| 1969 - 1971 |
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Sales manager at two food and beverage stands located inside the Six Flags Over Texas amusement park. These locations experienced a 40% sales increase over the year before (highest increases for all stands in the chain).
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| 1972 |
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| Part-time sales associate at Cullum & Boren sporting goods. While there, set a company sales record by selling 63 ping pong tables in one month. Also sold retail clothing on a part-time basis for J. Riggings Inc., earning over $1200 monthly in commissions (highest monthly compensation of all part-time sales associates). |
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| 1973 |
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Hired as a sales representative by Royal Typewriter Company. Sold 59 copiers in a ten-month period (ranked as #10 salesman for entire company of 400 reps).
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| 1974 |
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Hired by Howard Sales, the Dallas distributor of Dymo pricing guns. Led company in total unit and label sales (achieved 169.5% of quota the first quarter on board).
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| 1975 |
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| Hired by Masonite Corporation. Youngest sales representative ever hired. Improved Ft. Worth territories hardboard siding sales by 311% during first year. Improved the same territory sales by 290% over that figure during second year (both percentages were the highest among the 300 US sales reps). |
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| 1976 |
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Successfully completed Xerox PSS1 and PSS2 training schools (Professional Sales Schools).
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| 1978 - 1982 |
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| Sold over $7,000,000 dollars of used Caterpillar road machinery for Sanders Equipment Company (owned by father, Rex A. Sanders). |
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| 1982 |
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Began selling promotional products on a part-time basis. Six months later, started Don Sanders Advertising Specialties.
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| 1985 |
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| Company reaches $180,000 in promotional products sales. |
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| 1990 |
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| Company reaches $300,000 in promotional products sales. |
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| 1994 |
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| Company reaches $465,000 in promotional products sales. |
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| 1995 |
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Awarded PPAI Silver Pyramid Award for self-promotion programs. The self marketing campaign led to a 25% increase in sales from the previous year.
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| 1996 |
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| Company reaches $675,000 in promotional products sales. This year sees the largest single sale in company history (more than $85,000 worth of embroidered jackets for the Arlington, TX General Motors plant). |
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| 1998 |
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| Company reaches $800,000 in promotional products sales! |
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| 2000 |
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| Awarded PPAI Golden Pyramid in Business to Business competition. Campaign designed by the Sanders garnered over 250 media placements for the authors of The American Drive-in Movie Theatre, including appearances on "Good Morning, America," NBC "Nightly News," National Public Radio, CNN, and interviews/reviews in Motor Trend, Playboy, USA Today, and The New York Times. |
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| 2002 - 2007 |
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| Don Sanders Marketing, a D-4 distributorship, continues in business, while also creating and maintaining this website. |
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