The Sun Newspaper this week turns its business spotlight on its sales team.
The Sun recently added two new members to its sales force, filling out a three-member team, made up of members with diverse, yet complimentary experience and skills.
Donna Leedy has been with the Sun the longest. She started her journey in newsprint more than 35 years ago in Southern Illinois, working for Forbes Magazine, producing copy with a linotype machine.
Working in all phases of the print world over the years, Leedy moved to California and landed a job with a newspaper in Long Beach as an editor/sales executive producing a weekly newspaper for attorneys in the area.
After leaving her position at the Long Beach newspaper, she joined the sales team at the Sun Newspaper in 2005, where she has enjoyed the past seven years helping her clients with their marketing needs.
“I take care of the Main Street Seal Beach merchants advertising and also the classifieds, service directories in all of our group of community newspapers in Orange County and the legal notices for the Sun Newspaper and the Catalina Islander Newspaper.
Richard B. Perry recently joined the Sun Newspaper. He is a third-generation newspaperman with a background of more than a decade in both in-house and outside sales.
The energetic Perry covers Long Beach at the Sun Newspapers, including Downtown Long Beach, Park Estates, Belmont Shore, Belmont Heights, Alamitos Heights and Naples.
He said he is happiest when helping clients with their advertising needs and planning marketing strategy.
During the past five years Perry has held sales positions in San Clemente and Laguna Niguel. Perry was born and raised in Needles, Calif., before relocating to Orange County when he was still in grade school.
During his spare time Perry enjoys going to the beach, playing basketball and anything else sports related.
Don Marr is the newest member of the Sun sales team, but he has the longest history with the local area.
“As a 30-year resident of Seal Beach I’ve come to know the area well, he said. “I’ve worked in Orange County and the San Gabriel Valley for 37 years.”
For most of his adult working career, Marr has worked with just two companies, selling local Yellow Page advertising.
“It was primarily counseling small businesses on placing the best ads available for their budget,” Marr said. “Those years of creating successful advertising for local businesses translate well into local advertising in the Sun Newspaper.”
Marr will be helping the Sun’s clients along Pacific Coast Highway Seal Beach, Seal Beach Boulevard, Surfside, Sunset Beach and Huntington Harbor.
“Merchants today need real-world marketing solutions that get results, and that’s what this team is all about—making our clients’ cash registers ring,” said Vince Bodiford, publisher of The Sun. “They understand that. And they are experts in all of our media platforms—the home-delivered newspapers, and online.”
The Sun’s sales team members can be reached by calling them at (562) 430-7555 or via e-mail, donna@sunnews.org, richard@sunnews.org, or don@sunnews.org.
