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				<title><![CDATA[The best way to grow your busine]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Need-advice-on-sales.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The best way to grow your business, not the fastest, is to use your existing customer base.  If you have regular customers, speak to them and find out what they like about your business and what can be improved.  If they really like the work that you ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I've hired salespeople on a comm]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I've hired salespeople on a commission-only basis.  It was a disaster, because at  the first hint of difficulty they jump to another commission-only job, all the while looking out for a secure sales position that pay]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I have just started with some af]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I have just started with some affiliate marketing and it sounds interesting. Just think about an other channel to commercialize your products.
There are a lot of affiliate systems, check those at your niche market.
L]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I am intrigued by Affiliate Mark]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I am intrigued by Affiliate Marketing (e.g. Linkshare), but I am afraid as I don't entirely know what I'd be getting into.  Can you explain more?]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[There are lots of ways you could]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[There are lots of ways you could gain more business without hiring a sales person (not that that's a bad idea, but definitely an investment!).  You could advertise in you local paper, twitter, PPC.  Think about your budget first.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The commissioned sales person wo]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The commissioned sales person would be good for you- and here is another idea but watch out for employee taxes when hiring-- they almost killed my business when i had just one employee. 
I worked for years with a "draw off commission".  We ha]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[You can make money with Linkshar]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[You can make money with Linkshare,They have a lot of merchants. Try selling Ipods. It has worked for me!

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make money]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Do you do any sort of advertisin]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Do you do any sort of advertising at all? Local newspapers, online, etc. This could help you bring in new customers so you won't have to worry about keeping only the current ones.

Also hiring a salesperson on a commission basis is a goo]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Have you thought about partnerin]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Need-advice-on-sales.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Have you thought about partnering with another company that sells a compatible product and sharing a sales rep.  The rep would represent both companies no matter what sales call they were going on.  For example, a compa]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[One option is to add a commissio]]></title>
				<link>http://www.startupnation.com/community/orca/topic/Need-advice-on-sales.htm</link>
				<description><![CDATA[One option is to add a commission-only salesperson who can then work as much as they want, and you only owe them pay when they sell. (There are a multitude of ways to structure payment, you can decide ahead or negotiate it as part of the overall negotia]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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