This position is responsible for the generation of new sales opportunities via new account development, farming existing lead / contact database. Promotion of specific affiliate products, attainment of sales goals, qualifying affiliates, web-site owners and email list management / marketing partners.
Responsibilities
- Main responsibility as affiliate salesperson is to drive revenue for the company by securing traffic to company’s offers.
- Qualifying affiliates, web-site owners and email marketers.
- Prospecting through lead files, LinkedIn, Facebook, forums, etc.
- Building rapport with traffic sources (phone, IM, email, face to face).
- Growing traffic from existing partnerships through monitoring activity, spotting trends, analyzing data for actionable items.
- Constant daily contact. Working trade shows.
- Getting pixels placed and tested.
- Must have superior phone skills with no hesitancy to “make a call”.
Qualifications
- College Degree preferred.
- 2-3 years experience in a digital marketing sales organization.
- Preferably affiliate marketing / sales and lead generation experience.
- Outbound sales experience.
- Sourcing ability to develop lead database.
- Ability to work in a goal oriented environment under pressure.
- Ability to adapt communication style to the targeted audience.
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and communication skills a must.
- Experience working with multiple products, platforms and services.
- Confident and polished phone prospecting skills required.
- Skill in the use of Word, Excel, various email and contact platforms, CRM experience a must.