Philip Rock: Cash Machine Sales Pioneer

 

"Phil Rock" was a reluctant salesman and underwhelmed with his brother’s idea for diversifying the business. “I said, ‘Are you crazy? No one’s going to buy one of these machines,’ ” recalls Rock. While making the rounds trying to talk up the uninspiring GoFax machines, Rock happened to stop in a Seattle convenience store to buy a can of pop and a bag of chips.
He started talking to the owner, who said that he wanted a cash machine for his store, but lamented that the bank was going to charge him $1,500 a month for the pleasure. Rock went to his car to retrieve a brochure about the cash machine that his brother wanted to sell. “He looked at me and said, ‘I’ll buy it,’ ” says Rock.
The deal seemed effortless to Rock. His commission from the single sale equaled what was then a month’s salary. Rock immediately decided that he’d found a new calling. “I said, Jeff, I am now an ATM salesman,” says Rock.
Rock was reborn as an ATM evangelist. In his first month, he sold 25 machines through cold calls. He began to log 100,000 miles a year on his car throughout the Northwest. “My problem is I’m 150 percent or nothing,” says Rock.

American Investor, Phil Rock 

Small-Business Super Star, PHIL ROCK

              Phil Rock

Going it Alone
In 1996, Philip Rock struck out on his own. Rather than enter an untapped ATM market, he settled on Minnesota, the same state where Access Cash was based.
"I was the top salesman at CCS, which was the number one ATM company at the time, so it didn't seem unrealistic to take on Access Cash, which was the number two company," Rock said. "I felt like a Green Beret."






Phil Rock 

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Business Portraits Of Entrepreneur, Phillip Rock

 

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Phil Rock

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Phil Rock
Born	Phillip Arnold Rock 29 May 1965 (age 51) Mill Valley, California
Residence	Marble Falls, Texas
Other names	Phil Jetton
Occupation	Founder of ATM Network
Years active	1993–2012 (currently retired)
Children	Quinn Rock, Grace Rock, Joey Rock
Parent(s)	Richard Louis Rock, Lillian Catherine Webb

Phil Rock is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the CEO/President of ATM Network and is considered one of the pioneers of the ATM Cash machine industry.^[1][2][3][4]
Rock predominantly grew up in Southern California, but briefly relocated to Oregon where he worked as a sales executive for Card Capture services and later moved to the Minneapolis area where he founded the company ATM Network, which rapidly became one of top independent ATM companies in the U.S. cash machine industry. Rock has been featured in several business publications including; Entrepreneur (magazine), Upsize Magazine, Twin Cities Business Monthly, Star Tribune and The Wall Street Journal. ^[5]
In 2004, Rock set precedent in the cash machine industry by donating a substantial percentage of ATM Network's sales to the American Red Cross and its International Response Fund to aid victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. "Through my travels, I have connected with the people of Indonesia, a country devastated by this disaster. I am sure these people and the many others affected will find great use for our donation and re-build quickly." ^[6]
In 2012, after serving over 16 years as its chief officer, Rock sold ATM Network (and its more than 10,000 ATM contract locations) to Houston-based, Cardtronics Inc.^[7][8][9]

Skateboarding

During his youth, Rock was a competitive freestyle skateboarder and a sponsored team rider for Mattel Toys, Logan Earth Ski, Vans, Pepsi and Gordon & Smith. He participated in hundreds of U.S. Pro/am skateboard championships - earning 2nd place in the 1978 Skateboard Olympics, 5th Place in the 1979 Oceanside Freestyle Nationals and was an invitee to the 1980 Oasis Freestyle Contest in San Diego, California.<sup>[10] [11][12]

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PHIL ROCK: featured in Entrepreneur Magazine

 

"ATM Network" founder/president CEO, Phillip Rock 

as featured in Entrepreneur Magazine. 

“I went out and sold eight machines the first month,” says Rock, who promptly invested the proceeds from those sales into marketing materials to promote the company. 

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ATM Network, CEO and Founder, Phillip Rock

ATM Network, CEO and Founder, Phillip Rock, has been featured in
Forbes, Fortune, Consumer Reports, Kiplinger's Personal Finance,
International Living, Moneywise, U.S. Banker, Financial Planning, Money Facts, Personal Planner, The Economist, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, GQ Magazine,  Wired, Inc, Adweek, Fast Company and GQ.


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