Ozarks Profile: Sharon Snow

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What is your job? |ret||ret||tab|

Senior account executive, Springfield Business Journal. |ret||ret||tab|

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Tell us about your organization and your history with it. |ret||ret||tab|

"The Springfield Business Journal is Missouri's first weekly business publication, founded in 1980 as TOP's Executive Journal. We provide our readers with a comprehensive news product, and our advertisers with an effective medium to reach their target markets," Snow said. Snow first joined SBJ as an intern in the advertising department in her last semester of college, in the spring of 1987. "After graduation and a couple of summer trips, I joined Business Brokers Unlimited. In 1990, when our SBJ representative told me she was leaving SBJ, I realized that I would like to return. Within a couple of months I rejoined the SBJ staff, this time as an account executive and calling on many of the same people I had had the opportunity to meet three years earlier."|ret||ret||tab|

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What is your educational background?|ret||ret||tab|

Snow graduated from Parkwood High School in Joplin and attended Missouri Southern State College for one year before transferring to Southwest Missouri State University, where she received a bachelor of science degree in communications. |ret||ret||tab|

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What jobs led you to your current one?|ret||ret||tab|

"I waited tables through high school and college, all at restaurants that no longer exist: Mama Mia's in Joplin, and The 89er and Bombay Bicycle Club in Springfield." After college, Snow worked for Business Brokers Unlimited before joining the SBJ staff.|ret||ret||tab|

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What is the best part of your job?|ret||ret||tab|

"I enjoy working with my clients. Many have become some of my closest friends. It's important to me to provide them with the product and service to help them reach their goals."|ret||ret||tab|

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If you had to choose another career, what would it be?|ret||ret||tab|

"If I had to choose another career, it would probably still be in sales."|ret||ret||tab|

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Give us some personal information.|ret||ret||tab|

Snow is 36 years old and has lived in Springfield for 17 years. She is married to Mark Snow, and they have two daughters: Haley, 3, and Amy, 1.|ret||ret||tab|

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What is your favorite business lunch spot?|ret||ret||tab|

Snow said she doesn't have one favorite, but any restaurant with an outdoor patio is on her list.|ret||ret||tab|

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What is your work philosophy?|ret||ret||tab|

"Treat the customer so they will be happy doing business with you years from now."|ret||ret||tab|

Compiled by Melissa Wilson |ret||ret||tab|

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