John Chapin ( completeselling ), group Administrator With over 21 years of sales experience, John has sold in three industries where he was the #1 sales rep in two and in the top 1% in the third. Prior to starting Complete Selling Inc., John sold bank equipment for Diebold, Inc. where he became the top salesperson in New England during his first year. John also spoke about his sales success at both semi-annual and annual sales meetings.
Prior to Diebold, John worked for Micro Arc Welding Company where he took a three year-old, non-profitable branch of the business, which was only in two States at the time, and made it profitable within four months. He expanded the business to 48 States and five continents within two years and through expansion of the one branch, doubled total company revenues by using simple sales tools such as telemarketing and print ads.
John started his sales career as a stock broker at age of 21, and one month later the stock market fell 22% in one day. John thrived in this tough market and went on to become the youngest branch manager for a national brokerage firm. And while still managing his own accounts, he brought the branch from a ranking of 46th out of 52 to 11th.
While at Micro Arc, John secured accounts with companies such as Levis, Lee Jeans, and Fruit of the Loom.
John is also an award winning public speaker, among his accomplishments, he was voted the 2nd best speaker out of 127 Toastmasters Clubs in Massachusetts.
John has a BA from UMASS Amherst.
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