For the past 5 years, I've been working with post-secondary schools across Canada, including large schools like Academy of Learning Career College, CDI, and triOS, and hundreds of smaller schools. Great Exposure has been dedicated to post-secondary schools since 1998, and we help a lot of schools in a lot of ways.CampusLogin Integrated School Management SystemLead generation and internet marketingWebsite and print designEvery day I see schools having a difficult time filling their classes, cutting into revenues and reducing profitability. I also see that increasingly stringent compliance and reporting requirements continue to pile on administration costs, further eroding profitability.This tells me two things:1. Marketing costs, admissions costs, and administration costs are all going up and eating into your profits. Other costs like rent and utilities aren’t getting any cheaper, either.2. You can’t just keep throwing money at marketing. You must look at your entire operation as a whole. From admissions, to administration, to career services. Identify where your process is working and, more importantly, where it isn’t.If your school is facing these issues, you need to change the way you look at your business and the challenges you face. The schools that have been successful doing this are leveraging technology to get a clear picture of where they need to invest their limited resources, giving them a competitive advantage over schools who are still working in the dark.If you need help, please connect with me today. Let's talk more about how to shed some light on your business.http://www.campuslogin.comhttp://www.greatexposure.comDirect: 1-888-768-2917Email: ames@greatexposure.com

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Worked as an Account Executive tasked with selling sponsorship of industry specific summits throughout North America. Successful in bringing in targeted new business from a number of different industries.● Consistently exceeded sales quotas while increased sales revenue month-over-month● Developed a strong pool of prospect companies and researched their services to best demonstrate their potential success at our conferences based on the needs of conference delegates.● Researched each prospect’s corporate structure to determine potential decision makers and acquired their contact information.● Cold called decision makers and presented our conferences and the sponsorship opportunity to them, tailoring each presentation to the prospect’s services and abilities.● Negotiated pricing and options with each prospect to create customized solutions.● Developed industry specific strategy and intelligence to assist with lead generation and business development.

Accomplishments Worked as an Account Executive tasked with developing a corporate client base for PacBlue. Successful in bringing in new business from industries previously un-serviced by the company. Developed existing accounts to increase revenue.Sales * Increased my sales figures by 400% in 3 months while assisting with the creation of a new department, training new staff and assisting with the creation of collateral materials to be used by the Marketing Department.* Researched and identified a small range of target industries with the potential to drive high-margin repeat sales. Proactively contacted businesses within these industries via cold calling and networking. * Successful in penetrating new markets, securing strong new clients with mandates for business perfectly suited to PacBlue’s services.* Developed existing client base and was very successful in bringing in a much wider range of business from them, creating more opportunities, higher revenues and an increase in referrals.* Fielded incoming sales inquiries, qualified leads and supplied value-based solutions, driving customer satisfaction and company profitability.* Successfully partnered with PacBlue’s newly hired Marketing Manager to create content for the company’s various marketing campaigns. Content included photography, videos, copy and the creation of digital templates.

Accomplishments Worked as a licensed commercial REALTOR® doing project marketing, business brokerage, investment purchases, and sales and leasing of industrial, retail and office properties. Sales and leases closed in Coquitlam, Richmond and North Vancouver with listings throughout British Columbia as well as Washington State.Sales * Working as a REALTOR® involves more than just selling property. A huge part of my success in the industry has been my ability to build strong relationships with customers, clients and other industry professionals, allowing me to expand my listing base and close transactions.* Dealing with buyer objections is the only way to complete sales, and the experience has taught me that a buyer’s true objections are seldom conveyed immediately. My detailed discovery skills are a very important part of my sales process and help me drive prospects to decisions and closed sales.Project Marketing * Implementation of marketing campaigns designed to generate qualified leads for listings using product-specific websites, listings on auction and classified sites, strategic use of social media and targeted emails blasts to the client database in order to drive traffic.IT * Key role in developing, testing and implementing a proprietary CRM system. Liaising with suppliers for feature requests and roll-out, design and layout as well as bug testing and team training on completed modules.

Accomplishments Hired as an Operations Assistant in 2005. Land Launch 2005 sales revenue $16 million. Promoted to Operations Manager two weeks later, responsible for administration of single project. Promoted to Operations Director in April 2006, responsible for administration of all Land Launch projects. Land Launch 2008 sales revenue $48 million.Management * Managed overall operations for Land Launch real estate sales programs.* Hired, trained and directly supervised 4 Operations Managers to manage day-to-day operations of individual sales projects with indirect responsibility for staff ranging from 2 to 5 Operations Assistants per project.* Administered multiple project-specific CRM accounts on multiple platforms.* Assisted the partners with sales program debriefing by analyzing all project data.* Forecasted operations costs for each project and administered budget reconciliation program for all projects.Sales * Assisted in various sales capacities as needed, including initial introduction and qualification, working prospective purchasers through product availability and pricing, through to closing sales and after-sale service to maximize purchaser satisfaction and future referrals.* Participated in call-out campaigns to various prospect databases to introduce product and to gauge interest and qualification.IT * Administered corporate and project specific CRM databases totalling over 15,000 prospects, purchasers and professional contacts.* Extensively tested CRM systems such as salesforce and Maximizer to keep current with software and service updates. Worked directly with CRM suppliers with feature requests and testing. * Implemented and maintained a hosted Exchange Server as well as online file storage and sharing for project documents and a remote technical support program to provide support for all staff members.* Set-up and maintained data and communications networks and multi-media installations at each project.

- Provided a high level of customer service to in-house customers, including order taking, supervision of their orders through production and after-sales service. This resulted in higher revenues through active up-selling of services and greater customer retention.- Assisted the team of account representatives by providing the same service to their clients. This provided a much higher level of customer service and allowed the account representatives to concentrate on prospecting and promoting new services.- Trained 4 junior CSRs, creating a CSR Department to work together with the outside sales team to manage the increased sales volume that resulted from better customer service and more efficient use of the account representative’s time. - Assisted management with the creation and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures for all departments and a standardized online ordering system to streamline production and increase customer satisfaction.- Worked with management to create and implement successful sales promotions to increase volumes and customer awareness of new services.