Disillusioned
Parma Heights,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, September 03, 2007
Your experience with IPA sounds very similar to mine. The company wows you with a lot of PR and has you believing that you are really helping small businesses. I was in their training class from May and within three months all but one person from our class had left IPA, many after one month or less. I posted my report under disillusioned. Right now I am awaiting to find out whether I will be paid on a sale I made and the project ran when I was still employed with IPA. For a company that promises "to bring a small business to the cutting edge of technology", their own systems are still stuck in the 1980s. I have heard from other former IPA sales people that the company does not pay sales reps for sales made when they were employed, yet they terminated before the payroll cycle could pay the commission. I don't think that is legal. If you earned the commission, then you have to be paid it. As far as their record with businesses, I can share with you a few comments from "experienced" IPA reps I had worked with during my period with IPA. I was working with a trainer and we were close to a restaurant I had sold a few months earlier that was a "go" for consulting. I suggested to this trainer that we could stop there for lunch and give them some business. His comments were "maybe not, perhaps he may do something to our lunches". I thought he was kidding, but he was dead serious. That had me wondering about the quality of IPA's consulting. My "terrotory" was located about an hour from my home so running the "appointments" they set for me got to be rather expensive. Then I met the IPA rep who had the terrotory where I live. He lived just outside my territory and an hour away from his territory. He said that he liked it that way since he would not have to be doing business on a regular basis with the small businesses he sold with IPA. He had been working with IPA for a couple of years so that gave me more cause for concern. I have been working for thirty years in outside sales and in my experience, I would want to be welcomed into any business where I had sold a product or service. I would want the business owner to be happy to see me and even offer a referral or two. Since IPA is a privately held company, they can say anything they want regarding their revenues since there are no discosure requirements like a publically traded company. Knowing what I know now about IPA's modus operandi, I suspect that their books are as cooked as a thanksgiving turkey. I wonder how some of those people that have been with IPA any length of time could look at themselves in the mirror.
Disillusioned
Parma Heights,#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, September 03, 2007
Your experience with IPA sounds very similar to mine. The company wows you with a lot of PR and has you believing that you are really helping small businesses. I was in their training class from May and within three months all but one person from our class had left IPA, many after one month or less. I posted my report under disillusioned. Right now I am awaiting to find out whether I will be paid on a sale I made and the project ran when I was still employed with IPA. For a company that promises "to bring a small business to the cutting edge of technology", their own systems are still stuck in the 1980s. I have heard from other former IPA sales people that the company does not pay sales reps for sales made when they were employed, yet they terminated before the payroll cycle could pay the commission. I don't think that is legal. If you earned the commission, then you have to be paid it. As far as their record with businesses, I can share with you a few comments from "experienced" IPA reps I had worked with during my period with IPA. I was working with a trainer and we were close to a restaurant I had sold a few months earlier that was a "go" for consulting. I suggested to this trainer that we could stop there for lunch and give them some business. His comments were "maybe not, perhaps he may do something to our lunches". I thought he was kidding, but he was dead serious. That had me wondering about the quality of IPA's consulting. My "terrotory" was located about an hour from my home so running the "appointments" they set for me got to be rather expensive. Then I met the IPA rep who had the terrotory where I live. He lived just outside my territory and an hour away from his territory. He said that he liked it that way since he would not have to be doing business on a regular basis with the small businesses he sold with IPA. He had been working with IPA for a couple of years so that gave me more cause for concern. I have been working for thirty years in outside sales and in my experience, I would want to be welcomed into any business where I had sold a product or service. I would want the business owner to be happy to see me and even offer a referral or two. Since IPA is a privately held company, they can say anything they want regarding their revenues since there are no discosure requirements like a publically traded company. Knowing what I know now about IPA's modus operandi, I suspect that their books are as cooked as a thanksgiving turkey. I wonder how some of those people that have been with IPA any length of time could look at themselves in the mirror.
