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• Strong sales, presentation and negotiating skills
• Develop new and cultivate existing business within the region (consultative sales skills a must!)
• Ability to develop key client, agency and industry relationships at all levels.
• Innovative and creative sales approach with strong business acumen
• Must be well organized and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Promote and sell high-profile special projects (i.e. single-sponsored special sections, supplements, online events)
• Travel for in-person client meetings and tradeshows
• Prospect within territory for all potential advertisers
• Maintain and grow substantial existing advertising base
• Maintain database of all advertisers and prospects within territory
• Plan and execute strategy to communicate features/benefits of all products to prospects and advertisers
• Know all products and how to best present them
• Follow through on sales and commitments with advertisers, prospects and peers
• Submit thorough, accurate, timely reports and paperwork
• Research prospects and advertisers to be familiar with their businesses
• Revenue growth for online, print, events, sponsorships and custom publishing
• Experience in making sales calls and closing business is a MUST

You are likely already aware that there is a massive 14-disc, standard DVD <I>Superman Ultimate Collector's Edition</I> boxed set of most, if not all things Superman ($99.98). It includes all four feature films, including both the theatrical cut of <I>Superman II</I> and <I>Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut</I>, 2006's <I>Superman Returns</I>, and enough additional features and details to keep any Supermaniac busy through 2007.

In the wake of the nearly simultaneous introductions of Sony's Blu-ray capable PlayStation3 and the HD DVD external drive for the Xbox 360, some answers are already coming in on the impact these gaming consoles are going to have on the format war as a whole. And so far, aside from radically altering the install base of hardware for both formats, the gaming rigs are playing a big role in moving HD software off the shelves too.

Last night I went to a rock concert and a product launch broke out. But seriously folks, as you're all probably aware Sony's long awaited PlayStation3 game console officially went on sale at midnight last night around the country. I attended the San Francisco launch at the Sony Metreon, where fans, er consumers, were camped out and lined up around the building and down the street for the privilege of buying the consoles as they went on sale at the stroke of midnight.

IC manufacturer Broadcom made waves this week by introducing the industry's first integrated chip solution that will allow manufacturers to support Blu-ray and HD DVD in a single player. No OEM deals were announced, but this development offers a glimmer of hope to manufacturers and consumers alike, many of whom have been waiting to discern a "winner" in the next-gen HD disc format war before either building or purchasing a player that supports only one format.

Microsoft announced this week that it has secured deals with a number of major studios to sell downloads of movies and TV shows through its Xbox Live Internet service for the Xbox 360 game console. Although the bulk of the programming available will be standard definition, some content will be available in HD out of the gate, with more to follow. The service will go live November 22nd.