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    Hiring Business-to-Business Salesmen

    oxonbeef- You sound like the exception and not the rule. Commission only compensation works fine if your sales people are selling a good product and closing business. Having the support of a good employer is essential as well. My experience has been the opposite. People who don't want to offer...
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    Hiring Business-to-Business Salesmen

    I disagree with this. Sure, you will get lucky occassionally, but really good sales people aren't looking for jobs, they have them (perhaps that's less of the case these days though). You're not going to get the attention of really talented people looking to switch jobs without some form of...
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    Trouble selling my SEO and web design to local businesses

    Respectfully, my experience with businesses that use generic recruitment ads and only pay commission is that they attract MANY unqualified applicants and have very high turnover.
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    Trouble selling my SEO and web design to local businesses

    Many others have hit on some really good points, so I'll stick to a few things I'm working on right now. I can't emphasize enough, as others have stated, that your initial focus must not be on what you have to offer, but rather on presenting a solution to your prospects' problems. In my local...
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    Ohhh Yes.. Monday.. How many clients will i close?

    Good luck and a few thoughts. I'm relatively new to internet marketing and SEO, but have closed a lot of business working in traditional media marketing/advertising. As others have said, face to face is the way to go. I have always found prospects more receptive once you're in their palce...
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    [HOT] List of .EDU Blogs (PR7-3), get a free .EDU email-address + advanced commenting

    Good stuff A good way to find .edu blogs that already contain the keywords for which you are trying to optimize is to enter the following Google query ("keyword" used to represent any keyword): keyword inurl:blog site:edu
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