>We have an app that we have sold to over 70 and have competitors.
>One of our competitor's sales rep has left and contacted us, saying our product is much better and wants to be our sales rep.
>We are unsure whether we really need a sales rep.
>We already have a deal with a psuedo sale rep, that if one of their leads comes through, they get a flat amount.
>The same deal is acceptable to this new sales rep.
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>But, she says, she needs to be supplied with a laptop and a projection device, by our company. She is not employed by our company in any sense.
>She said our competition did this for her. (I do not know whether they employed her. But I think not.)
>Has anyone heard of such?
>Should we spend $1,000's, so that a sales rep, that contacted us for work, can do a better job?
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>Any and all comments are welcome,
>Carol Dewar
>Magram Computer Services

No.....let her buy her own equipment and set up a pay schedule for the business she brings you......She has to take some risks too.....