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My skills include:
- Employee management and workflow scheduling.
- Retail sales and customer support.
- Wholesale distribution and control.
- Inventory, purchasing, and supply-demand decisions.
- Investment comparison, financial analysis and rate of return.
- Promotion and market share acquisition.
- Internet marketing and direct sales.
- Collections, contracts and record keeping.
- Online-offline research, analysis, and report writing.
- MS Office suite, file creation and time management.
- Website design, management and education.
- Relationship management and human potential solutions.
- Business creation, ownership, and partnering.
- Expressing the Muse and other life skills not limited to the above.
My strengths are demonstrated in my experience:
(1969-1974) Performance and Public Expression: Worked and studied as a musician playing popular music of the day in clubs and venues across Canada and occasionally the U.S.
(1974-1988) Relationship and
Consultative Sales: 10 years of residential real estate sales and 5 years of commercial and industrial real estate sales and leasing which included 2 years of acting as an Agent Nominee.
(1988-1995) Business Creation: Planning, implementation, marketing, sales, purchasing, negotiating, inventory control and entrepreneurial activities. I bought a bankrupt retail video
business and transformed it into a quarter million dollar a year success and subsequently sold it in 1995.
(1995-2000) Customer Accounts:
Record keeping, accounts receivable, collections, payroll, banking, loans, tax and licensing
requirements; liaison and relationship maintenance with customers, suppliers, professionals, competitors, and business partners. I partnered with an existing low tech wholesale distributor and within two years transformed the business into a
centralized system reducing expenses and hours of operation from 5 days a week to only 3, using very simple digital tools and systems. I sold this business in 2000.
(2000-Now) Since April of 2000 I have been creating value by providing
business solutions on a contract basis for various clients as well as designing building, hosting and managing websites which includes helping clients to make good choices about their promotional efforts.
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I am extremely good at getting new customer accounts and maintaining existing ones that have merit.
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I am adept at idea
creation and sorting out which ones to add value to.
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I am good at making decisions, taking action and following through.
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I am very organized and can easily handle multiple tasks without frustration.
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I am clear and concise in my
oral and written communications.
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I take responsibility for all my actions and I like to solve small problems quickly before they get out of proportion.
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I am open and honest in my relationships, and conduct business in a transparent manner
so that clients become allies.
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I maintain relationships with a broad range of ethnic cultures.
As a child I lived in France, Great Britain
and traveled throughout Europe; as an adult I have traveled mostly in
North America, Hawaii, Mexico and more recently in New Zealand and
Switzerland-Italy:
www.shelley.235.ca
I use the library (on and off-line), and am interested in a broad range of subjects usually autobiographical or non-fiction in nature.
My interests are: financial investment, web site
potentials, jazz and the nature-science of reality.
I have essentially been self-employed since my early 20's after
dropping out of UBC to work as a musician, a realtor, a video entertainment provider and now as a website and marketing manager. Along the way I completed the Xerox Sales Course (1975), the Pursuit of Excellence and The Wall (1985)
and the John Kehoe Mind Power Program (2000) and I use these motivational programs everyday.
I don't smoke, drink or use drugs. I have no criminal record. I am in good health, humour and financial standing.
I work out on my elliptical trainer everyday:
www.235.ca/contact.htm#IMAGE
Born in
1946, I am a married man and my 3 progeny are living and working on their own. My spouse is employed as a Psychoanalyst, Art Therapist, Instructor
and Peer Supervisor. She is available as a
consultant. Contact Janet Oakes at her website www.janetoakes.com and view her art at www.art.janetoakes.com
We are incorporated: Oakes Ripley & Associates since Nov 25th 1988 registered (#355299) in the Province of British Columbia Canada.
I consider all forms of working
relationships: employee, contractor, partner, or shareholder.
I expect a
minimum of CAD$50/hour or CAD$500/day plus expenses
(travel, food & lodging) on a short or
long-term contract basis. I prefer to do in 4 hours what others might do in 8.
I would accept a commission on revenue generated by my actions, or I would be willing to offer you a fixed fee for a
completed job. I am always open to negotiation where job location or creative input appeals to me.
Contact me.
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