The Carbon Platform is a Dubai-based company offering investment in the Carbon Compliance Market, as well as the opportunity to make yourself carbon neutral or your company green. The company is currently updating its website. “Too busy making everyone green . . . !” an announcement explains.
The Carbon Platform website was registered on 12 June 2012, by Mark Wallingford, chief executive of a real estate company called Dubai Property Portal. Wallingford has close links with Smith & Ken, another real estate company in Dubai. (Between them, the two companies have registered a large number of Dubai real estate websites. Wallingford would probably call this search engine optimisation, others call it link farming – a way of increasing the companies’ ratings in Google searches.)
The Carbon Platform’s phone number is listed on Smith & Ken’s website as belonging to “Smith & Ken’s preferred Mortgage partner, Oxygen Home Loans”.
Smith & Ken claims to have “gone green” by buying carbon credits from The Carbon Platform.
I tried to download the company’s brochure, but after filling in my details and clicking the “Download” button, nothing happened, except that a message appeared congratulating me: “You’ve taken your first most important steps in being green!” I wrote to the email address on the company website, but it bounced, with the following error message:
According to its website, The Carbon Platform has an office in London. But the company is not (as far as I can tell) registered in the UK, and there are 1,743 companies registered at the postcode in London. It is almost certainly a mail forwarding address or a virtual office.
Last year, The Carbon Platform was recruiting. The company’s adverts say a great deal about the company’s planned operations:
The successful candidates will be working closely with the Sales Manager, based in our Open Plan Dubai Office, selling the services of the company to corporate and private individuals who wish to either go green or have a green ethical investment into the compliance market to help diversify their portfolio. Day to day activities involve Telesales to the company’s client base.
Employees will make sales calls, increase their knowledge of carbon market, educate people about the importance of going green and inform “prospects” about the carbon market and how and why it was created. The company provides “Guaranteed Leads and Database to contact” and offers 10% commission on all transactions (which it claims is the highest in the market) and added commission “for Brokers on Re-Sales by Sales Manager”.
Skills needed for the job include sales experience. Apparently no experience of carbon markets is necessary – The Carbon Platform explains that it “can train anyone with sales experience”. The ideal candidate, according to the job advert, will (amongst other things):
Have a Good Telephone Manor [sic] (as will be speaking to clients mainly over the phone)
Have an Ability to Work as a Tam [sic]
Demonstrate Objection Handling Skills
From this description, The Carbon Platform sounds an awful lot like a boiler room carbon credit operation. REDD-Monitor recommends neither working at The Carbon Platform, nor buying carbon credits from this company. Here’s the advert in full:
Job Title: Carbon Sales Broker / Investment Sales Broker – Dubai
Salary/Rate: £50000 – £100000/annum
Location: Dubai, Non UK
Posted 25/10/2012 (13:09)
Description: Carbon Sales Broker – OTE GBP 60,000 1st Year Based in Dubai, UAEThe Carbon Commodity Market is being talked about as the new Gold! Carbon Sales Brokers are earning between GBP 50,000 – GBP 60,000 in their 1st year!
The Carbon Platform, a Carbon Brokerage focused on helping individuals and corporates becoming green, is looking for Carbon Sales Brokers to join our dynamic and very successful sales team.
Originally from the UK, The Carbon Platform has opened an office in Dubai to cater for the growing demand from companies looking to become Green!
Therefore in order to achieve its 2013 objectives, opportunities are available for:
* 10 Carbon Sales Brokers
* 2 Carbon Sales ManagersAre you ambitious?
Are you hungry for financial rewards?
Do you want to earn GBP 100,000 per year? And all tax free?Does your current job role offer you the above? Or do you fancy a change? Imagine a life of earning large sums of money, tax free, and in the sunshine every day!
You don’t need to imagine any longer – The Carbon Platform provides this opportunity – Now it’s your turn to take advantage of it.
These exciting roles offer limitless earning potential and great career aspects as we promote only from within. All our existing Compliance Brokers started as Carbon Brokers!
The successful candidates will be working closely with the Sales Manager, based in our Open Plan Dubai Office, selling the services of the company to corporate and private individuals who wish to either go green or have a green ethical investment into the compliance market to help diversify their portfolio. Day to day activities involve Telesales to the company’s client base.
The Carbon Platform is a target driven, innovative and energetic company that offers its employees the right environment to achieve their full potential and personal financial goals. Ongoing training is given to ensure The Carbon Platform remains the leading carbon brokerage in the market place providing the correct information and investment opportunities to its clients.
There are many benefits to being a part of The Carbon Platform team such as:
* Monthly Incentives for Top Performers providing Tailored suits, Luxury cars for the weekend and Weekends Away!
* Quarterly Incentive for Top Performers including holidays to New York, Venice, Paris to name a few!
* Monthly Team Nights Out!
* Bi Annual Company Party!
* Annual Christmas Party!Hard work does not go unnoticed or unrewarded in The Carbon Platform. The office is a motivational workplace in itself, with a thriving, lively atmosphere with background music and a buzzer and the applause of team mates making successful transactions! To aid the fast paced environment a masseuse visits weekly, a punch bag offers some relief and there is a “Chiller” with massage chairs, internet and X-box to play Fifa 13!
The role includes:
* Educating people of the importance of going green
* Informing prospects of the carbon market and how and why it was created
* Informing prospects on the benefit of going green to their business
* Making Sales Calls
* Servicing Clients
* Increasing own knowledge of carbon market
* Competing for role of team leaderThe benefits of this role include:
* 10% commission on all transactions (Highest in market!!)
* Over ride on Teams Monthly Figures for Team Leader
* Company Mobile Phone with SIM Card
* 20 Annual Days Leave + Additional Guaranteed Christmas Leave
* Employment Visa
* Guaranteed Leads and Database to contact
* Monthly incentives for Top Performers
* Added Commission for Brokers on Re-Sales by Sales ManagerThe ideal candidate will:
* Possess Sales Experience (We can train anyone with sales experience)
* Have a Good Telephone Manor (as will be speaking to clients mainly over the phone)
* Have an Ability to Work as a Tam
* Demonstrate Objection Handling Skills
* Excellent Work Ethic
* Be Target Driven
* Be Able to Work in a Fast Paced Fun Sales EnvironmentThe Carbon Platform is a Carbon Brokerage with offices in London, UK and Dubai, UAE that specialize in reducing corporate and private green house gas emissions by performing emission audits and offsetting the emissions produced by that company or individual respectively through green energy projects. The Carbon Platform also provides ongoing green strategies through PAS2060 standards and green branding for our corporate clients. The Carbon Platform only recommends investing into the Carbon Marker via the Compliance Market only.
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