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Are You Up for the Challenge? A Sales Position at ValpoLife and PortageLife
by ValpoLife.com
At ValpoLife, we pride ourselves on the fact that we out-hustle, out-communicate, and out-perform as a medium for a business to communicate their messages to potential customers in the markets that we serve. For businesses and organizations that support ValpoLife, our job is well beyond just running a bunch of ads for our advertisers. Our job is to communicate what is good about their company, in every way we possibly can, so that their business grows as a result of what we are doing.
It's as simple as that. In one way our products sell themselves as we measure everything so we can constantly refine what we do for our clients because our only priority is making sure what we do works best for the companies that work with us.
We are looking for talented, driven individuals to help us communicate who we are and what we offer with businesses that serve Northwest Indiana. We are looking for people who are:
- Hard working in attitude
- Aggressive mentality that seeks and conquers challenges
- Engaging personalities who feel comfortable creating communication
- Self-starters who have goals above and beyond ours
- Gregarious when talking to new people
- Eager to get out and introduce the people and businesses of Valparaiso or Portage to ValpoLife and PortageLife.
- Suited to a hyper-entrepreneurial environment with low structure and high expectations for personal performance as part of a team.
- Able to work well under pressure
- Results-oriented, as sales is a very performance-driven profession
- Comfortable talking to people on the phone and striking up relationships
- Confident that they understand and believe in the concepts behind ValpoLife and PortageLife and can energetically communicate those ideals to business owners and decisions
- Well-spoken with a solid writing background for consistent, professional, and impactful conversation online, over the phone, and in person.
- Geared to fitting in to our team-oriented, fast paced, no-BS environment
We are a new way for businesses to communicate with people as far as being an online source versus a traditional media source, but also in that we represent a whole new concept in bringing so much information about one community together in one place, and doing it in an exclusively positive manner. Businesses are very mindful of their marketing budgets during challenging times, and my not be geared to considering "new" options, regardless of whether they perform better than traditional methods or not.
The role we are looking for is fully commission-based compensation and is entirely based on productivity. The right candidate will do exceptionally well, and will have significant upside with a very fast growing company. The wrong candidate will fail and there is very little gray area in between.
The businesses and organizations that "get it" are loyal supporters of what we do because they understand what we can do for them beyond anything they are doing now.
With these challenges and opportunities, doing sales work for ValpoLife and PortageLife can be the easiest and the hardest job in the world at the same time. It requires passion, persuasion, and performance.
If you are unsure about fitting this description in any way, we would rather you not apply. We are interested only in folks that are truly excited about how they could fill this role and are very confident that they are the right fit for a fast-growing, dynamic company where you are learning and improving every day. Your time, and our time, is very valuable, and we very much understand that this role will not be a good fit for most, whether that due to the style, duties, expectations, compensation, culture, or any other facet of the role.
If you are interested:
- Go to the site and read and review the Media Kit.
- Check out the site in depth to get a feel for the content we offer and the attitude that exists on the site.
- Review how the specific advertising options relate to the content and how that all works.
- Send us your resume along with a persuasive and descriptive cover letter that is 2 pages maximum in length that tells us why you "get it", how you would help others "get it", and why you are the one to connect all that together successfully. Send those to advertising@valpolife.com
- Please only send resumes with full persuasive and descriptive letters as described above, as those are the only candidates that we will be considering. We will follow up directly with each submission that has those two items. Please no calls.
We look forward to hearing from some outstanding individuals, and presenting them an excellent opportunity to thrive.