If you searched our name before an interview, there’s a decent chance you ran into the word “Devilcorp” next to The League Global. We’d rather talk about that here, in our own words, than leave you to sort it out from a forum thread. So here’s where the label comes from, what it gets wrong about companies like ours, and how you can check every claim we make below without taking our word for anything.
Where the “Devilcorp” Label Comes From
“Devilcorp” is an internet nickname for a certain kind of sales company: one that promises a management track, runs on commission, and hires a lot of entry-level people. Some companies that fit that description have earned the reputation. Others get swept in because the business model looks similar from the outside, and a label that started as a warning became a catch-all for any firm that does face-to-face sales and promotes from within.
That’s the part worth slowing down on. Promoting from within, paying on performance, and hiring people without experience are things plenty of good companies do. None of them is what makes a business a scheme. So let’s define the thing people are worried about.
Direct Marketing vs. a Pyramid Scheme
A direct marketing or customer-acquisition firm is hired by a brand to represent it in person. The brand supplies the product, the customers come from the public, and the firm gets paid for the customers it brings in. Everyone in that chain is either a client, an employee, or a customer, and money moves in one direction: from the client to the firm to the people doing the work.
A pyramid scheme runs the other way. The Federal Trade Commission describes it as a model where income comes mainly from recruiting new participants rather than from selling a real product or service to outside customers. Participants often pay to join, buy inventory, or earn a cut of the people they bring in. Take away the recruiting and the whole thing stops.
The test is simple enough to apply to any company, including us. Who pays the company, and does anyone who works there pay to be there or earn from recruiting? For The League Global, the answers are: our clients pay us, no one pays us to work here, and no one earns anything from recruiting.
What The League Global Is
The League Global is a sales and consulting firm founded in 2013 and headquartered at 500 Park Blvd, Suite 1475, in Itasca, Illinois. We work with large national brands that want a more personal way to reach customers, and our team represents those brands face-to-face: explaining a service, answering questions, and helping people make a decision they feel good about. The full picture of what we do is a post of its own, but that’s the core of it.
We’re independently owned and operated. Our founder and President is Michael Lefeld, who started our company in 2013 with the idea that business is built on people, and who still runs it from the Itasca office today. Our leadership makes decisions about who we hire, how we train, and how we pay our team.
What we do share with the wider industry is a belief that people without a sales background can grow into leaders if someone invests in them. Our training, mentorship, and professional development programs exist for exactly that reason, and they’re a big part of why people who join us in an entry-level role tend to stay and move up.
How to Verify Us Yourself
We’d rather you check than trust, so here’s where to look:
- Better Business Bureau. The League Global is BBB accredited with an A+ rating, with our office address, hours, and leadership listed on the profile.
- Thirteen years in business. The BBB lists our start date as July 9, 2013. A company that’s been at this for more than a decade has a track record you can read.
- Named leadership. Michael Lefeld, President. Our team page lists the people who run day-to-day operations, with real names attached.
- A physical office. 500 Park Blvd, Suite 1475, Itasca, IL 60143. The phone number on our site, (630) 601-3291, rings there Monday through Friday.
If anything you find online contradicts what’s on this page, we’d genuinely like to know, and we’ll answer it directly.
Come See for Yourself
We know the “Devilcorp” search is usually the last thing someone does before deciding whether to show up for an interview. If that’s you, we hope this helped, and we’d rather you arrive with questions than not arrive at all. We wrote about transparency and our hiring process earlier this year, and everything in it still holds. If you’d like to talk to a person, reach out to our Itasca office. We’ll give you the same answers in person that we’ve given here.
