Tom Reding Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il

- Help create strategic SEO plans for clients and work with developers and content creators to see those plans through. - Research and create content editorial calendars based on our clients needs and customer demographics. Manage a small team of writers in creating the content while maintaining SEO standards to help improve search rankings. - Write and Edit SEO driven content for clients across all different industries from medical professions (doctors and dentists), to apparel companies and food product sales. - Help create workflows to help internal efficiencies within the company. - Provide basic web maintenance to clients - hosting/domain maintenance, simple coding changes, wordpress updates and fixes, etc. For larger web development issues, I work with our developers to ensure that fixes are made correctly and on-time. - Manage developers, and help build out wordpress based websites for clients ranging from simple 1-5 pages websites to e-commerce sites with multiple products.

• Installed, configured and managed websites on a variety of CMS’s including: osCommerce, Magento and Wordpress• Installed, configured and administered online forums utilizing vBulletin and phpBB• Promoted websites using Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, etc.) • Increased organic search traffic to websites with Search Engine Optimization strategies• Promoted websites using PPC marketing via Google Adwords

• Successfully launched and monetized websites in the entertainment market niche• Super8News.com and CloverfieldNews.com averaged approximately 40k readers a day leading up to the release of each movie. Partnered with Paramount Pictures to market the movies with their viral marketing material. • ACslater.com is an entertainment blog that consists of reviews and articles on popular TV shows, movies and technology topics. Partnered with numerous PR firms to help market movies, TV shows, comic books and games to readers on a daily basis. I currently manage a team of 3 writers.• Built and create content content for antifoodie.com. This includes everything from the website maintenance to all of the website copy, social media scheduling and posting, as well as community management.

• Process and update product content/images for all 35,000+ products on the company’s websites.• Monitor and update content in order to improve SEO results on customer facing websites.• Work closely with a 3rd party agency in order to build unique Social Media campaigns.• Photographer on special projects and products, for use in the yearly Buying Guide as well as flyers, emailpromotions and on the web.

• Convert and process Quark Xpress documents into PDF for use by the 3rd party printing companies.• Color correct and create image clipping paths on photographs using Adobe Photoshop.• Re-create logos and diagrams using Adobe Illustrator for use in print media.• Assist with in-house product photography using Canon cameras.

Bachelors, Interactive Multimedia

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