Sales Intern in Dallas: Run a Live Pipeline

We are looking for a sales intern in Dallas to sit beside our Head of Sales and work the top of the funnel. The job: find owners who have the problems Coleman Management Advisors solves, open honest conversations with them, and book the ones who fit onto the founder’s calendar.

No role-play and no scripts read back to a trainer. These are live prospects from day one. Everything formal lives in the sales intern job description.

What the sales internship in Dallas involves

Our clients are founders and owners who need a plan written, capital raised, operations run by a fractional COO, or systems built so the business can grow. Most companies do not need that, and pretending otherwise wastes everyone’s time. So the sales seat is really a sorting seat: find the owners we can genuinely help, and do it fast.

A typical week covers seven things:

• Make cold calls to owner-led businesses that match our ideal client.
• Work hot leads the same day they come in from the website, referrals and events.
• Answer email leads and follow up with messages written for each business, not a template blast.
• Meet owners in person around Dallas-Fort Worth: drop-ins, networking events and follow-up visits.
• Qualify fit and book intro calls with the founder, Dallas Coleman.
• Keep the pipeline current in our client portal, with a next step and a date on every deal.
• Bring your numbers to the weekly pipeline review with our Head of Sales.

How we sell

We do not pitch. Our intro calls are thirty minutes with no sales presentation, and the promise is a straight read on where an owner stands, even when the answer is that they do not need us. The sales intern carries that same standard into every first conversation. Saying “we are not the right fit” early is part of the job, and it is why the owners who do hire us trust us.

It also means you will learn more than a script. You will learn how owner-led businesses actually run, what makes a business plan fundable, and how a consulting engagement gets scoped and priced in writing.

Who does well in this seat

Years on a resume matter less to us than proof. The strongest applicants have moved people to a decision before, whether that was closing deals, booking meetings for a business, recruiting candidates or raising money for a cause, and can tell us exactly how it went: who they reached, what they said, and what happened next.

Beyond that, you will need to be at ease talking to business owners by phone and face to face, including calls and visits they did not expect, and steady enough to hear no many times without losing your curiosity. Owners notice sloppy emails, so your spoken and written English has to be fluent and clean. And a pipeline is only as good as its records, so you keep notes in a CRM or spreadsheet and never let a follow-up slip.

A background in business or communications helps. So does having sold to business owners before, or having worked in HubSpot or Salesforce. We serve clients in English and Spanish, so Spanish is a real plus.

The terms, plainly

The role pays a base of $10 to $15 an hour, set by experience, plus commission on the business you bring in, with no cap. You work as an independent contractor, invoiced on a 1099, and the commission terms are written into your contractor agreement. Expect 15 to 20 hours a week, scheduled by you around the calls, visits and follow-ups you owe that week. The seat is in person: you will be out meeting owners around DFW and in our Pacific Avenue office downtown at least two days a week, so you need a reliable way to get around. We take remote applications for the right candidate too, and that person does the same face-to-face work in their own local market. And if you build real pipeline, you will be first in line when a full-time sales seat opens, though we will not pretend that is guaranteed.

Your first pitch is the application

Treat the application the way you would treat a first outreach message: specific, short and about the reader. Pick the sales role, attach a resume or your LinkedIn, and use the written answers to walk us through one result you are proud of. Every application gets read. The good ones lead to a quick Teams call, then a conversation with Dallas. Apply only through that form. Applications sent by email, through the booking link, or by phone call will be ignored and discarded.

Torn between the two roles? Take the quiz on the careers page, or read about the marketing internship we are hiring for at the same time.