told I wasn't good enough at my current position--I improved my "numbers"(arbitrary # of interviews they stipulate), brought it up again, aand, nope. Nothing. By that time though, I knew it wasn't worth it and it was time to bail. Turnover is high, and employee morale is low. One of the only upsides from this experience? I learned what I didn't want as a job, and I learned that life can be much better at a good company.