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RICHARD BENVIN
1752 S. Trenton St. #4
Denver, CO 80231
tel. 303-337-0545
SUMMARY:
Excellent at Web Marketing campaigns with focus on search engine optimization, affiliate programs and loyalty programs.
Experienced in Web Development, including content writing, integration, and quality assurance.
Team-oriented player, highly motivated, committed to delivering top quality service.
EDUCATION:
Trinity University - San Antonio, Texas
B.S. Business Administration, May 1990
Major: Marketing and Finance; Minor: Psychology
OBJECTIVE:
Leadership role with an innovative company in the digital media sector, with particular focus on Internet marketing, customer service and project development.
EXPERIENCE:
March 2002 - December 2002
Actis eMarketing - Project Manager - Denver, CO
Performed various sales duties related to Internet marketing and web development services including following up on leads, prospecting, proposal preparation, pricing, negotiating and project management. Also, managed several pay-per-click
and search engine marketing campaigns.
October 2000 - September 2001
handy.de - Marketing Manager - Hamburg, Germany
Responsible for all online marketing campaigns for the leading wireless portal and third most successful ecommerce web site in Germany with over 2 million registered users and over 250,000 opt-in newsletter subscribers.
- Conceived, managed and promoted an Affiliate Program and Loyalty Program. Also proposed a Contest Manager.
- Conducted search engine optimization including the development of microsites and doorway pages. Also, registered and maintained over 100 company domain names.
- Planned wireless advertising campaigns via SMS (Short Messaging Service), conceived new SMS services and improved portal features on WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).
- Performed tracking, reporting and analysis of online traffic and promotions using NedStat tool.
- Initiated and managed partnerships with top German web sites as well as negotiated advertising deals with many companies including Microsoft, Alta Vista and American Express.
- Evaluated web site content for quality control, influenced web site navigation and design layout, maintained link list, optimized email newsletter and initiated internal Team newsletter.
August 1997 - September 2000
Gorilla Marketing - Webmaster; San Jose, CA
Developed, launched, and managed every phase of this Internet marketing web portal.
- Developed and programmed over 175 web pages of Internet marketing tips, tools, resources and affiliate programs.
- Published Absolute Marketing Solutions, a weekly ezine and email newsletter to over 1600 opt-in subscribers.
- Provided web design, web development, search engine submissions, reciprocal linking strategies, ezine marketing, email promotions and doorway page construction for Miraibio, Jobadu, Future-Now, Site Clones, Mentornet, and other web sites.
- Registered and parked over 100 quality domain names such as drpromote.com, bizautomate.com, techturbo.com, freesoftwaredeals.com, and openvisions.com with plans to develop, promote and sell.
January 1998 - September 2000
Absolute Authority, Inc. - Marketing Director; San Jose, CA
Developed, launched, and managed Internet marketing campaign for this vertical web portal development platform.
- Directed marketing efforts that resulted in over 4000 registered users and over 1 million page views per month.
- Achieved top placement in search engines and directories for over 100 Absolute Authority vertical portals.
- Published weekly update with web promotion resources.
- Developed and programmed online marketing tools such as an affiliate program and ezine directory.
- Provided monthly reports on web campaign performance.
SKILL SET:
Computer
- HTML Coding
- FontPage & FTP
- Photoshop / Paintshop
- Excel
- NedStat
- WebTrends
- Mailloop 4.5
- AssocTrac
- WebPosition
- Microsoft Office
Internet
- Search Engine Positioning
- Affiliate Programs
- Loyalty Programs
- Auction Marketing
- Reciprocal Linking
- Ezine Marketing
- Ebook Promotions
- Opt-in Email
- Banner Advertising
- Web Design
Personal
- Well organized
- Confident
- Team player
- Highly motivated
- Outstanding customer skills
- Excellent at problem solving
- Fluent in Italian & German
- Dedicated & sincere
- Open-minded
- Very Creative
TENNIS CAREER & INTERESTS:
Professional Tennis Player & Coach
Ranked ATP #650 in the world in 1991 and coached top professional players.
- Competed for top professional team in Hamburg, Germany as #1 singles and doubles tennis player. (1995-1997)
- Coached and traveled with Brenda Schultz who achieved a world ranking of #22 in women’s tennis. (1993-1995)
- Trained nationally ranked junior players, taught private and group lessons, and organized adult clinics at tennis clubs in New York, Florida and Rhode Island (1992-1993)
- Competed in professional tournaments throughout U.S and Europe. Received Italian national ranking of B1- top 30 in Italy (1990-1992)
Other Interests
- Enjoy mountain biking, guitar, music, reading, photography, hapkido and traveling.
Personal and professional references available upon request.
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