At Verizon, I held various roles that included Head of Multicultural marketing and Head of Sports Marketing. In these roles, I oversaw budgets as big as $50M and had teams of 22 and 10 direct reports.

The Challenge

Prior to working with Diogenes Solutions, the team at Gakken focused their efforts on Amazon Marketing with no Success usually just opting for automatic Amazon PPC campaigns that were costly and not profitable.

To position itself as a Top selling children’s book company, Gakken would have to prioritize targeted manual PPC campaigns. They would need to focus on ASIN targeting competitor products. Book targeting needs to be conservative in bidding and hyper targeted.

The Gakken team sought me out as the right person to take on the challenge.

The goal was to refine Gakkens PPC targeting with manual Selection, identify high-impact keywords, Categories and Products as well as display ads to fill topic gaps throughout the funnel, and ultimately, grow traffic and conversions.

Supergoop had high revenue goals - and the team knew they had to shift the strategy to reach revenue goals. So, we tested a new ad account structure to improve performance by feeding back higher quality data to the Facebook ads platform.

In the Minnesota United FC’s inaugural season, Allina Health was a cornerstone sponsor and the official orthopedic partner. As part of that partnership, I developed a full-service marketing strategy campaign that included a television and social campaign around the idea of teamwork.