Debbie Purdon

• Provide product knowledge, features and benefits to help inform guests purchase decisions
• Meet or exceed sales and productivity goals
• Ensure stock availability
• Enter sales orders and take payments
• Manage open orders and delivery timelines
• Able to create, design and coordinate attractive room settings
• Well organized ability to follow through tasks to completion
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Experienced with MS office products, proficient with in house computer programs and technology
• Work with management team to ensure day to day operation procedures are followed
• Customer service
• Maintain standards and cleanliness of the store
• mentor and coach new team members

• Sales in all areas of the store with the focus on furniture and mattresses
• building a strong repeat client base
• working as a team member to help the store achieve the monthly goals in sales and add ons
• Achieved Presidents Club delivering over $800,000 a year

• Sales in all areas of the store,responsible for the sales from beginning to end including finding stock and scheduling delivery areas

• Maintained customer files and website
• Answered the phones, gave information to customers regarding their listings or homes for sale
• Able to write and negotiate contracts with buyers and sellers

• Sales of art and custom framing
• Building and maintaining a strong customer base,the majority of sales resulted in satisfied repeat customers
• Working with the owner to determine advertising needs, designed newspaper and other print media ads
• Maintained and updated all computer pricing and computer files, order taking and inventory

• Responsible for over 70% of daily sales in the company, I built and maintained a large repeat customer base which consisted of retail and wholesale clients
• Day to day operation of the business
• Expanded sales to include commercial accounts

• Responsibilities included sales, store set up and day to day operations.
• As Team Leader I was the motivator for other employees in the store and was the right hand person to the Manager and Assistant Manager

• Sales of custom framing and fine art
• Responsible for running 2 locations of Mackenzie Gallery as the owner was out of the country for the time I was employed.
• All financial, bookkeeping, and stock ordering. Hired 4 of the 6 employees and maintained a good working relationship with both galleries.
• Organized Artist showing and signings, merchandised and arranged art in both galleries

I have worked in every dept of Michaels, including cash office. I helped establish and run the classroom in the store, where art in many forms was taught and was responsible for the entire kids art program. My final position at Michaels was the Framing Department Manager, I oversaw the entire department and was responsible for merchandising and maintaining a projected budget

Sales and Custom Framing