Arkansas woman finds joy in car sales, county town

“It’s a man’s world and I’ve been in it for 12 years.”
Cynthia Beyers said she was able to find her niche in the automotive industry with an outgoing personality, and her charming Southern accent doesn’t hurt either.
“I like meeting new people so it’s a fun job,” said Twin Motor’s newest sales consultant.  “I meet new people every day.
“I’d better or I won’t have a job,” she joked.
Being a saleswoman rather than a salesman also serves her well, enabling a better connection with female customers than her male coworkers might develop.
“When ladies come in and they see you, they think, ‘she’s different. She understands. She thinks like I do,’” Beyers said. “They really do like lady sales people.”
Beyers wasn’t always the one selling cars, she used to be the one working on them.
“I started in the service department, then went to the Internet department, then got into full sales,” she said, referring to a dealership in Arkansas. “I’ve done just about everything there is to do in a dealership – except 

financing.” 
Beyers is new to southeast Kansas, coming from Little Rock, Ark.
She found her way here through a friend who lives in Moran.
In addition to her job, Beyers is enjoying small town life.
“I’ve never lived in  a small town before so it’s very friendly. Everybody knows everybody,” she said. “I love it. In a big city nobody ever waves so I really like the hospitality here.”
With winter fast approaching, Beyers said she’s anxious to see more snow.
“I just saw snow a few days ago and that freaks me out,” she said. “In Arkansas, we get snow once a year — maybe. The last big one (blizzard) we got was in 2001 and maybe one other since then, and it always melts the very next day. So it’s exciting to me.”
Traveling in snow, however, is a different story, Beyers said.
“I can’t drive in that stuff, I like my brakes too much,” she said. “The next thing I’ll know, I’ll be off in a ditch somewhere.”
Aside from selling cars and thinking about winter weather, Beyers enjoys horseback and four-wheeler riding, reading and, above anything else, painting.
“Painting is my passion,” she said, so much that she once owned a flower, gift and novelty shop in Arkansas when her two children were still at home.
Although Beyers has since closed her shop, she continues to make, paint and sell various artistic creations – many of which are now on display in a booth at the newly opened square shop, The Market Place.