George Ojaimi

Sales and Freelance
Sales, completing work for Art in Code and most importantly, simultaneously working in a foreign culture. Visited many hotel chains and restaurants promoting products with the main intentions focused on building a strong customer base and achieving consistent cash flow.

Actions:
•Keywords, description, and title production for Art in Code.
•Twitter launch and maintenance,
•Digital marketing quotation,
•Being "the international", dealing with "the locals",
•Meeting purchasing managers to promote products,

Achievements
•Reached a customer acquisition/purchase trial rate of 5 customers in a day,
•Rapports established, sales made in a foreign language and culture, most, all, cold calls. Customers tended to take time out to speak. Many occasions-->deals for the not so popular product would be made on the spot,
•Dispute resolution; stand out time: customer unhappy from previous company experience. After short discussion and product demonstration, dispute solved AND he ended up making more purchases.

Marketing Executive
Responsible for promotion of https://www.myPDV.com internationally with the prime focus on the US market.

Actions (https://www.mypdv.com)
•Restructure myPDV’s site through the addition of several pages including new product listings and amendment of the logo,
•Position product,
•Release to the press,
•Deal with various parties including graphic designers, animators, upper management,
•SEO myPDV through blogging, articles, release to the press, directory listings, forums,
•Social media; mainly Facebook and Twitter,
•Promotional literature; e-newsletters,
•Creating how-to/indirect promotion videos, both available on YouTube.

Achievements
•Positioned myPDV with image of ‘Organize your life’,
•Press release, authored by me placed in the Daily Finance, amongst other news outlets (copies and links available upon request),
•Increased awareness of myPDV via the above mentioned tools,
•Developed and raised Facebook page to 1200+ followers.

(Dates are approximate)

Purchasing jewellery products for their sale in the local store and resale online. Purchases were made online as well as physically visiting other businesses and negotiating the purchase of products in bulk.

Actions:
• Purchase jewellery and gemstones,
• Identify product specifications including quality and authenticity,
• Ensure profitability through purchasing products at a reasonable price and selling them at a mark up,
• Negotiate prices, with one strength for negotiation being my strong knowledge of the particular products purchased,
• Transaction handling from beginning to end.

Achievements:
• Managed a considerable number of deals,
• Achieved respectable profits

Running the online arm of Better Deal, selling jewellery products locally and internationally. The varieties in jewellery sold featured both antique and new with the major emphasis being on rings and secondary on bracelets, bangles, fob chains and others.

Actions:
• Establish and run Better Deal online jewellery eBay site (Better Jewellery),
• Identify and detail jewellery specifications, including value, age, authenticity, etc,
• Email marketing,
• Clear and concise product auctions to suit consumers,
• Divide the business into a number of sectors in order to attract various target markets,
• Deal with consumers pre, during and post-sale,
• Local and international product postage,
• Customer dealings,
• Operations management (financial management, inventory management, dispute handling),
• Take care in products sold so as to maintain positive business image.

Achievements:
• Maintained a leadership position,
• Achieved approximately 7000+ sales and a 99.8% Feedback Rating,
• Built a store that reached 1, 150 items as of May 2011 (approximate figures),
• Achieved repeat purchase customers,
• Premium and entry level products sold, gaining a wider market,
• As of June 2011, Better Jewellery was ranked 3rd highest in the fine jewellery gold rings category on eBay Australia and the second highest in vintage fine jewellery. This is in addition to the other high rankings maintained at that date (approximate rankings),
• Set a respectable customer service standard,
• Proficient photography ability to display quality products.