1 Mar 2014
I don't know why this business is still open
Anonymous employee
Panache Partners Reviews
2.9
72% would recommend to a friend
Brian G. Carabet & John A. Shand
100% approve of CEO
40% positive business outlook
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3 reviews
5.0
24 May 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
The product they publish is beautiful, was very proud to have contributed to the books. The building is big, spacious, nice environment. Training exceptional. I worked directly with owners Jolie and Brian who are extremely nice, approachable, friendly, knowledgable in all areas of publishing and always supportive. They have both been in publishing 15 plus years, are very hands on owners.
Cons
Compensation could be more competitive. Publishing time frame frustrated clients, it took a lot longer to publish a book than clients expected. Graphic designers seem rigid and not open to collaboration. High turnover rate in the graphic design dept. due to firings for huge mistakes.
2.0
1 Dec 2014
Good beginning but very dissapointing - could have been great in an up economy
Former employee, more than 3 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Supportive, talented staff, great training, beautiful upscale coffee table books, responsible for bringing book together from inception to fruition and enabled control and creativity by sourcing the best vendors for each book, created own hours, most travel and expenses paid for. (travel is a necessary part of the job). In the beginning, before the economy turned downward, there were bonuses and rewards contests for highest producing sales people. If you were a top producer you were favored by management . Although a decent size company, top management was responsive and accessible.
Cons
The overall concept of presenting oneself as a "publisher" to potential clients to sell advertising space in books was clever if one was truly the publisher, however, I felt it was mis-leading and often created very upset clients thinking they were being interviewed to be featured in a book. I was actually thrown out of several offices because of this. Books were expected to be sold/completed typically within 6-9 months and because of lack of proper funding in later years, many were not released for 1 1 /2 years which created irate clients emailing and calling. Additionally sales people were expected to orchestrate on their own time (while reaching quotas) elaborate book launch parties for several hundreds of people and if trade couldn't be established for the event, 50% of the cost of the party was deducted from commissions. Lastly when paper coffee table books became too expensive to publish, the company turned to digital books - switching gears on contracted clients who had purchased space in an actual book. Many of the clients had asked at that point for their $ back and were told they would not get a refund.