John Jonas answers whether one can hire salespeople (virtual assistants) in the Philippines. Short answer: yes — you can hire affordable sales talent there. Longer answer: success depends on providing training and putting hires into effective systems; simply telling someone to 'go sell' is unlikely to work. Distinctions: hiring for order-fulfillment is easy, hiring for cold-calling and closing sales is doable but harder and requires work. The Philippines offers a large talent pool (about 100 million people) but finding effective salespeople requires effort and good processes.
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Can I hire a sales va in the philippines? So one of the questions that I often get asked is, can I hire salespeople? Can you find salespeople in the Philippines? Short answer is, yes, you definitely can. That's totally reasonable. The long answer is that it's a little bit more complicated than that. In the US People often want to hire a salesman and say, oh, go sell this thing. And in the Philippines, that's not how it's not going to work that well for you. I had someone today say, oh, I don't know if I can hire a salesperson and they can actually make sales. And as I read the email, I got the sense that they just wanted to hire someone and say, hey, here's my product. Go sell it. And that's not really going to work with hiring people in the Philippines. You're going to need to provide training. You're going to need to set them up in a system where they can make sales. The other day I had a talk with a CEO friend of mine who said he wanted to hire a salesperson, but not really a salesperson. He wanted to hire someone to fulfill sales orders. Yeah, super simple to do that. To have someone making cold phone calls and closing customers and sales, it's doable. It's just not easy. So can you hire a salesperson? Yes, absolutely. Can you hire someone who's much more affordable than someone in the U.S. yes. Are they going to be as effective? Depends on the system you put them into. Maybe, maybe not. You can hire talent, more talented people. You have 100 million people there that you can hire from, and it's easy to find them versus easy to find a good salesperson in the US is a little bit more difficult. It will require more work on your part, but it is doable. You can hire a great salesperson VA in the Philippines.
