I am a sales & marketing executive with a track record of twenty-five plus years experience and demonstrated success consulting for small and medium sized businesses. Excellent oral & written communication skills, combined with a diverse background and work history have prepared me well to understand and evaluate diverse situations.
DIRECT MARKETING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT:
Experience managing 30 telemarketing agents involved in various products and services from online education programs, e-mail protection systems, to premium satellite channels. I have been actively involved in new client business development.
MEDIA ADVERTISING CONSULTANT:
Consultative selling of advertising programs, web sites, and internet related products, along with some telephone services and other specialty items. I retired after 23 years of service.
GENERAL MANAGEMENT-Vice President and General Manager:
I have over 5 years experience in managing and operating an executive search firm, which also had an associated employment agency and a temporary employment service. As general manager, I oversaw existing business and developed new accounts with complete profit and loss responsibility. Besides the administrative duties, I also developed and maintained brand awareness in the area through advertising, public relations activities, recruiting, and client development.
EXECUTIVE RECRUITING: I specialized as a “Headhunter” for the oil & gas, banking & retail industry in Houston, Texas.
SALES MANAGEMENT: Business Forms & Systems
I was responsible for the training and development of local sales organization. Our division specialized in designing and evaluating business systems and operations. We then made recommendations to increase efficiency in customer’s paper flow management. I consistently met sale and team target objectives.
Specialties:
Sales, Marketing & Business Development outsourcing, diverse background and industry experience, yellow page industry and directory publishing consulting, SEO, internet marketing, unique ability to match a company need with the right company product, the right people and/or the right service by "brokering" the two together.