Kurt Hunter Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Sonoma, California

Palo Alto, California

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises worldwide. The firm is nationally recognized for providing high-quality services to address the legal solutions required by its enterprise and financial institution clients. The firm advises more than 300 public enterprises and 3,000 private companies.

Shanghai, China

SmithStreet is a boutique consulting firm that helps multinationals form and implement China growth strategies.- Developed a social media content strategy and editorial calendar that supports marketing initiatives.- Identified the source of business for current and former clients. Utilized the information to redesign the marketing strategy and focus resources on profitable ROI campaigns. - Created a "how-to" social media guide for marketing staff, along with new procedures and workflows for executing social media campaigns. - Identified branding opportunities across multiple channels, including client presentations, email campaigns, and social media.- Provided CEO and marketing director with branding and content ideas during weekly conference calls.

San Francisco Bay Area

Global Image Factory provides enterprise scale graphical creative services for e-commerce sites, advertisers, agencies and advertising networks.- Analyzed sales data for GIF's largest client Wal-Mart Global eCommerce. Identified both new business opportunities and seasonality trends for GIF's management team. Analysis allowed management to reallocate resources and increase sales. - Designed pivot charts and created a PowerPoint presentation for the CEO and Business Operations Manager to present to Wal-Mart’s e-commerce management team.

Charlottesville, Va

Shelterplanners is a one-stop resource for animal shelter solutions that are cost-effective, user-tested, planned for growth, and improve the welfare of the animals and the people who care for them. Save Time. Save Money. Save Animals. Built and optimized digital and traditional marketing campaigns for a diverse range of initiatives, including lead generation, lead conversion, and search optimization.- Wrote a variety of advertising copy for marketing materials, including client presentations, direct mail, social media, and the website.- Led cross-functional team of architects, graphic designers, sales, and web designers that completely redesigned the website.- Author of original blog content for website; optimized each blog post for targeted keywords – average web position increased from 300 to top 10 for 3 targeted keywords.- Created targeted Facebook Ads that increased ‘Likes’ from 32 to 300+ and closed over $20,000 in new business in less than 30 days.- Managed social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, and Google+. Secured 600+ new Instagram followers and sold a $10,000 report on Google+ within 30 days of account activation.

Williamsburg, Va

- Completed General Management Degree- Concentrations: Entrepreneurship & Marketing- Selected as Entrepreneurship Graduate Assistant

Charlottesville, Va

Rob Garland’s photography has been featured in everything from The New York Times and The Washington Post to The Knot, Southern Living, and the internationally acclaimed, Bride and Bloom. He has documented everything from celebrity nuptials to small intimate weddings.- Implemented CRM system that allowed owner to easily track and convert leads; increased sales conversation rate by 18%. - Coached owner on the importance of SEO, specifically keyword targeting via blog and securing referral links via social media. - Created additional sources of revenue by leveraging client database to cross-sell products to existing clients; increased gross profit by 11%.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

- Responsible for negotiating the sale of the agency; resulted in 15% premium over initial asking price.- Created email marketing campaigns, including sales copy, which increased new policy sales by 14%. - Implemented CRM system that allowed staff to operate from remote locations; reduced overhead by 33%.- Conducted a thorough market analysis of competitors’ marketing positions and product offerings; identified segments that were underserved. Developed direct mail marketing campaign that resulted in 37% new policy growth.- Tracked source of business for all new leads. Completely eliminated yellow page advertising, and used savings to create a multi-step referral program, which resulted in a 4 to 1 ROI.- Segmented over 1300 clients based on profitability and customer lifetime value to the agency. Developed a marketing nurturing program to reward the most profitable clients on a regular basis. The program resulted in a 7% increase in overall client retention.

- Responsible for developing complete marketing strategy, including identifying target market and creating sales scripts for staff, to increase personal lines sales volume. The new strategy resulted in 60% increase in new policy volume. - Prepared P&L reports and recommended strategies to increase margins and decrease expenses.

- Interpreted complex insurance terms into layman’s terms for clients and prospects.

Mba 2012, Entrepreneurship And Marketing

Activities and Societies: Entrepreneurship Graduate Assistant

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Business Management