What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inside Sales Closer & Event Rep — Base + Commission position at Automotive Lift Services?
Most companies hand you a cold list and wish you luck. We're handing you thousands of people who already know our name.
Ragsdale Brands is a growing family of companies — Automotive Lift Services, Ames Hydraulics, and more — and we're moving fast. We need one person who can do two things most people can't: work a phone until warm customers turn into booked deals, and work a room. Some weeks you'll be at fairs, shows, and big events, face-to-face with hundreds — sometimes thousands — of people in a single day, and your only job is to win them over. A sale, a lead, a lifelong fan of the brand — you go get it.
This isn't a "position." It's a launch pad. Here's exactly what the path looks like:
THE PATH TO $100k :
- Start at $16/hr base — a real wage you can live on while you learn.
- Do the job at a solid pace and commission puts you at roughly $30/hr — about $62k a year.
- Get great at it: our top closers clear $85k.
- When you're doing $85k, you've proven you can sell AND run things. That's exactly who we promote to run a branch — and branch operators here clear $100k with profit share.
- There's no ceiling. We're building this to go public, and we pay the people who build it with us like owners.
WHO WINS HERE (the profile):
- Rejection doesn't sting you. You've been told "no" a thousand times, and you dial number 1,001.
- Asking for the sale feels natural — not pushy, just what you do.
- Talking to people all day energizes you instead of draining you.
- You're money-motivated and honest about it.
- You're consistent. You do the reps whether or not anyone's watching.
- You take great notes. You remember what a customer told you three weeks ago.
- People LIKE talking to you. You're direct, but you're not a jerk.
- You're smart — we sell complex equipment to experienced buyers, and you have to actually know your stuff.
- Good with basic math and quick with numbers.
- Valid driver's license.
- Pig-headed discipline: when there's a warm list, you call it hundreds of times. When there's not, you cold call all day. When it takes nights and weekends to hit the number, you work nights and weekends.
THE SEASON OF LIFE THIS FITS BEST:
- You've got the time, the freedom, and the ambition to go all-in. Nights and weekends aren't a dealbreaker — they're how you get to $100k faster.
- You're in the learning phase — no career locked in yet, and you're looking for one worth building. You'd rather step into whatever needs solving that week than hide behind a job description. You go where the company needs someone.
- Big ambitions, few excuses.
PLEASE DON'T APPLY IF:
- The phone makes you nervous and follow-up is "someone else's job."
- You need a script babysitter checking on you at 2pm.
- You want a quiet, predictable 9-to-5 where nobody gets fired and your numbers don't matter.
- You want to punch a clock and go home.
We work with the kind of dealer groups and shops you'd recognize — national names like Lithia, Midas, Car-X, and Caliber — alongside hundreds of independent shops across the country. The leads are real. The customers are real. We just need a closer.
Led by Founder/COO Josiah Ragsdale. In person, Ames IA. Send your resume to info@autoliftserv.com or apply on indeed.
Pay: $37,440.00 - $85,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Mileage reimbursement
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person
Salary : $37,440 - $85,000