Colm Griffin Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Kerry

All round super star!

Ireland

During my brief time here I ....- Signed up a rising young Irish golfer who played in the open championship in 2022 and secured a sponsors invite for him at a DP tour event. - Signed up a Irish senior soccer international and secured a couple of appearances for her at events at which she would be a paid speaker.- Secured a paid appearance on the Sky show "League of Their Own" for a well know former Kerry Inter County Gaelic Footballer.- 7 Members of the Kerry ladies Gaelic Football team signed up as talent for this company.- I helped to secure sponsorship from 4 companies for the Kerry Ladies Gaelic Football team in the run up to the All Ireland final.- I signed up another well known former Mayo senior Intercounty player as talent.- Through written press releases I circulated the company received written coverage in the Irish Independent and the Kerryman newspaper and I secured an interview for a colleague on Radio KerryI helped to implement a newsletter strategy for the company. - I created over 200 new corporate leads for the business

Dublin

Meet-Up group aimed at helping people to sell online better. We meet once a month in Dublin with guest speakers covering different aspects of selling online.

Dublin

Developing a save and secure online platform where people can hire fully qualified and vetted carers in a safe and secure fashion. Currently actively seeking a Technical Co-Founder.

Responsible for generating small to medium revenue streams to help towards the running costs of the clubGenerated more revenue through player sponsorship than any other League of Ireland clubGenerated more revenue through match programme advertising than any other League of Ireland clubIncreased number of advertising hoardings for home gamesEnsured the club had a match sponsor for every gameIntroduced and managed a business website directory and helped up number of unique viewers to the website to 4,000 people per monthStock control and management of club shopPurchasing manager and managed to significantly reduce printing costsOn target to treble small / medium revenue streams for the season despite economic downturnMember of both D15 and Fingal Chambers of CommerceOrganised the clubs first ever Race Night, Family Fun Day and Senior Citizens NightRegularly got press releases published in local newspapers and on websites.Co-ordinated the marketing of match day events and helped to up attendances to nearly double the 2008 figure despite most teams experiencing a downturn in attendances.

Responsible for up-selling TV advertising for Setanta Sports Ireland and Setanta Sports One and thereafter managing accounts for renewal business.Introduced over 150 companies to TV advertising for the first time through Setanta.Responsible for creating storyboards, visuals and voice-over scripts for clients to ensure the maximum effectiveness of their TV commercial whilst working closely with the in-house production teamResponsible for ensuring the campaigns of each advertiser is reaching the right type of audience for their product or service.Responsible for creating advertising packages around specific sports shown on Setanta and targeting the right types of businesses to take up the packagesSold and managed several broadcast sponsorship packages for programming shown on Setanta.Sold and managed a large number of in programme competitions around Setanta studio programming.Sold and managed an on screen graphics partnership deal for Magners League coverage on Setanta Sports.Sold and managed a bookmakers partnership deal for GAA coverage on Setanta Sports.

Responsible for coming up with ideas for commercial features and generating revenue by publishing on a week to week basis.Responsible for managing, co-ordinating, editing and generating revenue for a number of special commercial magazines and supplements.Responsible for introducing and republishing a number commercial magazines and supplements including the National Action Plan Against Racism, in association with the Department of Justice, Children in Sport in association with the Department of Health, Health and Safety in the Workplace in association with the Health and Safety Authority,;

After briefly working with Pulse Media in helping them establish a new free-sheet newspaper called City I undertook a lot of freelance contract work including a Tourist Map of Dublin for Aircoach and helping the Village Quarter re-launch their newspaper 'Life in the Village Quarter'Also published Essential Residential Services Guides for the Dublin 4 and Dublin 6 areas.

Responsible for a monthly supplement (Motoring, Farming, Property etc), a weekly advertising feature and property and appointments section of the newspaper

Up-selling to new or potential clients.Involved in the training of new telesales employees.

Overall responsibility for SU activities and finances.

Diploma, Sports Journalism

Ba (Hons), Accounting & Human Resource Management; Hrm

Education record

Education record