Gene Taft Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

• Advise authors who are thinking about writing/publishing a book, or who have already written a book and are looking to have it published.• Provide guidance to individuals and organizations seeking practical and affordable ways to establish and expand their brand and to promote their ideas and institutions to general and specialized audiences.

Washington Dc-Brooklyn, Ny

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

• Oversaw the creation and dissemination of all communications between five hundred employees and one thousand residents at a one hundred and thirty-four-acre senior living community, and managed a staff of four.• Produced and distributed a weekly email newsletter to over two thousand recipients.• Designed, edited, and published a forty-page, monthly, glossy magazine, and distributed over thirteen hundred copies across campus.• Supervised the operation of a multi-camera television studio and a three hundred seat live theatre venue.• Wrote speeches and prepared PowerPoint slide shows for the Executive Director, and conducted live and video recorded interviews and presentations. • Co-Chaired two resident/employee committees. • Coordinated campus Social Media outreach.

Washington, Dc & Silver Spring, Md

• Managed two black and queer owned independent bookstores with a focus on stocking diverse, inclusive and intersectional books for all ages.• Played an instrumental role in securing, opening and running a second physical location and creating a vibrant community gathering space.• Oversaw a staff of seven part-time and full-time employees at two locations.• Monitored inventory and ordering, keeping the stores stocked with new items and returning unsold items on a consistent basis.• Handled front of store point of sale operations and online order fulfillment as well as customer service inquiries in person and online.

Baltimore, Md

• Restructured a four-person department by emphasizing sound fundamentals, taking better advantage of old school media, and featuring concentrated social media outreach. • Raised the public status of the company via the visibility of its products and spokespeople. • Honed simple, but effective messaging for one hundred fifty campaigns per year. • Determined a social media strategy and managed a blog, Twitter and Facebook accounts. • Wrote press releases, pitch letters, and assembled digital press kits. Scheduled radio, television, and print interviews.

Washington, Dc Metro Area

• Founded a prosperous public relations and marketing firm with total revenue of over $700k.• Leveraged experience working for start-ups and established companies to offer one-on-one connections with clients to better understand their expertise and to more effectively share that information with the media. • Developed multifaceted online/social media campaigns. • Booked major print and online media coverage, and scheduled national radio, television, and print interviews, greatly increasing client visibility. • Gained valuable business experience concerning everything from payroll to tech support.

New York, Ny

• Helped catapult a start up from a projected $500k sales budget to actual sales of $8million.• Promoted the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Starr Report, and drove sales of the National Bestseller Blind Man’s Bluff to enable the company to sell paperback rights for $1million.• Worked with celebrities from the worlds of politics, business, media and entertainment.• Collaborated extensively with the sales department. • Devised simple, effective, relatable messaging and executed fifty to sixty public relations campaigns per year promoting a complex array of ideas. • Wrote press releases and pitch letters, assembled press kits, and secured print coverage and radio and television interviews.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English

Education record

Hs Diploma