Sales Customer Service

Linda S. Lee

** ****** ***** *****, *******, GA *0536

706-***-**** (Home) or 706-***-**** (Cell)

Professional Experience

Merchandiser

Work Smart

NARMS

Joy Enterprises

Current

I am merchandising for several companies on a part time basis. This

entails reading plan-0-grams, doing cut-ins, and resetting. I have

recently worked at Bi-Lo Grocery, Ingles Grocery, Food Lion Grocery and CVS

Pharmacy throughout the state of Georgia. I work alone and with teams

depending on the specific job.

Demonstrator

Advantage Sales & Marketing

Bright Ideas demonstrator in Wal-Mart in Ellijay, GA.

September, 2010 - Current

In this position I show enthusiasm and energy in effectively communicating

the details of each event and the participating brands to consumers. I

interact with both the consumer, the client, the customer, store management

and employees. I am food safety certified for the state of Georgia which

allows me to do some of the complicated implementation of promotional

cooking.

Owner/Operator The Wild

World of Sports

Blue Ridge Knife Company

534 B East Main Street

Blue Ridge, GA

April, 2010 - Current

My husband and I are the owner of a small retail store in downtown Blue

Ridge. We specialize in knives and collegiate gear. My husband runs the

business on a day to day basis. I contribute accounting, monthly reports,

advertising and internet communications.

Owner/Operator The Wild

World of Sports

The Outback Antiques

Penlands Mercantile

Ellijay, GA 30540

December 2006 - January 2009

We opened this store in downtown Ellijay on North Avenue. I worked with my

husband until August and then I took on the books and management of The

Outback Antique Mall on River Street. I split my time between the two. In

May of 2007 the owner of the property on River Street began remodeling the

buildings. I over saw the complete renovation, verified work and paid

employees and contract labor. When it was done, we moved our store over to

River Street and also opened Penlands Mercantile. The Mercantile was an

old fashioned country store featuring old time charm and gourmet foods.

Owner/Operator The

Sports Exchange, Inc.

Pelham, AL 35124

January 1993 to October 2006

This was our sporting goods store we sold in October 2006 to move here to

the Georgia mountains. We specialized in golf and fitness and expanded

three times increasing our square footage from 800 sq. feet to over 6,000

sq. feet. As an owner/operator of a small business I did some of

everything. Everything includes: sales, marketing, purchasing, payroll,

taxes and anything else that needed to be done. Though we had only one

store we successfully competed against some very strong competitors

including large franchises, box stores and corporations selling the same

items. None of our competitors could beat us at customer service, product

knowledge and prompt response to customer needs. I worked full time

starting in June 2002.

Office Manager

Custom Pac & Shipping

Birmingham, AL 35007

Responsibilities Aug.

1999 to June 2002

? Quote on any incoming jobs, crating, packaging and shipping.

? Responsible for all daily activity during absence of owner to

include: scheduling jobs, scheduling warehouse employees, pickups and

tasks for each day.

? Purchasing of materials for jobs, including wood, bolts, stencils,

fabrication etc.

? Wrote and created a web-site for the company.

? Searched extensively on internet for customers and found out-sourcing

through other companies in

affiliate programs to enable company to expand sales throughout the

United States.

? Evaluated company plans including medical insurance, phone usage and

leasing of employees to reduce

expenses for the company.

? Instigated purchase order system and reporting of insurance, both

domestic and marine policies.

Consultant

Wall Street Deli

Hoover, AL 35007

Sept. 1999 to Sept. 2001

Franchise Administrator/Director

Wall Street Deli

Hoover, AL 35007

Responsibilities July

1997 to July 1999

? Put together, with the direction of the Vice President of

Franchising, the entire franchise department and

systems.

? Developed all marketing materials for franchise sales and current

franchisees.

? Lead the franchise prospect system from the first phone call, i.e.,

qualifying candidates, analyzing financial

ability and supervised "day of discovery" with potential candidates

at corporate headquarters.

? Created and placed franchise advertising in national and local

publications. Wrote and publicized all public

announcements and press releases as they pertain to franchising.

? Maintain all central files and compliance of franchise legal files.

Coordinate legal issues with franchise

attorney on necessary compliance issues.

? Prepare slide shows, PowerPoint presentations and trade show planning

and organizing.

? Co-editor of the quarterly Newspaper (The Deli Plant) distributed to

all employees within WSD.

? Created the first operations manual with a team of managers,

operations personnel and field consultants.

? Re-wrote and updated the employee handbook for all hourly employees

and middle management.

? Managed documents and confidential applications with Board of

Directors regarding investments.

? Worked with a team to create and design the first WSD web page.

Applications:

Multimedia Sales, Presentations, Executive Office Support, Front Office

Operations, Meeting Planning, Corporate Fundraising, Human Resource

Management, Records Management, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Express, Corel Draw and JET reporting.

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