David S. Email & Phone Number

Springfield, Ma, Us

Performer, instructor, studio musician, sound engineer, publicist, promoter, and booking agent. • Featured performer at a multitude of ski and beach resort area venues with an established following over many years.• Self-promotion and booking agent for various live entertainment acts for corporate and private functions.

Sausalito, Us

Provided extensive historical and geographical guided full-island tours to large groups and personalized private tours. Performed business development, marketing, sales operations, and outbound sales efforts. • Led team to establishing a #1 rating on Trip Advisor, which helped to increase sales by 50% in one year.• Received a multitude of personal 5-star ratings as a tour guide on a variety of ratings websites.

Petaluma, Ca, Us

Importer of garments, jewelry, handicrafts, health & wellness products, home décor, and accessories from India, Nepal, and Thailand, specializing in our own designed line of women’s summer apparel. Manage a well-established retail flagship store, e-commerce and wholesale business. • Recruited, hired and trained the sales staff to excel in all facets of customer service and sales.• Exceeded sales targets by over 30% by implementing effective sales and marketing strategies, prompting store expansion.

Created, owned and operated successful e-commerce B2B and B2C book dealing business.• Designed marketing strategies to develop and maintain extensive clientele network. • Built up and leveraged web presence to establish mutually beneficial relationships with consumers and wholesalers.• Developed and implemented targeted buying tactics to acquire profitable inventory and supply chains. • Consistently more than doubled revenue year over year.

San Francisco, California , Us

Developed, planned and implemented effective inside and outside sales and marketing strategies to specifically target and sign high-revenue generating clientele. • Successfully negotiated contracts for and signed over 190 clients in initial 8 month time period.• Guided and lead sales team to most profitable year since inception of company. • Managed annual sales budget while exceeding projected sales quotas by over 50%. • Expanded TicketWeb’s presence and future growth potential in New England by developing new relationships with venues and promoters at a local level in order to yield maximum revenue generation and market penetration.• Composed and edited copy for RFP’s and sales and marketing materials (marketing kit, company sales letters, emails, posters and postcards, etc.)• Arranged and conducted successful meetings with high-profile potential clients, building relatedness and trust while professionally demonstrating the TicketWeb System.

Designed and implemented effective sales and marketing plan to identify and generate new clientele and develop extensive client-base for the most innovative PC-based phone systems of that time period.• Created and performed complete customer needs analysis, providing solutions, hardware/software demonstrations and customized marketing collateral.• Exceeded projected sales quotas by over 300%.• Managed and coordinated technical and production teams for implementation of systems and training.

Created, promoted and produced a 3-day jazz festival celebrating a century of the San Francisco jazz scene. • Publicist, spokesperson and wrote copy for all publicity and advertising materials (website, press releases, posters, tickets, programs, commercials and sponsorship packet), pitching media and conducting interviews. • Acquired corporate sponsorship funding and raised proceeds for The SF Coalition on Homelessness.• Negotiated all band/venue contracts and entertainment bookings.• Supervised photography, web and graphic design, printing, filming and audio recordings for TV and radio spots.• Budgeted company finances and managed all financial records.