Contracting with Sales People

A "Non-Compete" is good but what I have done to cause salespeople to think twice before becoming competitors is to go down to the local office supply store and pick up some "Promissory Notes".

Fill in the Note for the max your local "Small Claims Court" will allow and have your salespeople sing it. This means that they have agreed to pay you X dollars and to collect, they just go down to the local courthouse and file th epapers.

This has stopped many a salesperson in their tracks...for me. And...it is a SUREFIRE way to get ALL your sales materials back when the sales person decides to quit.

Before I used these Notes I had people going off and trying to start businesses in competition with me all the time PLUS...when they decided to quit...they wouldn't even give me th ecourtesy of a phone call...or bring my sales materials back.

NOW they do! Just one piece of paper will do the trick.

Don Alm

> I am interested in hearing opinions on how I
> could contract with sales people, so that I
> would get the benefit of their services and
> yet still protect myself from their setting
> themselves up as my competition. I am
> thinking of starting one of the ad programs
> Don Alm has written about. Would a
> noncompete agreement be sufficient?




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