Client & Colleague Feedback
“Highly effective and capable. Proactive. Extremely creative and intelligent. Superior work ethic. Consistently delivered outstanding results. Ambitious yet always kind. These are just a few of the descriptors of Sitav’s extraordinary excellence as a Marketing professional. Sitav constantly delivered month over month growth in audience engagement for our brand, often hitting triple digit growth metrics. She was undaunted by any challenge or ask thrown her way, accepting even the most critical and deadline driven tasks with a can-do attitude. Not only was Sitav incredibly efficient, productive, and successful in her marketing content creation, booth delivery, and all aspects of brand elevation, she also found ways to deliver consistent success affordably. She maximized the value of every dollar spent, for example finding free and low cost ways of getting thousands of impressions for our press releases. She doubled our brand’s LinkedIn follower count, constantly beating our competition in tracked metrics. She researched digital tools and implemented them, constantly staying at the forefront of technology and enhancing what we as a business development team could do to stay technically relevant and at the forefront of our customer targets. I give Sitav my highest endorsement as an outstanding marketing professional who would bring immediate and enduring value to any company wise enough to hire her. On top of her impressive professional skills, Sitav is wise, an excellent communicator, positive, eager for feedback, and a true team player with an unmatched, unimpeachable work ethic. Sitav is destined for great things. I consider myself very fortunate to have had her work for me and do so much to elevate our brand. Our company benefitted tremendously from her dedication and remarkable, clearly measurable accomplishments.”
—Anna Benefiel, M.S.Previous Supervisor
“Sitav made a significant contribution to the company in only her first 6 months on the job. She quickly grasped what had to be done to resurrect a poor state of affairs in our marketing outreach. She maintains a high energy level, meets deadlines, creative in finding new ideas, learns quickly, helpful, adopts new solutions, accepts ideas from others, well organized, and knows her craft. She has really embraced the company. She has excellent interpersonal skills. She is a Team player, always positive, cheerful and a valuable member of the our team.
Over the past six months, Sitav has accomplished the following:
• Reorganized and cleaned the our public & internal folders. All folders are now organized and cleaned up and now usable, so employees can easily find the resources they need (was not easily doable prior).
• Reorganized and arranged the company’s tradeshow, event, and conference materials and equipment. Found alternative packing solutions to minimize cumbersome shipping and handling of materials.
• Redesigned and re-wrote all company service line offerings.
• Completed redesign of old/outdated presentations. Created two versions for all company personnel to use for an updated, clean, updated look that elevates our brand and company profile in the industry and in events we participate in.
• Revitalized our social media/online presence. Increased our company LinkedIn following from 2,100 to 3,200 followers (52.381% growth), grew reaction rates 484.8%, grew comment rates 400%, grew repost rates 31.3%, and raised organic impressions to 51,744 (from 0).
• Revitalized our company email campaigns, receiving better analytics than all previous MailChimp campaigns.
• Identified missing company content and articles, edited, re-designed the format, added key words and uploaded them to the site, as well as complete an estimated 90% of a full website redesign and visual update.”
— Official Annual Review, 2024
“I think Sitav and the BL location have the most difficult collection situation. Invoices get sent all over the place for payment. IU Purchasing cannot be billed until the customer has confirmed their order is perfect. She does a great job at making sure her notes are up to date and she is quick and helpful at responding to me when I need help. I don’t know how she keeps it all straight, but she does, and I appreciate it.”
— Billing Director of Previous Role
“Sitav,
From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you so much for creating such an awesome week for IUDM. Back in January when we first discussed, I had no idea how viable it would be for this organization. When we started to process of doing this project I was so nervous that no one was going to want to participate on our end. I remember talking to you about how many we HAD to sell in order to simply not lose any money… Now look at where we are… 1,522 orders in a week. Most of which coming in the final days of the sale. I have been absolutely blown away by this. This is the future of IUDM apparel and I am so glad that we were able to watch history unravel right before our eyes!
