involvement with sales --Advice pls

**ci_98yr** · 08-26-2009 04:11 AM

Biz Experts:

As much as try to, being of a non-sales background, ' am pondering on the consistent advice that startup founder needs to get involved in the sales.
[yes 'do have technical background, but have moved on to acquire biz skills too, but havent mastered sales which is want 'want to delegate but support in every possible way]

having an independent sales rep with me, can some one exchange some notes on how you went about supporting your sales person esp. during initial early customer acquisition?

Thanks

**inle** · 08-27-2009 12:42 AM

If I want to do an I.T. job but I don't know how..
So I intend employ an I.T. guy so that I can shift all the responsibility of I.T. to him and I hope to support him ín his work..

I wonder, if I know nothing about I.T., how can I support him in achieving results that I wanted?
How do I even know how to measure the results?
How do I even know what kind of results I wanted?

**ci_98yr** · 08-27-2009 08:10 AM

Excellent common sense and self-answering Qs!

My dilemma cleared: founder's need not be sellers and it helps to gain knowledge in Sales for managing salesforce.

Thanks Inle.