Hey there ho there,
My name is Mike and I currently run a game development outsourcing/service company called Bitfold. Our company has several studios in the Ukraine/Russia who have been doing various game development outsourcing & services for years now and our suite of game/MMO engine technologies & game development competencies is excellent. We're gearing up for a big business development push to get our services & technologies greater exposure to the industry and sign up more clients that would have their business needs met by our services.
That issue is however, that we're finding it a challenge to find game industry salespeople & business development personell. Good sales oriented people who can either understand game client needs and sell a solution that solves them OR build a sales team that can do so are immensley valuable to our kind of business. The problem is - is that they are also quite hard to find.
So let me ask a few things:
Firstly, a shameless plug: Does anyone here have any leads to good salespeople or sales-oriented people in the industry? If you know or are one of these people, there's a very good opportunity to profit and do interesting work in an entrepreneurial environment here. Feel free to reply or PM if you are or know anybody who'd be interested in this.
Secondly, has anyone else been running a business development effort for an awesome product/service but also had trouble finding good sales-oriented people? If so, what are your suggestions on where to look & what to do to find them?
Any lively discussion that anyone would like to contribute is most welcome. Any inquiries from people looking to jump on this opportunity are also most welcome.
Cheers all.
P.S. Here's a bit of Eye Candy from game based on our 2D/3D engines:
3D Virtual World
[IMG]http://www.bitfold.net/hexwarz/Photos/Smootsy Outside MMO small.jpg[/IMG]
That Controversial Left-Behind Game:
[IMG]http://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/Faithfulamerica/eternalforces2.jpg[/IMG]
Our In-House Browser Based MMO
[IMG]http://www.bitfold.net/hexwarz/Photos/2008_09_19_scr05.jpg[/IMG]
