Searching For ANN's Future Marketing Manager

As journalists and pilots, we have to tell you there is no better marriage of vocation and avocation than working as a member of the aviation media. Seriously. The late musician Harry Chapin once told ANN's Pete Combs that his biggest fear was that someday, someone would walk up to him and say, "Harry, the jig is up. It's time to get a real job."

Now that we do what we love, we can understand. The truth is, if you love your work, it's like hardly working at all (that's Jim's pitch and he's sticking to it...).

That's what working at ANN is all about. And we need to add another soul to the family.

We have a major staff position to fill -- one that has eluded us for quite a while. And, now's the time to get serious about it.

Since ANN started, we have enjoyed the amazing support of a group of sponsors who have, by and large, been generous and visionary. As a matter of fact, most of the sponsors you see on ANN called us first -- leaving us little to do but to finish some paperwork, and get them started. You have no idea how wonderful that has been for us... leaving us (mostly) to work on the editorial end of ANN and build it into what is generally recognized as the Aviation World's Most Widely Read Daily News Service.

Thanks to them, we have served the aviation world aggressively and comprehensively for six years... and an amazing seventh year is just around the corner.

It's nice to be able to count on this kind of support... but we're about to REALLY step up the action (and expense) here at ANN (not that the pace hasn't always been fast and furious -- believe you me, it IS). Aero-Casting is NOW a reality... three times a day. The next edition of the SportPlane Resource Guide is underway, Real-Time News delivery programs and products have been deployed very successfully. ANN news syndication programs are also being distributed, and the international scope of ANN is about to take a serious step up. Above all else, though, the world-renowned daily aviation news coverage you depend on continues to show promised increases in both quality as well as quantity (nope... despite what your mamma told you, you CAN'T get too much of a good thing!).

What this all means is that it's time to take our marketing goals as seriously as we took our editorial. And that means that someone has to take on the job of guiding and managing the marketing and promotional growth of ANN. We're looking for a Marketing Manager... an aggressive, ethical, honest, well-spoken, smart, web-savvy, marketing and promotions oriented person who can help ANN introduce a whole new generation of aviation businesses as our partners in growing the Aviation World's Daily News Service, as well as to brainstorm and manage a number of promotional and industry programs that are under way, or will be, shortly.

This is going to be a busy job. It's going to require excellent sales skills, solid marketing smarts, a solid work ethic, tremendous ingenuity, a keen insight into the aviation world, a great imagination and a TRUE communicator... someone who also GETS just how important ANN is becoming to the aviation world, and can be counted on to help us grow our services and abilities so that we can do EVEN MORE than we do already.

But most of all, we need a TEAM player... ANN has never been about one person... it's been about an amazing team of people with great goals and (truly) amazing skills doing extraordinary things for the aviation world. If you think you have what it takes, get in touch with us...

Please send your resume, an intro letter, and contact information to ANN right away... as this position is ready and waiting for the right person, right now.

And that's all you have to do! We'll be in touch! 

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