T. Mark Griggs 144 Redwood Lane Birmingham, AL 35226 Phone: 205-286-8783 Email: tmgriggs@gmail.com Website: http://tmgriggs.com Professional Experience MarkeTrue January 2011 – Present Partner Sell and create online marketing programs for businesses across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Design and deploy Wordpress websites optimized for high SEO return for multiple clients. Track performance reporting using Google Analytics and web log analytics. Deploy SEO tactics and analytical tools for traffic analysis and optimization. Create multiple social media programs to target prospects for increased client reach and sales. Devise and deploy both internal and conquest email programs for optimized client return. Create digital public relations programs to increase client visibility and SEO. Manage multiple Google Adwords and Bing programs for clients in order to achieve high response rates. Actively prospect and sell programs to multiple clients in varied business sectors. Hire and manage sales talent and production employees to grow the enterprise. Create and perform project management for custom software builds. Dirextion, Inc. August 2007 – January 2011 Founding Partner Wrote the business and plan, devised and secured financing for the enterprise. Creative digital asset for multiple advertising agencies across the United States and Canada. White label partner that performed all digital duties for the agency. Maintained contracts for planning and a placement of targeted online advertising campaigns using comScore and Double-Click for advertising campaign buys. Sold and created online marketing programs for businesses across a wide spectrum of disciplines through agency partners. Designed and deployed custom PHP websites optimized for high SEO for multiple clients. Tracked performance reporting using Google Analytics and web log analysis Used SEO tactics and analytical tools for web traffic analysis and optimization. Created multiple social media programs to target prospects for increased client reach and sales. Devised and deployed both internal and conquest email programs for optimized client return. Created digital public relations programs to increase client visibility and SEO. Managed multiple Google Adwords and Bing programs for clients in order to achieve high response rates. Actively prospected and sold programs for agency clients to multiple targets in varied business sectors. Hired and managed sales talent and production employees to grow the enterprise. Media Networks, Inc./Time, Inc November 2000 – August 2007 Southern Regional Sales Managed the largest geographic territory in Time, Inc. Exceeded all quotas and plans achieving President’s Club in six of my seven years of tenure. Packaged and sold forty-five national magazine products and the AOL product set. Sold and managed integrated online programs to advertising agencies across the Southeast. Devised programs to upsell clients from print only to integrated online plans. Instructed agency partners on how to plan and buy online advertising programs with greater efficiency. Created and implemented direct mail and email programs for clients. Responsible for satellite office management and T&E Responsibilities. Just For Feet, Inc. March 1997 – September 2000 Corporate Marketing Director Responsible for local marketing for all 88 eventually 158 big box retail locations. Negotiated all print and online contracts for the organization. Managed all online marketing efforts and ran the team to develop the first company e-commerce site. Devised in-store marketing efforts through the sales channel Managed the customer loyalty program and was responsible for managing the data warehouse for direct mail campaigns for customer base to drive sales. Responsible for all weekly print advertising creation. Managed a team of fifteen - thirty employees. Birmingham Business Journal June 1995 – March 1997 Associate Publisher/Marketing Director Responsible for all sales and advertisement production services for organization. Doubled revenues in my tenures leading to the successful sale of the business. Built the first website for the organization in 1996. Responsible for editorial input and ideation. Created all marketing identity for the organization. Managed a team of 11 employees. Consolidated Publishing April 1993 – June 1995 Publisher/Marketing Director Managed daily newspaper operations and sales for 35,000 a day daily. Implemented the first computer network and moved the operation to full pagination. Installed fully computerized classified advertising system. Managed the operation to a 60% increase in profitability. Managed 110 employees. Birmingham News Company September 1987 – April 1993 Sales Representative Responsible for over 2.3 million in advertising sales annually. Consistently a top five performer in my tenure. Publisher’s Award 5 of 6 years in a row Knowledge/Skills All Office Software – Expert, CRM – Expert, All Online Media – Expert, All Computing Platforms- Expert, Mobile Computing – Expert, Presentation Skills – Expert, Wordpress –Expert, Google Adwords – Expert, All Social Platforms Expert