Project management:
Center for Sustainable Enterprise, Kenan-Flagler School of Business, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As Marketing & Events manager at
Kenan-Flagler's Center for Sustainable Enterprise. Jill is involved in bringing speakers and events to campus with the Center and in marketing and partnership building.
SJF Institute. Jill helped the SJF Institute with their re-branding and national launch on September 14 at the Summit on the New Green Economy hosted in Durham, NC. The project included messaging, development of a multimedia presentation, two funder/friend preview events in Durham and in New York City, collateral, elevator pitch development, and business development strategies moving forward.
Duke University: Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE). Jill is part of a team bringing a unique event to the Triangle on January 28 2010: a Solutions Lab unconference. Duke and the Environmental Defense Fund are partnering to bring a day of innovation and brainstorming about local sustainability issues to North Carolina. Jill's responsibilities include messaging, coordination, cheerleading and sponsorships.
Marbles Kids Museum - Formerly Exploris: The museum's site launched on August 16, 1999. This site includes previews of the World's First Global Learning Center's exhibits, online activities, the ExploriStore, and the ability to buy memberships and tickets online. NMS handled both the RFP for the site in late 1998 and managed the project of building the site and bringing it live before the actual museum opened in the fall of 1999.
We also managed the building of new sites for
Mi-Co, the Women's Foodservice Forum, and WithIt. The Women's Foodservice Forum and WithIt sites provide these executive groups a new way to communicate with and recruit new members. Mi-Co provides innovative end-to-end solutions in wireless communications.
Sales:
Jill stuck it out as the sales person for this start up company:
Professional Travel Guide. Advertising on the internet. Travel. In this environment! Jill was willing to jump in and make the calls, do what it took to boot strap something new and try to make it real.
newbold m@rketing solutions worked with
Cary Magazine, a regional lifestyle magazine, from launch in January 2004 through 2008 as a contract sales account executive for the home furnishings and real estate categories - helping to make it one of the more successful local publications in the area.
Outsourced marketing / branding:
newbold m@rketing solutions was chosen as an outsourced branding and launch manager for
SJF Institute listed above, and by UNC's
Kenan-Flagler Center for Sustainable Enterprise as well.
newbold m@rketing solutions worked as an outsourced marketing department and project manager for
Mi-Co, an RTP-based wireless handwriting technology start up. Projects included a re-designed web site, developing collateral and team member on the design of the company's investor presentation.
As mentioned above, newbold m@rketing solutions worked with
Cary Magazine as a contract sales agent in the home furnishings and real estate categories.
Business plan development:
NMS's sales and marketing experience is useful in pulling together the right combination of professionals to help develop new ideas into real businesses.
Jill wrote a new business marketing plan for west coast based Nurseryworks. This high end childrens' furniture company relied on Jill's experience in the furniture industry to find a niche in the kitchsy cutesey world of nursery room furniture for clean lines and and to fill the contemporary design needs of groovy parents.
Content and partnership development:
newbold m@rketing solutions helped
TheInsuranceXchange.com. newbold m@rketing worked with this now-defunct Atlanta-based start-up to oversee the building of a static web prototype and the design of the company's logo. Jill's sales expertise resulted in business partnership exploration meetings with bricks and mortar established insurance agencies seeking an online web application. TheInsuranceXchange.com was an unfortunate victim of early 2001 market timing - but nothing ventured, nothing gained!
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