Social Media Club Louisville

A friend of ours at IT Business Edge passed on a job posting to see if we might circulate it to the Social Media Club Louisville group. While we’ve never posted job openings on the blog, to my recollection, in the spirit of making sure we can all fight through the economy, I figured why not? If you have a posting, email it to us at news - at - smclouisville.org. We’ll try to post it in a timely fashion. However, please do make sure it is relevant to the social media, technology, marketing or PR industries.

Inside Sales Manager

NarrowCast Group is a business-to-business electronic publisher. Their initial product offering is IT Business Edge, www.itbusinessedge.com, targeting technology decision makers.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the VP Sales, the Inside Sales Manager is responsible for hiring, managing, coaching, evaluating, and training a team of account executives. Keeps the team informed about: 1) the business and business strategy 2) the market and competitors 3) the company and team goals and objectives 4) company policies and practices 5) additional assignments and accountabilities 6) any business or company information to be disseminated via the management chain.
• Designs and develops strategic initiatives to generate new customers and to retain and grow existing business.  Utilizes direct marketing including web and email based programs, direct mail, and telephone.
• Assists in the development of lead generation and advertising proposals for advertising prospects.
• Drives revenue through lead generation and advertising programs to meet monthly/quarterly/annual revenue targets. Brainstorms with team and company leadership on ideas and ways to garner prospects and business.
• Monitors and reports sales metrics to team and leadership.
• Communicates market intelligence and feedback to team members and leadership.
• Manages the sales administration process.
• Develops, maintains and manages individual territories via Salesforce.com.

Skills:

• Strong leadership, management and motivational skills.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to effectively manage details.
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members, company leadership and customers, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to drive e-marketing campaigns.
• Telemarketing skills.
• Ability to analyze customer needs and to create and execute initiatives to meet those needs.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills,
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.

Experience:

• 1-3 years experience in inside sales management.
• Proven successful track record of managing inside sales.
• Online advertising experience a plus.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training and experience.

Please send resumes to:

barbarajford@barbarajford.net

The Louisville chapter of the American Marketing Association has graciously extended an invitation and a special member’s rate to Social Media Club Louisville to attend the April 30 AMA luncheon with Brains on Fire’s Geno Church, one of the masterminds behind the Fiskateers community of Fiskars enthusiasts. The event will be held at the University Club at the University of Louisville from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. The special, SMC Louisville rate is $25.00. Purchase your tickets by purchasing through our Eventbright RSVP below below. (A $0.99 fee will be added for Eventbright processing.)

Please note SMC Louisville guests will need to buy via the Eventbright order form. The special rate will not be accepted at the door.

Church will give tips on how marketers can create sustainable word of mouth movements for their brands, how to find people to engage the brand and how to manage the community once it’s started. He’ll also give tips on how to evaluate a word of mouth program’s success. Learn more about Church and Brains on Fire at www.brainsonfire.com.

Location:
The University Club at the University of Louisville
11:30 - 12:00 networking; 12:00 - 1:00 lunch and speaker
www.louisville.edu/org/uclub

Passing along some job opportunities we’ve learned of. Send the link along to those you might know who would be interested. If you have a social media-related opening, let us know and we’ll post it!

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SolutionSet will be opening an office in Louisville in mid September and will have openings for HTML/CSS specialists and Java developers with 2+ years of experience. SolutionSet is a fast growing company and is expanding to Louisville to establish an East Coast presence. Launched in 2003, SolutionSet (http://www.solutionset.com) combines industry-leading technology with user-centered creative to deliver the latest approaches in web development, digital marketing and brand experience. As a brand technology and interactive agency, we utilize the latest technology to turn our clients’ visions into the website, brand promise, ad campaign, application interface, or email campaign they need to run their business. With offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, we stage the convergence of brand and technology which allows us to view each client challenge with a bigger picture in mind and offer strategic solutions based on that visibility. We have a proven track record for delivering to clients like Chevron, EBay, Tivo, Verisign, Cisco, Autodesk, and LucasFilm. SolutionSet is a Webby Award recipient and is number 23 on the Inc Magazine Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies overall list and number 2 in the IT Services category.

