Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to provide the name,
phone number and email address of ten or more small one, two or three
man companies that that independently sell advertising for one or more
magazines (These people are often called independent sales
contractors).
Note, there are several mid to large size companies that outsource
advertising sales to publishers. While I am interested in these type
companies (and will tip you for them), I prefer smaller one, two or
three man organizations. To be correct the answer should provide a
minimum of ten independent sales organizations that are no larger than
3 people. Any information provided beyond the ten can include larger
companies.
Just to be clear the contacts provided must be independent of any
publisher. Many larger magazines have their own advertising sales
force however people in these organizations do not qualify as they
work for the publisher and are thus not independent.
In addition to the base price I offer a $2.00 tip for each entry
submitted above the ten with a maximum tip of $22.00 being possible
(The tip caps at $22.00).
I realize that determining the size of a company is difficult and will
rely on a lot of guesswork on your part. Just do the best you can,
and I won?t complain.
Finally I was not sure how to price this question. If you think it
should be worth more let me know. I can?t go a lot higher but we
might be able to work something out.
Note ? one way to do this might be to find a magazine that uses
independent sales contractors and then see who is listed on the online
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Clarification of Question by
canbeonlyone-ga
on
29 May 2005 09:13 PDT
Hi waukon-ga!
How so? What did I get wrong?
Thanks!!!
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Request for Question Clarification by
pinkfreud-ga
on
29 May 2005 11:22 PDT
Thanks for mentioning me. I haven't had any luck with this; I hope
EasterAngel or another Researcher will be able to help you.
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
29 May 2005 15:12 PDT
Hi!
At this point I haven't found anything as well so it would be good to
let other researchers take a crack at this.
Thanks!
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Clarification of Question by
canbeonlyone-ga
on
29 May 2005 19:47 PDT
Hi guys - thanks for trying. Just curious what was the most difficult
part of this search?
Thanks again!
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
29 May 2005 19:58 PDT
Hi! I think I was able to find something of value. I will be on this again.
Thanks!
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
29 May 2005 20:45 PDT
It seems that the real difficulty here is trying to separate a big
company and a small one. Plus such companies also do only do magazine
or print media, but others as well like tv, radio, etc.
How do you want to proceed after the observation I posted above?
Thanks!
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Clarification of Question by
canbeonlyone-ga
on
29 May 2005 21:26 PDT
Hi EasterAngel - Nice to hear from you again.
If we were to change the criteria such that "too big" is defined as a
a company having more than 2 offices or more than 5 people listed on
their web site would that make the question managable? I suspected
that company size would be hard to determine...
Also the company does not have to do "just" magazine advertising;
other forms of advertising are okay also (t.v, radio, etc). However I
would prefer them to "at least" sell magazine advertising. If that
looks like it will be a problem, let me know and maybe we can relax
that somewhat.
Thanks EasterAngel!
Best regards,
PS - Going to bed now, but I will check back in the morning.
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
29 May 2005 23:14 PDT
Hi!
Would the following types of companies be the kinds you're looking for?
Mogo Marketing
http://www.mogomarketing.com/
KOEPPELDIRECT
16200 Dallas Parkway, Suite 235
Dallas, Texas 75248
Ph: 972-732-6110
Email: pkoeppel@koeppelinc.com
http://www.koeppeldirect.com/contact.htm
STG Media Corp.
Phoenix Headquarters
398 South Mill Ave, Suite. 301
Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone: (480) 699-6078
Fax: (480) 699-0034
http://www.stgmediacorp.com/index.php?fuseaction=home.main
Please let me know.
Thanks!
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Clarification of Question by
canbeonlyone-ga
on
30 May 2005 07:54 PDT
Actually EasterAngel these guys are media-houses. They are a little
different. For the most part, companies call a media house to buy
advertising for them at discounted (somewhat) rates. They don't
usually try to sell specific magazine advertising to anyone.
Below I have included a small list of people that I believe are
independant ad sales people. I think this because the magazines they
work with are too small to have dedicated sales people.
Jerry Bleich
Tom Greney
Don Harway
Judy Harway
Michael Rogers
Maryann Johnston
Joan Daly
Dave Busch
Dick Busch
Jim Oestmann
Ted Rzempoluch
Jim Longton
Bob Ryan
Rosemarie Calvert
Beverly Ellis
Joe Caso
Ally Wingate
Gilda Falso
Diane Soister
Craig Wilson
Susan Shepherd
Glen Wither
Bill Madden
William (Bill) Hague
Lisa Nelson
Mike Gilbert
Janet Kennedy
Ed Marecki
Stan Greenfield
Jim Oot
Karen Cariello
Bob Casey
Chris Casey
Bernie Ventre
Ray Beauchamp
Tom Boris
David Carstenson
They work for magazine like NASA Tech Briefs, McGraw Hill Construction
Engineering News, Microwave Product Digest, Government West, and
MIL/COTS Digest. THese are all low circulation mags tied to specific
market verticals. The verticals they serve are usually pretty far
away from anything commodity.
Hope that helps. I know you have been working on this a good bit
however if it doesn't look doable - I will cancel the question and
open another smaller question so I can compensate you somewhat for
your work.
I will be out most of the day, but I will check in when I get back.
Best regards!
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
30 May 2005 09:11 PDT
I haven't found anything substantial. I think I don't deserve
something for my efforts since such companies I mentioned are clearly
not what you want. That's ok I enjoyed the research anyway.
Thanks again! :)
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Clarification of Question by
canbeonlyone-ga
on
31 May 2005 06:21 PDT
Thanks EasterAngel! Thanks PinkFreud! I am going to cancel the
question, but I will keep you both in mind for future questions.
Best regards!
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