Advertising Sales Internship - Summer 2009 - San Marcos, TX

If you are interested in exploring a lucrative and rewarding career in response-oriented media sales, this is the internship for you. As an Advertising Sales Intern with Campus Direct Media, the publisher of Bobcat Coupons for the Texas State Unicersity Market, you will learn to:

• Acquire new advertisers for Bobcat Coupons through both b2b marketing and personal selling efforts.
• Develop and maintain a prospect database utilizing a CRM system.
• Create and implement effective business to business marketing plans specifically targeted to assigned territory and client type.
• Work with individual clients in determining and then fulfilling their advertising needs.
• Conceptualize, write copy and prepare layout designs for coupons; then effectively communicate with professional graphic designer to fulfill customer expectations.
• Effectively establish customer expectations during the sales process.

Requirements:

• Passion for learning more about ROI based advertising.
• Ability to deal effectively with all types of personalities.
• Above average initiative, creativity, negotiation and listening skills.
• Professional appearance.
• Commitment to work at least 20 hours per week during business hours (8am - 6pm), reliably sticking to a schedule you set up in advance for each week.

Compensation:

• There is no hourly compensation for this inernship.
• At the end of the internship, a generous sales-based commission will be paid on advertising contracts booked by the sales intern.
• Interns who exceed expectations could possibly earn a full time job upon graduation with Valpak of Austin which is owned and operated by one of the Campus Direct partners and a Princeton Review top job for recent grads. At Valpak of Austin, first year Account Executives can earn 35-50k or more.

To apply for this exciting internship, email your resume and letter of interest to David Flash, Director of Sales at david.flash@couponmarketer.com