Dejan Bizinger

Karike.com & Flirtic

Location: Serbia
Industry: Internet

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Dejan Bizinger's Overview

Current

Country Manager at Flirtic
Business Development Manager at Rate Solutions

Past

Partner at WebGazda doo
Karike.com - Country Manager at Rate Solutions
Web manager at B92

Education

Univerzitet u Beogradu

Recommendations

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Websites

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I'm Web professional with more than 13 years experience, mainly in e-business development. I'm Business Development Manager at Rate Solutions, one of the leading pan-European social network communities, present in 20+ countries, responsible for emerging markets. Projects that I lead or I'm involved as a coordinator include social dating network Karike.com (around 200 000 registered users, 900 000 monthly visits and around 27m page views, 12% bounce rate, average 16 minutes per user session), other Rate sites in ex-YU region, establishing Rate sites presence on the new markets and taking care of new. upcoming projects.

Beside that, I'm Country Manager at Flirtic (Serbia) - global social dating site based on interesting tests, questions and games.

I was one of the key people of one of the most visited web portals in Southeast Europe B92.net and also I was a co-founder of WebGazda advertising network.

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 thorough 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.

Specialties

social networking, social dating, community building, web site localization, internet marketing, online games, email marketing, online pr, branding, marketing, advertising, project management

Country Manager

Flirtic

May 2010 – Present (1 year 9 months) Belgrade, Serbia

Flirtic makes dating more social and flirtatious, giving users the ability to express themselves more easily in order to find their perfect match.

Flirtic incorporates the most popular and addictive features of social networks, including messaging, wall posting, 'likes' and entertaining games and quizzes. These features make it easy for even the shyest and most cautious people to help them to engage with new people, break the ice and start conversations.

Business Development Manager

Rate Solutions

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

January 2009 – Present (3 years 1 month) Belgrade, Serbia

Responsible for increasing community and popularity of Rate Solutions web sites like Karike.com.

Partner

WebGazda doo

Partnership; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry

August 2008 – March 2011 (2 years 8 months)

WebGazda is a new media company that has its own contextual service called Digitalnimarketing.com, hosting service and offers clients different services such as running Internet marketing campaigns, web site development and education.

Karike.com - Country Manager

Rate Solutions

Privately Held; 51-200 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.

Web manager

B92

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...