Truth in IT is now ready for our first inside salesperson. PLEASE READ THIS WHOLE POST AND THE ENTIRE CRAIGSLIST POST BEFORE REPLYING TO IT.
Here are the good things about this position:
1. I don't care where you live or what hours you work. If you have a phone and an Internet connection you can do the job.
2. This is a very unique idea that a lot of people are excited about and we've gotten lots of response from end-users.
3. It's a totally untapped market and you have virtually no competition for what we will be doing.
4. I'm willing to talk about options in the company for the right candidate, maybe even significantly more options for one who comes in and kicks butt.
5. My name (W. Curtis Preston) has a lot of brand recognition and trust with 10s of thousands of end-users out there who have bought my three books. Tapping into that should really help the sale.
Here are the challenges with this position:
1. We are a bootstrapped company who is, how shall we say, strapped. ;) Your compensation (for now) will be pure commission w/no draw via an independent contractor arrangement. We can talk about changing that once we get off the ground, but right now we can't afford to pay you if you're not selling. Dig?
2. "It's a totally untapped market" is another way of saying "you're going to have to explain what we do and why they should pay." I'm not going to say it'll be all wine and roses, although I'm more than willing to send as much of both of those to the right candidate.
3. With a service that costs $1,000 per year, we're talking volume sales here. The good news is that we think it should be a pretty short sales cycle. You like it? Great, here's the URL where you can sign up and pay us $1,000. You don't like it? We're moving on. We're not talking about doing onsite visits and hours and hours of presentations to close the sale.
4. There will be some incoming leads (I have over 500 in my pocket right now), but let's face it. We're talking a lot of cold-calling and direct-mail type deals here. If you're not down with cold-calling then this is not going to be the place for you.
Info on how to respond to this offer can be found in our Craigslist post. PLEASE READ THE WHOLE POST BEFORE REPLYING -- I'M ASKING SOMETHING UNIQUE.
