Being a people person and a car enthusiast I love being part of the Chevrolet organization selling their vehicles.

An online gift gallery launched in 1998 until it's recent sale. One of the oldest singly-owned and operated online gift ecommerce businesses on the web.Business Growth: Self-financed the business launch starting with a few items and growing to a 1000+ item inventory warehouse. Grew sales to $700,000+ in recent peak years.Email Marketing: Communicated with 17,000 email subscribers with a weekly opt-in message.Internet Sales: Created and maintained alternative sales channels through Ebay and Amazon with high ratings and positive feedback.Affiliate Marketing: Started and maintained an affiliate program with over 3000 affiliates.Social Media Engagement: Gained 10,000+ Facebook fans through contest development, engagement tactics and new item announcements. Setup and maintained various social networks including Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.Logistics & Order Fulfillment: Established and managed warehouse with streamlined operations fulfilling orders globally in less time with reduced labor. Implemented cost effective shipping procedures during holiday period optimizing labor and shipping times.Tradeshow Expertise: Over the years attended product oriented conventions, especially New York Gift Show and New York Toy Fair and selected new items for gift gallery.Website Development: Created, designed and maintained BaronBob.com. Wrote original product descriptions, took product pictures and/or edited existing manufactures pictures via Photoshop and integrated them into the online gift gallery.Website Ranking & Traffic: Redesigned the website, instituted SEO structural changes and rewrote content to embrace Google’s keyword optimization changes due to its Panda initiative to recaptured the website’s search rankings and organic website traffic flow.Staff Management: Supervised two year-long employees, Office Manager and Warehouse Manager, and additional, seasonal employees for November and December holiday crunch.

Created this site as a spin off and ultimately decided to absorb it into the mother ship - BaronBob.com.Still brings a decent amount of referral traffic to BaronBob.com.

High energy, interactive, age appropriate, comedy magic performance.Over 5,000 performances completed with the bulk of the shows between 1988 to 1998, in northern NJ.In 1998 switched from full time entertainer to part time as I started and ran BaronBob.com an online gift gallery of unique and unusual gifts.Present day, perform a few shows a month for therapeutic, conditioning and to keep a pulse on the craft.