John A. Blasco Email & Phone Number

Hauppauge, Ny

Positive Promotions specializes in partnering with clients providing solutions for corporate promotional branding; health & wellness, safety campaigns; recognition, and reward programs. Collaborates with Marketing and Production teams internally and client Executive Decision Makers to execute strategic marketing and branding plans within established schedule and budget guidelines.Clients range in size and breadth of industries: Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Industrial, Travel, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Wholesale, Retail and Non-Profits.

Greater New York City Area

Identified, developed and managed retail client base while servicing existing retail partners nationwide. B2B sales replenishing client inventory and growing their business by introducing new products of opportunity.Distributed a varied product portfolio which consisted of licensed sports cards, novelties, CCG's, RPG's, board games, entertainment collectibles, toys, hobby and gaming supplies. Product and branding advocate for vendor partners by offering multiple promotional opportunities to retailers and their clients. .

Greater New York City Area

Million Dollar producer, representing over 150+ vendors of licensed hardline goods. Solicited sports, entertainment, gaming and hot market goods into various classes of retail trade. Built strong relationships with clients both domestic and international. Business development through trade shows, cold calls, emails and mining warm leads.

Deer Park, Ny

Sourced, procured and managed various product lines. Maintained JIT inventory stock levels on all key commodity lines.Oversaw daily audits and reconciliation of inventory, billing and purchasing issues. IT-Super user creating new product information & updating pricing. Spearheaded the consolidation of three warehouses into two and re-organized warehouses to maximize efficiencies.

South Setauket, Ny

Managed an inventory flow of over $10 million annually of goods for the stores largest department, Hardware. Maximized inventory turns and ROI by maintaining a “just in time” flow of hard line goods by analyzing an array of inventory issues including: out of stocks, cycle counts and shrinkage. Utilized company proprietary inventory systems for weekly purchases and identifying seasonality trends. Aided corporate trainer in teaching Inventory Management Philosophy and Analytics to new IMA's.

East Islip, Ny

Co-Owned and successfully operated a popular sports card and collectible hobby shop. Maintained 19 years of successive growth in varying industry market conditions by implementing a philosophy of building a wide breadth of inventory, fair pricing, applying creative promotions, as well as maintaining strong relationships with clients, distributors and vendors. Responsibilities included Purchasing, Sales and all Marketing efforts. Attended, Produced and Promoted industry trade shows: Coordinated vendor participation, secured facilities, various services and all celebrity appearances.

Greater New York City Area

Conceptualized, developed, launched and marketed a new service within the autograph collectible industry. Championed a philosophy and created a methodology providing provenance of sports and celebrity autograph authentication, which has become an industry wide standard among major Authenticators today.

Bachelor'S Degree, Marketing And Advertising

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Business Administration And Management, General