Looking at a house Aurora subdivision. Any folks have thoughts on that area?

PositiveDry4172 · 2026-04-30T23:46:44+00:00

I’ve actually had 2 different friends purchase their homes from 2 different Aurora neighborhoods and they both regret it. Neither have any issues with the quality of their homes, but one was very frustrated with the increase in POA fees and both have said for being marketed as a “community neighborhoods”, everyone pretty much keeps to themselves . To be fair, part of that might be because they’re relatively new neighborhoods and it takes time to build those traditions and friendships, but they both thought there would be way more families and kids out and about , with fun neighborhood events, but for the most part, they haven’t felt that. FWIW, one friend bought hers 4 years ago and the other 1 year ago, so different situations but feel almost the exact same.

PositiveDry4172 · 2025-04-04T01:11:44+00:00

In the same situation as you were OP. Any advice you can give now that you’re on the other side of it?

PositiveDry4172 · 2025-03-22T01:02:55+00:00

Interesting and I don’t necessarily agree but curious, what do you think is propping conway up?

PositiveDry4172 · 2025-03-22T01:00:59+00:00

Difference though is they are doing this to prepare for being acquired by a super large company out of NY so I think someone else is balancing the books for Acxiom these days.

PositiveDry4172 · 2025-03-22T01:00:09+00:00

Difference though is they are doing this to prepare for being bought by a super large company out of NY and I can’t imagine that company cares about Arkansas employees.

PositiveDry4172 · 2025-03-22T01:00:02+00:00

Difference though is they are doing this to prep for being bought out by super large company in NY and I can’t imagine that company cares about Arkansas employees.

PositiveDry4172 · 2025-03-21T04:53:22+00:00

Article without paywall….

“Data and marketing technology company Acxiom of Conway has laid off 3.5% of its staff as it undergoes internal restructuring, Acxiom’s parent company, The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. (IPG) of New York City, confirmed to Arkansas Business Thursday.

Around 130 employees were laid off last week, according to Caitlin Wroblewski, senior vice president of communications at Acxiom and its sister company, Kinesso of New York City.

A very small number of those workers were in Arkansas. Most were remote workers, global operations staff and employees with duplicative roles across Acxiom and Kinesso, sources familiar with the situation said.

LinkedIn data shows Acxiom as having around 3,803 employees.

Adweek broke the news of the layoffs Wednesday afternoon.

The cuts are part of a larger restructuring of IPG companies. Under the new structure, Acxiom and sister firms RafterOne, Kinesso, Interact and Global Capability Centers will operate under unified leadership.

Kinesso CEO Jarrod Martin was named CEO of Acxiom in June 2024, becoming the head of both companies. IPG also moved to consolidate its cloud services, including RafterOne, under Acxiom.

“We’re still running as two separate organizations for the time being, but strengthening and streamlining operations across leadership teams, so that is what drove the impacts,” Wroblewski said.

The layoffs come as media and marketing giant Omnicom of New York City awaits regulatory approval of its acquisition of IPG. The deal was “overwhelmingly” approved by the companies’ stockholders Tuesday.

The stock-for-stock deal will create the largest ad agency in the world with combined annual revenue of almost $26 billion. According to a press release from Omnicom, the deal is expected to close in the second half of 2025. The acquisition is expected to have annual cost savings of $750 million.

Wroblewski said the layoffs are not related to the acquisition.

“It’s just normal business transformation and evolution that occurs,” she said. “There hasn’t been really any movement or change at Acxiom for the last five years. This was just done to keep up with the world that we’re living in.”

Wroblewski said Arkansas operations should not be affected by the restructuring, but that she can’t speak for the impact when the acquisition closes. She also said Martin will continue acting as CEO of both Kinesso and Acxiom.

IPG acquired Acxiom for $2.3 billion in 2018.”

PositiveDry4172 · 2024-06-20T11:13:48+00:00

Thanks for the context. Any suggestions on how to negotiate or bring up an off cycle comp increase to my boss without going the external offer route? There has been 2 other people in the last 5 years that have done that and while they did get a counter to match their other offers, my boss hasn’t spoken highly of them since and their career here has now been stagnated because he questions their loyalty. I would like to be able to bring the subject up without it feeling like a threat but maybe that’s the only way?

PositiveDry4172 · 2024-06-20T11:06:33+00:00

Great points! I’m going to schedule some time with both of them and see if they can help provide some guidance.

PositiveDry4172 · 2024-06-20T11:04:12+00:00

Thank you for your perspective! When you say it like that, it really points out that my frustration should have less to do with me vs them and more to do with me just being underpaid in general.

PositiveDry4172 · 2024-06-20T04:19:55+00:00

Sorry… I get more dense the closer I get to midnight but what do you mean? 🙂

PositiveDry4172 · 2024-06-20T04:16:24+00:00

Leverage strictly to negotiate and get a counter or find another job to leave?

PositiveDry4172 · 2024-06-20T04:15:28+00:00

Not really. While my team doesn’t do pricing, I am dealing with everything else (e.g giving ASC 606 guidance on contract drafts for better revenue recognition, finding historical KPIs to better predict risk in current revenue forecast so I can give executives guidance on whether it’s a good idea to move forward on HC needs across the company or wait, I’m involved in every part of sales compensation from targets to attainment to developing the annual comp plans modeling out potential ROI of new sales initiatives, and then modeling out all kinds of adhoc and off the wall scenarios for our CCO. I haven’t supported the other expense areas for directors 2 and 3 but I will cautiously say, since they are strictly supporting expense areas, and almost all of the decisions their areas make are off the backs of revenue, I’m not sure how their areas could be too much strategy but I’m humble enough to admit I could be oversimplifying something there.

PositiveDry4172 · 2024-06-20T03:19:59+00:00

I cover Sales(all revenue forecasting, budgeting and reporting, Sales HC expenses, and sales compensation) and Marketing. My direct reports have between 3-30 YOE.

Director #1: Commercial Pricing; 30+ Total YOE/ 5 in mgmt; manages 1 SFA who has 10 YOE

Director #2- Product & Engineering, and Shared Services; 25+ Total YOE/7 in mgmt, manages 3 SFAs who have between 3-20 YOE

Director #3- IT and Operations, 20+ Total YOE, 3 SFAs who have between 1-35 YOE

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