Ron Belyea

Experience

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  The Courier Gazette

  Oct 1985 - Oct 1990

  Advertising Sales Representative/Advertising Sales Manager

  Direct sales and marketing to local and national companiesSet many company sales records Networked and established solid customer base for a reoccurring revenue streamTrack record of increased responsibilities

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  Courier Publications/American Consolidated Media/Crescent Publishing

  Nov 1990 - Mar 2003

  Vice President/Advertising Director

  Led advertising sales teams for nine weekly newspapers in Maine and four in Massachusetts.Spearheaded the start up of three weekly newspapers in new markets in Maine.Transitioned advertising production and billing from multiple locations to one.Streamlined three printing plant locations to one.

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  VillageSoup/VillageNet Media

  Jun 2003 - May 2011

  President, Publisher & C.O.O.

  • Publisher of 4 weekly newspapers• Developed user generated native advertising program that generated over 20% of advertising revenue online• 25 years management of newspapers and online media• Proven ability to motivate and lead sales teams, strong communicator• Solid experience in sales growth and operations management of publishing and commercial web printing companies with over $4 million in annual revenues• Track record of promotions and increased responsibilities• Key manager in the start up of two weekly newspapers in Knox and Waldo Counties that purchased the legacy newspaper group in that market in 4 years• Formulated multi-million dollar budgets, wrote complex contracts and developed short and long-term business strategies• Market, sold and provided training for the VillageSoup Community Management SystemSpecialtiesSocial media, sales, online marketing, real estate, auto and classifieds. Sales of content management system with full user training and implementation. New product development, Business strategy development, business management and business planning Show less

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  VillageSoup.com

  Jun 2003 - May 2011

  Vice President/Community Manager

  Collaborated on developing the VillageSoup platform to open source via an $890,000 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grantSold, implemented and provided training for editorial, production and sales staff for the Villagesoup Enterprise Community Management System to clients across the U.S.Developer and lead trainer for client's sales teams focusing on leveraging VillageSoup, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other social media into new revenue

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  Herald-Tribune Media Group/ThriveHive

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2019

  Digital Director

  • Qualified Google AdWords Individual since 2016• Digital services team revenue Q3 2017 increased by 148% over sales in Q3 2016• YTD Actuals are 29.6% above 2017 budget target• Proven ability to motivate and lead sales teams, strong communicator• Built a complete Digital Services team in 2014. Transitioned to Propel Marketing Services in 2015.• Track record of promotions and increased responsibilities• ThriveHive Digital Services Sarasota Team is consistently in top 5 in U.S.A . in total monthly contract revenue for Propel Marketing/ThriveHive.• Google Analytics Certified• Google Adwords Mobile Certified• Google Adwords Display Certified• Google AdWords Fundamentals Certified Show less

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  Dream Local Digital

  Jan 2019 - Jun 2019

  Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
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  Currently Seeking New Role

  Jun 2019 - now

  Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)