My sister is supposed to go in for an interview next week for a PAID internship, but this looks super sketchy to me....

http://www.globalnorthcarolina.com/

What do you guys think?

[Edited on April 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM. Reason : .]

4/10/2010 10:37:47 AM

hmmmm....a vague website created a month ago...........

4/10/2010 10:55:45 AM

haven't you ever seen those pornos where the girl thinks she's coming in for an interview and ends up with her legs spread on a cheap office desk 20 min later licking some dude's crotch?

yea... that's gonna be your sister

4/10/2010 11:00:38 AM

I see 3 red flags here:

1) It sounds like they're talking about direct marketing (ie kind of like these guys do /message_topic.aspx?topic=592363)
2) No where on their website are they actually soliciting clients
3) Their website includes auto-start music with no stop button

4/10/2010 11:25:07 AM

marketing company i work for is like 100x better because i don't have to sell anything.

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4/10/2010 11:41:45 AM

and theres a volume thing

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4/10/2010 12:45:20 PM

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/global-incorporated-c308929.html

4/10/2010 1:01:17 PM

Sounds like southwestern, though a shit ton of marketing companies have complaints.

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4/10/2010 1:11:49 PM

sounds like it might be those "marketing firms" that go around to small business (like myself) and try to tell us how they're going to help us and do all this stuff to make us more successful. Of course I'm lucky enough to work for a company that's been around for 77 years so I can say, no we're doing ok. Pretty much it's people that failed in life in general, but still like to wear a nice suit.

4/10/2010 5:09:46 PM

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"3) Their website includes auto-start music with no stop button"

I'm not affiliated with them, but if you click on the sound bars moving at the bottom of the page you can turn off the music.

4/10/2010 6:32:45 PM

I've done door-to-door sales for a home improvement company like this. Yes, it is sketchy, but you can learn some good salesman tricks from it. Once you actually get the hang of it (took me about 2 months), you can start making a decent wage generated by leads.

I started getting 0-1 leads per day with sales occuring about 1 out of every 4. By the time I finished, I was making 5-8 leads a day and selling about half the time (I was commission based on sales, too). I also became really comfortable with making sales pitches and dealing with rejection.

I don't think this type of marketing is a scam per say. It just isn't the job for everyone. Plus the people I worked with were pretty sleazy (One guy was actually on work release from prison).

4/10/2010 7:22:02 PM

looks a lot like ZMS marketing

4/10/2010 7:53:55 PM

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"Pretty much it's people that failed in life in general, but still like to wear a nice suit. "

4/11/2010 1:24:59 AM