CREATING YOUR FIRST TEAM is based on my experience and that of several business owners and professionals who have gotten a few reps to help them grow their business. It is designed to help entrepreneurs, start-ups, small businesses, and professionals obtain more clients and customers.
The topics covered include the following:
- Determining when you need a sales rep to represent you
- Finding prospective sales reps
- Recruiting sales reps on different platforms
- Explaining the requirements and interviewing prospective reps
- Assessing skills and getting references
- Developing guidelines for what sales reps should say and do
- Creating commission arrangements and contracts
- Hiring reps as independent contractors and avoiding employment law issues
- Creating reporting documents to know what reps have done to follow up
- Coordinating reps in the field by email and phone
- Assigning responsibilities to sales team members
- Dealing with reps who don't perform and reassigning duties to other reps
- Having a debriefing with reps
- Organizing the information from your reps for follow up
- Figuring out commissions and making payments
Author Biography:
GINI GRAHAM SCOTT, Ph.D., J.D., is a nationally known writer, consultant, speaker, and seminar leader, specializing in business and work relationships, professional and personal development, social trends, and popular culture. She has published over 50 books with major publishers. She has worked with dozens of clients on memoirs, self-help, popular business books, and film scripts. Writing samples are at www.ginigrahamscott.com and www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com. She is a Huffington Post regular columnist, commenting on social trends, business, and everyday life at www.huffingtonpost.com/gini-graham-scott. She is the founder of Changemakers Publishing, featuring books on work, business, psychology, social trends, and self-help. It has published over 50 print, e-books, and audiobooks. She has licensed several dozen books for foreign sales, including the UK, Russia, Korea, Spain, and Japan. She has received national media exposure for her books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, and CNN. She has been the producer and host of a talk show series, Changemakers, featuring interviews on social trends. Her books on business relationships and professional development include: Self-Publishing Secrets (Changemakers Publishing) Turn Your Dreams into Reality (Llewellyn) Resolving Conflict (Changemakers Publishing) A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses (AMACOM) A Survival Guide for Working with Humans (AMACOM) Credit Card Fraud with Jen Grondahl Lee (Rowman) Lies and Liars: How and Why Sociopaths Lie (Skyhorse Publishing) Scott is also active in a number of community and business groups, including the Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, and Danville Chambers of Commerce. She is a graduate of the prestigious Leadership Contra Costa program, is a7 member of two B2B groups in Danville and Walnut Creek, and a BNI member. She is the organizer of six Meetup groups in the film and publishing industries with over 6000 members in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. She does workshops and seminars on the topics of her books. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her J.D. from the University of San Francisco Law School. She has received several MAs at Cal State University, East Bay.
