Ryan Schmidt

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ABOUT RYAN SCHMIDT

I have a passion for innovative building construction strategies with an emphasis on converting sales and turning customers into long-term clients. My sales success stems from the same principal that helped me become a 3X Canadian Rowing Champion - hunger and drive.• Over ten years of sales experience - business development, inside sales, retail management, organizational behaviour theory, online social marketing, and elite-level rowing competition• Consistently over-performing on sales goals both in B to B and retail sectors, worked independently as General Manager of a 1 million dollar/year bicycle store, reporting to satellite owner• Strong research and analytical skills evidenced by business development activities resulting in a greater number of qualified prospects and more focused sales strategy• Successfully wrote grant applications for provincial curling programs raising over in a single year for new program grants that will support over in overall revenue for these initiatives• Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills advanced through MBA projects, a term as student assoc. president, and regular reports and communication to various members of executive leadership• Instrumental in planning and executing a semi-annual fundraiser event supporting efforts that raised over 80 thousand dollars annually for early cancer detection research• Ability to quickly integrate and optimize new software and operation techniques developed through the use of integrated CRM and technical demonstrations of software platformsSpecialties: Driving sales, asking the right questions, B to B prospecting and Fit Determination, Business Networking, Sales and Marketing Liason, Retail Team and Event ManagementE-Mail: rjs.rschmidt at gmail dot com (Written this way to protect from spam)