Vector Marketing Success Story:
Dan Deckard

Making money is nice, but when you can get a job that really teaches you something to carry into the future you’re a real winner. Dan Deckard believes he scored big in that department when he became a Vector sales rep.

Today he works in the Information Technology (IT) Department for Volvo and Land Rover in Dearborn, Mich., but for three years in the late 1990s Dan worked as a sales rep and assistant manager for Vector Marketing.

Initially, he said, it was money that motivated him to answer a Vector classified ad when he was 19. But soon he realized that the rewards of the job were much bigger than the paycheck. He was excited that the skills he was learning were building him as person.

“At first, I wanted to earn as much money as I could,” he said. “But then I saw that there was a lot more to it and now I would say that money is the least important as far as the values I got out of that job.”

Gaining financial discipline, goal setting, time management and communication skills ended up being more valuable to him than the money he made. He said that he wouldn’t be as organized, confident and grounded as he is today if it wasn’t for his Vector experience.

In passing that wisdom along to new reps, he urges them to capitalize on the learning opportunities before them. More experienced reps and managers are a wealth of knowledge and are eager to guide newer reps along their path to success. The more you learn the better off you’ll be.

“Money can be spent but nobody can ever take those skills away from you,” he said. “What I learned are skills that I’ll use for a lifetime.”