Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
I am a self-driven social media enthusiast with extensive experience and success on YouTube. In the past 7 years I have built multiple channels that now total two million subscribers and over 200,000,000 video views.
Linus Media Group is committed to delivering fun, engaging social media and video marketing solutions.
Managed the following categories to achieve overall growth targets, optimize marketing exposure & profits, and work with our talented PM team to continue to innovate and drive our business forward: SSD drives, computer cases, motherboards, video cards, computer power supplies, computer cooling products, media players - Made strategic decisions about retail & etail product placements - Collaborated with our product management team to create personal goals - Guided marketing initiatives including overseeing artwork, copy, and campaign focuses - Negotiated & followed up MDF & other program details with key vendors including OCZ, Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Antec, Corsair, ASUS, MSI, EVGA & more - Maintained focus product guidance for retail & B2B sales staff - Tracked & reported on overall company growth tracking compared to internal targets & worked with the rest of our product team to created strategies to achieve our goals.
Job Description: Host, Technical Consultant & Project Coordinator of NCIX Tech Tips & Linus Tech Tips YouTube Channels (basically everything but holding the camera...) - Oversaw creation of branding assets including channel backgrounds, photos, logo creation, intro creation (including artwork, sound effects & music composition) - Researched relevant products & technologies in the market & created fun, educational content about aforementioned products & technologies - Coordinated project sponsorships with major partners including NVIDIA, Intel, Microsoft, AMD, Samsung, HP, Acer, ASUS & many others - Optimized metadata for search relevance for video content - Embedded video content as rich merchandising on product pages of NCIX.com & created a functional video merchandising kiosk for retail use - With less than $10,000 invested in equipment, created two YouTube partner video channels with a total of 85,000,000 video views & 325,000 subscribers - Hired & trained production assistants - Organized & executed contests & giveaways using YouTube social media - Tied in other social networks such as Twitter to create a more engaging viewer experience
Product Manager: - Built & maintained relationships with distribution & direct vendor representatives including meetings, social engagements, yearly CES attendance. - Cut daily purchase orders including basic replenishment & making final decisions on key buy-in opportunities - Managed a personal product portfolio from $0 - $2,000,000 (monthly revenue) with emphasis on rejuvenating troubled lines before handing them back off. Handled up to 30+ lines at at time. - Managed products from the following computer categories: video cards, computer cooling products (air & liquid cooling), chassis, power supplies, networking, peripherals, audio, motherboards, memory, SSD drives, flash memory, NAS, gaming notebooks, cables, UPSs, media players, remote control helicopters, 3D glasses, sound cards - Responsible for product retail merchandising plans. - Negotiated & executed MDF funded marketing exercises including banners, landing pages, eblasts, website product placements, video merchandising
- Created loyal customer base in the short time I was working part time at the Langley retail store while also going to school - Consistently had outstanding order sizes and top system sales (customer feedback about high end systems I helped them configure with outstanding ASPs compared to other sales reps within the company would eventually land me my next job at NCIX a few months later) - Maintained excellent customer satisfaction & good working rapport with other sales reps and supervisor.
Ran all aspects of my own franchise including but not limited to - Actual painting (both interior and exterior) - HR (hiring & training painters & job site supervisors) - Customer relations - Completion of estimates & collection of money from clients - Submitting cheques & paperwork to Student Works to ensure that payroll was completed on time for all staff - Creating & manning booth at Maple Ridge homeshow in 2004 & 2005 (in both years, I was written up in the Maple Ridge News for colouring my entire body head to toe to attract attention to my booth) - Cold calling door to door & distributing flyers - Conflict resolution with clients who had difficulty paying bills... - Creating portfolio of before & after shots of completed work to assist in the sales process
• Designed lesson plans according to needs of students. • Taught swimming lessons of various levels. • Ensured patrons of facility observed rules and code of conduct.