Prior Engagements

Below are just a few more of the 400+ engagements I’ve completed over the years:

October 13, 2021
  • For a professional services firm, I launched a new digital presence to help the organization improve visibility, stand out in a crowded and mature market, and attract more of the right people. I brought an entirely refreshed and branded corporate website to market and delivered the new website on an easy-to-use, robust and scalable content management platform. I also helped to redefine corporate strategy and strategically position new messaging and wrote new branded content that spoke clearly and more directly to target audiences.
  • For one of the most exclusive prep schools in the United States, I provided assistance that helped them to prepare the school community against the threat of human pandemic influenza raised by the recurring avian influenza.
  • A fast growing company was struggling to find and keep the right talent across marketing, sales and customer support. The CEO asked his business consultant if he knew anyone who could help provide the extra layer of support and my name was mentioned. I met with the company and a few days later began helping them source and hire the right people into the firm.
  • For a professional services firm, I was asked to improve in-house recruitment capabilities and set up a new applicant tracking system (ATS) in order to increase efficiency in recruiting and hiring and to ensure consistency and compliance in the recruitment and selection process. Included in this effort were to get a lean, affordable, easy-to-use solution up and running in days not weeks, build in a new set of processes and structure for in-house recruitment across the organization, improve recruiting and expand capability across the entire organization, make candidate sourcing simple and easy to do, make it much easier for candidates to apply and engage, hone their offering and sales pitches to attract more of the right talent, rewrite job descriptions to appeal to a broader candidate pool, improve visibility of open jobs to improve attraction, start to build up a talent pool of candidates for more proactive hiring, deliver a solution to decrease costs (and effort) associated with recruiting, and decrease future dependency on third-party agency fees.
  • For a regional, emerging provider of home health services, I provided assistance that helped them to focus business strategy, set up an affordable and easy-to-use applicant tracking system, build out their marketing department, develop metrics to understand costs and opportunities associated with new customer acquisition, optimize their website to increase customer traffic, and develop sponsored advertising program (SEM) campaigns that together led to new service sales and 150% increase in site traffic.
  • For a staffing firm, I was asked to identify obstacles holding recruiters back from achieving success. I measured activities, interpreted data, looked for trends and identified “cause-effect” relationships. From our data insights, we were able to develop clear actionable insights, an easy-to-use, best-practice roadmap and new activity goals for the recruiting team.
  • For an emerging provider of enterprise hosting products and services, I provided assistance that helped them to interconnect and optimize three separate website properties to increase customer signup and service/product sales, develop a multi-platform search engine marketing (SEM) and paid internet advertising (PPC) campaign that together led to new product sales and 100% increase in site traffic.
  • For large mid-market provider of accounting services to government contractors, I provided assistance that helped them to identify and recruit a large number of new full-time employees, redirect internal resources, focus more on core business, and reduce the average cost of hiring by approximately 300% per new hire.
  • For small provider of social widget creation, local advertising distribution, I provided assistance that helped them to staff up sales, decrease costs associated with hiring staff, provided consulting/advisory related to operating the business, and provided skills training to the organization.
  • For a mid-market BPO firm, I provided assistance that helped them to acquire marketing/sales talent used to increase levels of customer service support.
  • For a professional services firm, I provided assistance that helped them to revise web properties using an open source content management solution (JoomlaCMS), develop social media, define corporate strategy, and design and launch outreach programs to generate new customer leads, improved market visibility and growth.
  • For a professional services firm, I was asked to create a brand new career site from scratch with all new content and images, a clear employer brand message, and lean functionality to improve attraction and engagement.
  • For a publicly-traded provider of hosted software applications and network infrastructure services, I provided assistance that helped them to correctly optimize web properties that led to substantial increases in new incoming sales leads and 50% increase in site traffic.
  • For a regional provider of workforce and PEO services, I provided assistance that helped them to create a new website using JoomlaCMS, define corporate strategy, develop and edit site content. and design and launch outreach programs to generate new customer leads.
  • For a national provider of online private tutoring services, provided assistance that helped them to optimize three interconnected web properties to classroom teachers as online tutors.
  • For a emerging health care technology firm, I provided assistance that helped them to optimize website properties to increase customer traffic, and develop sponsored ad program (SEM) campaigns that together led to new service sales.
  • For an emerging provider of enterprise content management products and services, I provided assistance that helped them to optimize web properties that led to increases in new incoming sales leads and 250% increase in overall site traffic.
  • For a emerging technology consulting firm, provided assistance that helped them to successfully reposition corporate messages, develop new strategy, and manage and edited website and content through a content management system.

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