Complaint Review: Status Group International

The Status Group LLC is the biggest rip-off around, and they target small business owners' hard-earned money and try to convince them they "need" status group to create BS like their business strategy, telecommunications (e.g. what carriers they should go with, as if any business owner cannot figure that out). They target small business owners who may not have gone into business themselves before and are afraid and want to win and not fail; they specifically target those that think they need someone like the Status Group to help them achieve success - when in fact EVERYTHING the Status Group does is based on a template and is 100% the same for all clients. It is nothing a business owner cannot do themselves. Here's how they do it:

Consult with the business owner and sell them a personalized "business plan" for upwards of $3k, sometimes a lot more! Then they turn around and give the information to a $10 an hour business plan "writer" who plugs the company information into a template and generates a plan in about a hour! An hour! When that same plan template can be downloaded from the internet or any small business association for FREE!

Then they openly admit the business plan is just a "hook" to get them to lure the client in for more money to sell them "advice' - then charge them even more money. 90% of the people who work there are NOT full time, they have to have other jobs to support themselves but just present themselves as these uber successful people - it's all a game and a facade. Look at the name "status" - would they have to have that name if they were REAL?

Stay away. Everything you want to do as a business owner you can do yourself - for almost free! Take it from me a former employee!!!