INVESTIGATION: IPA clients can Feel safe, confident and secure about doing business with IPA - International Profit Associates, commitment to total customer satisfaction, International Profit Associates implemented strategic changes to insure clients business success, focusing on finding ways to help small & medium size companies make improvements to both their short-term and longer-term profitability & creating a secure future. Buffalo Grove Illinois
Rip-off Report Investigation:
Editor's UPDATE: Positive Rating and Recognition has been given to IPA International Profit Associates for its Commitment to Excellence in customer service.
Rip-off Report's investigation of IPA uncovers an ongoing commitment to total client satisfaction. This means that clients can expect the company will always work towards finding a mutually satisfactory resolution to any complaints or concerns, more importantly IPA is concerned with the new growth and success of their clients business and, IPA is listening carefully to what its clients are saying. After all, when becoming creative to make things better, making changes for the benefit of the business sometimes comes hard like any good lesson.
One top executive of the company stated to Rip-off Report, that IPA's corporate philosophy is based on the premise that IPA will advance itself through first advancing its clients. Their process starts by identifying what clients want, then reinforcing and continuing with its work, which ultimately leads to Client Company Life Cycle Management - what clients needs as they grow from start-up to maturity continuing through exit strategy and retirement for the business owner.
Rip-off Report has confirmed that IPA's approach to business includes a total corporate quality assessment. The result of which, leads to continual dedication to quality operations, client and employee relations, and innovation management. Rip-off Report was pleased to learn that the company's past and current approach to business is focused on its pledge to total commitment towards client satisfaction.
It is our opinion that large and small business owners can feel confident in the fact that IPA has worked with thousands of businesses in Canada and the United States. They are a full business development company and innovators in their field and have successfully helped thousands of businesses by providing new and innovative ideas and solutions for almost every type of business imaginable.
IPA recognizes that complaints posted on Rip-off Report (true or not) are issues that need to be addressed and if handled correctly can be valuable learning opportunities. With the feedback generated by Rip-off Report's Investigation IPA has made organizational changes allowing their clients a more streamlined approach to problem resolution and a total overall commitment to customer experience.
In summary, after our investigation, which included discussions with IPA Senior Management, Rip-off Report is convinced that the company has been and is committed to quality delivery of services resulting in total client satisfaction.
To demonstrate IPA's commitment to client satisfaction, and the rip-off report corporate advocacy program, we recommend you listen to testimonials from real IPA clients. You can listen to these testimonials by clicking on this link, www.ipaconsulting.com/video
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NOW TO THE ORIGINAL REPORT THAT WAS FILED
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International Profit Associates IPA interview process for Senior Business Analyst Buffalo Grove, Illinois
I have just gone through the IPA interview process for the possession of Senior Business Analyst, and was tapped as a top candidate who will sail through this process. It's embarrassing to admit I got pretty sucked in by the testimonials on the web site and the income claims. My first red flag came as the process just went a little too easy, and too quickly wit no face to face interview.
I had read (and personally checked) the statements on the Rip Off Report, including contacting the Chicago BBB, and the news room at Fox 6 in San Diego. While the findings gave me reason to pause, it was not enough to eliminate this opportunity for me.
However, when I professionally voiced my concerns to the hiring authority Robert (Bob) O'Keefe the warm welcoming veneer faded away immediately. I asked to speak to current Senior Business Analysts and to client references. Bob's retort was a defensive and absolute no. He went on to portray my (respectful) request as questioning his personal character (big red flag). Then he explained that all of the Senior Business Analysts where too consumed with there job and spending there down time with there family to speak to me or anyone else. I would have an easier time finding that reasonable, but of over 220 Senior Business Analysts and many thousands of client companies it is somewhat suspicious that someone could not have a brief conversation with me.
I have traveled extensively in my career with other companies. The IPA expense schedule gave me concerns about their reimbursements. You can not travel five days with meals and hotels for $460 - $525 per week. Moreover, $0.25 per mile?! and that is only if you drive outside an 80 mile radius of your home. I received $0.485 per mile (from mile one) from my last company, and that was before gas was $3.40 per gallon. Additionally, I found it worrisome that a company offering such a lucrative opportunity would not pay any draw, supply a laptop, or reimburse cell phone expenses.
I am writing this as one experienced sales professional to another. I will end this report with what might be the most alarming question of all about this group. With no field training or mentorship of any kind for their analysts, and only one week of classroom instruction, how could anyone be capable to properly evaluating and analyzing client companies processes, bookkeeping etc., and make qualified recommendations for a $30,000 or $40,000 consulting expenditure?
Obviously, I passed on this opportunity. I wish you all the best in making an informed decision.
Ira
Orange Park, Florida
U.S.A.
