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Careers with MegaChess

We are looking for people who want to combine their passion for chess and the internet with what they do for a living.

We are currently expanding our sales organization, looking for experienced marketeers to telecommute, which means you can be anywhere you find a reliable internet connection. Based on what has worked for us, we have a peculiar way to bring people aboard.

First and foremost, we are interested in specialists, marketeers who wish to become the "chess person" within a market segment, not generalists who are happy to talk to anyone about chess. We are looking for marketeers experienced in the specialized market segment they choose, including the distribution channels that serve that segment.

If you were hoping for a place where you could just drop off your resume and hope for the best, ask yourself how well that has been working out.

We have a different approach.

Within your chosen specialty, we will expect you to perform all the sales and marketing services required to command a market segment. This includes market research, developing sales strategies, telemarketing, and closing sales, that is, a comprehensive, well-rounded sales & marketing person who can take charge and drive themself.

Because the work will be across the internet, we need marketeers with excellent written communication skills. Your sales prospects will usually be on the other end of email and the occasional phone call, so you can have a disability preventing you from making in-person sales calls, but you must be able to communicate clearly and effectively.

Q: Is this position open to an established salesrep?

A: A salesrep already selling synergistic products to a target market segment would be an ideal candidate.

Our application process requires you to research your chosen target market and to produce a short report defining that market and your marketing plan for that market. This takes the place of the face-to-face interview, and takes about as long. This is the way we determine your understanding of your chosen market segment and your ability to communicate. Count on an hour or so to research your chosen market segment and submit your application, but only 20 minutes for the telephone interview at the end of which we will make a hiring decision. That decision will be based mostly on your application. The good news is that everyone who applies our way gets a human from MegaChess to respond.

We offer a combination of a $10/hr hourly rate and a 10% sales commission. The hourly rate should be considered a bare-bones draw to help you get started. Most of your income should come from sales commissions, in fact, an inability to transition to significant sales commissions means we have a career mismatch. For a full-time marketeer, that should approach six figures per year, though we are happy to take on part-timers who can produce in proportion.

Q: Where did we get the $10/hr?

A: Basically, it's just a round number and simple to compute. What we do is assign sales & marketing tasks with a number of authorized hours for each task. We look at a 4-hour task as a $40 task. Since this is a teleworking job, we do not know nor care if that takes you 4 hours or 2 hours. If you take 8 hours because of an extended learning curve, you earn only $5/hr. If you complete the same task in an hour because of your experience and proficiency, you earn $40/hr — plus commission.

To proceed, please review our comprehensive specialty list to follow, what we call our target markets. This represents the market segment of existing MegaChess customers, but segments we have yet to develop with any outbound marketing. We can accept applications focused on only one specialization. We typically need only one person per specialty.

Our preference is that you use the above forms instead of email or phone.

Specialties marked with a star are our "Top 10". Those have particularly high market potential, but our hiring evaluation criteria for those is also high.