Ben Miller

Starting this mobile flooring showroom business in a new area, I was responsible for creating, maintaining, and growing a profitable business. Responsibilities: Sales first! Prospecting, meeting with clients, making the sale, scheduling the installation, and following up to make sure the customer was happy. Normal duties: Were supervising warehousing, installers, book keeping, advertising, meeting with sales reps of suppliers, inventory, and sales again. Annual sales $800,000

Starting this mobile flooring showroom business in a new area, I was responsible for creating, maintaining, and growing a profitable business. Responsibilities: Sales first! Prospecting, meeting with clients, making the sale, scheduling the installation, and following up to make sure the customer was happy. Normal duties: Were supervising warehousing, installers, book keeping, advertising, meeting with sales reps of suppliers, inventory, and sales again. Annual sales $1,200,000 +

• Grew business to over a million dollars in sales annually by myself.

Selecting location, upfitting building, and setting up showroom per franchise specifications. Hired, trained, and managed a staff of ten mixed between sales people, book keeper, and warehouse personal. Annual sales $3,000,000 +

• Top 10 fastest growing Prosource franchises (in a small metropolitan area) First year we made a profit. The following two years our sales and profits increased.

Moved back from Salt Lake City to turn reopen a struggling Carpet One store in Columbia owned by my now ex in-laws. Sales and managing a staff of two sales people and a book keeper. Annual sales $1,500,000

• Top sales man of the company. Manager of Forest Drive Location "I reopened that store and turned it into a profitable business"

Moving in to a brand new city, I was an inside sales person that was not happy just waiting for customers to walk in. I built my own clientel to add to my walk in showroom customers, which also grew through word of mouth as I always want my custmoers happy. During my off time I was out putting out flyers, knocking on doors and stopping by jobsites. During work hours, I was telephone marketing to builders, decorators,contractors, ect.

• Within the first three months of moving and working in a brand new city for a new company, I made the top 7 out of 50 sales people. ,(Private Sales Invite) With seven showrooms within the company, each showroom would have a private sale one out of seven months. Through rotation, the sales people of the showroom having the sale and the top two from the last private sale would work the sale. When I started, (the private sale happened to be at our showroom my first month) I never missed another private sale. I was always in the top two sales of the night and got the invite to the next.

This is where I began in the carpet business. Starting off working in the warehouse and eventually getting into sales in 1996. I started working on straight comission and have never worked a salary only job again.