BILL BETHEL

Bill has been in resort sales for 35 years. After graduating from Arkansas State University in 1966, Bill served in the Army in Military Intelligence. After discharge, he worked for International Harvester and later for Atlantic Richfield Oil Company.

In 1972, he went to work for Wyndham-Fairfield at Wyndham-Fairfield Glade. At the time, Wyndham-Fairfield was a developer of resort, retirement communities with two resorts, Wyndham-Fairfield Bay and Glade. Around 1979, the company decided to try this new thing called timeshare. Because very few people had ever heard of timeshare, Bill and five other Wyndham-Fairfield salespeople took off for Sanibel Island, Florida, and begged the developer of Sanibel Beach Club for a job to learn as much as possible about this mysterious new concept.

As luck would have it, the developer was Keith Trobridge, often referred to as "The Grandfather" of timesharing. Not only were they hired, "The Tennessee" guys were privileged to attend one of the first formal training programs in the timeshare industry ,called Interval College.

In 1982, Bill resigned from Wyndham-Fairfield, went home to Arkansas and developed two resorts from the ground up, The Wharf, and SunBay, both on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs. He bought the property, designed the buildings, bought the furniture, hired and trained the sales force, designed and implemented innovative marketing programs that produced thousands of qualified prospects and millions of dollars in sales. Bill took over a third resort on Lake Hamilton, Southshore, after the original developer suffered severe health problems.

The Wharf (and later Sunbay) were wildly successful from the beginning. A projected four year sellout at The Wharf was accomplished in in just two years. In the first three years at SunBay, SunBay was ranked in the top 10 resorts in sales in the entire worldwide network of  Interval International  affiliated resorts.

Because of the astounding success of the Wharf and SunBay, Bill started a consulting company and did start ups and sales training for many new developers around the United States.

Bill retired, got bored, and realizing the biggest need in the Timeshare industry was a resale company that did it the right way. Although he had his own ideas on resale, he went to work for a large well known "Name Brand" Resale company to see how other people were doing it. He learned very quickly how not to do it (about 2 weeks). Bill started a small company in 1990 that originally only handled sales at the resorts he developed in Hot Springs.

He sold that business and founded Discount Timeshare Resale in 2001 to specialize in Wyndham-Fairfield, Bluegreen, Wyndham-Worldmark and all other Branson Timeshare Resorts.

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