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ADVERTISING SALES (Inside/phone Sales)

Orlando Weekly

We are seeking an aggressive sales professional to sell display advertising space and campaigns into Orlando Weekly’s classified section, website and various other niche products. This is not your ordinary sales job and we are not looking for an ordinary sales person. We provide an exciting, fun and creative team atmosphere in addition to giving you the tools and training necessary to thrive and make above average income.

Ideal Candidate:

  • Is aggressive, persuasive, well organized and has at least 1-2 years of inside/phone outbound sales experience
  • Will enjoy developing leads and contacting a high volume of potential advertisers to pitch Orlando Weekly’s classified section and website
  • Has a very positive attitude, good sense of humor and can handle the normal rejection that comes with any sales job and a down economy
  • Is very familiar with our publications, websites and culture

 Job Responsibilities

  • Service and substantially grow an established base of classified display advertisers via the phone
  • Prospect/sell new advertisers over the phone into our classified section and online
  • Service these customer’s ongoing advertising needs over the phone
  • Advertising Categories of focus include: education, employment, real estate/apartments, clinical research, medical and our famous Backpage

 Orlando Weekly provides

  • An excellent compensation plan (salary plus commission). The better you do, the more you’ll earn.
  • Full benefits package including 401K, medical, life and dental

 If interested, please email a letter persuading why you are the perfect candidate and a detailed resume outlining your relevant experience.

Orlando Weekly

Attn: Rick Schreiber, Publisher

rschreiber@orlandoweekly.com

ABOUT ORLANDO WEEKLY

Orlando Weekly, Orlando's largest weekly publication is dedicated to covering local news, politics and entertainment including music, film, dining and the arts and Orlando’s most comprehensive calendar of events. Orlando Weekly also publishes Drink, Orlando's monthly glossy guide to bars, clubs and nightlife. Orlando Weekly was founded in 1985 and is part of family owned media company, Times Shamrock Communications, founded in 1895.

www.orlandoweekly.com


CALENDAR EDITOR

Orlando Weekly has an immediate opening for a full-time calendar editor to research, edit and produce The Week, the most popular feature in our paper. The ideal candidate will be very detail oriented, willing to work the phone for information, know AP style, be able to meet or exceed tight deadlines, have an eye for proofreading finished pages and the ability to write polished copy.

If that sounds like you, and you have at least two years experience at a publication, send a resume, cover letter and work samples to

Bob Whitby, editor, Orlando Weekly,
1505 E. Colonial Drive, Suite 200,
Orlando, FL 32801;

Or e-mail your materials to bwhitby@orlandoweekly.com.
No phone calls, please.


COPY EDITOR

Orlando Weekly has an immediate opening for a part-time copy editor. If you live and breathe grammar, can look at a story and see things two other people have missed, have a healthy respect for deadlines, know AP style and have at least two years experience as a copy editor at a publication, we'd like to talk to you.

Send a cover letter, resume and work samples to

Bob Whitby, editor, Orlando Weekly,
1505 E. Colonial Drive, Suite 200,
Orlando, FL 32801;

Or e-mail your materials to bwhitby@orlandoweekly.com.
No phone calls, please.


Graphic Design Intern

Looking for a Graphic Design Internship? Well we're looking for you. Orlando Weekly is currently looking for an intern who can create print advertising for Orlando Weekly, Drink Magazine, BITE, and Annual Manual as well as work on in-house collateral. You should know how to use Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat on a Macintosh platform. You must be a student requiring an internship for course credit. All internships are unpaid.

Email resume and a link to sample work to:
randrews@orlandoweekly.com

No phone calls please.


FREELANCE WRITERS

Know the difference between reporting the facts and writing a story? Know how to craft a compelling tale? Then we'd like to talk to you. Orlando Weekly has opportunities for freelance news, arts and feature writers. If you've got a story idea, and the ability to execute it, we'd like to hear from you. E-mail us at bwhitby@orlandoweekly.com . No phone calls, please.


FREELANCE MUSIC WRITERS

Do you always bitch about the music coverage in the Orlando Weekly? Does your favorite band never get written about? Well shut up and do something about it.

Orlando Weekly is looking for freelance music writers in all genres (especially Latin, hip-hop/R&B and techno). If you've got experience writing about music and you've got what it takes to provide accurate and thorough coverage of local and national acts, let us know. You don't need to have been published in Rolling Stone , but you do need to be able to write clearly, succinctly and, above all, engagingly.

Please email some of your best stuff to:

Bob Whitby , Editor
bwhitby@orlandoweekly.com.

If we like what we see, we'll let you know. No phone calls please.


EDITORIAL INTERNSHIPS

Interested in learning more about alternative journalism? Then apply for an editorial internship at Orlando Weekly . Our interns help produce Orlando's free alternative news weekly by fact-checking, conducting research, doing data entry and writing short pieces. To participate, you must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program and be able to earn academic credit. All majors are welcome. Internships are available during the fall, spring and summer semesters. All internships are unpaid. To apply, fax or e-mail cover letter, resume and writing sample (up to three clips or school papers) to:

Bob Whitby, Editor,
Orlando Weekly, 1505 E. Colonial Dr. Suite 200
Orlando, FL 32803
Email: bwhitby@orlandoweekly.com
Fax: (407) 377-0420.
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

 
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