K-Designers Reviews

Let's start with the greasy 80's sales tactics. They actually teach you to say things like "put er there!" and "whadaya say!" And my favorite "if you act now!" After that, you're taught to barge into the prospects home like a snake oil salesman using two giant bags as battering rams. After they teach you sales tactics that would make Billy Maze roll over in his grave like a rotisserie chicken, they send you hundreds of miles away to leads that would rather spit on you than let you in the door. Management will tell you that they don't cherry pick the leads, but it's funny how only 2 or 3 people on the sales team actually make money while the turnover rate is in the stratosphere. Cherry pick the good leads and give the short timers the crap...makes sense to me. Twice in one week I was sent to appointments where the prospect lived in a nursing home. I've been sent to siding appointments where the home is solid brick and the owner has zero recollection of ever making an appointment. As mentioned in other reviews, a lot of the appointments are for people with no job and no money. I've been to single wide trailers where the telemarketer told the prospect the government would pay for their windows just so they could set the appointment and get an extra 10 bucks on their check. This all sounds terribly negative, but I speak the truth. I'm broke, my car is jacked, I have an ulcer and I owe K over a grand in draws. Unless you are a blood relative to Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong... Run away from K as fast as you can.

1. Bizarre compensation program - tiered so that the more volume you generate, the more they pay you. Problem is that it isn't any easier/harder the more you do. 2. Bizarre appointment sets. Less than 20% of the appointments they set did the homeowner truly agree to the appointment. Usually they committed just to get the telemarketers off the phone. 3. Bizarre ledger process. Reminded me of the "company store" setups that I learned about in high school. They make sure that anything they can charge their reps for, they do. 4. Pricing to client is significantly higher than competition. Their products and service are great, but I don't know that they are 30% better than their competition. 5. Initially I liked the sales approach as a Marketing Director. Unfortunately, the way the sales process is set up the rep quickly goes from being a marketing director to either pushy salesman or begging salesman. I ended up feeling like the stereotypical sales character in the Simpsons.