This is where she learned the importance of image, presence, personal branding, and how to interact with the public. From 1985 to 1989 she founded her own upscale women’s apparel boutique in Washington, D.C. and grew revenues 30 percent from the first to second year, 40 percent the third year and fifty percent the fourth year. In 1989 she became a store manager of a Washington fur salon and increa
sed sales 78 percent the first year. The next two years she went on to manage salon operations for six area stores and the division she managed was number one for sales volume out of 100 stores nationwide. As store manager of Houston’s upscale Lillie Rubin in 1997, she turned store sales around within five months and elevated the store’s ranking from 25th to 3rd of 40 retail stores nationwide. When she began presenting home trunk shows of the prestigious Worth Collection women’s clothing line, Sharon achieved millennium sales status – selling over $1 million in clothing – within her first year and repeated that her second year. Most recently she was asked to serve as the startup area sales manager for a new executive women’s trunk clothing line, Nina McLemore, and this new concept company is now in its third year. Sharon’s colorful background also includes having been: marketing director for a cosmetic dermatology practice; a counselor at an adolescent substance abuse crisis center; marketing assistant to the leader of a scrap recycling company; manager of a Valentino boutique; a high-fashion runway model and producer of fashion shows for various stores, clothing lines and charities.
