Market Development at Bazaarvoice
Austin, Texas Area
Market Development at Bazaarvoice
Austin, Texas Area
The fluff: More than 5 years success in aggressive inside sales with exceptional prospecting, relationship building, negotiation, closing and account management/customer service skills. B2B sales experience in recruiting services, web-based recruitment advertising, marketing, communications, branding, social commerce initiatives and user-generated content campaigns.
Dedicated to fostering high-quality customer relationships while maintaining integrity, respect and reliability as a vendor.
The real deal: I love what I do. I thrive on communication and interaction with others. I do my best to take complex ideas and concepts and make them HUMAN. I treat my prospects and clients like people instead of paychecks, and I'd like to believe that changes the dynamic of our interactions.
We all put our pants on one leg at a time. We all - no matter how confident or self-assured - question our decisions, worry about failure, seek approval and support from those around us. I must sell myself before I can even consider selling a product or idea and I make a conscious effort daily to manage my business and relationships with integrity, honesty and transparency. It's not my goal to pull the wool over on someone to get deals done, but rather lift the veil and show my cards, have an open dialogue rather than a tactical game of cat and mouse.
I'm a believer that you can NOT sell ice to an eskimo, and I think the world will be a better place when more sales people accept that.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Bazaarvoice brings the power of social commerce to the world's best brands. Social commerce happens when you connect customers to one another in ways that drive measurable results to your business. Our mission is to help your customers build your business.
Through outsourced technology, community management services, analytics, and syndication, Bazaarvoice is the best-of-breed solution for using consumer-generated content to drive customer loyalty and multi-channel sales.
Responsible for launching a "for Market Developers, by Market Developers" training program, enabling MD's across verticals and territories to share ideas and success to improve overall performance. Served/serving as mentor to new hires in an effort to help ramp quickly and achieve immediate success in the Market Development role. Assist Director of Market Development in strategy, execution and training of MD teams.
Member of Enterprise Solution Team (aka OneVoice). Participation includes assistance in decision making on behalf of the Sales team in an effort to align strategy and resources with corporate goals.
Q4 2009: 266% Quota Achievement - #1 Worldwide
Q3 2009: 172% Quota Achievement - #1 Worldwide
Q2 2009: 137% Quota Achievement - #3 Worldwide