![]() I even worked on projects and booked audio post sessions with Jim Baldree, Howard Pfeifer. Turned out to be a great thing as I worked instead at Sony Music, Westlake Audio, Music Animals, Lion’s Share Studios, and I rose from assistant engineer to studio manager in record time because I had professional sales and marketing experinece. and I decided to go to Los Angeles and I started packing and driving but learned half way across the country that the gig was filled before I got their. I received job offers from Atlantic Records in New Your City, and big studios in Nashville, then an invite from guitar legend Steve Vai’s company in LA to work in their Pro Audio Rental company. Since that time I have gone on to work in the music business which I love! I did leave AT&T and chose to go back to the music, but with a better chance to pay rent… I put myself through the top recording engineering program of it’s time in the late 1980’s, and finished #1 in my class. That they would never fire anyone who could sell three times the established quota, but I learned a valuable lesson that I am proud of I lied, and that’s not O.K. Intellectually I knew it was all good no matter what. I wanted to leave the company, and go do something else, anything else. “This bothered me so much that I began to sabotage my own career. He said he had a college degree, and the truth is he had many college classes, even with good grades, but no degree.Įven though Taylor had easily proved his value to the company as a sales pro he knew that his integrity was never going to be right… He won AT&T’s “Best of the Best Award” his first year with 354% of quota booked and paid! He was thrilled, but he still felt like a fake, and he still held far too much fear because he had been dishonest in his interview, and he always thought he would get caught. Taylor applied the lessons from some of the smartest and best known trainers on the planet, trust me I say that AT&T hired the best and because he was so nervous he just stayed in his cubical and literally out dialed everyone. This was the ground floor opportunity that made it all possible. How is this possible? This was his introduction into the business world. But he listened well, he learned, and he applied what they taught, and he sold business telephone systems, fax machines, and computer systems he could barely spell, and he knew very little about them. Just two weeks earlier he was a long haired guitar player in a band that only did a few cover tunes because the whole band was just getting started. To say he was nervous would not really be enough depth! He was terrified, and felt like a complete fake. Now, he needed to be trained and start selling ASAP. ![]() Remember, they needed hundreds after the big split was done! Long story short… He got the job! To be ready, she encouraged him to read the current bestselling book on selling skills from Tom Hopkins as all of the hiring corporate managers were reading it at that time as well, she explained that knowing what was in this book, and applying it in the interviews should help to secure the job. ![]() She told Scott to cut his long hair, go buy a great suite and apply for a sales job to earn much more money than ever before. Taylor’s older sister had been hired weeks earlier and was doing amazing business. They not only needed a new name in May of 1983, they also needed hundreds of new sales people to sell their advanced business systems. It took that name after they were sued and lost the name they wanted, which was American Bell. broke up the world’s largest company because it had become a Monster Monopoly! Suddenly, the great AT&T had been split into several smaller competing companies, and one of them was called AT&T Information Systems. EXCUSE OUR DUST… THIS PAGE IS GIVING US HELL!!! ![]()
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