5 Updates & Rebuttals
Disillusioned
Parma Heights,Ohio,
U.S.A.
you made a smart decision NOT to work for IPA - it is a very bad company to work for
#6UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, June 04, 2008
You made a very smart decision not to go to work for IPA. It is a very bad company to work for as my experience there a year ago testifies. Yes their reimbursements are so puny they are laughable. They deliberately assign you a sales territory about an hour's drive from your home. I burned three tanks of gasoline a week chasing their "appointments" which were mostly bogus. In addition, you run up a lot of minutes on your cell phone on the road and with their inane conference calls.
Their payroll system is a relic from the 1980s. You get paid when the analyst is paid (which I understood), but then there is a three to four week lag from then the analyst visits the business and you finally get paid on the case. I guess from reading a lot of postings on this site, the three to four week lag is because so many checks paid to IPA are later stopped or bounce. Then they do not direct deposit anything. You still get a paper check in the mail like I used to back twenty years ago.
As a rep for IPA, the "senexes" and zone managers treat you like dirt. They scream at you if you can't "break down the door" to get into a business that doesn't want you in there. Getting paid on your air fare is like pulling teeth. I was told that as soon as my first field sale was made, it would be reported to their "travel department" and a reimbursement check would be cut. That was a bald faced lie. There is no "travel department" and one has to complete a reimbursement request form. This could have been explained in the training class, but was somehow overlooked. It took more than a month after the sale was made in the field before I received the reimbursement for the air fare.
Turnover in this company is very high. I have worked with some companies where there is a high turnover of sales reps, but I heve never seen a revolving door spinning so fast as IPA. There were 14 people who completed the training class the first week of May, 2007. By Labor Day, all 14 had left IPA. That is a 100% turnover of that training class in four months. Most had left within the first month.
These weren't young inexperienced sales reps hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. All had significant sales experience in the field and some had even operated their own businesses. Many had more then twenty years sales experience, yet they felt that IPA offered a great opportunity to not only make a good living, but help other businesses as well. All were badly disillusioned with the result.
IPA is a scam and the sooner that company is put out of business, the better. Right now the buzzards are circling as a class action lawsuit is making its way through the courts. Check out (((ROR redacted))) for information on it.
CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
Disillusioned
Parma Heights,Ohio,
U.S.A.
you made a smart decision NOT to work for IPA - it is a very bad company to work for
#6UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, June 04, 2008
You made a very smart decision not to go to work for IPA. It is a very bad company to work for as my experience there a year ago testifies. Yes their reimbursements are so puny they are laughable. They deliberately assign you a sales territory about an hour's drive from your home. I burned three tanks of gasoline a week chasing their "appointments" which were mostly bogus. In addition, you run up a lot of minutes on your cell phone on the road and with their inane conference calls.
Their payroll system is a relic from the 1980s. You get paid when the analyst is paid (which I understood), but then there is a three to four week lag from then the analyst visits the business and you finally get paid on the case. I guess from reading a lot of postings on this site, the three to four week lag is because so many checks paid to IPA are later stopped or bounce. Then they do not direct deposit anything. You still get a paper check in the mail like I used to back twenty years ago.
As a rep for IPA, the "senexes" and zone managers treat you like dirt. They scream at you if you can't "break down the door" to get into a business that doesn't want you in there. Getting paid on your air fare is like pulling teeth. I was told that as soon as my first field sale was made, it would be reported to their "travel department" and a reimbursement check would be cut. That was a bald faced lie. There is no "travel department" and one has to complete a reimbursement request form. This could have been explained in the training class, but was somehow overlooked. It took more than a month after the sale was made in the field before I received the reimbursement for the air fare.
Turnover in this company is very high. I have worked with some companies where there is a high turnover of sales reps, but I heve never seen a revolving door spinning so fast as IPA. There were 14 people who completed the training class the first week of May, 2007. By Labor Day, all 14 had left IPA. That is a 100% turnover of that training class in four months. Most had left within the first month.
These weren't young inexperienced sales reps hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. All had significant sales experience in the field and some had even operated their own businesses. Many had more then twenty years sales experience, yet they felt that IPA offered a great opportunity to not only make a good living, but help other businesses as well. All were badly disillusioned with the result.
IPA is a scam and the sooner that company is put out of business, the better. Right now the buzzards are circling as a class action lawsuit is making its way through the courts. Check out (((ROR redacted))) for information on it.
CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
Disillusioned
Parma Heights,Ohio,
U.S.A.
you made a smart decision NOT to work for IPA - it is a very bad company to work for
#6UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, June 04, 2008
You made a very smart decision not to go to work for IPA. It is a very bad company to work for as my experience there a year ago testifies. Yes their reimbursements are so puny they are laughable. They deliberately assign you a sales territory about an hour's drive from your home. I burned three tanks of gasoline a week chasing their "appointments" which were mostly bogus. In addition, you run up a lot of minutes on your cell phone on the road and with their inane conference calls.
