{"id":9113,"date":"2014-06-06T08:32:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2014-06-27T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T19:05:07","slug":"camosun-grad-co-founds-unique-sales-outsourcing-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/06\/06\/camosun-grad-co-founds-unique-sales-outsourcing-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun grad co-founds unique sales outsourcing firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like everything in the business world that can be outsourced has been outsourced. But a Camosun grad has started up a new company to help local businesses outsource something new: their sales needs.<\/p>\n

Camosun grad Matt Vaillant and UVic grad Alistair Vigier partnered to form Alpha Sales in April of this year and already have Fotoprint, LimeSpot, and Royal Victoria Security on their client list.<\/p>\n

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Alpha Sales’ Alistair Vigier (left) and Matt Vaillant, a Camosun grad (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cA company can hire Alpha Sales to manage their entire sales process\u2014from first contact to closing the sale\u2014or they can hire us to carry out one sales task, such as lead generation,\u201d explains Vaillant. \u201cIt gives companies a sales team without the time and money to make sales staff employees of the company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vaillant graduated in April with a BBA in Marketing Communications Management from Camosun, while Alistair got his BA in Psychology at UVic. Vaillant says his time with Camosun was very helpful as far as getting the business up and running.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy time with Camosun was great,\u201d he says. \u201cI learned about all aspects of the marketing process and how to build a brand. Also, the classes I took outside of the Marketing department helped during the initial planning process, as well as with the day-to-day management.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Alpha Sales almost didn\u2019t happen, as Vigier was once in the Canadian Forces until he was released due to a \u201cfriendly fire accident,\u201d according to a press release (\u201cUnfortunately, it\u2019s not something that Alistair can discuss details about,\u201d says Vaillant). Now out of the forces, Vigier can focus on building the business with Vaillant; the two hope to establish the company locally, then \u201creplicate it in larger cities,\u201d says Vaillant. If it does end up spreading, it\u2019s proof that there\u2019s always something else new to outsource.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea really stemmed from the fact that companies already outsource so many business activities, such as manufacturing, marketing, graphic design, telemarketing, call centres, and technical support,\u201d says Vaillant. \u201cSales is an area that can have higher turnover than some other areas, and bad hires cost companies a lot of money. By outsourcing the sales needs, Alpha Sales shoulders that risk and also saves companies money through not having to pay benefits and other employee costs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like everything in the business world that can be outsourced has been outsourced. But a Camosun grad has started up a new company to help local businesses outsource something new: their sales needs. Camosun grad Matt Vaillant and UVic grad Alistair Vigier partnered to form Alpha Sales in April of this year and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-june-11-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9154,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions\/9154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}