
Business Development Manager - Emerging markets at Rate Solutions
Serbia and Montenegro

Business Development Manager - Emerging markets at Rate Solutions
Serbia and Montenegro
I'm Web professional with more than 10 years experience, mainly in Internet marketing and other areas of e-business. I'm Business Development Manager at Rate Solutions, responsible for emerging markets. Projects that I lead or I'm involved as a coordinator include Karike.com (in Top 10 in Serbia, 60 000 daily visits, 2 million daily page views), other Rate sites in ex-YU region, establishing Rate sites presence on the new markets and taking care of new projects, like a social web site aimed for classmates, ex-colleagues and old friends Znanci.com. In one sentence - everything that increases the community and popularity of Rate Solutions web sites.
I also have great experience in email marketing and web portals because I worked for two companies in email marketing field, published several tech email newsletters and was one of the key people for one of the most visited web portals in Southeast Europe B92.net.
Beside that, I run a non-profit, award-winning project called Humanost.org which collects pleads for help so other people can help people in need. My professional experience starts from 1999. with launching Serbia OnLine web portal, one of the first general portals in Serbia, then publishing group of Internet email newsletters, working for software companies SKYLIST Solutions and Infacta Ltd. Prior to my current job, I was web manager at B92.net, the most visited web site in Serbia with an average of 120 000 daily unique visitors and 1 000 000 daily page views.
Beside my regular 9-5 job, I'm often contacted by companies to consult them related to quality Internet presence and I often give speaches at conferences and webinars. I have thourough knowledge of the best practices for successful Internet presence and about web markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Beside Serbian, my second language is Hungarian and also I speak fluently English.
social networking, community building, web site localization, internet marketing, online games, email marketing, online pr, branding, marketing, advertising, project management
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Responsible for increasing community and popularity of Rate Solutions web sites in emerging markets.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 8 months)
I'm responsible for making Karike.com as one of the best destinations when it comes to community web sites. My duties are day to day operations, marketing, advertising, business development of Rate Solutions web sites in Adria/Ex-YU region and finding people who will be in charge for the new markets.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
February 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 11 months)
I was a web manager of most visited web site in Southeast Europe that had an average 120K daily unique visitors. My duties was to coordinate activities with my team and with clients as well as marketing, tracking statistics and business development. Also, one of the persons who started VIP Blog at B92 and was involved in daily communication with the bloggers and community, Editor-in-Chief on tech section Tehnopolis which became during my tenure most visited tech place in Serbia, in charge of selling rotation ads, organizing different web conests, finding sponsors...
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2005 — November 2005 (4 months)
I was responsible for writing expert articles related to email marketing and Internet marketing in general for their corporate web site and for online promotion.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — April 2003 (10 months)
I was responsible for writing expert articles related to email marketing and Internet marketing in general and for online promotion.
BSc Management , Management
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Special award for contributions to the society with my humanitarian Internet project Humanost.org - Web Fest, November 2007