I was recently contacted by someone who is offering me a part time job doing nightlife promotions in NYC. While I'm happy that a job kind of just landed in my lap (because I'm poor) I'm a little skeptical about taking up the offer. The person who contacted me is from this organization: www.accessnightlife.com ; it's a (pretty much) all Asian nightlife group in New York City. He said he thinks I have "great communication and marketing skills" which I'm assuming he deduced from the one e-mail I sent him asking about an event he was having. He said my friends and I can go check out their event next Saturday. I'm not particularly well connected with Asians and I don't party a WHOLE lot so I don't know if this is a good thing to do or not. So I was wondering if anyone here knew anything about it.

Adeny

Norway1233 Posts

July 02 2009 15:10 GMT

"He said he thinks I have "great communication and marketing skills" which I'm assuming he deduced from the one e-mail"

Scam.

Pads

England3228 Posts

July 02 2009 15:51 GMT

a tniy bit offtopic, but every time you post a blog I think someone stole my account.

LuckyFool

United States9015 Posts

July 02 2009 15:53 GMT

How could he possibly know you have great communication and marketing skills from ONE e-mail you sent him? Sounds fishy to me!

ZeeTemplar

United States557 Posts

July 02 2009 15:54 GMT

wrong place to promote buddy D:

AzureEye

United States1360 Posts

July 02 2009 16:34 GMT

On July 03 2009 00:10 Adeny wrote:
"He said he thinks I have "great communication and marketing skills" which I'm assuming he deduced from the one e-mail"

Scam.

This.

B1nary

Canada1267 Posts

July 02 2009 16:38 GMT

The website looks pretty legit so I don't know if it's a scam. I think it's more likely that they're just desperate for staff who will hopefully work for minimal wage so they're sending emails to everyone they know.

Jayme

United States5866 Posts

July 02 2009 17:35 GMT

Go to the event, if it looks fishy then don't accept.

Doctorasul

Romania1145 Posts

July 02 2009 17:40 GMT

Go abroad with him and give him your passport/id. You'll impress him with the unwarranted trust you have in him and he'll stop scamming people.

azndsh

United States4447 Posts

July 02 2009 17:50 GMT

#10

looks good to me... plus i'm sure you'll meet plenty of hot chicks at your job.

QuanticHawk

United States32024 Posts

July 02 2009 18:07 GMT

#11

Looks legit. Bed is a real club and I recognized a few others. Call the club and ask if they ever heard of the dude.

These are really high class clubs, so I'd take that into consideration.

Arnic

81 Posts

July 02 2009 18:35 GMT

#12

On July 03 2009 00:53 LuckyFool wrote:
How could he possibly know you have great communication and marketing skills from ONE e-mail you sent him? Sounds fishy to me!

Great communication skills - He sent the guy an email.
Marketing - He showed interest in an event and would likely tell other people that he may be attending the event.

Standards these days eh?

Doesn't sound like you stand to lose anything by going to the guy's party, you might even get some free drinks. If you need money, it's always worth checking out something that could gain you useful experience and, of course, possible earnings but I'd definitely say to approach this with caution.
An unsolicited job offer from someone who knows nothing about you or your relative experience/knowledge in that particular field doesn't really inspire confidence in them as a potential employer who knows what they're doing and wants the best for their business.

"Promoting" as a job description could mean a whole lot of things. From being given flyers to hand out to people, sticking up posters around the city, ringing around clubs or businesses to negotiate deals for sponsership or partnership give aways, dealing with how the events are advertised on or offline or standing outside the club demanding that people go inside and have a good time or you'll punch them in the eye.

Who knows though, sometimes good things happen unexpectedly so be positive but keep in mind that this guy could be looking for someone to take advantage of so ask a lot of questions, find out as much as possible about what you'd be required to do, how much time and effort you'd need to put into it and what guarantees there are on earnings. If you still feel dubious or suspicious about the offer, attend the party and decline his job offer afterwards in a greatly communicated e-mail.

Pods

United States81 Posts

July 03 2009 05:31 GMT

#13

thanks for good advice. i'm gonna email him and see time committment etc. chances are i probably won't do this b/c i'm a student and gotta study and sc loool

Bockit

Sydney2287 Posts

July 03 2009 06:07 GMT

#14

Not sure how it works over there. Here in Sydney it usually works that promoters for clubs get paid per person they have on 'their' guest list each event night that actually shows up. So you have a list of 150 people, 30 show, you get paid for the 30. So the time and effort you put in is what you get out of it. Usually comes with other perks like free drinks, entry, access to VIP areas etc if you get consistent results.

So I wouldn't jump too quickly to scam, definitely check it out.

Rekrul

Korea (South)17174 Posts

July 03 2009 15:02 GMT

#15

looks like he's the real promoter and he's pyramid scheming u

K_ Takahashi

United States203 Posts

July 03 2009 19:51 GMT

#16

The only good promotion is word of mouth and handing out thousands of fliers, I suppose it worked for this house club I had no clue existed until I was handed info at a rave.

VIB

Brazil3567 Posts

July 04 2009 01:47 GMT

#17

Just check it out. It's not like they're gonna abduct and steal your kidneys. If it looks unworthy when you get there, then just don't take it.

If they ask you for money and you're not confident if that investment will bring you any return than just leave.