To use my skills in sales and advertising in an environment that is encouraging, demanding, and fair, in the ever so challenging world

of Advertising, Marketing and Communications. Work History, Talents and Office experience: Media General 6/2005 To: Present Classified Advertising Representative Inside sales. Sometimes Outside Sales when necessary. Listening to customer's re quests, creating right wording/content/graphics for customer requirements for ad and reaching customer's target audience. Work with ad department to create and design ads. Use internet, data bases, contacts, print products for market resear ch on a customer. Telemarket, make face to face calls, receive inbound calls fro m advertisers for classified and display advertising. Work closely with Managers, Owners of small businesses, corporations and agencie s. Job requires patience as well as multi-tasking. Customer service follow up af ter achieving customer's goal VERY important. Compose & prepare routine correspondence necessary. Worked with supervisors on n ew special sections to sell and set up quotes and contracts for review. Set up a nd maintain file systems, organize, sort, according to requirements of employer. Used Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Worked everyday on acquiring new business using internet, data bases, print and appropriate contacts. Great team player and can work independently. Herald Progress Classified Advertising Representative 8/2003 To: 6/2005 Sole inside and outside sales rep for all classified display and in-column adver tising for biweekly paper, accents and monthly promotional issues. Input,layout and scheduled ads for Herald Progress and Virginia Press Association. Worked und er deadline pressure. Customer service follow up of accounts on weekly basis. Color Corporation of America,(Graphics Design Company) Sept 1993 - Nov. 1998 Turnkey jobs for customers. KFC, TACO BELL and PEPSICO. Local: Ice Palace, TB Bu ccaneers, Ron Jon's Surfshop. Marketing, advertising and customer service support and sales. Quoted jobs for b ids in person or by phone. Advised best marketing product suggestions for client s using product knowledge. Created with a production and photographic team displ ays, graphics layout, expo show displays, backlit photography for drive through restaurants, reproduction of licensed artwork. Liaison between customer and pro duction fulfillment. Communicated directly with a variety of clients: directors, marketing directors, purchasing agents, production managers, photograpers & business owners. Also re sponsible for set list of sales reps in field and assistance to marketing strate gies for their assigned customers. EDUCATON:

Bachelor of Arts - Advertising/Communications University of South Florida, April, 1988, Tampa Florida *I can always sell something I believe in.