Can you crowdsource a sales team? Yes.

It&#x27;s the second time I read about LeadGenius on HN and I&#x27;m still not clear what they do. A simple example would&#x27;ve gone a long way here.<p>&quot;Here&#x27;s this company, Abc, and we helped their sales process by furnishing&#x2F;prequalifying&#x2F;cold-calling N leads, of which M has been closed as sales&quot;. Something like this.

Would this work for a band, by chance? I spend an inordinate amount of time hunting down, calling, and following up with club owners, HR people (for corporate gigs), and &#x27;regular folks who just want live entertainment for a party&#x27;. I would LOVE to be able to outsource this drudgery to someone else, so long as they can get the same or better results than me doing it myself.

The biggest issue that I see with crowd sourcing your sales team is that you lose control of interactions with your client. How can you ensure that your temp sales team isn&#x27;t making long term promises that you can&#x27;t fulfill? They don&#x27;t care because they are already thinking about their next gig.

How is this different from affiliate marketing? Does this involve offline sales too? Is this just a sales rep jobs board or a hand holding affiliate marketing site (at a flat fee)? The use of the word virtual is a bit confusing here and I am not really sure what it means. Honestly in reading the article all I saw were a bunch of buzzwords.