Searching For ANN's Future Marketing Manager
As journalists and
pilots, we have to tell you there is no better marriage of
vocation and avocation than working as a member of the aviation
media. Seriously. The late musician Harry Chapin once told
ANN's Pete Combs that his biggest fear was that someday,
someone would walk up to him and say, "Harry, the jig is up. It's
time to get a real job."
Now that we do what we love, we can understand. The truth is, if
you love your work, it's like hardly working at all (that's Jim's
pitch and he's sticking to it...).
That's what working at ANN is all about. And we need to add
another soul to the family.
We have a major staff position to fill --
one that has eluded us for quite a while. And, now's the time to
get serious about it.
Since ANN started, we have enjoyed the amazing support of a
group of sponsors who have, by and large, been generous and
visionary. As a matter of fact, most of the sponsors you see on ANN
called us first -- leaving us little to do but to finish some
paperwork, and get them started. You have no idea how wonderful
that has been for us... leaving us (mostly) to work on the
editorial end of ANN and build it into what is generally recognized
as the Aviation World's Most Widely Read Daily News
Service.
Thanks to them, we have
served the aviation world aggressively and comprehensively for six
years... and an amazing seventh year is just around the corner.
It's nice to be able to count on this kind of support... but
we're about to REALLY step up the action (and expense) here at ANN
(not that the pace hasn't always been fast and furious -- believe
you me, it IS). Aero-Casting is NOW a reality... three times a day.
The next edition of the SportPlane Resource Guide is underway,
Real-Time News delivery programs and products have
been deployed very successfully. ANN news syndication
programs are also being distributed, and the international
scope of ANN is about to take a serious step up. Above all else,
though, the world-renowned daily aviation news coverage you depend
on continues to show promised increases in both quality
as well as quantity (nope... despite what your mamma told you, you
CAN'T get too much of a good thing!).
What this all means is that it's time to take our marketing
goals as seriously as we took our editorial. And that means that
someone has to take on the job of guiding and managing the
marketing and promotional growth of ANN. We're looking for a
Marketing Manager... an aggressive, ethical, honest, well-spoken,
smart, web-savvy, marketing and promotions oriented person who can
help ANN introduce a whole new generation of aviation businesses
as our partners in growing the Aviation World's Daily
News Service, as well as to brainstorm and manage a number of
promotional and industry programs that are under way, or will be,
shortly.
This is going to be a
busy job. It's going to require excellent sales skills, solid
marketing smarts, a solid work ethic, tremendous ingenuity, a keen
insight into the aviation world, a great imagination and a TRUE
communicator... someone who also GETS just how important ANN is
becoming to the aviation world, and can be counted on to help us
grow our services and abilities so that we can do EVEN MORE than we
do already.
But most of all, we need a TEAM player... ANN
has never been about one person... it's been about an
amazing team of people with great goals and (truly) amazing skills
doing extraordinary things for the aviation world. If you think you
have what it takes, get in touch with us...
Please send your resume, an intro letter, and contact
information to ANN right away... as this position is ready and
waiting for the right person, right now.
And that's all you have to do! We'll be in touch!