A business agent is a person or a company that, through market knowledge, contacts or anything else, can help another business develop their sales.This can be done on a structured or occasional basis.
An agent can take the form of a student, a business, an employee, pensioner or even a jobseeker...
He/She/It
- does not necessarily know the job at hand but has connections within a possible distribution channel,
- can be next door, at the other end of the earth and anywhere in between,
- can have a real experience in sales or other knowledge or networks,
- wants to continue working on a small scale after retiring,
- wants to start in a sales environment,