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If you are unemployed or stuck in a job that is not taking you where you want to go, this book is designed to get you fired up!

You may not think about it, but everyone sells. You sold yourself in a job interview, asking for a raise or someone out on a date.

This book is designed to highlight what a career in sales REALLY looks like and how you can land…

The Job Nobody Dreams Of!
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About the Author​

Bill Becker never dreamed of becoming a salesperson. He was determined to become either a veterinarian or radio disc jockey. Or a veterinarian who moonlights as a disc jockey. Or a disc jockey who saves animals. Alas! Life has its way of inserting itself into dreams making up its own reality. Instead, Bill joined his hometown radio station. To sell radio advertising.

After building a successful sales career in radio sales and IT, Bill retired. He now spends his time advocating for sales careers. After all, sales is the one field that offers great job opportunities regardless of past experience and education.

The Job Nobody Dreams Of doesn’t teach you HOW to sell, but rather WHY you should make sales your career choice. It’s a – “how to” – guide, offering real-life advice on landing your first sales job and being successful. In addition to Bill’s experience and advice, the book also features real-life stories of salespeople from a variety of industries. You’ll discover why they love sales and their advice on how to start your own sales career.

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About the Author

Bill Becker was just like everyone else growing up. He never dreamed of ever becoming a salesperson. His early years centered on his love of animals and music and becoming either a veterinarian or radio disc jockey. Instead Bill joined his hometown radio station to sell radio ads. Later on he took his sales skills and moved into the IT industry.

After working with dozens of individuals who were unemployed after 9/11 due to one of the worst economies in decades, it dawned on Bill that SALES was the one career field that offers great employment opportunities regardless of someone’s past experience.

The Job Nobody Dreams Of doesn’t teach you HOW to sell, rather WHY you should make sales your career choice. It’s a “how to” guide, offering real life advice on how to land your first sales job. In addition to Bill’s experience and tips, the book also features real life stories of sales people from a variety of industries. You’ll discover why they love sales and their advice on how to start your own sales career.

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Bill Shakespeare Was Right!

William Shakespeare said, “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” I have often said if I had a time machine, I would go back in time to the late 1500s to early 1600s and throat-punch Shakespeare for talking so weirdly. I went to too many school plays where I didn’t know what the hell they were saying…but I digress. The dude’s point is spot on; no one should not blame God or some other uncontrollable force for how their life turns out. You have a certain amount of power to make your life better. There are ways to work for a better future. And while it may be hard and sometimes feel impossible, if you want a perfect job for yourself, why not try to create it?
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The Sales Tactic Your Boss Hates

am not normally prone to BS headlines like I used for this post, but I wear my emotions on my sleeve and speak pretty plainly. One of the things I knew I would focus on when I retired was to evangelize about sales careers. The difference is that I was always going to focus on WHY someone should become a salesperson. I wasn’t going to focus on the HOW to sell.
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How Do You Like Me Now – Power of Negative Thinking

Country singer Toby Keith recently passed away. I remember watching the biography of country singer Toby Keith recently and was intrigued by the controversy of his song, "How Do You Like Me Now?" It's about a guy who couldn't get the attention of his dream girl in high school. The guy ultimately becomes rich and famous and the song is basically a declaration of "in your face girls!" There are all kinds of motivation...positive and negative.
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To Manifesto or Not

Many of you know about my homeless initiative...if not you can learn about it over at ConnectTheDots.cc. I've been working on my manifesto for over a year in a Google doc. The other day I was searching for that doc and typed "my manifesto" into what I thought was the Google Docs search bar. Turns out the search was in Google itself and I saw a bunch of items for writing your own manifesto. That got me thinking, if you are selling anything, a solution to the homeless problem a technology solution, or any product or service, it would be a great idea to develop a manifesto to guide you and explain to people what drives you.
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Be a Weirdo Make a Lot of Money

Tim Denning recently wrote an article titled, "If You Fit In, You Are Replaceable." It wasn't geared towards salespeople but it absolutely applies. Take my career for example. I started out selling radio advertising. I had spent the few years selling radio ads to traditional customers like car dealers and furniture stores. I wanted to separate myself from all the other radio salespeople, including the ones at my own station. So I figured out what kinds of businesses weren’t being targeted. I also wanted to do “direct response” advertising. 
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

That's the title of a post I did 15 years ago on a old Type Pad blog that I found is still active. Here's the crazy part, everything in that post is still relevant (I never went or go for fads in business). The post references an article in the Wall Street Journal about the overbuilding of warehouses in Phoenix. Ummmm.....there's a massive commercial real estate bubble happening right now. Take a look at the post below and see that the same opportunities in 2009 for creative sales people...
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