To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Assisted businesses to shorten their sales cycle and significantly strengthen their online presence by leveraging social media, website content and marketing collateral to drive real results and create new revenue generation opportunities. Example of Industries: It, Food Safety, Financial, Travel, Software, Retail, Automotive, Construction and Media.
Enjoyed a highly successful sales career spanning more than nine years. Employed by Ontario’s largest and most successful community newspaper publisher (Metroland Media Group Ltd.), the legendary trade publication publisher (Southam Inc.), and leading provider of telecommunications and entertainment (Shaw Communications).
Sample of Roles and Responsibilities:
Sales Growth: Responsible for the development and execution of prospecting and new account penetration to increase revenue streams through the sale of advertising products and promotions. Annual sales budgets ranged from $500,000 to $1.2 million.
Customer Relations: Consultative and relationship-based sales to business sectors including IT, retail, manufacturers, finance, advertising agency, and world-wide corporate organizations.
Operations Management: Marketing collateral development, copywriting, presentation creation, lead-generation, maximizing revenue potential, closing sales and mentoring.
Performance: Promoted to Sales Manager (newspaper) after less than two years in the industry and enjoyed senior positions for the remainder of career.