Disillusioned
Parma Heights,#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, September 03, 2007
Your experience with IPA sounds very similar to mine. The company wows you with a lot of PR and has you believing that you are really helping small businesses. I was in their training class from May and within three months all but one person from our class had left IPA, many after one month or less. I posted my report under disillusioned. Right now I am awaiting to find out whether I will be paid on a sale I made and the project ran when I was still employed with IPA. For a company that promises "to bring a small business to the cutting edge of technology", their own systems are still stuck in the 1980s. I have heard from other former IPA sales people that the company does not pay sales reps for sales made when they were employed, yet they terminated before the payroll cycle could pay the commission. I don't think that is legal. If you earned the commission, then you have to be paid it. As far as their record with businesses, I can share with you a few comments from "experienced" IPA reps I had worked with during my period with IPA. I was working with a trainer and we were close to a restaurant I had sold a few months earlier that was a "go" for consulting. I suggested to this trainer that we could stop there for lunch and give them some business. His comments were "maybe not, perhaps he may do something to our lunches". I thought he was kidding, but he was dead serious. That had me wondering about the quality of IPA's consulting. My "terrotory" was located about an hour from my home so running the "appointments" they set for me got to be rather expensive. Then I met the IPA rep who had the terrotory where I live. He lived just outside my territory and an hour away from his territory. He said that he liked it that way since he would not have to be doing business on a regular basis with the small businesses he sold with IPA. He had been working with IPA for a couple of years so that gave me more cause for concern. I have been working for thirty years in outside sales and in my experience, I would want to be welcomed into any business where I had sold a product or service. I would want the business owner to be happy to see me and even offer a referral or two. Since IPA is a privately held company, they can say anything they want regarding their revenues since there are no discosure requirements like a publically traded company. Knowing what I know now about IPA's modus operandi, I suspect that their books are as cooked as a thanksgiving turkey. I wonder how some of those people that have been with IPA any length of time could look at themselves in the mirror.
Disillusioned
Parma Heights,#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, September 03, 2007
Your experience with IPA sounds very similar to mine. The company wows you with a lot of PR and has you believing that you are really helping small businesses. I was in their training class from May and within three months all but one person from our class had left IPA, many after one month or less. I posted my report under disillusioned. Right now I am awaiting to find out whether I will be paid on a sale I made and the project ran when I was still employed with IPA. For a company that promises "to bring a small business to the cutting edge of technology", their own systems are still stuck in the 1980s. I have heard from other former IPA sales people that the company does not pay sales reps for sales made when they were employed, yet they terminated before the payroll cycle could pay the commission. I don't think that is legal. If you earned the commission, then you have to be paid it. As far as their record with businesses, I can share with you a few comments from "experienced" IPA reps I had worked with during my period with IPA. I was working with a trainer and we were close to a restaurant I had sold a few months earlier that was a "go" for consulting. I suggested to this trainer that we could stop there for lunch and give them some business. His comments were "maybe not, perhaps he may do something to our lunches". I thought he was kidding, but he was dead serious. That had me wondering about the quality of IPA's consulting. My "terrotory" was located about an hour from my home so running the "appointments" they set for me got to be rather expensive. Then I met the IPA rep who had the terrotory where I live. He lived just outside my territory and an hour away from his territory. He said that he liked it that way since he would not have to be doing business on a regular basis with the small businesses he sold with IPA. He had been working with IPA for a couple of years so that gave me more cause for concern. I have been working for thirty years in outside sales and in my experience, I would want to be welcomed into any business where I had sold a product or service. I would want the business owner to be happy to see me and even offer a referral or two. Since IPA is a privately held company, they can say anything they want regarding their revenues since there are no discosure requirements like a publically traded company. Knowing what I know now about IPA's modus operandi, I suspect that their books are as cooked as a thanksgiving turkey. I wonder how some of those people that have been with IPA any length of time could look at themselves in the mirror.