Advertising Sales Representative

Socket.dev; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses during start-up

Job summary

Best Version Media is seeking a field-based, in-person sales professional in the Naperville area to build and manage a local book of business. You will sell advertising placements across local print magazines and companion digital products while working on a flexible schedule.

This 1099 independent contractor role offers commissions with no base salary, typically a 70–80% rate based on monthly sales, with bonuses available during start-up and ongoing periods.

Qualifications

• Proven sales or business development experience.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and closing skills.
• Experience with digital or print advertising is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Consult: Meet face-to-face with local business owners to showcase what makes their community great.
• Strategize: Build powerful, multi-channel branding programs using our media suite across print, digital, social, websites, and reputation management.
• Scale: Leverage our training and sales system to grow your own book of business, building community engagement long-term.

Skills

Sales Acumen

Growth Mindset

Community Focus

Job description

Turn your love of community into a career.

About Best Version Media

Founded in 2007, Best Version Media (BVM) has spent nearly two decades bringing North American communities together one person, one home, one business at a time. Today, BVM publishes over 1,300 local magazines and reaches billions of digital impressions across North America, helping thousands of local business owners grow.

What You’ll Do

This is a field-based, in-person sales role. You’ll build your own book of business in your local territory, on a schedule you control, selling advertising placements across BVM’s local print magazine and companion digital, social, and website products.

• Consult: Meet face-to-face with standout local business owners to showcase what makes their community great.
• Strategize: Build powerful, multi-channel branding programs using our media suite, print, digital, social, websites, and reputation management.
• Scale: Leverage our proven training and time-tested sales system to grow your own book of business, building community engagement that pays you and your community for years to come.

What You’ll Earn

This is a 1099 independent contractor role with no base salary or draw (full commission). Representatives earn a recurring commission on sales, with commission rates generally ranging from 70-80% based on monthly sales volume and performance relative to the baseline* cost structure. Bonuses are available during start-up and on an ongoing basis.

*Baseline is the back-end cost associated with the magazine & digital product’s cost to produce, distribute, bill clients, etc, and does not come out of the representative’s pocket.

What You Bring

• Sales Acumen: A drive to help local businesses grow through the art of advertising sales, strong communication, negotiation, and closing skills. Experience with digital or print advertising is a plus, but the right attitude matters most; we provide the training.
• Growth Mindset: A resilient, never-give-up attitude paired with a proactive approach to learning and continuous self-improvement.
• Community Focus: A genuine interest in building and nurturing relationships with local business owners, putting their success first.

Why Best Version Media?

• Support: Comprehensive training and ongoing professional support, we’re a community in ourselves.
• Proven Success: Nearly 20 years serving local communities, with over 1,300 publications and a reach of billions of digital impressions across North America.
• Culture & Rewards: Our why is simple: bring communities closer, one relationship at a time, and we celebrate the people who make that happen.
• Earn incentive trips, awards, and friendly contests along the way, all within a flexible schedule built to keep you present for what matters most: friends and family.