As an organization, the 100 Day Challenge yesterday was the most successful 100s in IUDM History. With a grand total of:
$227,272.23
My committee as a whole raised $12,053 which is yet another record for M&A. Personally I was able to reach $2,150 in a single day… A personal record for me as well. So much of that is because of YOU, and the awesome apparel project sale that we had. The hard work you put in, and motivation that you gave me and IUDM for the last week to strive for new heights and records is nothing short of amazing! I am so glad that this year we have been able to work together so well and really increase the relations between Underground and IUDM. It’s a partnership that I value extremely, and I know the rest of the Executive Council agrees!
Again, thank you for everything you have done for IUDM and for being what I consider a great friend!”
— Previous Nonprofit Client
“Sitav is incredibly smart, driven, hardworking, and most importantly kind. She was an extremely supportive coworker during our time at UGP together, and her passion for doing great work inspired me to be a better employee myself. She works very well as part of a team and her vast interpersonal skills shine brightest when she's helping others, whether that be her customers or her colleagues.
She's always willing to learn and grow, takes criticism extremely well, and strives to always be the best employee she can possibly be. Her drive to be the best version of herself at all times is both apparent and inspiring. Anyone would be lucky to have her on their team!”
— Helene KarpPrevious Coworker
“If you are looking for someone who is hard working, self motivated, and is willing to think outside the box in a constantly evolving work field in marketing, look no further than Sitav! While I worked with Sitav in separate fields during our time in the workplace, her impact within the company was felt in the different work environments. Her influence helped reach out to new clients in various social media platforms. Sitav also shown presentations and social networking tools that consistently gave new eyes within the company. This networking in marketing has been a tool that Sitav excels at to help with any company she has managed to work in. With a great attitude brought to the workplace every day, Sitav brings an open and encouraging mindset within any team she is working with to bring the best ideas possible in any marketing work environment.”
— Gage DavisPrevious Coworker
“What I have most appreciated about Sitav’s remarkable performance over the past year has been her consistent, outstanding execution and delivery of high volumes of excellent work product. Sitav is extremely organized and proactive in maintaining our website, marketing materials, and content. As one of many examples of her talent, by mid-January this year she had already created and scheduled well-designed weekly social media posts through the end of 2025.
I have rarely encountered in 25 years of working, someone who is so capable of planning ahead proactively and staying on top of deadlines. It feels like magic, to be able to just hand Sitav the contact information and key outline of details for an upcoming conference and ask her to handle the dozens of complicated tasks involved in delivering our company presence effectively at that conference. Through repeated demonstrations of Sitav’s organizational reliability, I have come to deeply trust that Sitav will not miss a single detail about what we need to do in attending events. I know she will do her utmost to maximize the ROI on our conference presence, making sure we take advantage of every perk and benefit available in our chosen sponsor package.
On the content side of Sitav’s multifacted job, Sitav is agile and responsive to the demanding needs of the team. She creates great content then gently, persistently makes sure that key stakeholders review it for technical accuracy and optimized editorial style. Sitav graciously accepts feedback and guidance received from her colleagues, while still challenging respectfully when she believes she has the best take on ideas for a creative endeavor. She is so easy to work with in this innovative flow and ideation phase, that anything she collaborates on emerges having been made better via the incorporation of all best ideas shared in the discussion.
She immediately implements any “hey please update/correct this in the document” feedback and interacts with positivity with all who have an ask. She is eager to get it right and cultivates relationships of trust throughout the company. On a recent project we created as a team, with Sitav leading the charge, we went through many versions of what we could create before we landed on the message we collectively decided was best. Sitav never once complained about adjusting the size or word choices on any of the work product, even hours into the final day of discussion.
Sitav is no drama. She is unflappable. Tough deadlines? She digs in and gets it done with a smile while being kind, patient, and flexible to everyone else involved in delivering the outcome. She is consistently a joy to work with and appreciated by the entire rest of the team both for her results and the way she chooses to interact calmly and positively with others in achieving so many great results so quickly.
