Steven Meyerhoff Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

- Managed relationships with book publishers, distributors and vendors, including negotiation of purchasing terms and promotional sales opportunities, recommending product for placement in diverse national specialty retail accounts such as Lowe's, Michaels, Dollar General, Menards, Tractor Supply and Bed Bath and Beyond.- Managed department and staff that supplied data analysis and support for National Account Teams that represented national specialty retail accounts.- Developed business relationships with publishing partners and retail clients.- Edited and maintained content on company's Publisher Connection website, a business-to-business website communicating to publishers.- Managed a dynamic database of information on more than 75,000 book titles, interfacing with external customers (publishers) and internal customers (HDA departments and retailers.)- Created and executed strategies for trade shows.

Greater St. Louis Area

- Managed a department that wrote, edited, designed and produced an annual line of books for The Sporting News Books Publishing Division. Line of books ranged between 14 to 25 boDoks annually.- Developed new publishing initiatives, using internal and external resources; assessed the feasibility of potential projects by analyzing the costs and sales projections, and recommended titles for publication.- Managed an annual budget ranging between $500,000 and $750,000.- Edited and wrote various elements on individual books projects.- Created marketing and publicity strategies on individual books projects and executed chosen strategies by coordinating internal resources with multiple consulting firms.- Developed e-commerce, direct-to-consumer business of selling books, and maintained and managed the editorial site.- Organized the content and coverage in the weekly Sporting News magazine (circulation approximately 515,000); assigned stories and event coverage to reporters, writers and columnists; coordinated coverage with photography staff; coordinated production of weekly magazine on deadline.- Managed and directed annual travel and entertainment and freelance budgets.- Awarded Times Mirror Chairman's Award in 1999 for success of book publishing project Celebrating 70!

Fort Worth, Texas

- Organized the content and coverage of local news in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Northeast Bureau, identified as the newspaper's key circulation growth market.- Organized and assigned the content and coverage of the daily sports section, prioritizing the news and coverage, budgeting and allotting space based on priorities, representing story coverage to news department on rigid production and deadline schedule for multiple editions each night.- Edited and wrote various elements of the sports section, including graphic design and headline writing, working as part of a team of copy editors.- Served as slot editor, whose responsibility it was to be the final person to read and approve all material that was to appear in the daily newspaper.