Marketing Assistant to Create Themed Postcards and Emails

Overview
Work with a busy real estate firm creating flyers, post cards, emails and designing promotional material in a professional manner.


About Us
We are a successful real estate firm based on the west side of the United States that primarily represents buyers and sellers of residential real estate. Over the past several years we have helped on between 75 and 100 transactions each year. We are now looking for several new highly capable team members with positive can-do attitudes to help our company grow in 2017.

Our team is currently 7 people, some of whom work on-site and some who work off-site. We use a combination of communication technologies to stay connected and supportive of each other. We plan on growing our company significantly in the next 12 months and your help will be critical to our success. This will be a long-term position with our company and we will expect you to grow along with us. Our team consists of resourceful people who can often figure out how to do things on their own but are not afraid to ask for help when needed.

Schedule
This position will offer a combination of fixed and flexible hours. Required work hours, when I will be available to coordinate with you, are Mon, Wed, Fri 9am to 11am Pacific Time with the reminder of 20 hours being flexible.
You will receive the same vacation and sick time allowances as our on-site employees and there will be a yearend bonus on December 15th.

Responsibilities / Tasks
The primary responsibility of this position will be to assist our management with content creation for printed and email marketing. Secondary tasks will include assisting with customer database management and other tasks that may be helpful for our business from time to time.

Required Experience
You should have experience as a Virtual Assistant, preferably working in the US, with recent experience in creating themed marketing campaigns consisting of emails, postcards and newsletters. You will first consult with your supervisor at our company and possibly other members of the team to determine what theme and messages should be used in the upcoming pieces. Then you will research what other firms have been sending out that is similar and use that research to construct multiple original comp (aka sample) pieces for management to choose from. Once a sample has been chosen you will be responsible for finishing that piece and delivering the file ready to print.

Additional details will be provided to selected candidates.

General Skills Required of all Team Members

- Ability to FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS
- Attention to DETAIL
- Reliable & Punctual
- Honest & Trustworthy
- Desire to LEARN & GROW
- Be motivated to help your company grow
- Reasonably Tech Savvy including fluency with Microsoft Office Products
- HIGH DESIRE TO IMPROVE SELF AND OTHERS

Specific Skills Required For This Position
- Experience with MS Publisher, GIMP and/or Photoshop
- Experience with www.canva.com
- Layout and design experience

Helpful but Not Required
- Video editing experience

Compensation
Hourly pay will be negotiable depending on skills and prior experience with monthly. Payments will be made on the 1st and 15th of each month with an end of year bonus paid on Dec 15th.

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Respond with all the following (preference will be given to people who choose to follow these instructions).

1 – Basic details of PC / Laptop (plus spare if have)
2 – Screenshot of your broadband speed and if you have backup broadband
3 – Version of Microsoft Office you have and, if you have it, the version of Microsoft Publisher
4 – Your resume
5 – Your skype id
6 – A 2-3 min voice recording of WHY YOU ARE THE BEST CANDIDATE.
7 – The date you could start work and confirmation that you can work the hours stated.
7 – Your typing speed (use a 2 minute www.TypingTest.com if you do not know)
8 – Your DISC