Earlier this week, we conducted our first webinar for Southwestern Company alumni. We received great response from our alumni. I enjoyed hearing from alumni excited to hear Dan Moore’s pearls of wisdom on Southwestern success principles. Three minutes before the webinar started, I was taken back to my first day on the bookfield. Despite having trained [...]
Happy July, everyone — time for some great news from Southwestern, and to say thank you to everyone. We are all so busy in our day-to-day tasks, yet it is important to take a moment to pause and re-acknowledge the truly great thing that is happening all across America and Canada this summer. It is one [...]
Most Thursdays during Southwestern’s sales school weeks I have the privilege of taking photos at Southwestern’s President’s Club dinner. The students who earn the right to attend the dinner have met either the sales or the recruiting requirements and are the top of the top of Southwestern students. On their last night of sales [...]
An article titled “The Key to good interviews: practice” was recently posted in the Boston Globe. The article centers around answering the question, What can I do to improve my interview skills? After months of networking, I am finally getting interviews and I can’t afford to mess up these chances to get a job. I’ve [...]
Fifteen years ago this month I made the decision to sell books with Southwestern. I vividly remember sitting in a classroom in Otto Olson at the University of Nebraska at Kearney absorbing all Curtis Rogers had to say about the opportunity. As Curtis wrote the list of advantages on the board: experience, money, travel… the [...]
Though she has been officially off of the Southwestern bookfield for nearly 5 years, Haley Price is still selling books. Only now, she’s written and illustrated the books that she’s selling. She is the author and illustrator of Today is the Best Day of My Life. This book contains bite-sized life principles, presented in a [...]
The Southwestern family is saddened by the loss of former bookfield great, District Sales Manager, and Director of Sales Larry Beckham, taken by cancer this past Friday morning in Houston, TX. He is survived by his wife, Shelly, and children Abigail Renee of Houston; Lesli Beckham Douglass of Knoxville, TN; William Zachary Beckham of Denver, CO; [...]
I am very proud to work at Southwestern and stand behind the principles we strive to develop in young people. This fall, I had the pleasure of working ”check out” for a couple of weeks. Every year I really enjoy getting the chance to see the students as they finalize their Southwestern summer. Every bookperson can recall how crazy big [...]
I truly treasure the life lessons I learned on the bookfield. My mentors at the Southwestern Company inspire me by not only the lessons they teach, but also the way they live their lives. One of the simpliest and greatest lessons that I learned and observed was to “do what you say you are going to do”. This [...]
Shayne sold books with the Southwestern Company from 2001-2006. He is a member of Southwestern’s Wall of Greats and is currently a Career Counselor with Southwestern Career Services. Breaking News: Our economy is in a recession, and that this is the worst job market in the last 60 years. Ha! Okay, so everyone with access [...]
