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Schaumburg, Il

Traditional and Digital Marketing for today's market. Specializing in: Radio, TV, Print, SEO, SEM, SMO, Website Management and SMS or Text Message Marketing.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for an experienced sales staff of 5 Advertising Consultants, covering the City and Suburbs of Chicago.• Accountable for sales into both AutoTrader.com and KBB.com, in order to reach quarterly district goals. • Focused on Cox Automotive Business Unit Referals: Vin Solutions, vAuto, Manheim, NextGear Capital and Xtime

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed all sales operations of both Pioneer Press and The Lake County News Sun, for both print and online. Responsible for ALL adverstising sales into the Chicago Sun-Times (both print and online) for both the North and Northwest Regions. • Responsible for a staff of 27, including an executive director, 2 district sales managers, 18 sales representatives, and 6 adminastrative support staff members. • Pioneer Press caters to one of the premier demographic markets in the country. It is an affluent lifestyle weekly that caters to the high level sophisticated reader, with a paid circulation of 100,000.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for the Automtotive and Builder adversting sections throughout Sun-Times Media Network with a daily circulation of over 600,000.• Successfully helped to create and launch SearchChicagoAutos.com. This was an 8 zone print and online product covering the Chicagoland DMA in order to keep up with the competitive online automotive landscape.• New SearchChicagoAutos.com gained 15% market share in its first year (2007).• Responsible for over $36 million in annual revenue with an overall staff of 31 expereinced sales representatives.• Started the position with the department at 72% to plan for 2006, 88% in 2007 and 102% to plan in 2008 (this was at the height of the economic crisis/stockmarket crash).

Greater Chicago Area

Oak Park, Il

• Responsible for $2 million dollars in annual advertising revenue.• Managed 11 salespeople and support staff.• Actively involved in community networking. Served two terms as President of the Oak Park-River Forest Chamber of Commerce.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for $8 million dollars in annual advertising revenue.• Managed the day to day sales operations for the Media, Co-Op & Utility categories. • High level business relationships with all accounts and advertising agencies: ComEd, Nicor, WCIU, BBDO & J. Walter

Greater New York City Area

• Hand picked to move to New York to assist opening Regional Office.• Worked with Major Agencies and National Accounts in the Financial and Electronic categories.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area