Paul Bennett Email & Phone Number

Richmond-upon-Thames, London

Worked across Product and Marketing teams including writing and editing content, working with content teams across Europe and launching new products.-- Edited content for the 2014/2015 eBay social media strategy including social influencers in the world of fashion (Millie Mackintosh), popular music (Lethal Bizzle) and magazines (FHM).-- Launched: -- eBay.

Richmond-upon-Thames, London

-- Lead PayPal Web Publishing team for all PayPal marketing pages across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Responsible for a channel that provided more than half of new users-- Ensured high standards of web production and accessibility with a focus on natural search leading to official PayPal UK sites occupying top search results on Google-- Performed A/B.

Richmond-upon-Thames

-- Oversaw a 50% year over year increase in traffic on PayPal-owned sites -- Hands-on training provided: Train Content Managers on CMS, Visual Designers on PhotoShop and SnagIt and Web Producers on remote HTML publishing-- Developed customer-centric website, user friendly emails and comprehensive Style Guide-- Adapted US Product content for a UK audience.

Richmond-upon-Thames

-- Manage all production and marketing content on UK website.-- Write and edit marketing emails.-- Adapt US content for Product pages.-- Liaise with Content Specialists in Dublin to ensure consistency of brand messaging, voice and tone across different platforms.

80 Hammersmith Road, Hammersmith, London W6

-- Managed four separate portals (Netscape Online, CompuServe, netbreeze and AOL.co.uk) and lead the redesign and promotion of these four branded sites-- Integrated Netscape and CompuServe publishing processes to make web site updates more efficient across web portal team-- Delivered a full service redesign on time and to budget-- Acted as Chief Compliance.

80 Hammersmith Road, Hammersmith, London W6

-- Managed Social Media across CompuServe Forums, Message Boards and Web tools-- Instigated complete redesign of CompuServe Web and proprietary service to adhere to AOL Brand Guidelines-- Managed News, Sport, and Weather channels plus managing Welcome Page-- Researched, edited and helped produce monthly e-newsletter for 400,000+ subscribers

Farringdon, London

-- Commissioned, wrote and edited Web site reviews for monthly magazine, circulation 60,000-- Interviewed industry figures and media celebrities (including David Bowie) for magazine and website-- Assisted in writing web site reviews for Rough Guide to the Internet and The Guardian Guide-- Judged national web site awards and appeared on local radio and BBC.

Kilburn, London

-- Managed a team of sub-editors ensuring style guidelines on a daily classified advertising newspaper were followed-- Edited classifieds ads, updated style guide and managed motoring section of newspaper

Oxford Street, London

-- Getting my hands dirty in PR, Direct Mail and database work for clients

Clifton, Bristol

-- Working primarily for Honda Automotive managing summer exhibition road shows during a very wet English summer-- Got to drive the range of Honda cars from Honda Civic to Honda NSR

Ba (Joint Hons), Commmunication And Cultural Studies With Public Media

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