Laura Claypole Email & Phone Number

Apple Valley, MN

The housing market is coming back. I can help you create new memories and savor the old!!

• Conduct door to door neighborhood sales strategies with home owners needing lawn services
• Distribute product literature and persuade customer to purchase services
• Assess customer needs, ensuring full understanding of services provided

• Managed all retail sales and repair procedures in Parts and Repair Center
• Accountable for $400,000 sales and 2,000 part inventory
• Exceeded sales goals 2 consecutive years
• Increased the inventory cycle count from 60% to 100 %
• Manage 5 employees, writing reviews and ensuring their performance meets both the company’s objectives and customer demands
• Monitor daily ledgers, transaction reports and sales reports to ensure accuracy

• Managed daily operations of fitness center franchise
• Direct all advertising functions including creation of flyers, graphic content, and sales events
• Create sales leads and follow through with potential clients
• Design and create monthly newsletters for clients and prospective clients

• Produce high quality streaming on line videos such as Company Introductions, New Product Launch, Non-Profit Organizations, and Real Estate tours
• Research and write video scripts
• Videotape and edit various types of video productions
• Conduct interviews for use in video productions
• Assist clients in the use of online video email library
• Communicate with the clients to ensure complete satisfaction

• Set up and manage customer special orders
• Maintain working relationships with various vendors on special orders and returned goods authorizations.
• Work closely with all associates to insure orders are processed correctly
• Maintain close contact with customers to keep them fully informed of the order status
• Assist the receiving department on special orders
• Manage the return to vendor area for all incoming and outgoing products

• Produced training videos for commercial airline pilots
• Assist aircrew instructors with video script writing
• Produced internal company videos for use in new hire orientation
• Produced, videotaped and edited various videos to assist the company in employee training and retention Video compression, CD video writing

• Research, write, videotape and edit technical training videos for large recreational vehicle manufacturer
• Communicate with technical writers to ensure accuracy of video content
• Produced dealer product and safety presentation videos
• Produced an employee orientation video, documenting all facilities in the company. This video won a national award.

Minnesota, Alaska, Ohio

• Video photographer and editor for local television news organizations. Involved in various news making events including breaking news, political, in depth, and historical

Produced and videotaped many joint military training films, videos productions and documentaries around the world, including an F-15 exercise that won Best Documentary of the Year 1988.