Their payroll system is a relic from the 1980s. You get paid when the analyst is paid (which I understood), but then there is a three to four week lag from then the analyst visits the business and you finally get paid on the case. I guess from reading a lot of postings on this site, the three to four week lag is because so many checks paid to IPA are later stopped or bounce. Then they do not direct deposit anything. You still get a paper check in the mail like I used to back twenty years ago.
As a rep for IPA, the "senexes" and zone managers treat you like dirt. They scream at you if you can't "break down the door" to get into a business that doesn't want you in there. Getting paid on your air fare is like pulling teeth. I was told that as soon as my first field sale was made, it would be reported to their "travel department" and a reimbursement check would be cut. That was a bald faced lie. There is no "travel department" and one has to complete a reimbursement request form. This could have been explained in the training class, but was somehow overlooked. It took more than a month after the sale was made in the field before I received the reimbursement for the air fare.
Turnover in this company is very high. I have worked with some companies where there is a high turnover of sales reps, but I heve never seen a revolving door spinning so fast as IPA. There were 14 people who completed the training class the first week of May, 2007. By Labor Day, all 14 had left IPA. That is a 100% turnover of that training class in four months. Most had left within the first month.
These weren't young inexperienced sales reps hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. All had significant sales experience in the field and some had even operated their own businesses. Many had more then twenty years sales experience, yet they felt that IPA offered a great opportunity to not only make a good living, but help other businesses as well. All were badly disillusioned with the result.
IPA is a scam and the sooner that company is put out of business, the better. Right now the buzzards are circling as a class action lawsuit is making its way through the courts. Check out (((ROR redacted))) for information on it.
CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
Disillusioned
Parma Heights,Ohio,
U.S.A.
you made a smart decision NOT to work for IPA - it is a very bad company to work for
#6UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, June 04, 2008
You made a very smart decision not to go to work for IPA. It is a very bad company to work for as my experience there a year ago testifies. Yes their reimbursements are so puny they are laughable. They deliberately assign you a sales territory about an hour's drive from your home. I burned three tanks of gasoline a week chasing their "appointments" which were mostly bogus. In addition, you run up a lot of minutes on your cell phone on the road and with their inane conference calls.
Their payroll system is a relic from the 1980s. You get paid when the analyst is paid (which I understood), but then there is a three to four week lag from then the analyst visits the business and you finally get paid on the case. I guess from reading a lot of postings on this site, the three to four week lag is because so many checks paid to IPA are later stopped or bounce. Then they do not direct deposit anything. You still get a paper check in the mail like I used to back twenty years ago.
As a rep for IPA, the "senexes" and zone managers treat you like dirt. They scream at you if you can't "break down the door" to get into a business that doesn't want you in there. Getting paid on your air fare is like pulling teeth. I was told that as soon as my first field sale was made, it would be reported to their "travel department" and a reimbursement check would be cut. That was a bald faced lie. There is no "travel department" and one has to complete a reimbursement request form. This could have been explained in the training class, but was somehow overlooked. It took more than a month after the sale was made in the field before I received the reimbursement for the air fare.
Turnover in this company is very high. I have worked with some companies where there is a high turnover of sales reps, but I heve never seen a revolving door spinning so fast as IPA. There were 14 people who completed the training class the first week of May, 2007. By Labor Day, all 14 had left IPA. That is a 100% turnover of that training class in four months. Most had left within the first month.
These weren't young inexperienced sales reps hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. All had significant sales experience in the field and some had even operated their own businesses. Many had more then twenty years sales experience, yet they felt that IPA offered a great opportunity to not only make a good living, but help other businesses as well. All were badly disillusioned with the result.
IPA is a scam and the sooner that company is put out of business, the better. Right now the buzzards are circling as a class action lawsuit is making its way through the courts. Check out (((ROR redacted))) for information on it.
CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
John
Buffalo Grove,Illinois,
U.S.A.
SBA's
#6UPDATE Employee
Mon, April 14, 2008
Hey there Ira,
I am an analyst with IPA.
I don't have a lot of time to respond, but the income potential is great (only if you are good at the job).
I make well over the 6 figure mark.
Travel expenses aren't as terrible as they seem, initially the expenses start off very low, this is to avoid people who aren't very good at the job living off the reimbursable expenses. Once you establish yourself well enough, they go up dramatically.
IPA is a good company, who helps many people get out of bad situations. I wish you the best in your search, but the portrait you may see is just a bunch of white noise, and nothing like reality.