John Allen Dees, Jr

15 years experience in sales and marketing. Sales experience has consisted of selling print media, direct mail, and Internet advertising; developing, managing & renting databases. Managed a printing brokerage including the coordination and use of in-house and outsource mail fulfillment services. Demographic research and market analysis and developed marketing solutions for niche businesses. Work has included the sale of consulting contracts to school districts for the management of E-rate funding. Spent over 10 years as the sales and marketing director for a national publishing and advertising company. My key responsibilities and achievements included maintaining a consistent and growing client base made up of Fortune 500 companies as well as small-to-medium businesses that I assisted in the marketing of products and services to high school and college coaches and professional sports teams. In addition I developed new markets for the two national publications and marketing database companies. I was awarded “Client First, Satisfaction Award” in 2008 while working for Statewide Business Brokers, a brokerage company, selling small-to-medium sized businesses in the states of Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. In summary, I have been successful doing direct sales, phone sales and writing sales copy for direct mail promotions and Internet marketing.
Currently I am the East Coast & South East Account Executive for SmartWave Technologies a wireless centric consulting engineering firm specializing in the design, build and deployment of wireless networks and the applications these networks support.

John Allen Dees, Jr’s Specialties:

Market research, advertising, publishing, direct mail, database management, Internet marketing, business brokerage, franchise sales, wireless, WIFI, Video,

John Allen Dees, Jr’s Experience

Account Executive

Smartwave Technologies, LLC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Account executive for South East market; working with municipalities, colleges, hospitals and medium to large businesses in order to develop and integrate wireless networks and technology in order to provide them with WIFI, video surveillance as well as other applications which rely on wireless networks.
Account Executive

Statewide Business Brokers

(Investment Management industry)

April 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 4 months)

I am responsible for listing and selling small established businesses priced from $60k-$2 million as well as finding business opportunities for investment firms and individuals. I assist buyers with securing SBA financing as well as negotiating seller’s terms of sale to buyer
Account Executive

The Online Target Marketing Group

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 5 months)

My responsibilities included advising businesses on how to fully utilize internet search engines to build company branding and sales by incorporating “Keyword Advertising” with “Retro Advertising”. I assisted my clients in gaining instantaneous exposure to people searching for relevant products and services.
Account Executive

E-Rate Consulting Services, LLC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

March 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Account executive responsible for sales of contracts to school districts to manage their E-Rate funding, appeals and recovery of unutilized funds.
Marketing & Sales Director

Athletic Publishing Company

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

1991 — 2001 (10 years )

I was the Director of Marketing and Advertising Sales. In this role I performed database development and list rentals of high school and college coaches target to the athletics equipment industry. I worked with
Fortune 500 companies and small businesses alike to market their products to high school and college athletic departments. I also worked with college and professional sports teams to recruit new players. I brokered printing and mail fulfillment services for clients and sold advertising in national directories to suppliers of the athletics industry.

John Allen Dees, Jr’s Education

Auburn University at Montgomery

1989 — 1991
University of London

Sociology 1990 — 1990
University of Alabama

Marketing 1985 — 1987

Activities and Societies:

Alfa Tau Omega
Montgomery Academy

1972 — 1985