We are looking to fill these positions:
* CSS/XHTML Developers
* Java Developer (2-7 years industry experience)
* Sr. Java Developer (5+ years industry experience)

If you are interested, or know anyone who may be interested, please contact Tom Osborne ASAP. We will be conducting interviews in Louisville this Friday (September 12). Feel free to contact Osborne after this date as well.

*NO RECRUITERS*

Tom Osborne - tosborne - at - solutionset.com
502.797.8247

Just a reminder that the monthly Social Media Happy Proof on Main is this evening, Tuesday, August 26 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.What better way to close down a Tuesday than 10% off drinks and hanging with your social media buds at a swanky bar? No need to RSVP, just show up and get a fancy, red “My Name Is” sticker to show the staff you get the discount.

See you there!

Social Media Club Louisville Happy Hour
Tuesday August 26, 2008
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Proof on Main
702 W. Main Street
Louisville, Ky.

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Okay, how many of you can honestly say that having a technology-based, quiz bowl type competition to raise money for a good cause wouldn’t be fun? The 2008 Louisville Technology Acronym Bee is coming up on Thursday, October 23rd at the Mellwood Arts Center and the call for participants and sponsor donations is out. The bee is presented by and is a fund-raiser for the National Center for Family Literacy, a national non-profit headquartered here in Louisville.

Think spelling bee, only being asked what obscure technology acronyms mean. (All you geeks will be down with the bee. If you don’t consider yourself a geek, your IT guys and gals will totally dig this.) The winning team gets the LTAB Champion Trophy Cup, prizes and significant bragging rights. Louisville Geek Dinner will never be the same. Plus the event is an entertaining, fun time.

The donation levels include:

$550 – Silver Sponsor (One team of three people compete.)
$1,200 – Gold Sponsor (Two teams of three people compete and two tables for 10 more people at the event.)
$2,500 – Platinum Sponsor (Three teams of three people compete with three tables for 15 others at the event.)
$5000 – Title Sponsor (Teams of three competitive teams negotiable, tables for 30 attendees at event.)

Everyone gets food, beverages and participants get T-shirts. There are all sorts of other benefits for the levels of sponsorship. To find out more or to sign up as a team or sponsor, call or email Andrea Peters at NCFL at (502) 584-1133 ext. 131 or apeters – at – famlit.org. There is no official deadline, but there are a limited number of teams available, so sign up soon.

The event is the NCFL’s only local fund-raising activity. NCFL is a national non-profit uniquely focused on literacy support and programming for multiple generations. Their work has pioneered a family-centric approach to education reform. To date, the six-year-old event has raised nearly $80,000 to support the organization. Learn more about them on their website or their blog.

Disclosure: NCFL is a client of Jason Falls’s agency, Doe-Anderson.

Just a note to let everyone know of an additional learning opportunity this week, in addition to reminding everyone of Tuesday’s April Gathering of the Social Media Club Louisville.

One of our charter members, Aaron Marshall of DBS, will be part of the panel at Community Communication’s, “Social Media, Social Networks and Social Change” luncheon Monday. The event is from noon until 2 p.m. at Webster University’s Adena Center (Zorn and River Road) and is detailed here.

And Tuesday night will be our regular monthly gathering (Have you remembered “Third Tuesday” yet?) featuring an expert panel on blogging. We’ll meet from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at Fox and Hound Grille and Pub next to Oxmoor Mall. If you haven’t RSVP’d, please do so via email at smclouisville — at — gmail.com or on the Facebook group. For more on the panel, check out our announcement post here.

How exciting is it that five months ago, people in Louisville weren’t talking about social media much, and now there are  back-to-back days with learning opportunities? Can’t wait to see you Tuesday. Be sure to go out and support Aaron, plus see what the others have to say Monday if you can.