Stan Aaronson

Experience

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  Neo-Life International

  Jun 1978 - Dec 1986

  National Recruiter

  Business development, relationship marketing, customer experience management, client recruitment, distributor recruitment, brand advocacy

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  Kinko's Reno

  May 1983 - Nov 1985

  Public Relations Director

  Media and governmental relations, business development, relationship marketing, customer experience management, client recruitment, brand advocacy

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  KSRN-FM 98.5/KCRL-AM 780 Reno

  Jan 1984 - Dec 1986

  On-Air Talent
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  Better Business Bureau of Northern Nevada

  Jan 1986 - Dec 1988

  Membership Recruiter

  Relationship marketing, membership recruitment, brand advocacy

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  KRZQ-FM 96.5 Reno

  Jan 1987 - Dec 1989

  On-Air Talent
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  State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Public Health Inspectors

  Nov 1987 - Dec 1989

  Chair
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  Rising Signs Productions

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1992

  Director of Business Development

  Relationship marketing, audio production, media relations, customer experience management, client recruitment, brand advocacy

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  J & M Entertainment

  May 1991 - May 1996

  Marketing Manager and Master of Ceremony

  Relationship marketing, event management, event production, customer experience management, client recruitment, brand advocacy

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  S M Aaronson Marketing Strategies

  May 1994 - now

  Founder & Owner

  A couture management consulting practice. We work with execs, divisions, departments, managers. Our job is to accelerate you from where you are to where you want to BE. Areas of expertise: Customer, Employee and Supplier Engagement; Sustainable Growth practices; Bridging the credibility gap between Brand Promise and Customer Experience; the Science of Business.

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  Mark Sonder Productions

  Jun 2000 - now

  Business Advisor

  Mark Sonder Productions understands the key elements involved in making talent buying decisions and ensures that this data can be obtained quickly & easily. Performance fees, production requirements, favorable routing, availability, are always just a phone call or e-mail away. Headliner details may include bio, picture, availability, cost. All data is researched in various ways -- simplifying the booking process. Mark Sonder Productions can search headliners by fee range or genre of presentation. A proprietary communication system permits Mark Sonder Productions to easily communicate with one or hundreds of artists within a short period of time on behalf of clients, under no obligation. Show less

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  Goodman Audio Services, Inc.

  Feb 2004 - Dec 2007

  Director of Business Development

  Plan and execute business meetings and lunches, coordinate trade show exhibits and hospitality functions, budget for promotional and other marketing activities – utilizing keen listening skills – while remaining flexible, open and available to creating solutions for externalities that threaten objectives and the project’s overall mission. Consistently mission critical and threat sensitive, higher revenues have been achieved through teaching my team the language of relationship marketing and focusing all marketing on results our clients tell us they get by hiring us. Partnerships and sponsorship are currently our most successful in reaching our targeted segment. Show less

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  International Special Events Society

  Jul 2004 - Jun 2005

  Certification Commission Chair

  The CSEP designation indicates that the designee is committed to performing due diligence, utilizing industry best practices and upholding international standards; and thereby, each and every client receives ethical conduct. Perhaps the strongest argument for professional certification relates to building and maintaining trust. Achieving certification is an effective way to demonstrate to employers, clients and colleagues that the designee possesses the knowledge, skills and proficiency required to be an exceptional service professional. Show less

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  Meetings Focus

  Nov 2006 - now

  Content Advisory Board Facilitator

  Meetings Focus publications target meeting planners who book meetings, conferences, conventions and events throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. It publishes four titles, Meetings Focus East, Meetings Focus MidAmerica, Meetings Focus South and Meetings Focus West, and offers a planner-based website, MeetingsFocus.com, and four regionally focused editions of the Meetings Focus e-newsletter. In addition, the company produces monthly webinars covering various meetings industry-related topics. Show less

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  The George Greenstein Institute, Inc.

  Jan 2009 - Feb 2013

  Corporate Treasurer + Board Director

  The George Greenstein Institute, Inc. (AKA GGI) is a Neuro-Creativity/Idea Lab dedicated to advancing how people "learn to learn"-- and how that learning impacts creative options to address: how they live; how they lead; how they problem solve.Our primary commitment coupling learning-about-learning with learning about how human-brain-nervous-system accelerates the learning and design thinking process.

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  Zintro Inc.

  Jan 2009 - now

  Zintro Expert

  Zintro provides clients with the ability to anonymously send a single inquiry to hundreds of relevant subject-matter experts in 90 seconds and a safe framework to actually talk with selected experts within a day or two.