Office assistant required for busy home office (online retailer of prenatal products). Duties include shipping, customer service, answering emails, compiling lists for mailouts etc.. $11/hr Part-time - Flexible hours (approx 10-15 hours per week). Office experience an asset, must speak fluent English, have excellent computer skills and be able to work independently. Sales experience also an asset. If this sounds like the job for you, reply to this post with your resume.

Possible Duties Include:

-Customer service for online retail sales: shipping items, returning emails and phone calls
-Some social networking tasks: updating facebook, twitter and other social media accounts with info for customers
-Market research: researching new products and latest trends in the industry
-Sales: acquiring new wholesale accounts via email campaigns and mailouts
-Computer skills: SEO skills a big asset, updating websites and taking care of message boards.

Compensation: $11 per hour

About the Company
We are a small but growing Web design and Internet marketing firm in Burnaby. As a result of our growth, we are looking for 2 Business Development Associates to join our strong core team of 15.

Position Overview
The Business Development Associate will be responsible for all sales activities, from lead generation through close in an assigned territory.

We are looking for the type of person who is enthusiastic and fearless about selling to new customers. You have a competitive streak and take pride in being part of a winning team that is fanatical about creating great customer experiences and business results. If you are highly motivated with a track record of goal achievement, we’d like to meet you.

Core Responsibilities
* Meet or exceed annual/monthly sales targets
* Maintain a sales pipeline of 2-4x sales targets
* Develop a database of qualified leads through referrals, telephone canvassing, face to face cold calling on business owners, direct mail, email, and networking
* Develop relationships with new customers through telephone appointment booking
* Create qualified opportunities to bid on Web Design, Social Media, SEO, and PPC management work through client meetings
* Sell consultatively and make recommendations to prospects and clients on the various solutions the company offers to their business issues.
* Create and conduct effective proposal presentations and RFP responses that identify prospects’ business problems, the effects of the problems, and our firm’s solutions to their problems.
* Close qualified opportunities in a timely fashion
* Maximizes all opportunities in the process of closing a sale resulting in the taking of market share from larger competitors.
* Manage customer expectations so that they are both reasonable and achievable

Secondary Responsibilities
* Organize time and travel schedule effectively to achieve goals
* Assist with customer issues management and any necessary service recovery activities
* Keep accurate records of all sales and prospecting activities including sales calls, presentations, closed sales, and follow-up activities within assigned territory, regardless of outcome.
* Participate and contribute to the development of educational programs offered to clients, prospects and company employees.
* Assist in the implementation of company marketing plans as needed.
* Perform other duties as required

Job Requirements
* 2-5 years experience in sales
* Highly self-motivated individual capable of working with both technical and non-technical team members
* Proven ability to achieve sales quotas

Asset Skills & Abilities
* Business logic and proposal writing skills
* Presentation skills
* Product knowledge in Web design, Internet Marketing, SEO, Social Media, and PPC Management

Benefits
* A target salary range of $45,000 - $75,000 (base of $36,000 + commissions)
* Company sponsored training and skills improvement opportunities
* Extended Health & Dental Care following successful completion of probationary period
* 10 paid vacation days per year
* 5 paid sick leave days per year
* Participation in Social Calendar of community and employee activities and events

(Alex: This is the most absurd job description as the organization wants every skill set in one person - read carefully)

We are looking for a all in one IT specialist, who can manage to trouble shoot our in house computer systems, Web Design, Web Coding, Web Building, SEO, Pay Per Click and Google Adwords accounts. Please e mail your resume’s to infocsaccounting@gmail.com

Its a contract work and not a full or part time employment. (unbelievable!)

Marketing Coordinator - Hospitality

Fast paced, reputable Hospitality group (incl. restaurants, pubs and hotels) in the Lower Mainland is seeking a highly organized individual to assist their marketing team on a temporary basis immediately.

You will be assisting our team in the following duties:
* Executing marketing plans, web analytics, and marketing campaign analysis
* Performing online marketing duties - including Google keyword ranking, SEO, Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, email marketing campaigns, etc.
* Media buying for print, radio, internet, etc.
* Coordinating any required website development and updates
* Coordinating the design of print and online marketing pieces both externally and internally
* Copywriting of newsletters, email blasts, blogs, websites, and other print collateral.
* Coordinating the design, production and delivery of outdoor signage
* Preparing marketing invoices for approval and assisting with budgeting as required
* Providing assistance in daily business tasks, business errands and other general tasks as requested

Requirements/Qualifications:
* Post secondary school diploma/degree, preferably in Marketing or Business or equivalent work experience
* Knowledge of hotel, restaurant and pub industries
* Proficiency in Microsoft applications including Word, Publisher, Front Page, PowerPoint and Excel
* Proficiency in all aspects of social media and internet marketing.
- Must be super organized, and detail-oriented.
- Must have a car. (AB: at that salary, man, come on!)
- Graphic skills are an asset.

