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Aaron H.

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  • Joined August 2015

Startup growth and marketing professional.

  • Los Angeles, California, United States
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Aaron H.
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Growth Content SEO Paid Advertising Strategy

Experience

Summary

Many startups can't afford a CMO but also can't afford to neglect growth entirely. I fill this gap for early stage companies by analyzing growth channels, managing teams and building growth systems that can be handed off to a full-time CMO when hired.

CloudPeep clients

Keller Williams International
Growth for KW GPS
Apr 2017 to Jun 2017
Boxpitality
Growth marketing for startup
Feb 2016 to Jul 2017
Snipe
App Launch/Promotion/Growth Hackery
Oct 2015 to Jul 2017
Outsite
Growth Hacker
Sep 2015 to Jan 2016

Work history

Holland Media Group
Founder/CEO
Managed and coordinated multiple teams working around the globe on multiple campaigns in a wide range of verticals. Tasks included overseeing branding, web development, social, email, growth hacking, retargeting, content, SEO, SEM, customer acquisition.
SimplifySupper.com
Founder/CMO
Directed growth of simplifysupper.com from 0-15K members. Directed development and deployment of the brand as well as the technology and managed growth initiatives responsible for acquiring thousands of members and created reoccurring revenue.
LinkMo
Founder/CMO
Managed planning, development and deployment of linkmo.com, a social commerce platform. Directing user acquisition through social media and partnerships.
Parakeet
Freelance Growth/Marketing
Worked with senior management to identify key growth goals and implement systems to acquire leads, clients and partnerships. Consulted management on primary growth channels and managed freelance and dev teams to offload responsibility from management.
Boom Startup
Startup Mentor
Mentored startups on growth hacking, channel analysis, customer acquisition, cost of customer acquisition and lifetime value of a customer. Helped startups identify growth opportunities and successfully implement systems to maximize marketing budgets.
Utah AMA
VP Marketing
Managed marketing and communications teams working in social, email, branding, event marketing, content, SEO and other channels. Designed and implemented marketing and communication campaigns to acquire and maintain customers.
Impact Hub Salt Lake
Social Media Manager
Managed social media marketing including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Helped develop and implement key social growth initiatives across multiple channels. Worked with various teams to manage content drive engagement and grow the business.

Reviews and references

Summary

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 Matt McPheely

Aaron was awesome to work with. Always positive and responsive, and very knowledgeable about multiple growth channels (FB, email marketing, influencers). Highly recommend.

Portfolio

Even Stevens

Provided freelance website development and growth consultation to conceptualize and build Even Stevens website to function as a growth platform for the brands future growth.

Simplify Supper

Directed platform development and growth of simplifysupper.com from 0-15K members. Helped secure marketing and advertising partnerships responsible for user acquisition rates of up to 1.5k daily and over 200K in revenue year 1.

IMS Masonry

Directed website development, graphic design, photography, ad buys and interfaced with senior management team to distill brand messaging points.

LinkMo

Founder/CMO of LinkMo, a social commerce platform that allows users to earn money for reposting items for sale. Directed platform development, branding, growth, partnerships and implemented multi-channel growth initiatives.

Salt Lake City Council

Worked with the Salt Lake City Council to identify key communication goals and manage website development and delivery to meet timeline, budget and technical needs of the project. Also managed on social media, PR, and other growth/communication points.

Parakeet

Consulted Parakeet's early growth efforts including staff structure, channel analysis, website development, branding, social media, email marketing, SEO/SEM, retargeting, growth hacking and other tasks. Worked directly with CEO/COO to develop objectives and offload responsibilities.

Skills

Skills

growth growth hacking digital marketing content strategy social media marketing SEO SEM analytics systems teams

Tools

Basecamp Trello Photoshop Google Analytics googe docs Google AdWords Facebook Advertising Twitter Advertising Instagram import.io

Availability

Seeking work

Available

  • Available during business hours, evenings, and weekends

Commitment

  • Can work 25hrs per week
  • Can commit to 1+ years

Interests

Industries I love

Advertising & Marketing

What I read

Seth Godin, Jim Collins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Bill Graham, Traction by Justin Mares, Gabriel Weinberg, Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath,

Side projects

Co-founded music/art blog weareerrant.com and grown into a profitable project. Volunteer with the Snowbird Sports Education Foundation and serve on their board of directors. I also help startups with growth hacking at Boom Startup and Impact Hub.

Ideal team

I enjoy facilitating communication between creative and technical staff with senior management to insure quality, brand, budget and timeline objectives are met. I love working with diverse teams to catalyze efforts and exceed expectations.