Speaking of which, Sitav has delivered measurable positive results far beyond my expectations. As one of many examples, it is an incredible milestone to have achieved a LinkedIn follower count on our page that is over 4,000 followers – a doubling of our follower count from when Sitav started in January 2024. By any measure, Sitav’s list of accomplishments is substantive, impressive, meaningful, and exactly what our company needs in a high performing Marketing & Content professional. She brings deep experience with successful brand and digital marketing to our company and elevates our online engagement with potential customers as a result.
Sitav has delivered so many improvements to our marketing messages, our online presence, our insight into how our audience engages with us on the web, and our brand look at conferences that it would require pages and pages of documentation to list them all, though we try to do so in the supplemental document to this.
Other examples of Sitav’s excellence that come to mind include her work on our Press release project which – pretty much for free thanks to an online PR tool “trial phase” deal Sitav found online - earned us tens of thousands of impressions of that content globally. Sitav’s more recent work on the expansion site launch press release earned us millions of views and the unexpected bonus free TV and radio coverage. To help me prepare for that live interview by a TV/radio journalist, Sitav offered timely and wise advice that enabled me to stay on message and present the content effectively. Sitav’s work in the past month – on a highly accelerated timeline of only about 4 weeks notice – was also outstanding as she worked long hours to put together all of the items needed for a strong event presence at the EACR conference in Portugal.
In short, Sitav has done outstanding work over the past 12 months. She deserves recognition for the results, the quality, and the attitude with which she approaches all of her work. She has very much exceeded my expectations for what can even be accomplished in such a short amount of time.”
— Official Annual Review, 2025
“I would absolutely recommend Sitav as she was an outstanding colleague. Her reliability, energy, and great attitude were second to none. Job performance was also on point.
I often hope, when hiring employees and training them, that they have some (or all) of her qualities as those help translate into both success in our roles and a good work environment.
If the opportunity to work together again ever presented itself, it would be pursued.”
— Seth PerezPrevious Supervisor
“Working with Sitav was such a game-changer for my LinkedIn profile! She took the time to analyze what I already had, point out areas that needed improvement, and really understand my goals and the direction I want to go professionally. From there, she completely refreshed and rebuilt my profile, updating every section, strengthening my messaging, and highlighting accomplishments I didn’t even realize I was underselling.
Her ability to translate my experience into a clear, confident, and compelling LinkedIn presence is something I’m so grateful for. If you’re looking for someone who can help you elevate your personal brand and set you up for long-term professional success, I can’t recommend Sitav enough!”
— Morgan KraemerClient
“I want to let you know what a gem of an employee you have in Sitav Elturan. I’ve worked with her for 3 or 4 years now and she consistently brings such a contagious enthusiasm to her work that infects me (and I presume all of her other clients). I know she has so much to do but she gives me her full attention when we interact and I never get the sense that I’m just a number to her.
I’m a terrible client because I always come to her so late in the game that she has to do quick turnarounds on estimates and artwork and she has never let me down. I think she’s just a fabulous asset to Underground Printing and I hope you do, too!”
— Previous Client, 2023
“I wanted to thank you for being such a great part of the UGP team. I truly enjoy speaking with you everyday and love your passion and the happiness that you bring not only to the BL store, but to the rest of UGP. Your positiveness and smile is contagious and sets the bar high for everyone else who works here. But for you it doesn’t stop there, your attention to detail, ability to crunch numbers and present insightful data and then your determination and drive, are all just part of what makes you you and what makes you great.
Here’s to a great holiday season for you and the family and wishing you an amazing 2018, Im guessing it will be one of your best years of your life!”
— Regional Manager of UGP, Previous Supervisor
“I just wanted to write you to let you know that Sitav Elturan is an amazing person to work with and I continue to come back to UGP because she is so easy to work with and gets all the crazy things that I need right when I need them. Sitav’s energy is the best that I have ever seen and I work with a lot of different people and a lot of different companies on a lot of different projects but she has been the best that I have EVER worked with. Working at a university there is a lot of different paperwork that I have to fill out when I purchase something and she has always made sure that I got all the paperwork that I need very quickly.
I will work with Underground Printing for everything I need because the quality is amazing and I have the product well before I need it. I look forward to working with you all in the future!”
— Previous Client