Complaint Review: Olympus Advertising, The Sharp Firm Inc., DMA Portland, Iconic Solutions - SMART CIRCLE FIENDS. STAY AWAY!!!! - Tigard Oregon
- Olympus Advertising, The Sharp Firm Inc., DMA Portland, Iconic Solutions - SMART CIRCLE FIENDS. STAY AWAY!!!! 11501 SW Pacific Highway Suite 201 Tigard, Oregon USA
- Phone: (503) 336-1736
- Web: http://www.olympusadvertising.com, ...
- Category: Multi-Level Marketing
Olympus Advertising, The Sharp Firm Inc., DMA Portland, Iconic Solutions - SMART CIRCLE FIENDS. STAY AWAY!!!! Dutch Westermeijer (Sharp Firm Owner)Jared (Olympus Owner) If you have ever applied for any of the companies listed above in the Tigard, OR area and were contacted regarding an interview session, I strongly advise you to turn around and walk away if you haven’t already. Tigard Oregon
*Consumer Comment: If you don't know. ..
*Consumer Comment: You have your opinion, but...
*General Comment: TRAIL BLAZERS MARKETING Is a SCAM too
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If you have ever applied for any of the companies listed above in the Tigard, OR area and were contacted regarding an interview session, I strongly advise you to turn around and walk away if you haven’t already. The companies Olympus Advertising, The Sharp Firm, DMA Portland, and Iconic Solutions are all office entities of Smart Circle International, a multi-level marketing (MLM) company that builds it's business on franchising hundreds of offices around the US at no direct cost. These offices interview 50-100 applicants a day in desperate search of a job and recruit them to go out into the public and sell certain products and services in retail outlets or door-to-door. The various products and services that these offices are contracted to sell include Home Depot Kitchen Cabinet Refacing consultations, Direct TV installation, Century Link installation, Pierogies, Body Comfort Packs, and many more failing products that take advantage of SC’s “zero cost marketing” scheme. They claim they primarily work with client acquisition. However, with its MLM scheme they elude from the fact that the business model is doomed to fail eventually until some office owners go out of business or pack up shop and move to another city or office. Most go with the second option.
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#3 Consumer Comment
If you don't know. ..
AUTHOR: B REAL - ()
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
How could someone that, clearly, had no idea how these companies run be allowed to create such allegations? My Husband and I have worked with Jared and know how he operates. He runs a legitimate and profitable business. He is professional and is someone we look to for guidance in our own business. I've seen him pay for his employees to take business trips to several different states and get promoted out. So, I don't know where these assumptions started but if you don't know...... Then do your homework before you try to ruin someones reputation and potentially their livelihood!
#2 Consumer Comment
You have your opinion, but...
AUTHOR: barepeppermint - ()
SUBMITTED: Sunday, July 13, 2014
I'm actually the wife of Jared who owns Olympus Advertising and considering that we've owned our own house for a year, pay all of our bills on time, and have the means to fly to Cancun this November with the added cost of taking my brother and mother in law with us, says little about your statement that "the owner struggles to pay his own bills."
My husband maybe interviews about 8 people a day, so I'm not sure where the "50-100 applicants a day" comes from. And most likely out of the 8 he interviews, only maybe 1 will actually be invited back for a second round inteview. So no, his business is not desperately seeking employees on a daily basis.
And like any commission-based job, you will have days where you don't make sales. The criteria is high for the people they hire, so yes, if you don't make a specific number of sales in the first week out of training, you will be let go with exceptions. Paying the employees minimum wage costs my husband money, so he wants them to make sales, so that they are earning their OWN money. Just like in any commission-based job, you have to be making the company money. if not, they will let you go and find someone who will.
I understand your concerns with a marketing job because we've all heard of or maybe even participated in these scams before. I had the same thoughts and feelings when Jared first started in this business 4 years ago. But since then, there is no denying the fact this this is a legitimate company.
Anyone who ventures out to start their own business, or as they call it, "gets promoted out" has the chance to fail. But Jared ensures that anyone he promotes out endures the rigourous assistant manager training to be able to make it on their own. He oversees their personal and professional bank accounts to make sure they are spending money wisely, he teaches them how to use all the various sites to track sales and income, and he trains them in how to run a successful office.
Jared would not be where he is today if all he was running was a scam marketing company. If you don't want to put in the effort and hard work it takes to become a manager and own your own business, then yes, a job where you are required to sell products inside of a retailer will be difficult. You can start feeling doubtful of your abilities when 90 out of 100 people tell you no. But that's what a commission-based business is about. You only get out of it, what you put in.
If you can't handle a commision-based job, then great. Find a job that will pay you hourly and go home with a set paycheck every two weeks. But don't say that Olympus Advertising is a scam when it isn't. I've witnessed the growth of many people my husband has hired over the years and that's because they worked for it.
#1 General Comment
TRAIL BLAZERS MARKETING Is a SCAM too
AUTHOR: S. D. B. - ()
SUBMITTED: Monday, June 23, 2014
THE ONE YOU FORGOT IS TRAIL BLAZERS MARKETING! THEY ALL HAVE THESE TURN AND BURN KIND OF MENTALITIES! TRAIL BLAZERS EVEN HAS IT OWN SEPARATE REPORT ON HERE, MULTIPLE TIMES FROM DIFFERENT BUSINESSES THEY'VE OPENED AND CLOSED!
TRAIL BLAZERS MARKETING ENTRY LEVEL JOB SCAM
TRAIL BLAZERS MARKETING MIKE MALKOVICH IS A CREEP
I HAVEN'T BEEN ON INTERVIEWS WITH ALL OF THEM, ONLY OLYMPUS, TRAIL BLAZERS AND THE SHARP FIRM. I HAD ONE SCHEDULED WITH DMA AND CANCELED IT AFTER READING THIS AND LOOKING MORE OF THIS UP. THEY ALL ARE SCAMS AND PREY ON THE WEAK. I COULDN'T BELIEVE SOME OF THE THINGS I READ IN THE REPORTS ON MIKE MALKOVICH AND TRAIL BLAZERS MARKETING REVIEWS! THAT HAS GOT TO BE THEM TOO!
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