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Stephen Welker

Bloomfield,MO

Summary

Outgoing Sales professional with strong interpersonal skills and expertise building rapport with clients. Excellent product knowledge and negotiation skills. Hit sales margin throughout my career from 1985 to present. Self-motivated sales leader with expertise in the power sport industry. With a 38-year background in sales positions.

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Effective at building and maintaining loyal customer base to maintain consistent revenue streams.

And I have confirmed 11 dealers so far that will follow me to Automatic and they generated roughly

$400,000 in business at WPS. Passionate Independent Sales Representative with solid 38-year history of successfully selling power sport products to dealers. Recognized for building strong relationships. Offering exceptional persuasion skills, resulting in closing deals and overcoming objections.

Overview

39
39
years of professional experience

Work History

Independent Sales Representative

WPS Distribution
Bloomfield, MO
11.2014 - 03.2024
  • Going from 125 dealers at Marshall, then having them taken away leaving me with only 8 dealers when WPS acquired the company, I built my customer base back up by having built relationships and trust with dealers in the past that were never set up with WPS.
  • Listened to customer needs to identify and recommend best products and services.
  • Maintained relationships with existing customers to ensure customer loyalty.

Phone Sales Representative

Marshalls Distribution
Bloomfield, MO
11.2005 - 11.2014
  • Developed relationships and trust with customers in order to increase sales opportunities.
  • Once you earned customer trust then you could work for them making them money and at the end of the day you're a Hero instead of a Zero in the customers' eyes
  • Upsold additional products or services when applicable during phone calls.

Phone Sales Representative

Motorcycle Stuff
Cape Girardeau, MO
08.1985 - 11.2005
  • Started building relationships and trust then started selling them product
  • Generated leads through cold calling potential clients.
  • Participated in trade shows and conventions to generate leads.
  • Took inbound calls on headset, promoting products and services to secure new accounts.

Education

High School Diploma -

Jackson R2
Jackson, MO
05-1985

Skills

  • Business growth and retention
  • Lead prospecting
  • Brand Promotion
  • Referral Generation

Timeline

Independent Sales Representative

WPS Distribution
11.2014 - 03.2024

Phone Sales Representative

Marshalls Distribution
11.2005 - 11.2014

Phone Sales Representative

Motorcycle Stuff
08.1985 - 11.2005

High School Diploma -

Jackson R2
Stephen Welker