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Amazon's Launchpad program identifies startups that are ready to bring their product to market and accelerates that process. If you are a startup with a product ready to go-to market, apply for the Lauchpad program here: https://www.amazon.com/launchpad/signup/form Participants are supported as they work through the process of Launching, Growing and Accelerating their business on Amazon. This includes account management, access to marketing/social events and placements, and a path to sell to the global market- if you want it. Amazon Launchpad provides a team of internal advocates connecting you to the Amazon teams that can unlock your startups' success.

Invested in water and real estate.

Support new CEO as he transitions into the role. To be completed prior to August 1, 2015.

Northwest Water is a privately held water management/civil engineering firm. I was consulting on NWS in the summer of 2009 as the company had stopped making money and stopped growing. I worked with the board to develop goals; segment those goals into a portfolio of projects with time, budget and scope boundaries while including input from staff and customers. Make the company operate legally (this is a business built on MRR through contracts that were not being fulfilled). Make the company profitable. Build a positive ROI marketing function within the business. Stay forever and live happily ever after or execute my stock options and move on.The work included:-Hiring A players and/or facilitating team leads to do so-Evaluating pricing models and increasing pricing by 30-50% depending on client size, while retaining 90+% of clients.-Evaluating and discontinuing client relationships when appropriate. Firing bad clients is hard. Employees have relationships with them, and don't like seeing them go, even if they are terrible. The clients don't understand why you won't let them continue abusing you. It's hard.-Improving the product/service we were providing to clients. Improving it more. This occurred through ongoing survey of customer satisfaction and aggressive follow-up to receive perfect customer satisfaction scoring. -Development and execution of Multi-Attribution Marketing plan including: Organic search (SEO), paid search (SEM/Social), e-mail marketing campaign, direct call program, conference design and attendance, education events, direct mail, newsletters, AB testing, evidence based optimization of individual channels and the comprehensive marketing effort.-Digitization of records-Migration to a cloud based project management software being utilized by technicians throughout Washington via mobile internet-Fleet management via integrated Fleet Network tool. Added auditing ability by Ops Manager

Increase revenue from $1.1 to $2.4 million in 30 months, within a bricks and mortar business over 50 years old. Work within customer obsessed team to improve both the customer's experience and identify how to grow revenue by finding additional customer needs. This position relied on proposing hypothesis to management, and running approved experiments rapidly with low levels of resource to find new areas of growth, and to constantly migrate our product/service offerings to meet client's needs.