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Chris Sharpe

Federal Way,Washington

Summary

Passionate digital marketing manager and United States Marine Corps Veteran with a track record in SEO, SEM, email marketing, and marketing strategy & analysis. Thrives on solving complex problems and delivering exceptional results. Excels at collaborating with cross-functional teams and effectively presenting to stakeholders. Insatiable appetite for learning new skills drives embracing new challenges in the ever-evolving field of marketing.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Channel Marketing Manager

Amazon
05.2024 - Current

As the Channel Marketing Manager for Amazon Shipping, I manage and optimize our marketing campaigns from ideation through deployment and reporting. Through my efforts, the Amazon Shipping team effectively reaches and converts our target audience of various-sized shippers across the USA. Some key successes I have enabled include:

  • Creating, optimizing, and launching a campaign intake process that allows for a standardized and effective mechanism to launch marketing campaigns across various channels, reducing the time to launch from 3 weeks to 5 days or less.
  • Managed list email sends to an average audience of 5,000 recipients, achieving an average open rate of 41% and a click-to-open rate of 15%
  • Created, launched, and optimized a "Hands Off The Wheel" email program that nurtured prospects through the marketing funnel to convert to leads, resulting in 428 marketing leads.

Owner

Declination Digital Marketing
01.2018 - Current
  • I provide consulting and implementation for various clients in the Pacific Northwest
  • Some of my clients include: Dub Sea Fish Sticks Baseball Organization (Formerly the Highline Bears): I provided SEO, digital strategy, and integrated marketing strategy to enable the Highline Bears to successfully re-brand as the Dub Sea Fish Sticks
  • Elements of the strategy I provided included an integrated re-brand campaign that focused on merchandise sales, digital advertising, website search optimization, outdoor marketing (billboards), and more
  • Pacific Northwest Couriers LLC: I relaunched the Pacific Northwest Couriers website to better communicate what they do and generate leads
  • In addition to building and optimizing the website, I provide ongoing marketing strategy and paid search ad management

Demand Generation Manager

Infoblox
03.2021 - 09.2023
  • Managed a quarterly budget of over $120,000 for paid social and paid search, resulting in over 800 quarterly B2B AQLs with an average cost per lead of $130 and a total of $3,508,000 in pipeline
  • Re-designed a subscriber journey from an inconsistent experience to an informative package that includes updates on the latest threats, webinars, and quarterly threat reports
  • Some of the results include the generation of over 250% gain in subscriber count, Increased 28-day pageview count by over 1,000% for breaking news, and generated an increase in leads by 498%
  • Increased brand visibility by revamping the Infoblox podcast to include live video of each recording, including streaming across social media channels, on-demand videos, and podcast episode downloads
  • The result was an Increase in episode consumption by over 300% by introducing new ways to consume
  • Managed the company's inbound marketing and SEO strategy, providing audits, competitive analysis, keyword research, and SEO plans and implementation
  • Additionally, I updated the blog posting process to include SEO as a key element in every post, resulting in a significant lift in organic traffic

Digital Marketing/ SEO Specialist

SiteCrafting
03.2019 - 03.2021
  • Established and carried out successful SEO and digital marketing strategies for over 10 companies, resulting in organic and paid traffic increases that exceeded expectations.
  • Conducted and presented over 15 SEO and content audits that informed the strategy for website redesign projects and marketing efforts
  • Advised and implemented an SEO strategy that achieved over 2,600% increase in organic clicks

Marketing Analytics Coordinator

G2 Web Services
03.2018 - 03.2019
  • Leveraged Salesforce, Pardot, and Excel to create and maintain over 30 dynamic and static lists
  • Produced HTML emails attaining open rates as high as 26% through the use of custom headers, dynamic content and thoughtful CTA's
  • Re-vitalized a failing BDR program by reconstructing the script and accompanying emails while providing hundreds of semi-qualified leads for the BDR team to contact

Digital Marketing Intern

Combat Flip Flops
03.2017 - 06.2017
  • Created, organized, and planned a 5-month giveaway campaign that resulted in 9768 email leads while driving 2798 unique visitors to the CFF website
  • Generated and managed over 560 social media posts across multiple channels
  • Planned the production of a promotional mini-film, which required planning shot sequence, managing logistics, and generating creative briefs

Education

Bachelor's - Marketing

Western Washington University
Bellingham, Wa
06.2017

Skills

  • Campaign Management
  • Creative Briefs
  • SEMRush
  • Salesforce
  • 6Sense
  • Smartling
  • GA4
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Search Console
  • Pardot
  • Marketo
  • Inbound Marketing
  • LinkedIn Ads
  • Google Ads

Personal Information

Title: Marketing & Demand Generation Manager

Timeline

Channel Marketing Manager

Amazon
05.2024 - Current

Demand Generation Manager

Infoblox
03.2021 - 09.2023

Digital Marketing/ SEO Specialist

SiteCrafting
03.2019 - 03.2021

Marketing Analytics Coordinator

G2 Web Services
03.2018 - 03.2019

Owner

Declination Digital Marketing
01.2018 - Current

Digital Marketing Intern

Combat Flip Flops
03.2017 - 06.2017

Bachelor's - Marketing

Western Washington University
Chris Sharpe