William Hamilton Email & Phone Number

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

I lead a team of writers, editors, photographers in assembling an in-depth print product while also helping to coordinate fast-paced daily coverage online for an award-winning and highly respected independent business publication in southern New England. Since I became managing editor, PBN has earned many accolades, including "Newspaper of Year" honors five years in a row from a regional press association. It was also recognized among the top three medium-sized business publications nationwide three years in a row by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers

Providence, Rhode Island

Oversaw the production of special sections for PBN, coordinating a team of freelance writers and photographers to produce the content for profitable pullout sections such as the Giving Guide, Fastest Growing and Innovative Companies, Forty Under 40. Edited all copy, wrote all headlines and captions, and directed layout and design of displays.

Providence

THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL has been the pinnacle of journalism in southern New England for generations. As an editor, I worked with some of the most experienced journalists in the region, and can honestly say I enjoyed nearly every moment of it.I WAS SELECTED and trained to be an expert user when the company installed a new content management system for print and web products. I troubleshooted problems when other staffers encountered them.I WAS ON THE EDITING TEAM on the news desk and the sports desk, editing stories and crafting snappy headlines (it’s an art form), captions as well as laying out news pages, working with staff writers and editing blog postings on providencejournal.com. I also served as the paper's Sunday business editor.

Providence

HOW DOES A WEBSITE rank on the first page of Google's search results?It's complicated.But when I learned how to get a website there on a fairly regular basis, I realized the enormous value of that web real estate and the potential to make profits, because organic search can get loads of consumers to your site at the optimum stage in the buying process.I acquired domains, building niche consumer sites designed to maximize conversions and creating authoritative, informative content to make visitors comfortable to click through.MY SITES CONSISTENTLY RANKED on the first page of search engine results for lower-competition, higher-traffic keywords. Conversions ran as high as 40 percent of visitors for some sites in the WHAM Enterprises portfolio. AT ONE POINT, WHAM ENTERPRISES controlled 14 consumer websites, six blogs and one e-commerce retail store and was proficient in domain acquisition, site building, copywriting, on- and off-page SEO, keyword research, Google Analytics, among other things.

Providence

I WAS PART OF A TEAM of some of the most intelligent people I've ever had the pleasure to work with. It's no wonder Providence Business News has such as great reputation in the southern New England business community.I IMMERSED MYSELF in the beats of education, financial services and workforce development, which gave me an in-depth look at how business ticks, what makes companies successful or not -- something that influences me to this day and I suspect always will.I PLANNED, RESEARCHED AND ASSEMBLED four extended business stories each week -- and often came up with the visuals and graphics, too. I also wrote small news briefs for the website throughout the week. All of it was done under intensely tight deadlines. At the same time, I managed to squeeze in some work-related tweeting. We won numerous journalism awards during my tenure.A FAVORITE TASK was assembling the Main Street feature, a weekly profile on a local small business. This allowed me to get behind the scenes of a lot of companies and pick the brains of successful businessmen and women. Looking back, it was an invaluable education.