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Capital Equipment King To Medrep Meeting CEO With Peter Skidmore Part 1

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I like med sales. One month or one quarter into college in 2007, I realized that I could make more money than all of my brother’s friends that graduated from college by selling cell phones. I hopped into it in 2007, ’08, and ‘09 when the market crashed but everybody had a cell phone. You guys went the college route.

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Pharma Sales To Med Device CEO: The Jeff Smith Story Part 2

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It was 2007 and 2008. If you tune in to every one of our episodes and you’re looking to get into the medical sales industry, you’re ready to make that career change. McCormack , who had been my customer that is a spine surgeon in San Francisco, calls me out of the blue and was like, “I want to tell you about an idea.”

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Enterprising Yourself At The Top Of The Spine Distributorship Game With Daniel Tighe

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This is 2007. By the time I got into it, which I graduated in ‘22, I got my first job in medical sales by 26. Like a lot of people, they don’t quite know pharmaceutical or medical sales. The thing they went back to was sales experience and playing college sports. Back then, I was the youngest person.

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Deep Career Insights And A Side Of Orthopedics With Eric Ford Part 1

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I have sales experience. My first formal job was as a sales associate at Sears. In October of 2007, I had a former offer from Johnson & Johnson, and it was a leadership development program. You started in 2007. They were saying the sales rep was dead. We all know what the markets were doing in 2008.

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What MMA, Telecommunications & Spine Have In Common With Chandler nd Evan

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” Coming from an athletic background and having that competitive drive, I gravitated toward sales. I knew I needed to get some sales experience, so I went, and my first sales job was selling credit repair in Boston, Massachusetts, but I was living in Denver. He won a silver medal in the 2007 Olympics in wrestling.