www.edirect.co.ukedirect is an award-winning digital marketing agency that was established in 2001. It has gone from strength to strength within the industry, with offices in Bournemouth, Leeds, and now Dubai. I was given an opportunity to work at edirect off the back of my work with World Supermarket. The MD of the company admired my skills and wanted to open the outbound sales department. I have now brought in and help manage such clients as the Dubai Government, D & D London, Capita,… Show more www.edirect.co.ukedirect is an award-winning digital marketing agency that was established in 2001. It has gone from strength to strength within the industry, with offices in Bournemouth, Leeds, and now Dubai. I was given an opportunity to work at edirect off the back of my work with World Supermarket. The MD of the company admired my skills and wanted to open the outbound sales department. I have now brought in and help manage such clients as the Dubai Government, D & D London, Capita, PHC, and many many more. edirect now looks after just over 2500 businesses globally and has seen amazing growth. They look after one-man-band tradesmen all the way up to blue-chip companies. My roles include:• Creating outbound opportunities• Dealing with incoming business• Visiting and pitching to businesses• Building the edirect client base• Developing businesses online presence• Building and managing customer relationships• Creating proposals and the right packages • Managing a small team• Problem solving • Creating targets and providing stats • Working alongside marketers and project managers to deliver the projects• Working alongside developers to find the best solutions• Helping build and further develop the in-house CRM• Startup, help build and recruit for the network.uk – a marketing and review directory with a new approach. Show less

I hit every target made and gathered a wealth of experience. World Supermarket is on to great things with a successful website/marketing company now buying in and owning 10%. A new team of developers have also stepped in to help take it to the next level and they have worked with the likes of Starbucks and McDonalds. The platform is due to re-launch shortly with the whole site now integrating with Amazon and eBay.

World Supermarket was a startup and born from an idea of working with Chinese wholesalers to bring amazing products to the UK but at a much cheaper price. I joined in the infancy of the business and began building relationships with Chinese merchants and organizing product information. A test website was 1st launched called WorldMegaMarket. From this, it was decided that World Supermarket would also sell UK retail products too and my role was to lead this. I set up a team and recruited 1000’s… Show more World Supermarket was a startup and born from an idea of working with Chinese wholesalers to bring amazing products to the UK but at a much cheaper price. I joined in the infancy of the business and began building relationships with Chinese merchants and organizing product information. A test website was 1st launched called WorldMegaMarket. From this, it was decided that World Supermarket would also sell UK retail products too and my role was to lead this. I set up a team and recruited 1000’s of UK Merchants in a number of ways. I needed to achieve targets and fill the desired categories chosen. I was very much then involved in the further build and development of World Supermarket to better the platform for everyone involved. World Supermarket was an online e-Commerce marketplace that sold both retail and wholesale products that was free to join but charged a one-off final sale fee. Wholesale prices were hidden to the general public and each merchant was given a shop as well as a fully functional back-end dashboard to manage products, check stats, and sales. My role entailed the following:• Building and maintaining solid business relationships overseas from China.• Building and maintaining solid business relationships with UK merchants.• Making inbound and outbound sales.• Visiting key businesses to pitch and recruit them to sell on the platform. • Visiting tradeshows to build rapport whilst getting in front of key decision-makers.• Organizing, translating and assisting in product population received from merchants to be marketed online.• Helping in the build of the in-house CRM system assembling thousands of contacts.• Helping in the further development of the platform both front and back end • Working with the marketing teams Show less

A year after joining I was made a Senior Sales Consultant and I was one of Health-on-line’s top sellers.

I joined Health-on-line as a telesales representative selling private health insurance outbound.• I was making 250 calls or 3 hours talk time a day and had to use a call system following a script, managing a diary and sending emails. • This job came with an uncapped bonus scheme and there were times when I earned £10,000 in one month but to be successful you had to be willing to work late and hard. • December 2012, I was given an award for achieving 3rd place IPL that year. A year… Show more I joined Health-on-line as a telesales representative selling private health insurance outbound.• I was making 250 calls or 3 hours talk time a day and had to use a call system following a script, managing a diary and sending emails. • This job came with an uncapped bonus scheme and there were times when I earned £10,000 in one month but to be successful you had to be willing to work late and hard. • December 2012, I was given an award for achieving 3rd place IPL that year. A year after joining I was made a senior consultant and I was one of Health-on-line’s top sellers. Show less

I joined this company at its inception and was very much involved in the setting up stage that was required to run a successful business. This involved:1) MCS accreditation2) Corgi Registration3) Setting up call centre 4) Organising Data 5) Training Staff6) MarketingI became Sales Director and my role included managing staff and diaries, clarifying the quality of leads and their feasibility, carrying out surveys and quotations at customer’s homes, making… Show more I joined this company at its inception and was very much involved in the setting up stage that was required to run a successful business. This involved:1) MCS accreditation2) Corgi Registration3) Setting up call centre 4) Organising Data 5) Training Staff6) MarketingI became Sales Director and my role included managing staff and diaries, clarifying the quality of leads and their feasibility, carrying out surveys and quotations at customer’s homes, making sales and taking payment via purchase orders, bringing in potential sales via market stalls, keeping up to MCS and Corgi standards by ensuring good customer service, managing call centre, liasing with Company Directors. I was very pleased with my success for the company at the age of 24 but unfortunately the Government cut the feed-in-tariff incentive and the company was forced to close. Show less