Manager of Business development & SEO

I got my start in the tech industry as a member of the Internet Marketing team at eBay. I was promoted twice for managing relationships that generated $90M in yearly revenue. I later transitioned onto the SEO team, where I led the company's effort to outsource its content creation efforts. 

June 2005 - June 2013

Responsibilities

Business Development

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PARTNER PROSPECTING | Sourced and evaluated potential partnerships with software and hardware manufactures


NEGOTIATIONS: Worked with legal team and partners to agree to terms for software distribution agreements  


ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT | Managed ongoing relationships of fixed placements including toolbars & browser extensions

Product development

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PRODUCT STRATEGY |  Developed a browser extension that injected contextual-product content


PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION| Leveraged Skype client as a distribution tool to distribute browser extension to 20M users


RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT | Facilitated agreement between Skype & eBay senior leadership teams.

Content & SEO

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SEO STRATEGY  | Created product content creation strategy focused on using freelancer community. 


CONTENT PRODUCTION: Managed process to produce 250K pieces of product description copy. 


PRODUCT PAGE OPTIMIZATION: Drove +$25M incremental revenue by prioritizing product pages over search results pages


RESULTS

NEGOTIATED SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTS THAT GENERATED $90M REVenue  per YeaR.

Managed development & distribution for a browser extension that was downloaded by 20M users

 

Created strategy That garnered approval to spend $2M to produce 250K pieces product description content.

Managed relationship between EBAY & SKYPE to get parties to agree to use skype client as a software distribution channel