Matt Ward
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Experience
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Granted Consulting
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Canada
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Grant Strategy Consultant
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Mar 2021 - Present
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LTE Entertainment
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Canada
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Events Services
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Director Of Event Management
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Jan 2016 - Present
Built and managed a highly successful event planning and marketing company.● Developed an event production workflow, marketing system, and sales process to offer/deliver a one of a kind experience to over 20 000 attendees. ● Used project management skills to coordinate corporate events, large scale tasting tours, and event transportation for 1000’s of attendees across up to 12 venues simultaneously.● Developed relationships with suppliers, venues, partners, sponsors, staff, and customers for 100+ events over 6 years. ● Pioneered a proprietary Facebook event growth hacking strategy with proven resultto guarantee event ticket sales of over $120 000 in sales per year.● Leveraged expert sales copywriting, effective marketing materials, and strategic timing to create a highly engaged audience on Facebook and Instagram of over 25 000 people. ● Tracked, analyzed, optimized, and implemented influencer and social media marketing strategies
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Team Grow Consulting
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Development Manager
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Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
Leads the companies day-to-day marketing, sales, and business development activities.● Creating and delivering new business pitches to best suit client’s needs● Maintaining a pipeline of new business opportunities including forecasting monthly and quarterly revenues.● Meet/Exceed monthly, quarterly and annual revenue goals according to sales plan.● Full understanding of the advertising technology industry and keeping up with trends.● Working closely with operations team to ensure expertise on all technical products.● Communicate on-going contact/sales activities through sales pipeline reports, regular sales meetings, and report & update weekly on activity status and next steps related to specific opportunities, soliciting support as required. ● Created a target driven social media/content marketing strategy to develop strategic brand positioning and increase inbound lead generation by 31%. ● Analyze market trends and client data to increase conversions and continuously optimize client sales processes. ● Developed a loyalty marketing system via email, Facebook messenger, and Hubspot CRM to generate a recurring monthly revenue model.
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apt 175
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Canada
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Entertainment Providers
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Director Of Marketing And Business Development
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Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Leads day-to-day marketing and business development operations for the venue. ● Creating and executing influencer marketing and social media campaigns● Recruiting, onboarding, managing and continuously training bilingual sales team● Developing and improving systems to streamline onboarding and training processes● Building and managing relationships with influencers, sponsors, and clients● Using detailed knowledge of product and service offerings to address customer needs, and provide customized solutions● Tracking, analyzing and reporting social media performance● Creating, maintaining, updating, and organizing documents and folders for all client and influencer relations● Using creative-problem solving to address issues in a fast-paced environment
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Escapade Music Festival
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Music
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Sales Marketing Manager
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Sep 2012 - Dec 2017
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DNA Presents
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Canada
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Entertainment Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Marketing and Promotions Manager
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Jan 2011 - Dec 2017
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Yellow Pages / Pages Jaunes – Canada
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Canada
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Advertising Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Development Manager
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Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
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Rogers Communications
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Canada
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Sales Representative
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May 2008 - Dec 2009
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TeleTech
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Egypt
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Inside Sales Representative
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Sep 2006 - May 2008
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Education
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Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration, Marketing -
Udemy Academy