Job openings at Shop-eat-surf
Here are current job openings at shop-eat-surf.com:
Sales executives
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Production project coordinators
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About Shop-eat-surf
We deliver online business news and information to a loyal and growing audience of executives in apparel, footwear, accessories and hard goods wholesale and retail companies, and in the vendor and professional services firms that do business with them.
Our news team publishes original, researched and reported items every business day on shop-eat-surf.com, and promotes the site through email alerts to opt-in subscribers and via social media tools. We also produce several Executive Roundtable live events a year.
Our membership sales team interacts with our Executive Edition members, who are executives and their admins at action sports industry wholesale and retail companies, and at the professional services and vendor companies who do business with them.
Our advertising sales team interacts with marketing and sales executives at professional services and vendor firms.
We are a boutique business, delivering premium quality service to our customers in all aspects of our enterprise. We treat our readers, advertisers, customers and contractors with respect and understanding.
How to apply
Please send a resume and cover letter to Andrew Horan, President, Shop-eat-surf, at customers@shop-eat-surf.com.
Please see page 2 for our sales executives job description,
and page 3 for our production project coordinators description
Independent, commission sales executives
We have openings for commissioned sales executives to sell our full suite of sponsorship tools to firms conducting business with action sports companies.
About Shop-eat-surf’s sponsors
We sell custom sponsorship plans to firms that do business with the wholesale and retail companies that comprise our news coverage. We do not sell sponsorships to the wholesale and retail companies that our news team covers.
Our accounts and prospects include companies in financial services and capital markets, software, textile printing, trade shows, distribution, freight and logistics, travel and lodging, law, accounting, insurance, printing, retail fixtures and dozens of related categories.
We have more than 40 active sponsors, and we maintain a prospects list of hundreds of companies.
About the position
Each sales executive is responsible for selling the full suite of sponsorship tools to selected categories, with a focus on filling key inventory positions.
Sponsorship tools available to sell include:
- Web display banners
- Email marketing
- Professional Services Directory listings
- Executive Roundtable live events
Activities/duties
Prospect for and sell to companies in selected categories of professional service and vendor companies.
Send monthly performance reports to each account, with copies to the Shop-eat-surf sales leader.
Send monthly prospecting and sales activity reports and real-time billing information to the sales leader.
Support
Shop-eat-surf sends monthly updates to prospects, and each sales exec may maintain and send to his/her own list.
Our media kit shows the site mission, the audience, the sponsorship tools, the performance metrics and clients lists in high-profile visuals.
Our production coordinators prepare monthly custom performance reports for each sponsor.
Our marketing writer is available to coordinate Custom Content postings to our Industry Insight page for sponsors who select qualifying plans.
Compensation
We will discuss our specific compensation structure and projected commission payments with qualified candidates during interviews.
Shop-eat-surf invoices, collects payment and reports payment to the rep and sends monthly commission worksheets and checks.
How to apply
Please email your resume and cover letter to Andrew Horan, President, Shop-eat-surf.
Please see page 3 for our production project coordinators description
or page 1 for our company description
Production project coordinators
We have openings for independent contractors to coordinate production projects with our news, advertising and membership teams.
About the positions
These are part-time positions, up to 20 hours/week. The coordinators are independent contractors who will work from home and in the Shop-eat-surf offices in Costa Mesa, California.
Project activities/duties
For the news team, reports to Editor Tiffany Montgomery.
• Post items in real time to the Industry Releases section of the website. Includes finding and posting images and links.
• Post advance articles to the Top Stories section, as directed by the Editor, including creating slide shows and linking appropriately.
• Respond to reader inquiries as directed by the editor.
• Update daily email template as directed by the editor.
For the advertising team, reports to President Andrew Horan.
• Post advertising banners to the website and to email templates.
• Post and update Professional Services Directory listings.
• Post Industry Insight articles.
• Prepare monthly performance metrics reports.
• Respond to email replies as directed.
• Investigate and resolve email “bounce” incidents and report results.
For the membership sales team, reports to President Andrew Horan.
• Respond in real time to member and interested party inquiries.
• Maintain member status for offline membership selections.
• Reconcile, maintain and migrate separate membership databases into single database.
• Compile weekly, monthly and yearly membership sales reports.
• Reconcile membership lists and export to new system.
Compensation
The positions pay $15/hour. The potential exists for additional special projects and for a year-end performance bonus.
Each contractor is responsible for providing work materials and equipment, recording hours worked, preparing and presenting regular invoices for payment.
How to apply
Please email your resume and cover letter to Andrew Horan, President, Shop-eat-surf.
Please see page 2 for our sales executives description
