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The Sales, Lead Generation, & Appointment Setters you'll find on Elance vary greatly in terms of expertise and abilities. Generally speaking, the good ones wil
by JSeymourATL 12y ago
The Sales, Lead Generation, & Appointment Setters you'll find on Elance vary greatly in terms of expertise and abilities. Generally speaking, the good ones will command higher fees. Difficult to prove strong ROI on a bootstrappers budget.
Recruiting a sales-savvy co-founder is a smart play, and well worth the extra time and effort required. Build this vital project into your calender. Think when the Beatles went looking a for Ringo.
One last tip-- Dropbox enjoyed success scaling up with their referral program> https://www.dropbox.com/help/200/en https://www.dropbox.com/help/200/en
It's an easy model to replicate.
- gingerlime 12y agoWe do have a referral program that actually pays money back (sadly, we can't add Gbs to the quota like dropbox). It's doing ok, but far from a viral storm. We do recognize that reaching out to students / student associations is probably the best route, but for that we need some kind of sales abilities, which we lack. Hence the "Ask HN" post.