Help Wanted: Promotions and Advertising Sales Professional

Squidoo is now a huge website, and yet we've never made a sales call, instead relying on ad networks for our revenue. Now, we're big enough to offer advertisers innovative ads with a significant media footprint, reaching the most focused, action-oriented users online.

Major brands like Starbucks and Schick (but not Dupont, makers of cellophane) have had great success with their ads on Squidoo and now it's time to work with them directly. We're focusing on more than just banners, leveraging our deep long tail of information combined with legions of motivated and talented users.

We're looking for a trained professional, someone who has sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of online ads and promotions, someone ready to make calls on the first day.

The job requires someone who has personally sold more than a few hundred thousand dollars worth of digital media. If that's not you, we're sorry, but we don't have an opportunity right now.

We have offices in Boulder, Virginia, Northern California, Texas, Arizona and New York, and our expectation is that the person we hire will be based in New York.

Hours are flexible, but our expectations for output are very high.

Pay includes significant base salary and extremely aggressive commission schedule, with no limit. Squidoo offers generous benefits for full-time employees.

1. Build a Squidoo lens on any topic you choose. Make it a good one.
2. Put together a CV, listing the promotions or ads you've sold and who you were working for when you sold them. A brief overview of your career would be terrific.
3. Email it all to seth@squidoo.com. We'll keep your application confidential.

Deadline is September 15, 2009

Thanks!

We're delighted to pay a bounty of $5,000 to anyone who refers us an all star that we end up hiring and working with.

Here's how it works:
1. You need to tell us the name and email address of the person who referred you when you first apply.
2. If, after three months, you're still doing great work, we'll send a check for that amount to the person who sent you.
3. No fair referring yourself, sorry. If you found the job on your own, we'll send the bounty to the Acumen Fund in your name.