Steve Smith Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

South Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Mornington, Victoria

Sports Community is an organisation dedicated to helping grassroots sports organisations and peak sporting bodies obtain sporting grants and fundraising.- Oversaw complete website redevelopment of Sports Community website sportscommunity.com.au- Designed and implemented complete overhaul of digital marketing strategy.- Planned and directed delivery of new online membership structure.- Day-to-day execution of digital media strategies, including paid and organic social media, search and display advertising, retargeting, and CRM database interaction.

Wodonga

My main responsibilities at Dutch Media include:- Work with key account directors preparing media briefs and strategies, specific to each client.- Day-to-day delivery of digital media strategies, including paid and organic social media, search and display advertising, retargeting and database interaction across the Dutch Media client base.- Copywriting and client engagement strategies that leverage client tools such as websites, blogs, social media channels and databases.- Compiling appropriate media bookings, reports, spreadsheets and information to present to account directors and staff.- Manage client accounts including day-to-day interaction across media, creative and production processes.- Since starting in August 2015, I have overseen more than 520 Facebook advertising campaigns.These campaigns have generated (to date) a reach of 2,365,612 people and have resulted in 404,521 clicks and 28,478,781 impressions. Facebook click-through rates (CTRs) averaged 1.42%, with several campaigns averaging double-digit CTRs.

Albury-Wodonga

Responsible for the online content for bordermail.com.au, including social media, multimedia and video editing.• Increased The Border Mail’s online total pageviews by 101%• Unique browsers increased by 87%• Increased mobile users by 233%• Tablet users increased by 617%• Social media referrals increased by 392%; Facebook referrals alone rose by 485%• Decreased the website bounce rate by 64.42%.

Albury-Wodonga

Responsible for designing, sub-editing and publishing general news and sport pages.• Interim roles as chief sports sub-editor and check sub-editor.• Chief basketball writer for The Border Mail, covering the SEABL, NBL, WNBL and CBL.• Award in journalism: Member of the editorial team that won the 2012 Walkley awards in the Coverage of Community and Regional Affairs, and Journalism Leadership categories for its Ending The Suicide Silence campaign.

Albury-Wodonga

Responsible for designing, sub-editing and publishing various features publications, including the Domain real estate liftout, Weekend Pulse, Countrymail, and Education Mail liftouts, as well as the design and layout of the Midweek Express weekly newspaper. • Chief basketball writer for The Border Mail, covering the SEABL, NBL, WNBL and CBL.• NBA/contributing editor for Buckets basketball magazine, international profiles and interviews of NBA players and coaches, including Rajon Rondo and Paul Westhead.• Lead designer on annual Year In Review liftouts as well as Henty Machinery Field Days liftouts.• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2010 South East Australian Basketball League Best Overall Media Coverage award.• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2010 South East Australian Basketball League Best Regular Column award.• Lead designer on 2011 Henty Machinery Field Days liftout, winner of the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association Inc (PANPA) award for Best Advertising Feature or Supplement (10,000-25,000 circulation).

Albury-Wodonga

Features designer, sub-editor and journalist. Responsible for designing, sub-editing and publishing various features publications, including the Domain real estate liftout, Weekend Pulse, Countrymail, and Education Mail liftouts. • Chief basketball writer. Also responsible for writing and sub-editing features and sports products.• Interim online editor, responsible for upload and monitoring of the paper’s website.• Senior contributor for Handle basketball magazine, responsible for national and international profiles and interviews of NBL and NBA players, including Gilbert Arenas, Marquis Daniels, Sam Mackinnon and David Thomas.• Responsible for the continued management and upkeep of The Border Mail’s editorial archival system.• Twice designed and co-ordinated release of The Border Mail’s revamped property liftout, Domain• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2006 National Basketball League Best Regional Newspaper Coverage award.• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2006 South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) Best Overall Media Coverage award.• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2007 SEABL Best Overall Media Coverage award.• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2007 SEABL Best Regular Column – Women award.• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2008 SEABL Best Overall Media Coverage award.• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2009 SEABL Best Overall Media Coverage award.• Award in journalism: Winner of the 2009 SEABL Best Regular Column award.

Albury-Wodonga

• Journalist responsible for writing opinion/editorial and sport pieces as well as features and opinion/editorial pieces and movie, DVD and music reviews.• Layout, design and output of all Border Mail editorial (non-feature) pages, including the front and back pages, using the Atex Prestige Editorial System, which utilises QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Word.• Responsible for the continued management and upkeep of The Border Mail’s editorial archival system.• Sub-editing general news and sports stories.• Ensuring colour correction on images.• Co-designed 2004 Olympic Games liftouts, which ran as 12- or 16-page liftouts every day for the duration of the Athens Olympics.• Member of the newsroom team that won 2 PANPA awards for outstanding newspaper writing, design and production. • Member of The Border Mail’s delegation to the Media and Entertainment Arts Alliance Convention in 2005.• Chief designer on the 2003 Border Mail Bridal Guide