Mike Schmidt

Voice Talent

About

Successful multi-talented professional, experienced in sales, marketing and communications with business development, training and education skills. Adept at prospecting, presentation and negotiation. Budgeting, marketing plans, team-building, database management experience too. In addition, I'm a former award-winning radio broadcast program director, operations manager, on-air personality and voice-over artist.

Country

United States

City

Prairie Village

Industry

Furniture

Skill

Music Industry, Marketing, Strategic Thinking, Teamwork, Franchising, Real Estate, Mergers, Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Sales Management, New Business Development, Selling, Public Speaking, Social Media, Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Voice Over, Social Networking, Customer Service, Customer Relations

Experience

Voice Talent

Voice Over Artist, Narration and Production

1971-5 - Present · 55 yrs 4 mos

Kansas City

Sales, Living Room

Nebraska Furniture Mart

2014-8 - 2017-7 · 3 yrs

Vice President

Professionals Realty Group USA

2011-7 - 2012-3 · 9 mos

Prairie Village, KS

Professionals Realty Group USA, the North American franchise sister company to Professionals Realty, founded in Austalia in 1976.

Sales & Marketing Professional

Self-Employed

2008-8 - 2010 · 1 yr

Recently relocated to Greater Kansas City area. An energetic, experienced Boomer who can help guide and increase the productivity of your GenX & Y'ers.

Franchise Sales Director

Realty Executives Mid-America

2008-2 - 2008-8 · 7 mos

Franchise Sales Director for a Master Licensee of a real estate franchisor serving Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska. Resigned due to relocation to Dallas.

Regional Franchise Sales Director

Cendant Corporation (Realogy)

2004-5 - 2007-10 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Real Estate franchise sales for Century21 & Coldwell Banker in Midwest & Mountain West

Corporate Underwriting Representative

One Voice Public Broadcasting

2002-1 - 2004-4 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Fund-raising for a bi-state group of PBS and NPR broadcast outlets.

National Franchise Sales Manager

CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts

1990-8 - 2002-11 · 12 yrs 4 mos

National Franchise Sales Manager, Insurance Marketing Manager, Director of Special Projects for CEO, Trainer/Content Creator

Broadcast Communications

KXUS Radio

1985-1 - 1990-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

On-air personality Recruited, managed and supervised all on-air staff. Achieved 30% increase in ratings for the station and dramatically increased station revenues and status in the marketplace. Recipient of numerous recording industry gold and platinum album sales awards