Advertising Sales Representative

Turn your love of community into a career.

Founded in 2007, Best Version Media (BVM) has spent nearly two decades bringing North American communities together one person, one home, one business at a time. Today, BVM publishes over 1,300 local magazines and reaches billions of digital impressions across North America, helping thousands of local business owners grow.

This is a field-based, in-person sales role. You’ll build your own book of business in your local territory, on a schedule you control, selling advertising placements across BVM’s local print magazine and companion digital, social, and website products.

• Consult
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  Meet face-to-face with standout local business owners to showcase what makes their community great.
• Strategize
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  Build powerful, multi-channel branding programs using our media suite, print, digital, social, websites, and reputation management.
• Scale
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  Leverage our proven training and time-tested sales system to grow your own book of business, building community engagement that pays you and your community for years to come.

This is a 1099 independent contractor role with no base salary or draw (full commission). Representatives earn a recurring commission on sales, with commission rates generally ranging from 70-80% based on monthly sales volume and performance relative to the baseline
* cost structure. Bonuses are available during start-up and on an ongoing basis.

* Baseline is the back-end cost associated with the magazine & digital product’s cost to produce, distribute, bill clients, etc, and does not come out of the representative’s pocket.

• Sales Acumen
  : A drive to help local businesses grow through the art of advertising sales, strong communication, negotiation, and closing skills. Experience with digital or print advertising is a plus, but the right attitude matters most; we provide the training.
• Growth Mindset
  : A resilient, never-give-up attitude paired with a proactive approach to learning and continuous self-improvement.
• Community Focus
  : A genuine interest in building and nurturing relationships with local business owners, putting their success first.

• Support
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  Comprehensive training and ongoing professional support, we’re a community in ourselves.
• Proven Success
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  Nearly 20 years serving local communities, with over 1,300 publications and a reach of billions of digital impressions across North America.
• Culture & Rewards
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  Our why is simple: bring communities closer, one relationship at a time, and we celebrate the people who make that happen.
• Earn incentive trips, awards, and friendly contests along the way, all within a flexible schedule built to keep you present for what matters most: friends and family.