Marcus Michael

Experience

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  Imperial Bank

  Mar 2007 - Oct 2010

  Marketing Assistant

  Assisted the MarketingManager with administrative functions in professional asset based Finance and Internal marketing to medical professionals.Provided good service to high net worth clients and worked with the Marketing Manager to retain our clients.This is where I developed my service offering & sales skills.

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  Nedbank Business Banking

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2011

  Internal Marketer

  Assisted the Business Manager in maintaining Key client accounts, developing new business & offering excellent customer service. Assisted with finance applications and solutions tailored to a myriad professionals (Doctors, Advocates, etc.) building relationships with high net worth clients.

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  Little Green Beverages Pty Ltd

  Oct 2011 - Feb 2012

  Area Manager

  New Business Development in FMCG.Relationship Building with wholesalers, supermarkets, etc. across Gauteng & Mpumalanga. Extensive external / Outbound "target driven" sales.Sales forecasting, marketing, promos, etc.

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  Fournos Bakery Group

  Feb 2012 - Mar 2013

  Marketing Manager / Floor manager / In-store Brand awareness

  Started as floor manager, then started to implement many PR & marketing strategies within Fournos group to maximize sales and increase brand awareness for the group.

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  Matrix Marketing

  Apr 2013 - Jun 2013

  New Business Development Strategist

  Implementing new business strategies to maximize sales of a cloud-based data set. Sourcing and maintaining new business selling of their exclusive online software. Extensive external / Outbound sales targeting only key decision makers. Assisting clients with strategies to maximize sales and how to use pro-actively researched data to increase the sales by probing them, determining their needs & implementing strategies to satisfy those needs.

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  Fournos Bakery Group

  Jul 2013 - Sept 2017

  Head: Corporate Sales & New Business Development Strategies

  I am the front runner of the Fournos Corporate Division. My function is to develop, source & maintain New Business for the Fournos Group. I manage the corporate key accounts for 10 Fournos stores across Gauteng. Boast with having assisted 1000+ corporate clients over the past year, we have grown the corporate side by an average 30% per month. Some of the clients we built relationships with this year: Investec, Sun International, Alliance France, Audi SA, VW SA, RMB, FNB private clients, YFM, Vodacom, Nedbank, Continental Outdoor & more in a space of months. I am a highly skilled New Business Development Strategist with Extensive External / Outbound sales experience to corporate companies. My goal is to continuously formulate strategies to maximize sales & entrench the brand, while maintaining a remarkable, friendly & responsive service. I have extensive experience in Sales Prospecting, Lead Generation, New Business & maintaining those clients.I am a very sales driven individual, with a results orientated attitude. I will achieve any goal I set my mind to. because of this job I have developed remarkable people skills as well as always learning more about homo sapiens their thinking, behaviour and love growing my knowledge in this area. I have studied Image consulting, body language, developed good listening skills and have good EQ skills and can read people really well. Show less

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  MyKittyPup.com

  Oct 2017 - now

  Founder & CEO
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  Silver Samurai Technologies

  Oct 2020 - now

  Managing Director
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  ICE-ID ME

  Oct 2022 - now

  Managing Director of ICE-ID ME™