Ashton Kokaly

• Played a significant role in managing thousands of client accounts.
• Created and proposed marketing campaigns and strategies that generated hundreds of new leads/prospects.
• Streamlined internal workflows within the sales department for increased efficiency and productivity.
• Build strong relationships with key customers to maintain and expand business opportunities.
• Negotiated contracts to acquire 7 figure clients.
• Continuously researched new strategies or methodologies for improving overall sales performance.
• Developed and implemented effective sales strategies and new methods of client outreach to drive revenue growth.
• Led team of sales professionals, providing coaching and training as needed for new hires.
• Facilitated and led high opportunity client meetings around the state of Michigan and created successful proposal/pitch presentations with my team
• Mastered the skill of networking and acquired new leads even in the most unexpected situations
• Mastered social media networking and connected with multiple 8 figure company CEOs and founders
• Worked under pressure to meet close deadlines
• Analyzed client needs and tailored solutions to meet those needs
• Analyzed market trends and competitor activities to identify potential new business opportunities.

Description: My younger brother is currently a senior high school football player in Michigan. When his junior season neared the end, my brother hadn’t heard anything from any schools or football programs as far as playing in college. Because I want my brother to do well and play at the college level, I decided to take his recruiting into my own hands and “campaign” for him. In this process, I took over his social media accounts and his email and got to work. Starting in November, 2023 I sent out 2,000 emails weekly to college coaches around the country and made sure to reach out to every single coach in the country, at every position, every week. In these 2,000 emails per week, I was contacting nearly 200 college football programs and personalizing them by program and no 2 schools would get the same email and at the same time I filled out every schools recruiting questionnaire which would ask for all of the prospects information. This took loads of time and effort but I was very determined. During this campaign, I also utilized his twitter profile posting highlights and workout videos weekly to get his engagement and follower count up. I also used his Twitter account to directly message every single coach at the college football level in the country.

Achievements:

This campaign was incredibly successful and my brother now has 700 college coaches following him on twitter and most are actively talking to him and showing heavy interest. Some notable programs that have interest in him because of these efforts now include Michigan, Alabama, Penn State, Ole Miss, Michigan State, Stanford, and many more. With this campaign being so successful, Sports Illustrated was made aware of him and he was awarded the best pass catcher in Michigan title entering this season by the network. As of now, my brother is nationally ranked a 3-star tight end on 247 sports making him the 2nd best tight end in the entire state of Michigan and one of the best in the country. It is extremely hard to become nationally ranked but through this campaign I made it happen. So far, my brother has multiple division 1 offers as well as some division 2 with plenty more to come! In total, through this campaign, along with the other achievements, I have brought my brother a rough total of $1,065,000 in full ride scholarships from his current football offers along with the opportunity to play in the NFL one day if he plays well at the college level.