Hire remote sales agents who do the chasing.
Appointment setters, sales development reps and account support in South Africa, the Philippines and Myanmar. They work the top of your pipeline and keep the CRM honest, so the people who close spend their day closing.
They are employed on a proper salary. Commission-only arrangements do not keep good salespeople.
What a remote sales agent takes off your plate.
Most sales teams do not have a closing problem. They have a nobody-followed-up-for-nine-days problem.
Appointment setting
Working your list, getting past the first no, and putting qualified meetings in your closers' diaries with the notes already written up.
Lead generation and research
Building the list before anyone calls it: the right companies, the right job titles, a verified email and a reason to make contact.
Outbound calling and telesales
First contact by phone, in the accent your market expects, following a script you approve and reporting honestly on what people actually said.
Follow-up that does not get dropped
The fourth, fifth and sixth touch that your closers never get round to, which is where most deals in a slow market are actually won.
CRM hygiene and pipeline reporting
Every call logged, every stage current, and a weekly pipeline number you can believe. HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Zoho or a spreadsheet if that is what you have.
Account support and renewals
Checking in on existing customers, chasing renewals before they lapse, and flagging the ones going quiet while you can still do something about it.
Which country for sales work?
Sales is the role where accent and time zone matter most, because the job is almost entirely talking to people who did not ask to be called. Pick the country by the market you sell into.
The strongest option for selling into the UK and Europe. Native English speakers in a familiar accent, one to two hours ahead of London, so the whole UK working day is callable inside a normal day there.
Filipino sales teams have spent decades selling to American and Australian customers in clear, neutral English, with a service culture that handles rejection well. The practical choice for high-volume outbound.
University-educated people in the Singapore working day, and our best value by some margin. Strong on the research and relationship-building half of sales, and on inside sales into Asian markets.
What a remote sales agent can and cannot do.
Right for a remote agent
Still your own job
Hand over a sales role with no script, no list and no definition of a good lead and it will fail, in any country. The agents who succeed were given a clear brief and a market that was already responding.
Remote sales agents: your questions answered.
Tell us what you are selling, and to whom.
The market, the list you have and what your closers are spending their time on now. We will come back with the country that suits it and what it costs.