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- FROM THE PUBLISHERS, Page 4
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- One of the most important people at any magazine is the
- advertising sales director. It's not just that the director
- supervises selling the ad pages that help us to exist and
- prosper, but the good ones -- and TIME has been blessed with a
- string of them -- must have an instinctive feel for the
- editorial purpose of the magazine and for its role in the
- marketplace. That's why I'm so pleased to have Cleary Simpson
- join my publishing team. She knows this magazine inside and out,
- and she's an accomplished strategic thinker.
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- In fact, when it comes to promoting TIME, few of us can
- match Cleary's zeal. "It might sound corny, but working for TIME
- was always on my wish list," she says. Nevertheless, she began
- her career in a roundabout way. A Phi Beta Kappa at Connecticut
- College, she graduated in 1975 and spent a year in Japan as a
- Fulbright fellow, then worked at the Bank of Toyko as a liaison
- and operations manager. In 1978 she got her wish, when she was
- hired as an assistant marketing manager, preparing material for
- sales presentations, at TIME in New York City.
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- Cleary chafed a bit at the desk job. "I wanted to be on
- the front lines. I wanted to do the presenting. I thought I was
- the most persuasive in convincing people of TIME's value." She
- got her chance in 1980, when she moved to sales. She quickly
- proved her mettle by persuading AT&T to use TIME for its "Reach
- out and touch someone" campaign. Then she moved steadily on to
- divisional sales manager, marketing director and associate
- advertising director, stopping only to get married -- her
- husband George owns a public relations firm -- and to have a
- child, Will, who is five months old.
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- Simpson moves into the job just as the sales staffs of the
- major Time Inc. magazines are being grouped together to achieve
- better combined and coordinated results. They are organized into
- four geographic regions, and her predecessor, Stephen Seabolt,
- is becoming regional advertising sales vice president for the
- West Coast. So we're not losing an ad sales director but
- gaining an ad sales director and a vice president. The new setup
- suits Cleary fine because she can spend less time on
- administration and more time with clients. I suspect, given her
- preference, I won't find her behind her desk very often.
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- -- Elizabeth P. Valk
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