Meri Cook Email & Phone Number

Abingdon, Virginia, United States

• Continuous recruitment and retention of girls while regularly meeting goals set by the Regional Director
• Support 50+ Girl Scout troops over 5 counties throughout the Appalachian Highlands Region
• Plan and hold events for recruitment and develop programming for current Girl Scouts
• Create digital flyers and social media graphics for recruitment and program event promotion
• Promote events in targeted Facebook groups
• Engage with volunteers on social media to increase their awareness of council updates

• Continuous recruitment and retention of girls while regularly meeting goals set by the Regional Directors in 3 regions
• Support 60+ Girl Scout troops throughout Appalachian Highlands, East Tennessee, Chattanooga, and Georgia region
• Organize and coordinate volunteer ran recruitments at schools throughout the community
• Organize and run volunteer trainings for different volunteer roles
• Engage in cross-region collaboration with volunteers across our council footprint
• Continuous recruitment, training, placement, and retention of volunteers

Roanoke, Virginia Area

• Work cross-departmentally to ensure customers receive up to date and accurate information
• Utilize software like Salesforce, Doubleknot, and Looker to keep customer records updated
• Utilize G Suite applications like Sheets, Docs, and Forms in large project organization
• Create long-term solutions to optimize and streamline response time to customers
• Worked closely with Marketing Director on upcoming campaigns to provide feedback on potential customer questions
• Lead new employee onboarding across multiple departments

Abingdon, Virginia

• Facilitated the implementation of specific target marketing for Facebook and increasing post and page engagement
• Streamlined social media management for sale and in-stock items resulting in substantial generation in company sales
• Wrote and edited descriptions of owner’s artistic work for clients in gallery settings
• Published creative blurbs about company for Town of Abingdon’s visitor and tourist website

Abingdon, VA

• Contacted and maintained contact with potential vendors and artisans for annual craft brewery fair
• Researched event management styles and created event-specific logistics for annual fair event
• Led on-site day-of event preparation and setup, event location mapping, prioritization, attendee accommodation, programming, vendor placement and check-in, and break-down

Charlotte, North Carolina

• Discovered prospective participants and published event to local community, interested donors, society patrons, and corporate sponsors
• Established email connections and pushed out social media notifications to potential attendees
• Generated ticket design and kept guests informed of event news, information, and updates
• Engaged with event guests in requesting donations and advertising special event activities like the silent auction
• Focused on event structure and logistics with event committee and event decorator
• Transformed a public space into a formal themed-specific gala setting

Lake Norman, NC

• Assisted customers with uniform try-on
• Helped customers place orders
• Filed customer information for later order placements
• Filled customer orders
• Answered phones and assisted customers

Bristol, VA

• Assisted customers on sales floor and fitting rooms
• Maintained knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices
• Placed special orders and performed multi-store searches
• Monitored for security risks and thefts, applied training regarding prevention and management of these situations

Glad Springs, VA

• Memorized menu and daily specials
• Cleaned and reset tables
• Attended to customers to assure good experience and repeat visits
• Balanced cash register at end of shift

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Marketing, 3.0

Fashion Merchandising, 4.0

Dean's list every semester at Radford University.

General Studies, 3.8

Made the Dean's list.