Comments on: Miracle Gro for Your Freelance Writing Business

By: Marilyn Braun

Marilyn Braun — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:20:43 +0000

Hi, I’m a newbie. I don’t understand what you mean by a ‘hot-dog sales person’.

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:44:49 +0000

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By: Bob Younce

Bob Younce — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:00:54 +0000

@Everyone – Thanks for the comments! Rather than answering your questions here (and they are good questions) I think I’ll put up my next post on specific types of ways a freelance business can find and use a salesperson. I’ll share what’s worked for me, as well as some ideas about other models I’ve seen or that are worth considering.

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By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:38:26 +0000

Hire a salesperson to get freelance work for you? WOW. Seriously — it never occurred to me. I’m not asking what you pay this person, but is it a flat fee or a percentage of what you pull in, etc? I’d love to hear more about this. THANK YOU for your site and all you do!

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:52:39 +0000

I’ve actually been thinking about this for a while. My husband is an amazing salesperson (and I don’t just say that because I’m married to him), but I’m maybe only average at sales. I’ve thought about asking him to help me with the sales side, but I didn’t know how that would look, me not going after business myself.

Then again, I’m not even sure what I’d tell him when he asked me what he was supposed to do. Cold call offering my services?

Any advice?

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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:19:29 +0000

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By: SpikeTheLobster

SpikeTheLobster — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:20:49 +0000

I wonder how many people would have said their success is because of their talent, or insinuated as much while pretending modesty? Gotta love the 100% honesty, Bob: not only bluntly truthful, but also incredibly helpful! Now, the big question is… how do you tell the difference between a hot dog salesperson and one who just *thinks* they are? (Any onions/mustard jokes will be studiously ignored… hehe!)