Ernest Nwafor

Experience

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  IDEAS COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED.

  Feb 2007 - Jun 2008

  PROJECT SERVICE/MARKETING EXECUTIVE

  • Organizing press Conferences, media briefings and media enquiries.• Planning, organizing, marketing and Presentation of events.• Media Relations; interact with relevant media to promote organizational activities.• Event Packaging and Management• Successful marketing of events such as NMMA, WACHAMS & CCN @50.

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  CRISPDIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

  Jul 2008 - Aug 2011

  BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE

  • Sell of company’s goods and services to new and existing customers. • Identifying new markets, business opportunities and making strong arguments for company products.• Online advertising and marketing.• Proactively identified customer’s needs and pursued appropriate resources to alleviate issues.• Provided presentations and exhibitions.• Successful follow-up and resolving of clients complaints; establish and maintain favorable relationships with stakeholders.• Succeeded in pitching new businesses; attracting and winning new clients.• Responsible for originating, planning and implementing campaigns. Show less

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  SYMMETRIC COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED

  Sept 2011 - now

  BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER/TRAINING COORDINATOR

  ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Trained over 300 public relations, advertising and marketing professionals in Nigeria.• Delivered over 700 high profile presentations for activation brief and professional training.• Used direct marketing/ social channels to convert prospects to brand advocates.• Sold advert space on major pedestrian bridges in Lagos state.• Maintained good relationship with existing clients and pitching for new ones.• Identified prospects, maintained a list of prospects and engage prospects.• Gathering and analyzing data on market conditions• Identified new markets, locate business opportunities and pitch new clients.• Researched into key concepts in Advertising, Public relations and Marketing• Developed and manage and maintain a blog spot on branding, advertising, PR and marketing.• Designed communication strategies, develop tactics for new and existing clients.• Improved stakeholder relations management through effective issue/crisis management mechanism.• Increased company revenue base by 60 percent through effective and efficient IMC strategies.• Increased company customer base by 40 percent through effective online and offline marketing. Show less