I have been self employed as an independent contractor and internet marketing consultant since January 2000. I do not have a conventional resume but there have been those who asked about one so I decided it would be best if I detailed my lifetime work experience here. I was born in Key West Florida in 1970 and I have had a job almost continuously since I graduated high school in 1988. In that time I have had many different jobs but most have been in retail and retail management with a focus on customer service and sales. I have over 10 years experience in sales and customer service selling retail products on a showroom floor with most of that in a management position.
I bought my first PC in 1998 after having a great quarterly sales commission from International Bicycle Shops in Fort Lauderdale where I was lead salesman and Store Manager for 5 years. I built my first website in 1999 at IntlBicycle.com and I have been building and marketing websites ever since.
In 2000 I formed my first corporation as Affordable Web Productions Inc. and I began designing websites for friends and family until I left International Bicycles and went to work for Cyber Entertainment Networks (CEN) in 2001, which at the time was the 3rd largest adult webmaster program in the booming industry. I was hired by CEN as a basic HTML programmer and my daily duties involved creating text based storylines and graphics layouts for adult websites managed under the TrafficCashGold.com affiliate program. It was in this job position I began to learn about webmasters and website marketing from many of the best search marketers and affiliate managers in the industry.
Sadly my time with CEN was short lived because I was hired by a partner who was kicked out of the company and they proceeded to fire everyone he had hired regardless of their value or performance. I received a severance package which I used to purchase airline tickets to Jamaica for the Annual Webmasters meeting sponsored by Klixxx magazine. My goal was to network with other adult webmasters and to secure a new job. I was fortunate to meet with members of CyberErotica who linked me up with a number of webmaster program directors in the industry who lived in Fort Lauderdale which ended up in a job position for me with ContentBroadband.com as Sales Manager for their adult content production company in 2002.
Content Broadband was tied to Scarletts Cabaret, a leading South Florida gentlemans club and featured high definition video and photo content for webmasters. My duties as Sales Manager required me to contact leading content publishers to promote our new offerings which I was able to do with great success in short time. Content Broadband was doomed to failure as a bad partnership with too many people trying to lead the company in too many directions and it ceased operations in less than 6 months even though it had begun to make money because it detracted from their core business of adult clubs.
My next job position came to me from a job listing on Monster.com as Sales Associate for MoversUSA.com in 2003 which was a moving services company offering new sales leads to moving companies from their website. My original duties were in sales but I quickly took over as Marketing Manager where my responsibilities became search engine optimization, link building and pay per click management. I developed an in house affiliate program which attracted 100’s of real estate agents and mortgage brokers to promote their relocation services and I was responsible for generating as much as $80,000 in monthly revenues based primarily on my organic search results and my management of the paid advertising campaigns which secured the lowest cost per lead in the industry and the more leads than our advertisers could manage.
The original partners in MoversUSA.com were part of a moving scam which was busted by FBI agents the day after we attended a wedding for the lead scammer and the company was “restructured” by the manager who hired me as Gingon Solutions under a new domain at MoverMAX.com. I chose the new domain and I built and marketed the new site with the new company because I assumed this manager was right by his actions. He made a promise to share the new company with myself and other staff who left with him but in the end he chose not to do so and most of us left for new projects.
In 2004 I began selling leads from my own network of sites to moving companies under my own website at AffordableMovingCompany.com and I have been working on my own network of sites ever since then. For more details on my current work please visit My Portfolio for more details.
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