Des Moines Marketing Co :, PR, Social Media, Websites, Content Creation, Digital Marketing, Local Listings ,Business Cultivation, and Imagineering.

Drives marketing efforts throughout our growing portfolio. Partnering with regional operations leaders and their teams to implement marketing, leasing, and resident retention programs at new developments, lease-ups, market rate, and any other company managed communities. Develops strategy, coaching , mentoring and training operations team members on marketing programs, policies and procedures.

Legit Local Market a local market show that currently hosting three shows a year with vendors from a 100-mile radius of Des Moines, IA. The goal of the Legit Local Market: provide a unique comfortable environment in which guests can explore a large verity of local business, enjoy a selection of local food venders, and a traveling bartender all in place.• Negotiate contracts with partners, and marketing sources. • Social media campaigns.• Communicate with and assist venders, and guests.• Create vender contracts.• Mission statement development.• On location media interaction.• Help with design and setup of event space.• Vender search and approval.• Advertiser selection.• Contracts verbiage. • Trouble shoot problems.• Interview and hire day of event staff and volunteers. • Provide stakeholders with opportunities to develop single day revenue as well as the opportunity for long term relationships.

The Client Engagement Specialist provides customer services to existing clients. This position interacts with customers and clients to provide information in response to inquiries about products and services and to handle and resolve complaints. • Create and maintain relationships and provide resolution to situations with current customers through inbound and outbound contact. • Actively look for ways to resolve problems with customers and clients by telephone and provide assistance in service issues and/or complaints. • Check to ensure that appropriate changes were made to resolve customers' problems. • Refer unresolved customer grievances to designated departments for further investigation. • Keep records of customer interactions or transactions, recording details of inquiries, complaints, or comments, as well as actions taken. • Complete renewal activities as outlined in company process. • Complete online demonstrations of solutions and services in order to upsell or provide additional information to the current customer base

Interact with associates throughout the organization, ensure all corporate stores based, and external communications and mailings are scheduled and sent out. Assists Accounts Payable and Marketing Department with administrative tasks. Administer incoming and outgoing mail processAssist the Marketing Department with mass mailings and sorting coupons.Assist the Accounts Payable Department with administrative tasks such as filing, scanning and data entry.As the mailroom coordinator working to improve efficiency and organization in the mailroom, while providing service to outside vendors and company employees.  Sorting and distributing incoming mail and packages Assisting marketing team with projects, such as monthly market plans and coupons Processing outgoing mail and packages Organizing and ordering supplies for the company  Special projects with variety of departments including: Benefits, Marketing, Real Estate, Fuels, IT, Food Service and Accounting  Ordering and shipping supplies for multiple C-Store locations Implementing waste reducing and recycling programs in the mailroom Monitoring and ordering supplies for the barista station  Providing new hire kits for learning and development team

As a company Barista, provided a variety of drinks to Kum & Go employees at its headquarters. Also fill in other areas as needed including assisting the event coordinator with company Christmas party, senior leadership holiday party, as filled in picking up supplies for new store opening company activities, as well as organizing the event room. Setup and closing of station Cleaning Interaction with guests Seasonal menu planning Employee morale

Redo was a project and more store with the main focus to save vintage and antique furniture and give it a new life. Being focused on our community Redo hosted and/or sponsored neighborhood events including local artist receptions, neighborhood leadership for small business Saturday, and helped plan currently active vendor show. I also took leadership in helping to plan, market and execute a local shop tour plus help with marketing in a second shop tour. In the time REDO was open it was voted second place in Cityview’s Best of Des Moines in two categories.  Planned open houses, artist receptions, community events Daily interaction with guest Bookkeeping Extensive use of social marketing Store display setup Inventory tracking Negotiate pricing to meet sales goals Maintain store open for public Over the phone sales and research Tracking an ever growing list of guest needs Connect with others selling items

I launched Dishcrawl in Des Moines. A start-up company based out of San Jose. Dishcrawl focuses on bringing food and community together through unique events that showcase local cuisine and the faces behind them. Since launching January of 2013, Dishcrawl Des Moines sold out of many events, and was featured in The Des Moines Register, Juice Magazine and Cityview. I cultivated successful relationships with local media, bloggers, and chefs as well as restaurant owners. Planned, executed and marketed every event. Secured major sponsorship's and media partnerships.I managed all of Dishcrawl Des Moines social media accounts, as well as website management including website blogs. Website: http://dishcrawl.com/desmoines/Facebook: DishcrawlDesMoinesInstagram: DishcrawlDSMTwitter: dishcrawldsm

Rebuilding Together Greater Des Moines rehabilitates the houses of low-income homeowners, so that they may continue to live in warmth, safety and independence. Organizing major workdays involving organizing all materials and labor needed to repair several houses spread out the Des Moines area.  Finding homeowners with home repair needs Coordinating volunteers to work on home repairs Registering individuals for Community Leadership classes through DMACC Creating more brand awareness through different marketing initiatives Building capacity in the organization by creating better systems and more efficient ways of completing tasks