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Profile Information
- Title:
- Owner/Principal
- Company:
- Fischer Circulation Services
- Media Type:
- Publishing, Service Provider
- Media Realm:
- Consumer Media, Business Media, Associations, City & Regional, Niche/Enthusiast, Creative Agency
- Home Region:
- Mid Atlantic
- Past Companies & Brands
- Gralla Publications, Circulation Mangement, The New York Observer, Variety
- I'm Looking For:
- Networking, Business Partners, Jobs, Inspiration
- Professional Background: (Resume)
- James E. Fischer
521 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
(718) 222-8866
Experience:
August 2005 - Principal
Present Fischer Circulation Services, 521 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Continuation of outsourcing/consulting business started in 1982 and suspended in 1998 (see attached description and list of publications served).
July 1998 – Group Circulation Director
August 2005 Reed Business Information, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10011
Responsible for all domestic and international circulation marketing, including new business, renewals, billing, newsstand sales, fulfillment, customer service, audits (ABC) and distribution for paid business publications including Daily Variety, Variety and Variety.com (July 1998 – April 2004) and Publishers Weekly and Interior Design Magazine (May 2004 – August 2005). Additional responsibilities on all publications included list management, creation of marketing materials, ancillary product marketing, advertising sales support. Supervised two managers.
July 1993 – Vice President of Operations
July 1998 The New York Observer, 54 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10036
Responsible for directing paid subscription, newsstand and distribution operations on three paid weekly consumer publications (The New York Observer, The Nation and The Litchfield County Times) including concept, copy, design and production of all circulation materials, budgeting, forecasting and vendor selection. Additional responsibilities included supervision of in-house fulfillment operation, organization of promotional events and list management. Increased New York Observer paid circulation from 14,000 to 42,000. Additional company responsibilities included Budget Director for all publications and publishing advisor to the president on printing, paper procurement, marketing, staffing, facilities, IT and office services.
October 1990 – Publisher and Editor
June 1993 Circulation Management Magazine, 611 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
Total ‘hands-on’ responsibility as owner/partner of a small business publication (10,000 controlled circulation, $900,000 annual gross revenue, 25 percent-plus pre-tax profit) including editorial planning and execution, production, art and design, advertising sales and marketing, business and circulation operations.
October 1975 – Corporate Circulation Director
September 1990 Gralla Publications, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
Responsible for all circulation operations on 18 paid and controlled business titles including budgeting, staffing, circulation development, program planning and implementation, promotion creative and production, fulfillment, reader service, list management, and data processing/database management. Supervised five directors and a support staff of 36. Additional responsibilities included company’s facilities and telecommunication management, and participation on the company’s committee for new publication acquisitions and start-ups.
Affiliations/Awards/Accomplishments
Member of the BPA International Circulation Managers Advisory Committee from 1985 through 1993. Recipient of the National Business Circulation Association’s Angelo Venezian award for “outstanding service to the circulation profession” (1990). Directed the conversion of 32 paid business publications, including two dailies and seven weeklies, from ESP Fulfillment to CDS Fulfillment in four months (2004).
Skills:
Proficient in latest versions of Windows, Excel, Access, Word, and QuarkExpress. Extensive consumer and b-to-b knowledge and experience with both in-house and full-service fulfillment systems, creation and maintenance of digital editions, website and eNewsletter development as well as circulation modeling software. Proficient in the creation of copy and art for all aspects of circulation direct marketing.
- Personal Interests
- Fine artist, musician, poet, furniture and interior designer, gourmet cook.
- Education:
- Some college
- Relationship Status:
- Married
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