Best place to find sales reps

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Hey everyone been looking for a good website or two for where I can hire sales reps. Been looking all over the net but was curious if anyone here knew the best place to find a rep to sell social media and websites. Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author rhealy29
    It really depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking to actually hire, why not look locally for some good sales people?

    If you're looking for call-center salespeople, it'll really depend on if you're looking for domestic or overseas. If domestic, where are you located? In either case, there are a ton of options.

    Finally if you're looking to "hire" salespeople, i.e. 100% commission based, Craiglist seems to be full of ads for that kind of thing.

    Can you provide a little more information on what kind of sales reps you're looking for? Compensation? Etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jimmy Johns
      Commission based sales people fluent in English to sell Social Media Marketing and Web design.
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      • Profile picture of the author rhealy29
        Originally Posted by Jimmy Johns View Post

        Commission based sales people fluent in English to sell Social Media Marketing and Web design.

        As I said before, if you're looking fully commission based, Craigslist seems to be full of ads looking for such people.

        Unfortunately, the reality is that no legitimate salesperson is going to respond to such an offer.

        No serious business would expect any even semi-qualified salesperson to work on pure commission unless there was some massive incentive, and so no serious salesperson is going to be willing to work for what could very well end up being nothing.

        This idea of "just get salespeople and let them make the sales for you for a slice!" is a fiction. You may very well get people who respond to your calls for sales help, but they're going to be exactly the kind of quality that zero dollars buys.

        If they can sell your web design service, or whatever it is you're selling, they can sell anybody's. They're not going to do it for just a commission. In a situation like that, you need them, but they don't need you. You're bringing essentially zero to the table for them.

        There are industries where 100% commissioned work can draw in good salespeople on contract. The money in those cases is normally big enough to offset the lack of security. Selling web hosting and social media marketing is not one of those industries.

        If you are in fact making decent money, and do want to start hiring salespeople, I'd continue doing what you're doing until you've made enough decent money to offer some sort of real compensation. Otherwise, be prepared to be frustrated by the quality of "salespeople" you end up working with.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    You've been posting about finding sales reps for months now - and the lack of replies should tell you something.

    Your premise is: The salesman will sell websites or some sort of services or kindle or....and will be paid 50% of the sale.

    Unless you can show sales volume over time and profits earned from selling exactly those items - you won't attract anyone good at sales. 50% of 'something' is more likely than not to result in 'nothing'.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jimmy Johns
      Made decent money this past month. That should say something.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    I'd network with top sales folks in your niche, promote them, build your own blog through guest posting and blog commenting, and let the sales reps come to you. Process takes a bit longer but good things, and thriving, ever-expanding businesses, take time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jimmy Johns
      Okay thanks for the advice.
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