Patrick S. McConnell
Lebanon, PA 17042
Home: 717-***-****
Cell: 717-***-****
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LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pmcconnell
Summary: I'm a seasoned, entrepreneurial-minded sales professional with
over 20 years of consultative sales experience.
8/10 - Present: Touch 'em All Advertising - Lebanon, PA (Owner)
I started Touch 'em All Advertising to provide community-based advertising
programs in Central PA. We sell advertising sponsorship positions on
restaurant drinkware (coffee mugs, plastic tumblers and barware), drinking
straws and check presenters which we provide to locally owned
establishments at no cost. We provide email marketing, online survey and
event marketing programs through a partnership with Constant Contact. We
also offer promotional products and custom apparel as a regional dealer for
Kaeser & Blair. (www.TouchemAllAdv.com)
5/10 - 12/10: BizMiner - Camp Hill, PA (Sales Executive)
Responsibilities included the sale and marketing of BizMiner's industry
financial and market research products to colleges and universities, CPA
firms, financial institutions, valuation firms, and other businesses in
need of this information. My sales efforts generated 40 new accounts and
$48,600+ in new revenue.
1/10 - 4/10: Blue Sky Factory, Inc. - Baltimore, MD (Sales Associate)
Responsibilities included: outbound sales of self-service and managed email
marketing services via cold call telephone and email prospecting, conducted
product demonstrations via GoToMeetings and in-person. In my brief stay, I
added three new major accounts and over 1,200 new leads into their
Salesforce.com CRM. Outbound sales staff and management downsized 4/1/10.
12/06 - 1/10: Listrak, LLC - Lititz, PA (Sales Executive)
Responsibilities included: selling email marketing software service to
advertisers and advertising agencies via cold call telephone and email
prospecting, conducted product demonstrations via GoToMeetings and in-
person. 155 of Listrak's client base of approximately 700 accounts were a
direct result of my sales efforts. .
11/00 - 12/06: PennLive.com - Harrisburg, PA (Account Executive)
Responsibilities included: selling online advertising solutions to
businesses in the Central PA and Lehigh Valley markets via cold calls
(phone and in-person) as well as account management duties, monitoring
campaign results, updating advertising messages and renewing accounts.
Among my achievements, I was responsible for closing two of the first three
Website sponsors Giant Foods and The Pennsylvania Lottery. I regularly
exceeded monthly and quarterly sales goals.
3/97 - 9/00: Fulton Bank - East Petersburg, PA (Merchant Services
Manager/Sales Officer)
Responsibilities included: Sale of credit and debit card processing
services and corporate credit card programs to businesses in the S. Central
Pennsylvania region. I managed the Merchant Services Division which was
composed of one additional Sales Officer, one Merchant Services Supervisor
and two administrative employees. I participated on the Corporate Product
Review Committee that recommended new and enhanced retail and commercial
products to upper management. I regularly exceeded monthly, quarterly and
annual sales goals for new accounts, sales volume and fee income.
2/96 - 12/96: AmeriChoice Federal Credit Union - Mechanicsburg, PA
(Business Development Officer)
Cold called on local businesses for Credit Union sponsorship and developed
marketing programs to enroll their employees in the Credit Union. Solely
from my efforts, the Credit Union increased their number of sponsoring
companies from 51 to 73. These new sponsorship relationships helped the
membership base increase from 795 to 1,178 members.
9/85 - 2/96: CoreStates Bank, NA - East Petersburg, PA (Marketing
Officer) I established a referral network within the banking system that
worked in conjunction with my cold calling efforts to sell credit and debit
card processing services to businesses in the CoreStates marketing region.
Supervised two-person Sales Support team.
Education: 1982 - 1984 Central Pennsylvania Business School -
Summerdale, PA Associates Degree in Specialized Business - Computer
Information Systems
June 1982 Lebanon Catholic High School - Lebanon, PA
Skills: Sales skills (cold calling and referral networks), Presentation
Skills (in person and through GoToMeeting), PC skills - Salesforce.com,
Maximizer CRM, Microsoft Office products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
Interests: Family, attending our sons' sporting events, novice
Grillmaster (charcoal & mesquite wood)