Over 60s Boost Sales Revenue
August 20th, 2009 by admin
It is not just McDonald’s that has noticed the positive revenue benefits that the over 60s bring to an organisation - Avanquest can backup their findings.
Solution salesmen Graham Botterill and Graham Robinson, both over 60, were recently given two of the top sales achievement awards, beating the efforts of their younger colleagues. Between them they have 80 years of experience in computing and sales.
Graham Botterill achieved the Highest Sales Award for his personal contribution to overall sales.
Graham Botterill summarises his career in IT – “I started working with computers in the late 1960s. The first machine I programmed filled a room, had 1 kilobyte of memory and was laughingly described as a mini-computer.
From this BASIC (actually machine code) beginning, I zig-zagged my way up to the dizzy heights of project manager with a certain health insurance company. When they began haemorrhaging staff in 1993, Chris Thompson, the now Managing Director of Avanquest Solutions, was kind enough to facilitate a move into the murky world of sales. He sold me as an indentured servant to European Printing Systems, which evolved to eventually become part of Avanquest UK.”
