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Come work with an award-winning team of editors, designers, and sales representatives at Missouri Life, Inc.!
MISSOURI LIFE MAGAZINE IS SEEKING A SALES SUPERSTAR!
Unlike some magazines and other print publications, Missouri Life circulation and ad sales are still growing. Our magazine advertising is on a 5% growth rate thus far for the year, and our orders for newsstands doubled this past year. We are expanding our advertising sales team, seeking smart, ambitious people who can help us build our brand. We expect to continue to grow, so the opportunity to grow with us exists.
- If you are an experienced media sales person with a string of sales victories with the desire and ability to help build a sales team and grow into an ad director position, we’d like to hear from you.
- If you are entry level but can demonstrate enthusiasm, persistence, sensitivity, independence, leadership, and ability to build rapport, we’d like to hear from you.
- You will be selling, in addition to the magazine, custom publishing (huge opportunity), MissouriLife.com, Missouri Lifelines, our e-newsletter, Missouri eLife, our digital edition.
TO APPLY: Send resume and application letter: dallen@missourilife.com
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 • PASSION FOR EXCELLENCE
Job Description
To create new ad sales revenue and renew existing customers, working from our office in Boonville (about 20 minutes outside of Columbia, Missouri.)
Specific responsibilities:
- Help develop and implement creative sales strategies.
- Build strategic alliances with both new and existing advertisers to increase advertising revenue.
- Contact with customers will be through face-to-face interaction, telephone and written correspondence.
- Travel as needed.
Experience Necessary for the Advanced Position:
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.
Some reasons Missouri Life might be a fit for you:
- Missouri Life reaches 71,500 readers statewide with every issue. We are the highest paid circulation statewide magazine in Missouri. Research has shown magazines with paid readership have much higher readership and retention than free publications (Monroe Mendlesohn).
- About 1,200 newsstands across the state carry Missouri Life and order more than 5,000 copies of every issue. These newsstands include Wal-Marts, Walgreens, Schnucks, Dierbergs, Barnes and Nobles, Borders, and many more outlets.
- Missouri Life was named Magazine of the Year by the International Regional Magazine Association in October 2008, and that enhances our credibility, and thus the credibility of our sponsors, with our readers. Our magazine is hosting the 2010 conference.
- Our readers are affluent, with an average of $116,000 household income.
- Our readers are well-educated, with 85% having degrees or advanced degrees or some college.
- We have active, involved readers, with 72% between the ages of 25 and 65 and a nice even distribution across age groups.
- Our circulation is audited. This is extremely important today when many free and unaudited magazines make exaggerated claims of print runs, distribution, and readers/copy.
- Missouri Life set a record at our audit firm (audits 5,000+ publications) for how long our magazine is kept, meaning we’ve become not only a coffee-table magazine picked up over-and-over again, but also a reference magazine, that moves to home book shelves for continued future reference.
Perks and Benefits
- Fun work environment
- Opportunity to travel to see clients and to national conferences
- Broad scope for career development *Medical insurance
- Retirement contribution plan (our match fully vested immediately)
- Generous first-year Paid-Time-Off policy
Editorial Internships
Thirty minutes west of Columbia in Boonville, Missouri Life, an award-winning bi-monthly publication, is looking for Fall 2009 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
Executive Editor
Missouri Life Magazine
515 E. Morgan St.
Boonville, MO 65233
Or click here to submit your application.
2010 Fall internships: August 16, 2010 — December 17, 2010
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 2009 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:
Tina Wheeler
Art Director
Missouri Life Magazine
515 E. Morgan St.
Boonville, MO 65233
Or click here to submit your application.
2010 Fall internships: August 16, 2010 — December 17, 2010
