Positions: [Online Ad Sales Associate] [Catster.com Community Blog Writer]

You are smart, competitive, outgoing and personable. You are exceptionally well organized and have the ability to research and identify who the right person to close the deal with is. You will report to the CFO.

Expectations

• You have experience creating target lists, as you will be responsible for building, growing and maintaining advertising client lists.
• You will monitor campaigns and ensure campaign delivery, manage campaign performance and make optimization recommendations.
• You can talk to anybody.
• You have outstanding telephone skills. (You can talk on the phone all day.)
• You can concentrate on more then one thing at a time.
• You want more out of a job then just a pay-check.

The ideal candidate will understand how our business model impacts the greater web marketplace. They will demonstrate the ability to think creatively, and work well in close quarters. They will have the ability to manage stress well and juggle multiple account challenges at once. 2-3 years of advertising sales experience with a minimum 1 year of online sales experience essential. Outstanding telephone skills, demonstrated analytical ability, BS/BA degree and proven sales and account service achievements are required.

Send your resume and cover letter to: jobs@dogster.com

The blog you will be responsible for updating is the feline equivalent of our For the Love of Dog Blog (http://dogblog.dogster.com). In addition to contributing up-to-date, educational and member-serving posts, you will build and maintain a community of readers and guest contributors so as to further enhance Catster.com’s presence as a leading online social networking site.

Expectations:

• You are not only self-motivated and driven, but disciplined as well—able to write 15-20 posts per week and cover a variety of cat-related topics.
• You are able to surf the Internet and find interesting, cat-related articles and material that you can then summarize and make available to your readers.
• In-depth knowledge of the house-cat universe is critical, as is a general awareness of cat food recalls, cat health and animal rescue/shelter issues. The right candidate will be a through and through cat person.
• You are familiar with the blogging platform in general and are able to implement micro-blogging tools, online community and social networking features so as to be able to cultivate, encourage, and expand your reader base.
• You understand the importance of tapping into the blogger network and developing relationships with other online publishers for cross promotion and support.
• You have a general understanding of basic HTML code and can produce polished blog entries that are visually appealing and include source images and quotes from cited articles.
• You are sensitive to and aware of the Catster.com community and can tailor your posts (and writing style, in general) to appeal to the particular needs and desires of our Catster members.
• You want more out of a job then just a pay-check.

Send your resume and cover letter to: jobs@dogster.com