Janna Ramer, Digital Sales Manager on Influential Women

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Janna Ramer

Digital Sales Manager, Bonneville International

Seattle, WA

17Years experience

Her Story

About Janna

I started my career media adjacent, working at a startup that was reselling digital media. I had a fabulous female boss, Jen Wallace, who brought me along to Hubbard Broadcasting, where we built out their digital agency from the ground up. I started as a digital operations manager and moved my way up, and by the time I left, I was managing the digital strategy department in Seattle. I took a little detour because I wanted to get more digital agency experience, so I ended up taking a role as a director of strategy for an agency called Fathom, where I learned a lot about healthcare marketing. But my heart really is in media, so when I had the opportunity to come back into media, I took it. All of it is through networking and some of the phenomenal mentors and leaders that I've worked with that have really helped inspire my journey. Now I'm the Digital Sales Manager for Bonneville Seattle, where I've been for three years. I lead the digital sales efforts for the Seattle market, helping the sales staff uncover opportunities, develop digital marketing strategies, meet with clients, review performance, and make adjustments. My responsibility is really to achieve our revenue goals on the digital sales side, but it's also a performance role where I'm ultimately responsible for driving results for our clients and making sure everything that we've recommended to them is working the way it should.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Janna

01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

My biggest piece of advice for anyone who's starting in a digital marketing or digital sales capacity is to be okay being uncomfortable as long as you're curious. Asking questions is going to lead you into so many different places you would never expect, and there's a degree of vulnerability there in asking questions, because you never want to look silly in front of anybody that you are trying to impress, but at the same time, that vulnerability and that curiosity is what's going to open doors for you, and that is true whether you're on the sales side, or just even in developing marketing strategies, or in networking as well. Ask questions.

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