Joseph Adams

• Worked to plan marketing initiatives and leveraged referral networks to promote business development.
• Communicated with local organizations to build networks and develop leads.
• Negotiated contracts and closed sales with new clients.
• Maintained extensive knowledge of company products and services to provide top-notch expertise to customers.
• Improved sales documents with new and improved features.
• Built and strengthened strategic relationships with vendors, advertising agencies and leading industry partners.
• Developed creative presentations, trend reports, kitted assets and product data sheets.

Started as first Sales person at Interactive Intelligence and was one of the first employees. Job Titles at Interactive Intelligence included.

VP of Sales

VP of Marketing

VP of Market Communications

President of Interactive Foundation

Chief Corporate Historian

And Chief Technology Evangelist

• Maintained high-level knowledge of current and emerging technology development and applications by staying current on and understanding all key and current technologies, platforms and trends in Communications.
• Represented the company and it's technologies through presentations and demonstrations over 20 years.

I was co-founder of Software Artistry with childhood friend Don Brown which helped spark the exponential growth of the tech industry in Indiana.

Held the following positions at Software Artistry

VP Sales

VP Marketing

VP of Human Resources

Chief Technology Evangelist

• Evaluated market data to develop and create live and canned demos and business presentations that resulted in proper business strategies and marketing plans to grow sales and the company.
• Was able to determine what product features the market needed to make Software Artistry unique and responsive to market demands.
• Helped build and transition Sales, Marketing and Human resources teams so I could move on to new areas of the company.

Involved in the startup of Dealership Programming including Sales, Marketing and Programming of customers systems after the sale.

• Continually evaluated marketplace trends and oversaw gathering of competitive intelligence within markets and across service lines.
• Supported business development efforts and coordinated with marketing team on special campaigns.
• Supervised proposal and live software demonstrations developed for the automotive dealership management market.
• Developed and executed sales presentations as well as both internal and external product training workshops.
• Spearheaded the $ 14 million asset sale of Dealership Programming to General Motors through GMAC and EDS.
• Led the sales and marketing transition of Dealership Programming over to Salesline with GMAC and EDS.