Is The Independent Sales Agent For You

Are you struggling to grow your sales? Trying to decide whether the time is right to hire a direct sales force? Would you like to approach new markets and territories using a proven business model that will reduce your go-to-market costs? If you are looking to expand your sales into new markets or territories it usually means you have to find a dedicated sales person to work direct for your company. This is an expensive and time intensive method of expanding your business. Attempting to recruit and train sales people who are going to be in a territory that is not local can be very difficult to accomplish. Costs of recruiting are high, remote management and training becomes a problem and monitoring the new sales rep's performance can become a full time job. The answer is to find experienced, local sales agents who reside in the territory you want to penetrate. In some industries sales agents represent the bulk of a companies selling strategy. In North America alone there are tens of thousands of sales agents and many are looking for new products to represent. If you are looking for a comprehensive guidebook that can help you find, train and manage independent sales agents (ISA's), also called manufacturers' representatives then this book is for you. How to Find, Recruit & Manage Independent Sales Agents is a proven, turnkey system that will become the foundation of your sales agent program. What You Will Learn: - The power of independent sales agents - Three models for sales agent programs - How to find sales agents in your industry - How to approach and engage sales agents in their language - How to design a sales agent compensation program Each chapter contains coaching exercise to help you create your program so it will attract the attention of sales agents. The book is loaded with scripts, templates and tips that can help you build your own alternate sales channel using sales agents. It All Starts Here! – if you are trying to decide whether to hire more full time direct sales people for your organization of look for new alternatives that will reduce your cost of sale then this book is right for you. "This fast-moving, practical book, based on years of experience, shows you how to leverage and multiply the sales potential of your products and services, selling five and ten times as much as you ever thought possible." - Brian Tracy – Author, Ultimate Sales Success. "Bob has written a comprehensive guide which offers the reader a complete review of how to select, manage and motivate independent reps. He provides proven exercises, forms, and templates to equip interested sales managers with the necessary tools to run their own successful sales agent program. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the independent sales rep business model." - Allan R. Lambert, CSP Billiken Group, LLC "Manufacturers need to learn more about how the rep business functions before they approach someone. They need to talk to other companies that use rep's or attend one of the MRERF programs. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of companies know about reps." - Karen Jefferson, CPMR CSP Executive Director, MRERF "As more companies are looking for cost savings you are going to see a move towards more sales outsourcing. The agent business is poised for growth. Agents are going to play a very important role as more international companies are trying to break into the North American market." - Pierre Carriere, President BEXSA Solutions Inc. "More and more large companies are finding their direct sales force is a huge expense. Cost of sales is rising and the ramp up time for a new sales person can take months or more. With agents getting paid on results it really makes sense for companies to consider this sales channel." - Craig Lindsay, CPMR CSP President Pacesetter Sales & Associates

This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of using independent sales agents and sales reps to sell your products or services. The independent sales agent (also called 'sales representative') may be the answer for business owners who have problems with selling. In some cases, the problem may be that there are not enough prospects to justify putting a full-time sales force on the factory's payroll. In other cases, because of heavy schedules, the sales staff may be missing opportunities to cultivate new accounts. This guide provides guidelines that should help the owner-manager of a small company to determine whether or not a sales agent is needed. Pointers are also given on how to choose an agent and how to work profitably with him or her. My name is Meir Liraz and I'm the author of this book. According to Dun & Bradstreet, 90% of all business failures analyzed can be traced to poor management. This is backed up by my own experience. In my 31 years as a business coach and consultant to businesses, I've seen practically dozens of business owners fail and go under -- not because they weren't talented or smart enough -- but because they were trying to re-invent the wheel rather than rely on proven, tested methods that work. And that is where this book can help, it will teach you how to avoid the common traps and mistakes and do everything right the first time.

