Hudson Marketing Solutions THG of NY, Sydetra, Brenda Bernal, The Henry Group of New York, THG of New York, Polaris, EQM, EQ Marketing, Polaris, New York Business Partners, Alpha Global Marketing, Northstar Consulting, 7Marketi pyramid scheme, multi-level marketing scheme New York, New York

First of all:  Do you really want to gain "Work Experience" from a company that you can't even put on your resume, because even if YOU believe it's legitimate, your future employers will likely google it, and find that you were working for a pyramid scheme ripping of unsuspecting consumers, often perpetrating fraud and the like (I am certain rebuttal from above will explain that they were giving phones to poor people, a campaign that ended over a year ago and only lasted a month or two because the agents in the field committed fraud and the office was removed from the campaign).

The response from above employee has been very carefully crafted.  Though the author used a lot of words, there is very little, if any, substance.  Hudson Marketing and the other "companies" that are the spawn of Raf Diaz and Alanna Stein (Alana Stein-Diaz?) have such terrible press on the computer that one of their former "business owners" (who failed, as so many of them do... based on the fact that the pyramid is an unsustainable business model for anyone other than those at the top <this includes so-called "owners">) now works full time hawking his skills to the masses trolling the internet for bad press and publishing these baseless "rebuttals".  If you google pissed and petty + raf diaz + universal online promotions, you will come across these "positive" reviews of the "company" that are periodically posted by the employees.  If you dig a little deeper, and google "DS-Max The Aftermath" you will learn the depth of this scam, going back to the days when Credico (Raf Diaz and Derek Colantonio's brain-dead child still fell under the umbrella of Cydcor/DS-Max).  

I forget his name, but the guy responsible for "creating a web presence" for these sham companies makes up twitter and other social media accounts which he then updates with useless information in an attempt to basically jam-up the search engine.  Fortunately, it isn't to hard to break through this veil of B.S. because of the sheer volume of bad press received for these companies online.

For those who see a future in said "business" these threads provide invaluable information written not by corporate trainers, but by former "business owners" who slaved their way to the "top" (technically the middle) with promises of 80,000+ a year salaries and vacations and freedom only to find that they were GROSSING 80k (if that) and from that 80k they had to pay their employees, pay taxes (for themselves, not their "independent contractors") and pay rent.  The life of a manager is spending 60+ hours a week endlessly lying to and deceiving naive college grads and desperate job seekers trying to convince them to work for your company.  Having reached management (in order to do so, you have to invest 15,000 in the company, and sign many non-disclosure agreements promising that you will only get your campaigns from Credico.  Someone from Credico will also be responsible for all your finances, and (if you find that you aren't making enough money to pay your bills and start borrowing against you business account, you find that "your business account" isn't really yours at all, and that access can be cut off.  In fact, managers are lucky if they make 30,000 a year (before taxes).  If you subtract approximately 18% for taxes that's a take-home of 24,600 or 473/week.  With NO paid sick time or vacation time, said manager is making 473/week.  If the manager worked only 40 hours, s/he would be working at a rate of 11.83/hour.  But, managers work more like 60-80 hours/week meaning 7.88-5.91 an hour.  Basically, having slaved for (minimum year and half, maximum 6+ years) to make management, managers are barely making minimum wage and no overtime. They still have no benefits.  

You may have a surge in employees in May having just rounded up a bunch of defenseless college graduates, but by september they might all come to their senses, and by Christmas you will find that you only have one or two "trainers" and no "team" to speak of.  When this happens, you, the MANAGER... who spent many drunken nights explaining to your now absent team about your "days in the field" will find yourself back in the field, exactly where you started.  You will beg other offices to lend you their corporate trainers to come out in the field with "your guys" to help train a new team.  If this fails, you will find yourself on a re-train, stripped of your manager title, back in the field, and now even more broke than ever, because on top of everything else, you now have rent and office expenses to be responsible for.

Elana and Raf at their conventions and morning meetings will explain how the opportunity to own your own business is so superior to working 9-5 like a slave at an office job.  These "Sheep" may only work 40 hours a week, have benefits, disability insurance, make a salary instead of an hourly wage (and even a 9-5 worker paid hourly is at LEAST entitled to minimum wage).  Working for a corporation, you are not responsible for your office expenses and rent.  If you have a problem with an employee... HR takes care of it.  ALSO... working for a corporation, unless you are employed as the maintenance, you will never have to be responsible for cleaning the bathroom for "guests".  At real companies, those workplaces without anything to hide... they keep their name as a sign of pride, don't change it every six months to something "hard to google" to try and avoid bad press.  "Black Ops, Northstar, Universal Online Promotions, New England Marketing, Atlantic Business Partners, Global Give Back, EQ Marketing, Ace Marketing, Unique Marketing Group, Kore Integrated, Transcend Consulting Inc, Live to Give LLC, Arsenal Marketing Inc, DLDM Marketing Solutions" These names are purposely ambiguous.  The Credico magazine that I received while I worked there is curiously devoid of any email addresses or web sites aside from "Credicomag@gmail.com" 

I have been working at hudson marketing for five weeks now, and I'm beginning to see where alot of the termoil, confusion, and negative reviews are coming from.  I chose to write what I see in the company as positives and things as a company we would like to work on moving forward.

First, I like and dislike that it's a small business; that means not everyone really knows what they're doing all the time, and it's exciting to grow in a small team environment.  Let's face when you put people who just started teaching people how to give out phones three months ago, they aren't always on point.  I was explained what to do, and three days later I would learn why we do certain things so I can get promoted faster.  Three days earlier to me it seemed crazy to be given a structure for my speech, and then I saw someone who could barely speak in front of two people let alone 10.

Mostly, I like that I have the opportunity to build my credibility for my true passion, hospitality marketing.  Working with a subsidiary of a major phone company is giving me way more experience than my biggest client did when I worked with in my previous marketing career.

All in all, it's a great place to work for my career goals, not here, but more in advertising.  I don't mind working a bit harder, and
learning 10+ lessons each day about myself, so I have the opportunity to do my dream job, and be able to take vacations with my future wife.