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IMMEDIATE OPENING
CONSULTATIVE VIDEO AND MEDIA SALESPERSON
Looking for a talented outside sales pro to lead our sales initiatives for full motion video and selling other Beacon products.
We help businesses grow with a myr- iad of marketing solutions. Our core product, Flathead Beacon (which is what you are reading, check the qual- ity) is a hyperlocal news source that gets fantastic results for advertisers.
We build websites, have social media solutions, direct mail, SEO, online advertising, video production, niche publications to include Flathead Liv- ing Magazine, logo development, air- port advertising, graphic art fulfill- ment, event marketing avenues, trade show collateral and we operate a run- ning club.
You have a knack for video. You pos- sess editing skills. A sales producer that knows how to get up in the morn- ing and do what it takes to earn the business. Perhaps your youtube skill set has prepared you for the business world.
You will be discovering new clients that need that special sauce of high tech reality to explain what they do so they can find and keep more custom- ers.
You know how to ask for the order and ship timely excellence. You have or can learn knowledge of premier and adobe suite. Indesign? Cool if you are famil- iar with the back end of wordpress.
We are not the traditional newspaper company. We have a different model that works.
Add to that, we were voted one of top 100 best places to work in the country by Outside magazine.
We have state of the art mac platform tools with server and fiber optic ac- cess. Speed is not a problem.
Send your resume and a short note on why you fit. Add a link to your video channel or past work.
There is no text book for this position so apply if your vision of this job fits in your personal wheelhouse.
POSITION full time with benefits. Outside sales. Video lead.
RESPONSIBLE FOR selling adver- tising and marketing projects to reach sales revenue goals.
• Go on calls alone and with other salespeople as the expert on video.
• Candidate will be working in the sales department of the Beacon.
• Other responsibilities to include pitching in on events, parades and trade shows. Must have a reliable car and Insurance.
PAY Base plus commission & performance based bonus.
Bob Hunt, Ad Director
[email protected]
This is a half page ad, so yeah, we are serious about finding you. Retrospectively, a fabulous life is simply making solid choices at the right time. Come on now, get that email together, and press send.
WARREN’S WORLD WARREN MILLER THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO LAURIE and I were spending the summer in Vail, Colorado while I recov- ered from torn rotator cuff surgery. I couldn’t windsurf, so we didn’t go to Maui as we usually did so we had to find other things to do and I could still walk. While hiking one day, I ran into the edi- tor of the Vail Daily and in the course of our conversation he suggested that I write a weekly column for his paper.
That’s over 1,300 individual stories that I’ve written for him so far. In my spare time, for the last several years I have been editing these stories into my autobiography. The working title is “Freedom Found” because, as you prob- ably know by now, it took a while, but I finally realized that my adventures all came about because of my search for freedom.
The first two or three years I wrote for the Vail Daily, the editor paid me $10 per week. Then another mountain town’s local newspaper offered me $25 for the same thing and I’ve been charging that ever since.
Sharing experiences is one of the most enjoyable parts of traveling and I have virtually endless stories about broken windows on trains, missing connections, and losing passports over the world.
Many of my newspaper columns came directly from the narration of my expe- riences of my ski films. Many things that happen while traveling are better told verbally than visually. This is why I’ve coined the phrase, “never ruin a good story with the absolute truth.”
I guess I became a storyteller at a very young age. I think it was about the time I became a Boy Scout at the age of 12. When all of my school friends were playing baseball or football on weekends, I was backpacking somewhere with my Boy Scout troop. I have included in the auto- biography dozens of stories related to the
learning curve of growing up. When we went backpacking in the Cesspee River in Southern California and discovered that we could catch awesome trout sim- ply with a line and a safety pin.
I have a lot of stories about being the only one riding a surfboard at Surfrider Beach at Malibu in the early 1940s. In those days you had to take wire cutters with you, cut a hole in the fence, then move your car down the highway 100 yards and come back, sneak through the hole and put the wires back together. Then we would surf as long as our bod- ies could stand the cold water. This, of course, was many years before the inven- tion of the wetsuit or light surfboard.
I have already self-published three dif- ferent books of these columns and each book only takes about 50 columns. This winter, if I get pinned down by a month or so of blizzards, I’ll pick out another 50 or 60 columns and publish another book. In the meantime, my autobiography is mov- ing ahead – out of my hands now as the graphics and pagination are all being pro- duced by people who know what they’re doing.
Obviously I don’t earn a lot of money writing newspaper columns, but I cer- tainly enjoy doing it. I do earn enough money to buy the occasional pineapple milkshake and a pair of tickets to the local movie theater. Unfortunately, the local movie theater subdivided the seats with a paper-thin wall, so that you can watch one movie and at the same time listen to the soundtrack in the adjoining theater. You have to be very careful which two films they are showing in which one to buy a ticket to see.
I will be the first person to know when they’ve finished preparing and printing my autobiography. I’m excited and you will be the second one when you read it in my column someday soon.
For more of Warren’s wanderings go to www.warrenmiller.net or visit him on his Facebook page at facebook.com/warrenmiller. For information on his foundation, please visit the Warren Miller Freedom Foundation, at www.warrenmiller.org.
CONGRATULATIONS FRUGALS!
In 2001, we developed Southfield Park and the Frugals building.
Frugals has recently purchased the property and we at Riverview Associates and Nalty Real Estate wish them continued success. Thank you for 14 years of an outstanding relationship!
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