About Missouri Life

Greg Wood and Danita Allen Wood (a husband and wife team of journalists themselves) started the company 9 years ago. The company is a member of the International and Regional Magazine Association (IRMA). Danita is serving a three-year term on its board, and you will have opportunities to attend annual conferences. Our magazine is hosting the 2010 conference.

Our prize-winning magazine has won the Gold Award for a travel feature, a Bronze Award for art direction, and a couple of IRMA Awards of Merit, as well as a couple of Missouri Tourism Department awards.

Since this couple revived Missouri Life in 1999, both the magazine and the company have experienced steady growth. The six-times-per-year, full four-color glossy, 20,000 circulation magazine has won a national design and writing award as well as other editorial awards, and paid circulation, renewal rates, and advertising revenues have steadily risen. We have 11 full or part-time employees and offer benefits to full-time employees.

Sales Superstar

Wanted: A St. Louis Sales Superstar!

Are you: Ambitious? A self-starter? Organized? A good communicator? A people person? Adaptable? Pursuasive?

If these qualities describe you, get in touch with our prize-winning magazine!

Missouri Life, Inc., in Boonville (about 30 minutes from Columbia) seeks ambitious and talented advertising sales people, preferably with media sales experience, to work from your home office but join our ad sales team of three people. You would sell the city market and grow with us. Missouri Life is a six times per year, four-color state magazine focusing especially on travel, leisure, and history. Our page count has been in the 134-164-page range during this past year. We have other custom publications, which you may sell into as well, such as a golf annual and Vacation Days magazine, and we also sell positions on MissouriLife.com.

Both a detailed job description and more background information about our company follows.

Job Description:

To create new ad sales revenue and renew existing customers, working from your home office. (Travel to Boonville 2x/month to meet with publisher and sales team.)

Specific responsibilities:

SALES ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
—Sell advertising space in our magazine, custom projects, and annual guides
—Solicit business by canvassing current account lists and cold calling
—Increase revenue from existing accounts and grow client revenue in an assigned territory or category
—Help develop and implement creative sales strategies
—Build strategic alliances with advertisers to increase advertising revenue
—Contact with customers will be through face-to-face interaction, telephone and written correspondence
—Work from home office; travel as needed
—Fulfill sales budgeting/forecasting/ reporting procedures
—Assist as needed in communicating with clients about advertising materials and payments

Experience Necessary/Desirable:

Face-to-face and phone selling experience desirable; marketing ability; strategic planning skills; superior presentation and communication skills; excellent consultative selling skills; strong verbal and written communication skills; analytical ability; listening skills; creative ideas to assist our customers in achieving their marketing goals. College degree.

The critical attributes we seek are:

Self-motivated, ambitious, competitive, enjoys challenge, enjoys working with others, organized and able to manage various projects simultaneously, good time management skills, ability to solve or help solve problems, ability to be creative in helping customers solve marketing challenges, and PASSION FOR EXCELLENCE.

E-mail Danita@missourilife.com with résumé.

Editorial Internships

Thirty minutes west of Columbia in Boonville, Missouri Life, an award-winning bi-monthly publication, is looking for Fall/Winter 2007 and Spring 2008 interns. We offer comprehensive, educational internships so only serious students and recent graduates need apply. You will gain intimate knowledge of the magazine industry while writing, accuracy checking, editing and proofreading articles. These positions are unpaid, but college credit can be arranged with your college or university.

Still interested? Send your résumé and four published clips along with two references who can attest to your work ethic (i.e. college professors) to:

Rebecca French Smith

Managing Editor

Missouri Life Magazine

515 E. Morgan St.

Boonville, MO 65233

Or click here to submit your application.
2009 Spring internships: January 12, 2009 — May 8, 2009

Design and Photography Internships

At Missouri Life, we like to win awards for design and have a track record of brilliant, engaging visual presentation. We're looking for talented, up-and-coming designers for Fall/Winter 2007 and Spring 2008 internships who want to continue down that path. These positions are unpaid, but college credit can be arranged with your college or university.

Think your vision can raise the bar? Send your résumé and four design clips along with two references who can attest to your work ethic (i.e. college professors) to:

Shea Bryant

Art Director

Missouri Life Magazine

515 E. Morgan St.

Boonville, MO 65233

Or click here to submit your application.

2008 Fall internships: August 11, 2008 — December 19, 2008

2009 Spring internships: January 12, 2009 — May 8, 2009