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Complaint Review: AXIOM ADVERTISING: - Girard Ohio

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  • Reported By: Chris — Youngstown Ohio United States of America
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  • AXIOM ADVERTISING: 1282 Trumball Ave. - Suite F Girard, Ohio United States of America

AXIOM ADVERTISING: New Dawn Distribution/ Innovage, Smart Circle, Quantum, ex DS-Max/ Granton Scam job in Girard, Ohio. BEWARE owner Linda Barton! Check out their multiple ads on careerbuilder.com --- ALL LIES! Scam, Rip-off, Communist tactics, Sensationalism. Girard, Ohio

*Author of original report: AXIOM Advertising: Taking 3-7% of your profits for security.

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Axiom Advertising... sounds like a dream job, right? Here... it's just door to door sales.
Their ads on the internet are VERY misleading.  Actually, as I write this I notice their advertisement on careerbuilder has changed.  When I responded to it a few Months ago the ad actually claimed I'd be making $400-$600.00 a wk. base pay.  Now their ad just says: "Pay based on personal attributes".  Ha! Yeah, can you sell anything?  If not, you get no pay because this job is straight commission ONLY!  They "hire" you in and have you fill out an "independent contractor" form and this basically tells you that you will not be paid hourly, you will not receive any kind of compensation for fuel or wear & tear on your car (if you have a car... it's not a requirement), and that you are responsible for your own taxes.

What's shady as H*ll though is the fact that when you're there your first week and you get "negged" out because you made little to no sales, your team leader pays you $50 bucks in hopes that you will stay and not quit.  This comes right out of the team leader's profits, NOT the Owner's (Linda Barton) or the Company that Axiom represents: I N N O V A G E.  To me that is rediculous and that is EXACTLY what you, the new guy, should look forward to doing with YOUR profits should you become a "Team Leader".  So basically, look forward to being broke, worrying about how you're going to pay for gas, how you're going to pay a doctor if you need to because you have no insurance.  And if you have a Family depending on you, forget about it !!!  You will NOT be able to afford a d*mn thing !!!

Atmosphere room is I N S A N E !!!  You are not allowed to speak negatively about sales the day before or about anything at all.  They will pull you to another room and ask you what the h*ll your problem is... OR they will ridicule you in front of everyone for having a dissenting opinion.  It happened to me once, where I learned to never speak anything negative or doubtful.  For instance, I sold nothing the day before and I asked Linda in front of everyone why She sent me and this new guy to an area that had already been worked.  She said, "No territory is bad territory, that territory hasn't been worked until you worked it, there's no such thing as a bum territory... just a bum in the territory".  Thanks Linda, that boosted my confidence nothing.  She then goes on to say that I should keep my mouth shut, I have a habit of putting my foot in my mouth.  Later, during an "impact" she left little cues like "If you can't sell you should just quit".  My question is: Why is DEMOGRAPHICS not calculated into the law of averages???  Answer: I think you should quit putting your foot in your mouth and pay attention to what the "high-rollers" do.  And that's laughable, the so called "high-rollers" are in the other half of the Company, New Dawn Distribution selling China made Toys, CD cases, boxes of hot rocks, Pillows, Teddy Bears, etc. making a maximum of $80 bucks a day - MAYBE! If they're in good territory. 

What the AXIOM half of the business focuses on is certificates and City books.  The City books are in competition with all the School kids that sell the Entertainment Books (which is actually a MUCH better value) and the certs are buy one get one free golf, spa, oil changes - 4 for the price of 1, Lake Erie Monster seats, water park discounts, etc.  Selling the certs is not that dishonorable of a job, but selling merch (merchandise), you honestly have to check your ego at the door.  I mean, you got two armfuls of junk, you're trying to open a door, the sh*t falls, people laugh, you clown around about it, they laugh at the generic quality of your wares, you get several "no's", you look at them like their crazy for saying no and it's off to the next door... interrupting their business.

Another thing I want to point out: You need a Vendor's licence to sell this crap to the public.  Those cost a lot of money!!  Axiom does not have one, but most importantly, as an independent contractor, if you get busted and fined... YOU have to pay for it !!!
The owner Linda Barton will not help the new guy out.  Her philosophy is "Social Darwinism": Only the Strong Survive, Eat or be Eaten, Kill or be Killed.  Empathy or compassion for independent contractors is NOT her cup of tea!!!

To learn more about AXIOM Advertising and Linda Barton, just read Steve's "Rip-off Report" from 2004 on NEW DAWN DISTRIBUTION.  Linda actually gives a rebuttal thinking Steve is Ed, revealing personal stuff about Ed in the coldest display of vengeance I ever read.  A MUST SEE !!!

And remember, Don't get sucked into this wack, 10-13 hr. day long, less than minimum wage, greed obsessed cult unless you like being brainwashed and living in homeless shelters with the rest of her "independent contractors".

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AXIOM Advertising: Taking 3-7% of your profits for security.

AUTHOR: michael-abyss - (United States of America)

POSTED: Monday, January 25, 2010

Glad to finally see this company posted on here, considering it TOO is a descendant of the DS-Max/ Innovage, Granton/ Smart Circle hierarchy.  Which, speaking of hierarchies, should bring to mind the symbol of the pyramid - alas; the scheme is displayed!

So much has been written on this site already about the DS-Max system, I need not go into the inner workings of Axiom Advertising, for, if ye search, ye shall find, and the truth ye shall know. I do suggest you become familiar with the truth because I N N O V A G E is where ALL sales jobs from BIG BIG BIG Corporative Businesses are being outsourced to. Home Depot, Disney, the list is HUGE. I encourage you to check out the website of "Smart Circle" and become educated. Basically, it's sales reps getting paid squalor to "promote" big businesses, when the big business should be providing excellent job opportunities for sales reps, they instead outsource the direct sales jobs to cheap sweatshop labor forces recruited by Innovage "owners". It's a rude awakening of what is to come here in America in the 21st century. It's already becoming extremely difficult to find a steady good paying job, increasingly the only "opportunity" available is at these awful offices across the country.

Anyway, to get to the point, I worked at AXIOM Advertising and actually enjoyed the "work". Yeah... truth (direct sales is fun and entertaining)! BUT, I didn't enjoy the "system". The pay was penile and to boot, Linda had the team leaders deduct 3-7% of our profits when we would settle up at the end of each day. She said the money was being put into a "security" account. However, these team leaders were horrible at math and money was just a floatin' around in some account that we had no access to. As for my "security", the numbers I had calculated did not match the numbers my team leader had calculated and therefore I smelt a rip-off. Hence the post on "rip-off report"! The dictatorship of Linda Barton drove me away. And now that I've been away a few Months, I can see how her manipulation techniques were working on me. I was actually planning to become a team leader, that was my goal. I needed to make more money, so I thought the logical step would be to rise up into the hierarchy. But the problem is, the higher you go in this pyramid, the more you have to lie and manipulate. LUCKILY, I got out with my dignity and integrity intact.

It's true, the longer you stay in this business, the harder your heart becomes. The colder you are to the people below you. Meaning, in order for you to advance, you have to manipulate those below you the same way those above you manipulate YOU!
Understand? It's a system where only the 3 people at the top are free and EVERYONE below them in all the independent offices across the Globe are mind controlled slaves.
Beware the tactics, don't get caught up into the greedy lifestyle they expect you to inhabit in order to get ahead in the "biz". Whether you work there already, heed my wisdom. And if you don't already work there... EXCELLENT! Do yourself and your Family a blessing... don't apply at AXIOM Advertising... or ANY Innovage affiliate office for that matter!

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