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Marietta, Ga, Us

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

With over 35 years of Senior Care expertise and Senior Living market knowledge, Best Nest will help you navigate the multitude of Senior Living options giving peace-of-mind and assurance you have made the best decision for you, your loved one and your family.

Provide a full slate of customized Media services for Local, Regional & National clients in all aspects of media negotiation, placement, strategy, creative, production and branding. Also facilitated an extensive full service agency review for a major west coast franchising client in 2020.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Managed overall daily operations of boutique $3+ million Ad Agency including all aspects of Business Development, Account Strategy & Management, Media Placement, On-boarding, Creative and Client Services.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta Eats is the premiere multimedia company dedicated to capturing the food and dining-out scene in Atlanta. Founded by Steak Shapiro in 2012, Atlanta Eats is comprised of a popular weekly TV program, Prime time specials, a weekly radio show hosted by renowned radio personality, Mara Davis, as well as her featured segment on The Bert Show Thursday mornings, food/music events and a highly interactive digital and social media presence. Directed and managed sales and revenue efforts, media production, and staffing hires.

● Engaged as VP Sales consultant, developed client partnership plan, and added 2 more publications for 30% increase in inventory. ● Improved the digital presence and website content of Poshdealz.com, an upscale e-commerce daily deals site, resulting in a 10% increase in sales volume. American Media Products houses such powerful local brands as ENCORE ATLANTA, Custom Media Publishing, Encore Promotes, and Poshdealz.com. With an annual actively engaged audience of over 4 million readers/followers, AMP is the premiere media choice for your next upscale buy in Atlanta.

San Francisco, California, Us

● Engaged as the Sr. Director of Enterprise Sales (Consultant), I headed up digital media sales division for the local media sales platform. ● Opened up multiple new digital channels and generated $1M+ in first 6 months. ● Ran trade shows, focus groups, and marketing efforts and brought in 30+ new enterprise accounts.BuzzBoard is a powerful sales engagement tool that leverages predictive data, accelerates account preparation, and simply put...drives more sales!! Hours of customer and prospect research is reduced to seconds as BuzzBoard automates pre-sales research and delivers actionable intelligence for new sales, cross-sales, and upsell opportunities.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Brought on as Director of Revenue Strategy (Consultant), to help lead Sales & Training efforts, define new strategic goals, and combine broadcast and digital assets to achieve expected revenue targets. ● Generated $1M+ in new direct business in first 6 months, and define new strategic goals, and combined broadcast and digital assets to achieve expected revenue targets. NRS Media focuses on developing successful direct sales campaigns for the media industry.

Washington, Dc, Us

LivingSocial, a Washington DC based e-commerce platform, adds surprise to every calendar with handpicked Daily Deals you can share with friends. While at the helm in ATL, I doubled the segment total from 2 to 4 while posting a 200% increase that grossed $15 million in revenue during my 1st year. Managed team of 20+ inside and outside sellers while driving subscriber base to over 850,000.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Headed up business development team; responsible for revenue generation along with promotional & multi-platform execution for $10 million Atlanta sports marketing company.Managed the major national, regional, and local accounts while readying for sale in the midst of the economic downturn. Accomplished the sale of the station to the Lincoln Financial Media group.

Expanded merchant base of this locally owned and operated barter company into multiple new verticals. Worked strategically with SMB's and major brands to utilize barter as an additional form of lead generation and revenue boost.

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Effectively managed a 55 person national staff in 9 cities and generated annual revenues that reached $7m at peak. Attained #1 Power ratio in the market for 8 out of 10 years.

Was a top producer on a very senior staff. Quadrupled billing over a 10 year stint in selling locally. Was then promoted to LSM and managed a highly tenured local staff of 10 sellers and 2 admin, leading them to record billings for the 5 year duration.