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I own a discount/entertainment business selling coupon-like products door to door in residential neighborhoods and to businesses. Average sale- $75.00 to $100.00, If I give them a 40/60 split I will usually make at least $40 per item. This is a 1099 position, I paid $40 for a Craigslist advertisement, and only got two inquiries, both had criminal records from a simple google search. Any advice to find these 1099 people and then motivate them to stay with me would be great.

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Do the coupon-like products come with a set of steak knives?

Post: #3

(02-12-2019 03:06 AM)Westcoast99 Wrote:  I own a discount/entertainment business selling coupon-like products door to door in residential neighborhoods and to businesses. Average sale- $75.00 to $100.00, If I give them a 40/60 split I will usually make at least $40 per item. This is a 1099 position, I paid $40 for a Craigslist advertisement, and only got two inquiries, both had criminal records from a simple google search. Any advice to find these 1099 people and then motivate them to stay with me would be great.

Markup the face value of the coupon books and sell them at a discount to youth groups looking for fundraiser opportunities.

Door to door sales is a meat market, are you equipped to deal directly with the refuse of society? Do you have an apparatus for shaping them into something that you just might get a Return on Investment out of? If the answer is no, you gotta find a way to rent someone else's apparatus.

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I did door to door sales for 5 years. I considered writing a data sheet for the forum on it because from my experience it's
-great money, I mean GREAT money, *if* you hustle. I made $65K in a summer (my best selling season). I know guys that make six figures from knocking in a summer and take most of the rest of the year off
-it's an extremely "red pill" job based on merit and ability
-coworkers are usually cool people that aren't little pussies, no drug tests, no women, no HR bullshit, can talk shit during meetings, etc.
-get to travel all over
-tons of crazy experience and stories from all over the nation
-sales sharpens game skills - this has been discussed on this forum before

However I feel like it's mostly a young guy's hustle unless you're a Mormon. To address your question, recruiting was annoying and difficult and you do have to sift through the dregs of society to get quality people. Like you mentioned, a lot of people don't want to do D2D because it's commission only, has a rep for being a "shady" sales job, and most people don't want to work that hard and face a lot of rejection. Thankfully the company I worked for is super legit and "sexy" (nice merch, incentives, cool uniforms, young people) so recruiting quality guys wasn't impossible. You can send me a PM if you want anymore info