David Watkins Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Fl, Us

• Pitch publications, podcasts, television, and radio on behalf of 10-15 clients in various industries to create organic interest and secure media placements, awards, and red carpet invitations• My earned media coverage includes Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, CNN, Insider, NBC News, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, CBS News, Fox Business, Newsweek, NPR, Yahoo! Finance, Cosmopolitan, CNBC, AARP, ABC7 Los Angeles, Psychiatric Times, and red carpets for Netflix and YouTube• Conduct weekly client strategy and management calls to meet key performance indicators and guarantees • Compose and send client reports weekly and contact clients via phone, text, and email daily• Write press releases, ghostwrite/edit guest and feature articles, and complete applications • Maintain relationships with media contacts, strategically craft media lists and personalized pitches• Present company-wide training sessions

• Managed product launch campaigns and pitched the brand to influencers and journalists• Maintained relationships with high-level influencers that generated more sales in Jan. 2021 than the combined revenue of Q3/Q4 2020• Project managed launch campaign video shoot in Los Angeles and covid-19-friendly pop-up event at Orlando Vegan Fest• Conducted market/consumer research and wrote detailed reports that inform future product launches• Collaborated with founder on brand identity and worked with designers on packaging, product education, social media posts/ads, and web copy• Distributed bi-weekly emails to over 3,000 subscribers with open and click rates exceeding the beauty industry national average by at least 20%

Los Angeles, Ca , Us

• Our team created the B2B partnership brand RealMe Solutions to help ensure safety on dating apps and peer-to-peer services• Managed key accounts, daily external communication, and post-sale internal execution of partnerships• Lead communication with contracted agencies and consultants to review deliverables, share feedback, and coordinate weekly meetings• Tracked partnership performance analytics to present at weekly company meetings• Collaborated cross-functionally to build and execute campaigns from beginning to end • Followed market trends and trade publications for potential partnership opportunities, planned partnership events • Translated business objectives into B2B copy (landing pages, social captions, cold email, presentations), ensuring proper spelling, grammar, and brand messaging

San Francisco, California, Us

• Collaborated with clients on landing pages, content calendars, press releases, and brand style/messaging guidelines

Miami, Florida, Us

• Regularly exceeded daily sales goals by building relationships with new customers and converting customers from other brands/products• Managed sales analytics across 20 locations and planned growth strategies with supervisor

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Wrote promotional articles, newsletters, and developed visual content for target audiences and the A&S webpage on uc.edu• Developed content for academic programs (e.g. landing pages and profiles) that articulated UC's brand personality • Analyzed target audience and demographics through social media listening, interviews, case studies, polling, and analytics• Collaborated on overall strategies for online and print content• Orchestrated university social media coverage and campaigns for campus events by creating hashtags, collecting audience data, and utilizing programs like HootSuite and SproutSocial to document and analyze student reaction

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Co-founded and developed curriculum and programming for the Audre Lorde Social Justice House, UC's first gender-inclusive residence on campus.• Promoted engagement and academic excellence of 45 residents, addressed student needs, and resolved conflict while supporting the mission and policies of UC Housing• Met and exceeded goals of developing programs conducive to residents’ civic, professional, personal and academic development by 100 percent in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016• Collaborated with team members to orchestrate a community service program that benefited theRonald McDonald House, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Knit for the Needy

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

• Researched, reworked, and revised articles, fact-checked, and verified spelling and grammar• Completed short-term and long-term local stories, wrote a blog surveying Cincinnati’s LGBTQ+ community, researched and resourced photos for weekly event previews, conducted interviews and published calendar listings• Co-produced an issue of the publication and collaborated with photographers and graphic designers, co-planned an event that coincided with the issue’s release

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism, Communication, Public Relations

Youth Performing Arts School, Ypas