Highlights of my sales career:
- Red Wheel Pizza Sales while fundraising for my 4-H Club
- Cashier at the local hardware and farm supply store during High School
- In college sold old, non-moving, space-intensive inventory on eBay for my technology impaired boss
- Having a date to prom both Junior and Senior year (a true sales job, I’m talking ketchup popsicles to white gloves)
This body of words below obviously does not come from a
trained, professional sales person. But
I do consider myself a student of the sales experience. I’ve been on the buyer’s side of the table
both as an individual and in business to business for products/industries
including group health insurance, P&C and liability insurance, IT,
retirement plans, automobiles, livestock, housing and many more. From big dollars to small dollars, I love the
process of buying and selling things and thinking about why people buy and how
people sell. So from one young
professional to another, use this insight for whatever it’s worth… even if
that’s the “circular file,” I’m okay with that.