Rick Tally, President of Phoenix Components LLC, has successfully completed his second year of a three-year executive education program to earn the designation Certified Professional Manufacturers’ Representative (CPMR). To become a CPMR, three annual sessions of on-campus classes at Arizona State University totaling 24 classroom hours each year, must be completed.

“Reps are the very best of the sales profession and those certified with the CPMR designation are the elite among reps.” – Dr. McQuiston, CSP

“It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little.  When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all.  When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

 The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it cannot be done.  If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run; and if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.”