Chris Rand

Current

• Director at Business Marketing Online Ltd

Past

• Consultant Editor at Centaur Communications
• Owner and Technical Editor at Pro-Talk Ltd
• Editor, Industrial Technology at New Wave Publishing

• Editor, Industrial Technology at Hanover Press
• Editor at Morgan-Grampian

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Education

• Loughborough University
• Colchester Royal Grammar School

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Chris Rand’s Summary

In summer 2008 I launched Business Marketing Online Ltd, which aims to help UK-based industrial companies make the most of internet marketing. Our "Insider Programme" aims to show marketing departments of all sizes that they have the ability to learn how to make their websites work themselves, with a unique 52-week advisory service.

I am also available for contract work on websites:
* 16-page search engine optimisation status report on your website
* Complete website rebuilds
* Blog setup with email, RSS and Twitter feeds, inc. training
* Complete Google AdWords campaign operation at fixed cost-per-click
* No-risk Sales Lead Generation
* Online advertising management - let us deal with all the sales reps!
* Content creation for your website using leading technical writers
* Ongoing Search Engine Optimisation for your website

My background seems to have led inexorably towards this position.

After training as a Manufacturing Engineer at Loughborough University and Marconi Communication Systems, in 1986 I diverted into the world of technical publishing, firstly at B2B magazine publisher Morgan-Grampian, then joining the much smaller publisher Hanover Press in 1988 as the launch editor of a new title, Industrial Technology, which I continued to edit for the next 12 years. During this time we took the magazine from being a little-known outsider to become the most commercially successful title in its market.

By 1999 I saw that the writing was on the wall for "product news" magazines. I left to set up Pro-Talk, the UK engineering sector's first online-only publishing company. Starting with Engineeringtalk, we created a series of email newsletters and news web sites which grew to a dozen by 2006.

With our resources for expansion stretched, we then sold the company to Centaur Media. I remained on the team there until May 2008, overseeing the successful transfer of the business.

Chris Rand’s Specialties:

Technical writing; Database management; Website design; Search engine optimisation; Magazine Structural Design; Magazine Content Creation; Magazine Layout (highly proficient in Quark Xpress, Photoshop, etc)

Chris Rand’s Experience

• Director

  Business Marketing Online Ltd

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Website development programmes for UK industrial and technical businesses

• Consultant Editor

  Centaur Communications

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

  May 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  Responsible for new publication creation, existing publication maintenance, web site optimisation, CMS coding. Also Editor, Engineeringtalk.

• Owner and Technical Editor

  Pro-Talk Ltd

  (Internet industry)

  January 2000 — May 2006 (6 years 5 months)

  Editor and creator of "Engineeringtalk", the UK's largest online publication for the design engineering and automation sectors; subsequently creator of the entire Pro-Talk network of sister sites and newsletters

• Editor, Industrial Technology

  New Wave Publishing

  (Publishing industry)

  April 1992 — November 1999 (7 years 8 months)

  Editor and joint owner of the UK's most successful magazine for the design engineering and automation sectors throughout the 1990s.

• Editor, Industrial Technology

  Hanover Press

  (Publishing industry)

  July 1988 — April 1991 (2 years 10 months)

  Launch editor of this innovative engineering magazine

• Editor

  Morgan-Grampian

  (Publishing industry)

  1986 — 1988 (2 years )

  Various editorial positions on Design Engineering, What's new in Design, Process Engineering, What's new in Processing and Electronics Times magazines. Also graduate of the Morgan-Grampian journalist training scheme.

Chris Rand’s Education

• Loughborough University

  1981 — 1986

  Activities and Societies:

  Presenter, University Radio Loughborough
  Presenter and Programme Controller, Loughborough Campus Radio
  Asst. Social Secretary, Elvyn Richards Hall

• Colchester Royal Grammar School

  1974 — 1981

Additional Information

Chris Rand’s Groups:

•    Technology Marketing Community
•    BMON "Article a Day" Readers

Chris Rand’s Contact Settings

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