International contemporary artist, based in North Vancouver, seeks current college business student or recent graduate for eMarketing and social network development internship. This artist has a business background and needs a dependable person proficient in e-marketing who also likes to have fun. Able to create a high impact web site from template and knowledge of web design.

Start Date: November 2, 2010
Closing Date for applications: October 24, 2010

Duration: 6 weeks, commitment to 10 hours per week. Virtual work after initial face to face visit and strategy session. Weekly progress monitoring and interaction to ensure weekly objectives and targets are met.

Work Description:
The objective is to increase awareness of a contemporary art portfolio and increase online sales of limited edition prints and posters as well as driving more traffic to the artist’s web site for purchase of the original artwork, by creating and delivering an e-marketing program, by increasing distribution and leveraging existing contacts - over 1,000 in Facebook and on Fan page.

Duties: Formulate an eMarketing campaign and budget. Input contacts into a database and leverage over 1,000 names in FACEBOOK account and Fan page through your knowledge of SEO and media relations. Develop articles and Twitter campaign. Repurpose and rebuild artist’s web site. To generate local and international media attention.

Creative thinking, campaign design, and project planning is required, plus a willingness to do the grunt work like physical mailings. This internship is best suited to someone with interest in e-marketing.

Benefits:
* An opportunity to lead a range of marketing initiatives and create highly visible portfolio results
* Get training and build resume experience and practical skills in:
o Search engine optimization
o Web analytics
o Facebook and Twitter marketing
o Database marketing
o Blogging and article marketing
* Career development and advancement opportunities in a growing online art industry
* Perks and commissions
* Opportunity for contract work after completion of internship

A great reference will also be provided based on satisfactory completion of internship.

Requirements:
* Business and design focus in new media, and e-marketing
* Sense of humour and innovative
* Great writing skills
* Understanding and user of social media
* Creative and able to develop high impact campaign design
o Internet marketing
* Professional attitude

Start Date: Oct 18

Duration: 12 weeks, commitment to 4 days a week

We are a web-based company in the consumer internet space, with a growing user-base and currently in the pre-revenue phase (AB: I love that one!). We are a young, (AB: ie. no money, but yet try to find staff for free) flexible, and dynamic team, endorsing creativity, efficiency, and delivering value.

Work Description:
The objective is to increase user-base and web traffic using internet marketing, SEO, and media relations. Approximately 20% of the work will concentrate around creative thinking, campaign design, and project planning, and the other 80% on delivering. There is established methodology, training, performance metrics, and regular guidance in place; best suited for an intern with interest in this industry. (AB: What makes you think this work can be performed by an intern?)

Benefits:
* An opportunity to lead a range of marketing initiatives and create highly visible portfolio results
* Get training and build resume experience and practical skills in:
o Search engine optimization
o Web analytics
o Facebook and Twitter marketing
o Database marketing
o Blogging and article marketing
* Career development and advancement opportunities in a growing industry
* Perks and bonuses
* Opportunity to get a contract after completion of internship

Requirements:
* Journalism, literature, new media, or marketing background is a bonus
* Great sense of humour
* Great writing skills
* Good user of social media
* Experience in or the ability to learn:
o Creative and high impact campaign design
o Internet marketing
* Professional attitude

Note from Alex: This is the best in the area of underpaid SEO-SEM jobs I have seen. 

Marketingsector.com is an online advertising agency that has been in business since 2004. We have a small office in downtown, Vancouver. We are currently looking for someone that can help us create new online advertising campaigns. This involves doing research online and writing ads. Along the way you will learn more about the online advertising industry and more tasks/responsibilities will be given.

Requirements:
must know basic computer skills (internet, excel, outlook)
must be able to read and write in English fluently
must be professional when writing emails and answering phones

Additional (not required):
Knowledge of basic web development and/or SEO

Compensation:
$10 per hour for first 80 hours in training.
$10.50 per hour after training. Rate will be moved up accordingly after that.

Hours:
Looking for someone to work 40 hours a week (9am-5pm).