Michael Swedenberg

About Michael Swedenberg

New business developmentSales Training / Staff DevelopmentCustomer Relations / Client Retention Produce Business PlansStrategic Sales Planning Creative Processes of Design and CopywritingManage and train Account Representatives, Brokers, Retailers, and Dealers to ensure sales goals are met. Experiences include interviewing, hiring, and training sales representatives, directing work, managing performance and personal sales to a select group of clients. • Plan, develop, implement, and manage sales and marketing campaigns.• Develop and write marketing material for product programs.• Assist the Brokers with product knowledge enable them to sell Retailers.• Work closely with Fulfillment to evaluate the customer service levels. • Arrange and attend trade shows. Program performance assessments, reviews of bids, contract commitments to ensure potential outcomes and risks are identified and to provide appropriate data to aid in the decision making process. Advisor to executive management. Develop solutions to sales and marketing problems of unusual complexity, which require a high degree of ingenuity and informativeness. Ability to train, teamwork, with a versatile, efficient, problem solving capability.

Experience

1. Options Trader

   Conscience Vc

   Jan 2000 — Present · New York, NY, US

   In the stock market, an option trader is one who buys and sells contracts on stocks. The practice gives the buyer (the owner or holder of the option) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price on a specified date, depending on the form of the option.

Education

• Adelphi University

  BA, Business & Management

  1981 — 1986

• School of Visual Arts

  Fine Arts, Advertising Design and Copywriting

  1971 — 1973

Skills

• Lead Generation
• Leadership Development
• Retail
• B2b
• Customer Relations
• Direct Marketing
• Entrepreneurship
• Non-Fiction Writer
• Advertising
• Marketing Strategy
• Marketing Communications
• Business Planning
• Client Development
• Product Marketing
• Management
• Wayfinding
• Social Media Marketing
• Online Advertising
• Photography
• Brand Development
• Sales Management
• Marketing
• Competitive Analysis
• Selling
• Leadership
• Creative Direction
• Copywriting
• Editing
• Creative Writing
• Direct Mail
• SEO
• Product Development
• Consultative Selling
• Trade Shows
• Point of Purchase
• Oil Painting
• Sales Operations
• Customer Retention
• Graphic Design
• Social Media