Those were glorious days, but also days of hard work and extremeliy long working hours.Īt the tipping point of dot.com he was offered to sell his company to a leading telecom operator, but turned down the request even before the final negotiations started. At that time, the company he worked for was listed on the stock exchange in Oslo (Enitel ASA). It’s estimated that he sold telecom agreements to businesses at an annual value of over 380 million NOK (US$ 50 mill). Suddenly his small team of 2-3 had grown to 70 commission based agents in Norway alone. Sales went from 10 million NOK to 20, then 40 and then a lot more. The management of his company couldn’t believe that he was able to obtain an order for such a big client, but selling came natural for Carlsen!įrom then on it seemed as if only the sky was the limit. He landed the agreement, his first private limited company was established, and his first customer was the Bank of Norway in Trondheim. This was the time before it was accepted to be so young in IT entrepreneurship, the start of what we later have known as the dot.com period,” says Carlsen, at that time drinking coffee just to blend in with the adult business people. “I have always looked a couple of years older than I am, and I remember that I was so afraid that they would get the knowledge about my real age. ”It was so cold in the snowy winter sometimes, that you felt as happy coming in as getting the sale’s itself,” says Rudi.Īt age twenty one, Carlsen bought his first suit for a negotiating meeting for a distribution position at one of the largest cellular phone companies in Scandinavia (Telia Norge, that later become Enitel ASA in Norway).
Once again he proved his success, advancing to assistant sales manager. Soon he learned to put in long hours, often working 12 hours per day. Starting the day with a rucksack and six phones that combined network operation subscriptions and a daily sales goal, he also knocked on doors if sales goal were not reached by 4pm. Īfter his part time telemarketing job, he started his first company as an independent agent selling cell phones on the streets of Trondheim, Norway. Today, at age thirty seven, Carlsen is among the best mobile application system (DIY platform) creators in the world. He quickly became one of the company’s best salesmen, selling a still standing record with 69 memberships in four hours. Instead he started selling memberships at a car rescue company in Oslo. The following year he started working as a part time sales representative, before planning to pick up on his studying again.
Rudi Carlsen of Porsgrunn, Norway, was seventeen years old when he joined his military service with the signature from him mom.
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