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<div>I have built a number of sales organizations in the Telecommunications space. Primarily for Cisco VAR's including my own company that I recently sold to a public company. When we sold, our primary focus was VOIP and we were about 15 million. I had 7 sales people. If you are interested in having a conversation I would be happy to discuss best practices and pass along some ideas. Let me know and I'll forward my cell number.
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<div>Bob Murphy<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Hayden</b> <<a href="mailto:thayden@gmail.com">thayden@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Since this is the -biz list, I thought I'd pick the minds of other<br>Asterisk-related business owners.<br>
<br>Here's my dilemma. I've got some great asterisk based services that my<br>firm can offer (mostly IVR and whatnot), but I am having a hard time<br>finding clientele, as my target market is rather niche (right now -<br>
the commercial radio biz). Unfortunately, my area of expertise is<br>telecom, *not* sales or marketing.<br><br>How do you find good marketing/sales people? Do you post ads or find<br>them through others? Are they primarily commission-based or do you pay
<br>salary? Is finding sales people for startups difficult? Is it<br>possible to outsource some of these functions?<br><br>I'm curious to hear input from other business owners on this list,<br><br>--<br>Tom Hayden<br>Astoria Telecom, LLC
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