Sales & Marketing Society of the Mid-South

RedRover, a growing Memphis, Tennessee sales and marketing consulting firm is seeking an Office Manager with 5+ years of high-level administrative experience to join its pack. Ad agency/marketing firm experience is a plus, but not required. Selected candidate must have a proven track record of successfully managing projects, identifying the need for and developing needed systems/processes that improve efficiency, and developing organizational systems that can be executed firm-wide. Ideal candidate has exceptional follow-through skills and enjoys working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, journalism, communications, English, or similar field required.

Special skills required:

• Writing/editing/proof reading
• Advanced skill level with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook 2007
• Substantial experience using social media tools FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn
• Project management
• AR/AP
• Basic tech skills such as trouble shooting printing and wifi problems

Additional experience preferred:

• Basic working knowledge of web content management tools such as Adobe Contribute
• Experience using an HTML email platform (such as Constant Contact or Emma)

Job responsibility overview:

• Heavy administrative support to managing partner
• Light administrative support to account service team
• Office organization and supply management
• Management of all firm files
• Answering phones and greeting guests
• Training and support to clients using the firm’s HTML email marketing platform, including product demos for prospective new clients
• Marketing the firm by booking speaking engagements, generating PR and messaging through the firm’s social media channels
• Market research support
• Contract/Proposal development
• Identifying and maintaining relationships with freelance creative talent
• Project/traffic management
• Light bookkeeping

If you’d like to be considered for this position, email your resume to careers@redrovercompany.com. In order to be considered for this position, please include a complete salary history and your current salary requirements in the cover letter. Resumes without this salary information will not be considered. No phone calls or office visits please.

While many SMS members know Lori Turner as managing partner of RedRover Company Sales & Marketing, they don’t realize that she was also contributing ghost writer for “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guerrilla Marketing.” She possesses tremendous knowledge about how small businesses can use non-traditional marketing tactics to promote their brand, product or service.

Lori shared the secrets of why guerrilla marketing works and 10 types of guerrilla marketing that you may have never heard of in a recent SMS workshop. Attendees learned about proximity marketing, intrusive marketing, ambient marketing, and more. The presentation also included examples of brands using guerrilla marketing – some successfully and some not so much. Lori also outlined the six steps to creating your own winning guerrilla strategy.

We had a packed house for the workshop, so if you missed out then make sure you’re on our mailing list to find out about our great upcoming events! You can register on the homepage of our website at http://www.sms-midsouth.org

We had a sold-out house today for our 3rd workshop, and this one was by far one of the most compelling.

Lori Turner, Manager Partner at RedRover Sales & Marketing delivered an amazing overview of what an effective sales strategy is, and then how social media tools can be used to increase sales effectiveness.

James Hutto of Valeo Design & Marketing covered the “Four C’s to Conquer LinkedIn” and talked the audience through the building blocks necessary to using Lori’s strategy of prospecting and profiling sales leads using social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook.
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We’re looking forward to the next workshop which is tentatively scheduled for October 2.  Due to the last two workshops selling out, we’re going to seek a new location that will allow us to accomodate more seating.  We hated to have to turn so many down today that tried to register the 1-2 days before the event!

October Workshop

We get more questions about Twitter-this and Twitter-that, we feel like its time to jump in and get you some answers.  We’re going to have a panel available to answer questions about how to use Twitter, how people are using it in their businesses, and most importantly- how (if) people are profiting from their use  of it.

We want to hear from you! Fill out our Twitter Survey to submit questions that you would like to see us cover.  We’ll get some savvy people there to give you some different perspectives.

This month we welcome Matt Ryan, Regional VP of Marketing for Harrah’s Casino. Matt’s going to talk to us about Marketing in a Competitive Environment, which is something that any sales or marketing professional can certainly relate to!

This month is unique because the board of directors has decided to allow every Sales & Marketing Society member to bring one guest free of charge! That’s right- if you are a member of the SMS, you can bring a guest to the May 20th luncheon for FREE! I hope that every member is going to take full advantage of this great offer and get some new people into the SMS that would be good prospective members!

Details of the May luncheon are available on the SMS website and you can also register through that link.

May Luncheon Sponsor- Red Rover Company
We are excited to have Red Rover Company as the sponsor for this month’s luncheon. Red Rover is a marketing and communications company, and Lori Turner from Red Rover is on the SMS board of directors. About Red Rover Company:

At RedRover our mission is to break through the attitudes, barriers and processes that hinder your sales organization’s success. Then, we re-engineer your sales organization in the spirit of our RedRover mascot to make it smart, hard-working, confident and loyal.

The result is a sales team ready to dominate its territory and taste success, while you get to savor the profits. Once the sales force is in tip-top condition, and only then, your company is finally positioned to see an attractive ROI from marketing and communications initiatives.

We’ll help there, too. We’ll use what we discovered about your industry, business and sales organization to develop marketing communications that break through a cluttered, noisy marketplace to reach the right people with the right message.

Specialties
• Sales development/coaching
• Market research• Branding
• Target marketing
• Communications
• Promotions
• Public relations

—–This Pack Has Your Back—–

If you would like to join us at the luncheon, then please fill out the following form and we will find a member that you can join as a guest! You can send us an email at: info@sms-midsouth.org