About This Role
This outside sales opportunity is for individuals who are passionate about their community and eager to build genuine relationships within it. The role involves consulting with local business owners to help them enhance their visibility within their neighborhoods, designing comprehensive marketing strategies that include magazine placements and digital ads, and scaling a sustainable book of business. It is an independent-contractor position with uncapped, cumulative income potential.
Responsibilities
- Consult with local business owners to help them solve the problem of being known by households closest to them
- Design each client’s full answer, including their place in the neighborhood’s magazine, digital ads, and online presence
- Use training and a proven system to build a book of business that provides long-term income
Requirements
- Sales ability, or the drive to build it (track record in prospecting, negotiating, and closing is helpful; outside sales, D2D, real estate, and insurance backgrounds do well)
- No sales background required if you have experience serving the public (retail, hospitality, education, healthcare)
- Motivation and consistency
- Own transportation, phone, laptop, and reliable internet
- Community focus: a genuine interest in building and nurturing local business relationships
- Room to build: ability to make this a primary professional focus during the build phase
Benefits
- Incentives: trips and recognition
- Community of peers
- Uncapped, cumulative income
- Zero start-up costs
- Flexible schedule
- Bonus earnings while building as an Associate Publisher
- 70% commission on collected sales above baseline (up to 80% with performance incentives) once the magazine reaches its revenue baseline
About the Company
Best Version Media has spent nearly 20 years bringing communities together across the United States and Canada. Today, more than 1,300 local magazines and a full suite of digital marketing solutions help tens of thousands of local businesses grow.
