Responsibilities include: business strategy, book keeping, human resource management, project management, web design, web development, pitching, sales, cold calling, training session leader, proposal creating, market analysis, recruitment and account development.

This was my first executive sales role within a PLC and I learned a lot during the three months I was there. The business primarily focused on cold calling start-up businesses and trying to sell to them directly business mobile contracts. We worked exclusively with the Orange Network, selling only Orange mobile contracts and products.
By the end of the first month I had already established myself as the leading sales person and was fast racked into managing and opening a new office in Newcastle.
Cold Call Specialist
Target to sell 30 units per month, exceeded this selling over 40 units
SME Business to business Sales
Increased company revenue and sales
Including commission my wages eclipsed £30,000 per annum
Top Sales Person
Earned a trip to New York
Established new departments within the company I.e. Blue Cow Premier (for companies with larger contracts) Blue Cow accounts management and Blue Cow Customer Support.
Participated in staff training after only 1 month

Responsibilities included: Cold calling, business development, Marketing Strategy, Project Management, database management, pitching, account development and I worked closely with the MD learning how to run / build a SME.

This is the second company I have chaired and directed. I had overall responsibility for everything within the business. Although we had a team of 10 members I liked to overview everything that went out. HMG Music LTD was a recording and music-publishing organisation, specialising in supporting emerging talents from the local area.
Skills acquired/ achievements:
Created a LTD company from scratch.
GURELLIA SELLING - Sold over 2000 Copies of debut single
Hard selling Specialist - Sold Cd's in the streets of Camden to customers who hadn't ever heard the music on the CD
Top 100-chart entry with debut single. (Cat Co Registered)
Organised and managed a 6 week European tour, covering 7 countries
Organised promoted and supported the Unity Day (Leeds) festival for two consecutive years (06 / 07)
Organised and promoted 3 full UK tours with bands playing over 100 venues

January 2004 to August 2007 - Students Housing Students.com - A student letting company that I started, offering yearly lets. I was reselling for a local estate agency, and I let over 600 properties.

Complete website design and build

Michael Stevenson

Michael Stevenson

Michael is a fantastic professional. He carried out all the work we required two weeks ahead of schedule and on budget with better than expected results. He is a dream freelancer, and we are going to continue to work with him for the foreseeable future. We highly recommend him. So use him. James CEO

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Complete Ecommerce website designed from scrath.
PHP, MYSQL and HTML editing.
Flash and implementation
Hosting and Domain Registration
SEO

Nicola Barnard

Nicola Barnard

Michael is extremely reliable and maintained excellent levels of communication throughout several projects, which aided in the smooth integration of different aspects of our site. He will work hard to ensure complete customer satisfaction, by gaining a great understanding of client needs, and working the extra hours needed to surpass requirements. In our case, this meant that Michael had to learn a new piece of software (which he did in his own time), but the fact that he was willing to further himself for the sake of delivering on our needs shows great commitment and resilience. All in all, it was a pleasure to work alongside Michael, and we will definitely be looking to work with him again in the near future.

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Completed Design and Implemtation of SpeechFreedom.co.uk

Jerry Zablocki

Jerry Zablocki

Michael produced a fantastic design concept and was instrumental in the projects success. I would use him again at the drop of a hand, and I was very proud of the final product. Michael worked over the weekends to make sure the project was completed on time even though it was our fault the design concepts keep changing. Use this guy. Jerry

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