The survival of dead-tree media isn't so glamorous amid the pandemic as one of our favorite magazines is now forced to offer a paltry starter-level salary hoping that entrepreneurial-types will engage in the soul crushing biz of cold calling for cash.
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Kansas City magazine is hiring a Sales Associate/Office Coordinator
Note: Actual workspace may varySales Associate/Office Coordinator Kansas City's premier news and lifestyle magazine is looking to grow its tightknit team by adding a sales associate/office coordinator. This hybrid position is for an entry-level employee who will help our team streamline workflow while also offering an opportunity to make sales and collect a commission.
The owner of this magazine wanted me to work for free when it first started. After I heard that, I didn't even respond to him. What a tool!
ReplyDeleteWonder if you took the job and helped him succeed he would have shared the wealth? No way man. You did the right thing.
ReplyDelete$12.50 an hour? Just a few years ago this would've been a 40K-50K a year job.
ReplyDeleteThey will not attract a good sales person. Great sales people want to make more then,a living wage .THE magazine is toast .Most Businesses are advertising where,There are readers.Unless you have over a million readers. Many will not advertise. Most businesses don't have the Money to expand their advertising .
ReplyDeleteLast two times the world economy hit the dumper we had world wars.
ReplyDeleteCorrection to 3:39 post ... it was Ingram's magazine's owner who wanted work for free when first introduced, not Kansas City Magazine.
ReplyDeleteI call bullshit on that one, Ingram's has always paid their staff.
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