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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. It was June of 2008. I pitched it to my manager at the time, Steve Carmody, who is my Regional Sales Manager. This was from 2008 to 2014. It doesn't matter how well-trained the sales team is or how good the evidence and the economics are. What year was this? Click To Tweet.

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

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I graduated in 2008. We all know what the markets were doing in 2008. I have sales experience. I had the formal training from pharma on advertising perspective, and then my grassroots selling at Sears allowed me to build an exceptional resume leading up to my senior year. That’s unheard of. Let’s give an example of that.

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