Adult & Teen Challenge is a global faith-based nonprofit ministry helping those with life controlling issues such as drugs or alcohol. As the Development Coordinator for both the Willamette Valley Men's Campus and the Eugene Women with Children Campus my focus is working directly with supporters of the ministry, development of the staff, discipleship of students in the program and assisting the Executive Director (my husband) in all aspects of the ministry. After 26 years in a career in my passion of publishing, it is an honor to now be fulfilling the calling on my life.

My previous career of 26 years, and my passion in publishing I was a success-driven, self-motivated and proven closer in multi-media marketing and advertising. My emphasis was in New Business Sales, Account Management, Client Relations, and Business Development. Developed full marketing campaigns to include Web Development, SEO, Digital Audience Targeting, AdWords and Social Media Marketing, Print Marketing & Marketing Materials. Diverse background included project management, staff training and ongoing development, & team leadership. Additional abilities: Staff training. Networking and relationship building through attending local networking groups and event planning. Key account management, new business development, direct business – business sales contract negotiations. Consultative & solution sales through phone and in-person presentations. My primary initiative was to develop strategic digital and print initiatives to drive profitability and maximize market share for my clients. Specialties:• Staff training and ongoing education• Relationship building• Discipleship of staff and students• Marketing, public relations and communication• Phone & in-person presentations• Account retention/account management• Accomplished developer of long term customer relationships• Business Development

Organized and established highly profitable advertising initiatives and led the newspaper to exceed revenue goals regularly. * Participated in business-level discussions and decisions involving business vision and strategy, new initiatives, standardization of best practices, and project management.* Mentored and coached sales staff of 12 in areas of business development, account retention, client needs-analysis and proposal presentations for marketing and advertising campaigns.* Developed new business relationships through attending local networking groups and event planning.* Key account management, new business development, direct business – business sales contract negotiations. Consultative & solution sales through phone and in-person presentations.* Created new advertising programs and packages designed to increase revenue in challenging segments of business to include: restaurants, small retail businesses, healthcare services, automotive, real estate and employment.* Developed strategic online and print initiatives and partnerships to drive profitabilty and maximize market share. Consulted with Advertising Directors at newspaper organizations and independent newspapers on sales staff training and recruitment advertising initiatives including implementation of partnered job boards. ACHIEVEMENTS: * Managed my own multi-million dollar sales territory in recruitment advertising.* Initiated new product partnered relationships. Launched multiple new products & services including a new online business directory generating over $100,000 in first year revenue & new recruitment feature within the newspaper that generated $157,000 in its first year.* Launched online partnership with national job board. Created marketing plans, sales contests, training & development.* Developed a business to business seminar that included local market overview, unemployment trends, economic overview, job shortage, industry trends & best practices for recruiting top candidates.