Chris Rodewald Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Bemidji, MN, United States

Bemidji, MN, United States

Grand Forks, North Dakota Area

Develop and lead a professional retail sales team to ensure achievement of store revenue targets, operational goals and 100% customer satisfaction.

CR Consulting is a company dedicated to providing strategic consulting on the use of social media sites to enhance brand awareness, improve customer satisfaction, and increase product/program participation by companies and consumers.

• Primary responsibility for developing and initiating contacts with targeted prospects and conducting business intelligence.
• Supports management in business development and sales activities to develop prospect pipeline and close new business.
• Monitors and reports on competitive activity and new trends in marketplace.
• Researching social media on how it can be used to communicate with Business Development prospects and utility customers.

• Primary responsibility is to manage develop new relationships with energy marketers in the U.S.
• Responsible for analyzing current/future needs, researching selected and purchased hardware and software packages to meet long term user needs and company goals
• Aided in implementation of a new Predictive Dialing system to enable new markets to be entered
• Software expertise includes: MicroSoft Word, Excel, Access, Front Page, Windows Operating Systems (95, 98, Me, 2000 & NT) Maximizer, ACT2000, TeleScript, and DialResults

• Primary responsibility is to manage all sales activity generated from 5 call centers located throughout the Midwest
• Directly responsible for the activities of 5 Sales Managers, 5 Floor Managers & 50 Sales Representatives
• Responsible for development and implementation of new project startup, sales training, script development, incentive programs and compensation plans
• Design sales reporting and forecasting to help communicate team production to company executives
• Grew call center sales revenue from 1.4 million dollars in 1998 to 2.2 million dollars in 1999

• Sales and marketing of CustomerLink’s call center services
• Responsible for developing and initiating contacts with targeted prospects and conducting business intelligence.
• Conducted ongoing research of energy deregulation advancement.
• Researched products and services of utility companies and energy providers
• Developed energy sales strategies to improve the performance of the Energy Sales Department.