Do you need a proven, turnkey system to expand into new markets and territories at a low cost? Are you struggling to grow your sales? If you are looking to expand your sales into new markets or territories it usually means you have to find a dedicated sales person to work direct for your company. This is an expensive and time intensive method of expanding your business. Attempting to recruit and train sales people who are going to be in a territory that is not local can be very difficult to accomplish. Costs of recruiting are high, remote management and training becomes a problem and monitoring the new sales rep's performance can become a full time job. The answer is to find experienced, local sales agents who reside in the territory you want to penetrate. In some industries sales agents represent the bulk of a companies selling strategy. In North America alone there are tens of thousands of sales agents and many are looking for new products to represent. If you are looking for a comprehensive guidebook that can help you find, train and manage independent sales agents (ISA's), also called manufacturers' representatives then this book is for you. How to Find, Recruit & Manage Independent Sales Agents is a proven, turnkey system that will become the foundation of your sales agent program. What You Will Learn: - The power of independent sales agents - Three models for sales agent programs - How to find sales agents in your industry - How to approach and engage sales agents in their language - How to design a sales agent compensation program Each chapter contains coaching exercise to help you create your program so it will attract the attention of sales agents. The book is loaded with scripts, templates and tips that can help you build your own alternate sales channel using sales agents. It All Starts Here! - if you are trying to decide whether to hire more full time direct sales people for your organization of look for new alternatives that will reduce your cost of sale then this book is right for you. "This fast-moving, practical book, based on years of experience, shows you how to leverage and multiply the sales potential of your products and services, selling five and ten times as much as you ever thought possible." - Brian Tracy - Author, Ultimate Sales Success. "Bob has written a comprehensive guide which offers the reader a complete review of how to select, manage and motivate independent reps. He provides proven exercises, forms, and templates to equip interested sales managers with the necessary tools to run their own successful sales agent program. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the independent sales rep business model." - Allan R. Lambert, CSP Billiken Group, LLC "Manufacturers need to learn more about how the rep business functions before they approach someone. They need to talk to other companies that use rep's or attend one of the MRERF programs. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of companies know about reps." - Karen Jefferson, CPMR CSP Executive Director, MRERF "As more companies are looking for cost savings you are going to see a move towards more sales outsourcing. The agent business is poised for growth. Agents are going to play a very important role as more international companies are trying to break into the North American market." - Pierre Carriere, President BEXSA Solutions Inc. "More and more large companies are finding their direct sales force is a huge expense. Cost of sales is rising and the ramp up time for a new sales person can take months or more. With agents getting paid on results it really makes sense for companies to consider this sales channel." - Craig Lindsay, CPMR CSP President Pacesetter Sales & Associates

A book seeking to help people seeking self-employment as a sales agent. It covers the setting up, typical start up costing, seeking agencies, negotiating agencies and the legal protection afforded by the Commercial Agents Regulations.

Find out how to manage your telecom services and save your company money! Worldwide telecom spending was over $4 trillion in 2004, and virtually all 12 million businesses in the U.S. buy phone and other telecom services Our book shows people at small and medium-sized businesses how to make sense of telecom lingo and get the best deals Includes an overview of the major players in the telecom industry and an easy-to-understand explanation of the existing telecom infrastructure Helps people pinpoint the telecom services best suited to their business needs, understand billing, and troubleshoot problems Covers emerging industry trends, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and how they can help businesses cut costs

How do you actually turn a million-dollar idea into a million dollars? From scribble-on-the-napkin to product-on-the market, The Independent Inventor's Handbook explains everything a potential inventor needs to know and the tools he or she needs to use to take a raw concept and turn it into reality. Written by Louis J. Foreman, creator of the PBS series Everyday Edisons and a holder of multiple patents, together with patent attorney Jill Gilbert Welytok, here's a book that speaks directly to the inventive American—the entrepreneur, the tinkerer, the dreamer, the basement scientist, the stay-at-home mom who figures out how to do it better. (over one million of them file patents each year.) Here is everything a future inventor needs: Understanding the difference between a good idea and a marketable idea. Why investing too much money at the outset can sink you. The downside of design patents, and how best to file an application for a utility patent. Surveys, online test runs, and other strategies for market research on a tight budget. Plus the effective pitch (hint: never say your target audience is "everyone"), questions to ask a prospective manufacturer, 14 licensing land mines to avoid, "looks-like" versus "works-like" prototypes, Ten Things Not to Tell a Venture Capitalist, and how to protect your invention once it's on the market. Appendices include a glossary of legal, manufacturing, and marketing terms, a sample nondisclosure agreement, and a patent application, deconstructed.