Sunday, May 6, 2012

Shawn Kalin on Blogger: Shawn Kalin - Vancouver

Shawn Kalin on Blogger: Shawn Kalin - Vancouver

shawnkalin.com

Shawn Kalin - Vancouver

Shawn G Kalin worked with internet startups in Palo Alto, CA during the 'dotcom' boom where he learned the intricacies of successfully scaling up startups.

Take aways from DotCom Experience
'You can be very good, but timing is everything'.

From those heady experiences he further refined his skills in business development, capital raising, disruptive sales and marketing campaigns.




Experience

January 2012 – Present (5 months) Vancouver, Canada Area
Shawn G Kalin organized the business strategy and model in order to rapidly deploy services.

Refine services to an extent that they can truly help early stage companies reach their goals.

Engage larger companies in a professional and efficient manner to explore their needs and offer solutions that are within portfolio company scope.
August 2009 – Present (2 years 10 months)
Developed and prototyped GOCharger brand product line with US and Chinese manufacturing partners.

Created and managed channel sales campaigns to Walmart, Target, Walgreens, CVS, Staples.

Developed e-commerce marketing and sales through Amazon.com, Facebook, Groupon and Google.

Shawn G Kalin brokered the pending licensing of products to global cellphone brand.



March 2007 – July 2009 (2 years 5 months) Las Vegas, Nevada Area
Rapidly created the brand identity and positioning for the Superstar brand in-house.

Designed the packaging, labels for entire line - saving the company 50% on costs by keeping design in-house.

Created website, sales materials, sell sheets and direct mail, email campaign for channel sales.

Designed trade show booth and successfully generated sales leads at shows nationwide for 2 years.

Conducted channel marketing and generated first sales on market totaling $1,500,000 in product to major nutritional chains including Whole Foods, Vitamin Shop, and GMC both in store and online.

Shawn G Kalin Helped negotiate sale of company to private investors in 2009.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Will LinkedIn rule the business networking world in 2012?

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    Shawn G Kalin commented on the poll This exec quit his job at Goldman with a very public fiery letter: ow.ly/9IK8e. Is it ever smart to burn your bridges? : I try not to, but sometimes it just makes you feel better about a bad situation.
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    Shawn G Kalin will be attending Workplace Futures 2012 on February 21, 2012.
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            Dale Gann is now connected to Todd MacKenzie, The Legacy Group - "Conservative Retirement & Estate Planning"
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              Dale Gann is now connected to Saskia Elias, Multi Media Sales Specialist at Victoria Times Colonist
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