Serendipity Media is a local media company specializing in magazine publishing. Our current products and services include a variety of print and digital magazines, eNewsletter correspondence, and Web site development. We are a company that prides itself on representing a wide range of values from being accountable and respectful to being service-orientated and team-minded. We believe that having fun, treating our employees like family, and working with a positive "can-do" attitude, makes us a great place to work.

Serendipity Media is looking for an account executive to join our team. The account executive will focus on prospecting new business, conduct needs assessments, develop proposals, close advertising sales and maintain client relationships for West Michigan Woman, AfterSchool Today, and fourpoints magazine.

Job requirements and description are presented below. Please send your cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to:

Serendipity Media
Attn: Stephanie TeSlaa
535 Cascade West Parkway SE
Grand Rapids MI 49546
stephanie@serendipitymediallc.com

Account Executive

Full Time
Base salary, commission and benefits
Responsibilities

• Manage the sales process from prospecting to close.

• Proactively develop customer relationships by demonstrating efforts to understand and uncover the client's needs.

• Generate revenue and grow client database. Prospect, qualify, solidify and maintain client relationships

• Create a course of action to accomplish sales goals by identifying and classifying both existing and potential account opportunities.

• Maintain a high level of activity by cold calling, networking, presenting at client meetings and attending various industry events.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Excellent communication and presentation skills – verbal and written

• Assertive, goal oriented and self-motivated

• Proven track record of achieving established goals and expectations.

• Ability to multi-task, handle pressure and word under deadlines.

• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office, CRM software, Internet applications and social networking.

• Must be able to travel up to 25%

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Serendipity Media is excited to unveil a NEW LOOK and proud to announce a NEW NAME for Packaged Travel Insider. Starting in January, Packaged Travel Insider will become Groups Today. Our mission remains to bring valuable, unbiased, and complete information to you about the group travel market. This hasn't changed. What has changed is a renewed look and feel through a redesign and name change. We are refining and reorganizing the editorial departments to improve the flow of information. We are also creating a cleaner, crisper publication that is inviting to pick up and easy to read. We can't wait to send you the first edition of Groups Today! Look for it in your mailboxes the first week of January.

Miss America's Outstanding Teen Organization announced that the 2011 MAOT Program book will be brought to you by Serendipity Publishing.

"We at fourpoints are thrilled to partner with the MAOTeen Organization in new and different ways each year," said Kasie Smith, publisher of fourpoints Magazine. "The 2011 program book and pageant are bound to the best yet."

The Miss America's Outstanding Teen Program is a scholarship-based program offering accomplished teens the opportunity to be awarded funds for college. The program promotes scholastic achievement, creative accomplishment, healthy living and community involvement for America's Teens. In the past five years, the organization has made available more than $3 million in college scholarships.

For more information please visit www.maot.org.

fourpoints Magazine Receives Footprint Award at MAOTeen 2012

We are pleased to announce that fourpoints was the first recipient of the newly minted Footprints Award at the Miss America's Outstanding Teen pageant this month. Kim Parrish, President of MAOTeen, presented the award to Jennifer Reeves and Julie Anne Long at the Evening of Stars event during pageant week."We have enjoyed watching our relationship with fourpoints grow over the years," said Kim. "Whenever we go to fourpoints with an idea, they are ready and willing to help us make it happen."

In addition to sponsoring the tradeshow at the pageant, fourpoints presented at the Teens in Training Camp seminar. Serendipity Publishing also designed the 2012 program book for Miss America's Outstanding Teen."We are extremely honored to have received this award," said Kasie Smith, president and publisher of Serendipity Publishing. "Our relationship with MAOTeen has only improved over the last seven years, and we look forward to working with them in the future."