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I worked for Wilkins Fitness also (8 Months). The sales trainer, Bradford Wilkins, one year out of college. No sales experience, yet he is training me? Sales 101, textbooks, I guess. Appears his father Ron Wilkins as set him up with a token job. Dan and Michele Wilkins are visionaries with no concept on how to manage a business, and run day-to-day operations. They still owe me commissions for sales, closed after I left. That I was promised to be paid on.
Ron Wilkins is well to do with a very successful background, This is charity work for him, I suppose. If it was not for him his son, Brad Wilkins, and his brother Dan Wilkins would be struggling to survive and support their families .
This is a Mickey Mouse operation. And I feel the business will be short lived.
I recommend that if anyone is desperate enough to work for this company, consider working for yourself. Reap the rewards of owning you own business. If you desire to sell fitness equipment, you can easily set up a distributorship with many suppliers, who will drop ship for you...and your commission? 100%. Wilkins Fitness does not keep inventory and as aforementioned does not have any exclusive products.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
I am wondering what company these aforementioned people thought they were working for... Proctor & Gamble. If you are looking for a JOB go find one! The Wilkins Team has been nothing but supportive to me and MY business. They never promised me anything and have worked WITH them for 3.5 years. They only afford you with 450 manufacturers to sell products from... that's all. Oh and they also handle the sales material portal and quoting systems and oh that's right all the billing so I personally have no exposure! And others want to ### about Business Cards!?! REALLY!
If ya can't take the heat, oh wait you quit that's right.
Chris Beckman
Wilkins Solutions Tennessee
In my opinion, they are hacks at best and crooks at worst. Leave them alone and DO NOT DRINK THE KOOL-AID!
I was not looking for another contract sales sort of job. The Wilkins people sent me 3 or 4 emails, and I responded to one of them. What they said seemed pretty exciting. It seemed like a great opportunity with a great bunch of people.
Somehow I forgot all my professional sales training or everything I knew about business or how to not be [censored]ed - or all of the above.
I got involved with them and put in a lot of good faith effort for over a year. It was a friend of mine who asked what the hell I was doing, still working for them when they had not paid me the commissions they owed me, by contract: I closed some decent sized deals and was waiting for them to pay me the commissions, as promised. When my friend woke me up, they owed me about $1, 500 and had owed it to me for 3 months.
I pressed them about it. They played dumb.
I pressed them some more, and they wanted my documentation of the deals! WTF?
That's when things just got ugly. They never did pay me. I figured it was a good lesson for me and just quit messing with them, even though I could have sued and "won", it was better to just let it go.
In my opinion, they are hacks at best and crooks at worst. Leave them alone and DO NOT DRINK THE KOOL-AID!
Discontinued making calls one week after training. Took two months after training to get business cards, Really? They expect you to conduct business development with out business cards which is pure folly. No one on west coast has even heard of Wilkins. Lots of bluster regarding training. Quoting system using excel requires major intuition and ridiculously time consuming as is the SUGAR CRM. Everything done on a shoestring. Spoke to CAM's in my market and were very jaded on the process and were all looking for other endeavors. What a waste.
Yes on everything above. I do believe that the founder Dan is sincere in doing this business right. However, while they are training and telling you that doing it their way is the way to go, it's taking you forever to get a lousy price for a simple piece of equipment. First you go to (OFF) online file folder, which should be called (MOM) Maze of mess, then after you can't find it there go to the forum and ask the question. Usually one of three of the same people (Forum security I call them) will get back to you. How about this, Type in treadmills in MOM and get a list of treadmills?
WOW! I just wish I would have read these comments before wasting my time.
Above related comments are right on.
I encourage to do your research as the above mention comments, I must say I am an agreement with the above comments.
Good luck all.
Do your due diligence and do what is best for you and your family.
It appears there are many disgruntled. I just wander how more are out there...
I encourage all to post or blog so you save someone from going what you went through.
I went through training and left a week later. Wilkins sugar coats everything. They are trying to reinvent the sales process. The sales cycles are very, very long. They want you to become part of the clients family before you even talk about product. The worst thing about wilkins in dealing with Ron. This man is very smart, but will make you feel like and idiot. He puts himself above all. Ron is an ###!
The saying is so very true with wilkins"If it's to good to be true, it probably is".
Their is no support, it's a figure it out yourself support.
Wilkins is the best at one thing, filling you full of ###.
Very true. I had a similar experience. I was told we would be reimbursed for mileage, which was taken away within the first 30 days. I spent so much time, energy and money. Too much family drama and no support for sales staff. I was hired on their second national hiring frenzy. Everyone I trained with is gone. Don't believe the six figure promise. The only one making six figures, bought the Wilkins store front location! I never met any of them Wilkins people in person.