Matt Schulz Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Expanded role in March 2020 to represent LendingTree and the various brands in the LT family rather than just CompareCards

Austin, Texas, United States

Occasionally contributes original articles for various media outlets, including Business Insider, CBS Moneywatch, Austin Home magazine, Payments Journal, American Banker and the New York Daily News.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Develops and disseminates information and advice to empower consumers to make smarter decisions when it comes to credit cards, debit cards, mobile payments, credit reporting and scoring and other personal finance issues- Serves as expert media commentator on cards and payment issues- Second stint at CreditCards.com, having worked there for four years.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Contributed a blog post every two weeks for USNews.com's MyMoney blog. Typically, I wrote about credit, debit cards and other payment issues- Consistently saw my posts rank among the blog's 10 most read new posts each month- Regularly saw my posts picked up by US News content partners, including BusinessInsider.com and DailyFinance.com

Austin, Texas, United States

- Worked with Leverage’s financial service clients to secure media coverage and shape their public relations messaging - Clients included a real estate investment firm, a financial author, a hedge fund and others- Secured media coverage from major news outlets -- including Forbes, CNBC, American Banker and others -- for Leverage PR’s financial service.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Guided site to its first-ever profitable months in 2013 by focusing on creating compelling content that drives conversions- Led site to first million-page-view month in site’s history in November 2012- Oversaw all aspects of running the site, from big-picture planning to day-to-day production- Led team of two full-time staffers, plus 6 to 10 freelance.

Austin, Texas, United States

Note: Returned to CreditCards.com in March 2014 as Senior Industry Analyst.- Helped CreditCards.com’s news traffic jump to nearly 1 million monthly page views by focusing on writing for people, not just for search engines- Oversaw growth of Weekly Credit Card Rate Report, which was cited regularly by major news outlets, including CNN- Created compelling.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Supervised one full-time employee- Worked with two clients: NextScreen LLC & McCoy's- Led interactive projects from start to finish, including creating cost estimates and timelines, developing QA guidelines and communicating progress with clients - Consulted with clients on business strategy, including extensive content strategy planning for major.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Guided NBC & CW affiliate websites to record traffic and profitability- Led a team that provided Austin near-24/7 online news coverage with two full-time employees, two interns and occasional freelancers- Teamed with marketing and sales departments to produce content that strengthened the stations’ brands and made the site profitable - Led numerous site.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Planned and executed in-house content projects for portal targeted at Internet novices, ranging from travel to entertainment to news- Helped create portal structure and design from pre-beta to release- Identified potential content partners and content to be acquired

San Diego Metropolitan Area

- Oversaw all content for hub site of the Internet’s largest college sports network - Supervised two full-time employees; managed several third-party relationships- Integrated key components from throughout parent company’s network into FANSonly.com - Developed special sections, interactive elements and more- Led complete redesign of site in summer of 1999

Austin, Texas, United States

- Promoted from role of Content Producer, Austin360.com, which I held from August 1996-May 1998- Oversaw all content on five CIM-Austin sports websites- Supervised a staff of two full-time employees and several freelance staffers- Aided in development of GoBig12.com online store- Acted as liaison with staff of site’s sister publication, the Austin.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Covered banking regulatory compliance for one of the nation's most respected financial trade publications- Wrote news stories, features and more

Austin, Texas, United States

- Based in Austin, wrote several times a week covering sports-related events and news in Austin- Primarily focused on University of Texas sports, but also assisted in coverage of NBA games, NFL training camps and more

Dallas, Texas, United States

- Edited stories, wrote headlines and performed all duties of full-time staff copy editor for one of the largest daily newspapers in the U.S.