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Employee Hiring: Any out of the box ways to find sales people?
Jeremiah Boehner, Audience Development and Site Growth Expert answered:

Shopping Malls when I worked at shopping malls I would get someone trying to recruit me to join their company about once a month. So I would frequent your local mall and find people who go above and beyond in retail.
Look for Rapport building skills
Do they listen and help direct you to products
Do they ask open ended questions?

Often Retail Store managers were the best sales person for that store an other and they got promoted.

These people will have the soft skills of selling and then can be training in the hard skills and tactics of B2B Selling. If you have anymore questions or need any help I'm happy to get on a call.

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