• Lead and drive the sales department in all areas generating revenue, prospecting leads and training employees.• Prospect and close new business through inside and outside sales tactics while maintaining an accurate sales pipeline.• Met with over 150 clients throughout Chicago to discuss contract details and to ensure customer satisfaction.• Mentored colleagues on inside sales techniques and strategies• Develop job postings and conduct interviews with new potential employees.• Accounts receivable, invoice clients in a timely manner and collect payments.

• Assist solo practitioners and agencies with the leading provider of media software to best maximize public relation campaigns.• Maintain relationships with existing clients and introduce new products and services to best fit clients’ goals.• Provide expertise and solutions based selling with the entire suite of CisionPoint products and services.• Facilitate and create client reports for analysis of market trends, share of voice, and EOY review.• Consult public relations professionals on press release distribution and media pitching.• Collaborate between client marketing and communications departments to ensure all organizational needs are met.

• Identify, engage and close local merchants on the benefits of featuring with Groupon. • Prospect new and re-engage past merchants across a spectrum of industries. • Develop familiarity with each merchant’s products, services and profit drivers.• Calculate the financial investment and operational capacity for merchants.• Manage merchant’s campaigns and ensure client satisfaction.• Work closely with inventory managers to negotiate and finalize price-points and market demand. • Meet or exceed monthly sales/contract close targets with a variety of businesses.

• Meet or exceed weekly and monthly sales goals while exceeding client expectations in value and customer service.• Manage client’s accounts and assist all service inquiries. • Sold over $230,000 in new business.• Generated over $23,000 in new athletic donations across all sports.• Member of sales team that set The Aspire Group record in most revenue grossed in one week, over $110,000. • Maintain computerized records of all prospects and customers within Ticketing database.• Be prepared to sell on behalf of The Aspire Group.• Fostering previous relationships to ensure repeat business and referrals. • Make 100 outbound calls daily.

• Responsible for all on-field performances and activities.• Assisted in planning, scheduling, and set-up of all in-game activities.• Sold corporate sponsorship products.• Provided customer service throughout games, ensured quality experience for all fans. • Carry out day-of-game promotions to increase fan involvement.• Oversaw fulfillment of corporate sponsorship contracts.• Confirmed corporate mascots were attending events at the correct times to fit tight time restraints.

• Sold group and season ticket packages by cold-calling numerous businesses and traveling to local towns to sell group tickets for special events. • Developed and implemented grassroots marketing efforts to increase community awareness by delivering schedules to local businesses, handing out flyers and attending local fairs. • Worked in the box office to provide excellent customer experience at all home games by selling tickets and answering customer’s questions.• Filled in for team mascot at community and networking events.

• Hosted, The SportsZone, a live, weekly sports talk show that covered local and national sports.• Wrote scripts and produced news stories.• Used strong editorial judgment in deciding which stories to cover and wrote creative summaries of each. • Edited and produced sports highlight packages using Final Cut Editing Software.