SALES, MARKETING, AND PUBLICITY
Common Notions Press is seeking two individuals passionate about books and radical politics with experience in independent publishing to join our Sales, Marketing, and Publicity Team to help us grow our audience and bring our books to new readers far and wide. Both positions are part-time (15–20 hours per week, $20 per hour), fully remote contract positions, with the option to work onsite in Brooklyn or Philadelphia, if desired.
The Sales and Distribution Coordinator’s primary responsibilities include:
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Driving online sales and managing web orders
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Developing relationships with booksellers and distributors and selling to buyers at bookstores
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Finding tabling opportunities at book fairs, conferences, events (and partnering with organizations to drive sales at events)
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Identifying and coordinating library and academic course adoption opportunities
This role will also support work in the following areas:
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Coordinating and organizing book events and launches
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Developing title listing information and maintenance of effective metadata for trade distribution
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Presenting and representing titles to the trade and working with our distributors to market each title and our overall catalog
The Marketing and Promotions Associate’s primary responsibilities include:
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Growing and managing our mailing list and developing mailing list communications strategy
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Developing our newsletter marketing strategy and being lead on newsletter copywriting and producing newsletter marketing assets (banners, ads, GIFs, etc.)
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Developing our social media marketing plans and producing assets (ads, GIFs, images, graphics, sound, video, copy) for direct sales marketing and audience growth and engagement posts across platforms
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Managing our social media accounts including posting, replying, reposting relevant content, and responding to messages, questions and inquiries that come through those channels
This role will also support work in the following areas:
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Assisting our publicist with press outreach seeking coverage of our titles via book reviews, author interviews, etc.
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Assisting our publicist and editors with endorsement solicitation
Both positions will work closely with the Sales, Marketing and Publicity Team Manager and members of the Editorial and Production teams, communicating regularly via email, Slack, and Zoom. Interested candidates must be available three days during the work week (Monday through Friday) for Zoom meetings and other collaborative online work.
We’re a small worker-run press whose members balance our work for the press between other full-time jobs, freelance design, writing, and research, and teaching schedules—as well as our involvements in political movement life. We each bring our own experiences to publishing, our movements, and the U.S. book and media landscape. The job comes with all the virtues of being part of a self-organized collective. As our team works in-person and remotely, we all help maintain a sense of belonging and good relations through a healthy, respectful, and dignified working environment. We have regular phone/video meetings almost weekly and try to schedule in-person meetings a few times a year as well. Common Notions has office space in the Interference Archive in Brooklyn as well as at our sister bookstore, Making Worlds in Philadelphia.
If you are passionate about the written word and radical change and are interested in bringing your skills and talent to the Common Notions team to help bring the vibrant and inspiring ideas of our authors to people around the world, we’d love to hear from you. To apply please submit a CV and cover letter to: press@commonnotions.org with the subject line: Sales and Distribution Coordinator OR Marketing and Promotions Associate position – First Name + Last Name. Application deadline is March 3rd, 2023.
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Common Notions is committed to centering and uplifting marginalized communities in every aspect of our work. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+ people, and people from other marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
