Beacon Promotions, New Ulm, Minn., is making changes to its inside sales team. These changes are being done to provide additional selling support to our distributors.
Cami Larson and JoAnn Sprenger:
national associate account executives. Their focus is on sales growth through outreach and support to our key accounts and buying groups.
Larson joined Beacon in 2008 as an inside sales representative, bringing 14 years of prior promotional products experience. The past five years she has been part of the customer care department, servicing large national accounts. Larson is excited to return to the sales team.
Sprenger came to Beacon in 2007. She has held a number of positions while here, including Customer Care and Quoting Specialist. She enjoys creative selling and problem solving and she says her new role feels like a natural fit.
Amy Wendinger: Buying group specialist.
Wendinger will support our key accounts and buying groups via electronic media, samples, mailings, newsletter submissions etc. She has been in promotional products for 25 years, starting at Canyon Outback Leather in 2003 working with the collegiate, special markets and promotional channels. In 2011 Beacon acquired Canyon and she became part of the Beacon team. At Beacon she worked with those same channels, but also added corporate gifts and purchasing to her responsibilities.
Tiffany Portner: Associate account executive.
Her focus is on sales growth through outreach and support to our distributors for leather and corporate gifts. In 2009 Portner joined Canyon Outback Leather in order processing and customer care. In 2011 Beacon acquired Canyon, and she too became part of the Beacon team. She has worked in various roles at Beacon, including order entry of leather and corporate gifts, and then moved to the Canyon special markets.
Andrea Konkol: E-commerce specialist.
Konkol came to Beacon in the fall of 2012 as a seasonal employee, and moved into a full-time order entry position. From there she moved into the e-commerce specialist position in summer of 2017. She works with distributors who have an e-commerce presence, providing images, product info, product specs and pricing. She is also responsible for Beacon’s Social Media.
For more information on Beacon Promotions, visit www.beaconpromotions.com.
