Michelle Greer

Current

Founder at SimpleSpeak Marketing

Past

Marketing Specialist at Volusion Inc.
Webmaster/Internet Sales Assistant at BMW of Austin
EPP Sales Representative at Dell

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Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Recommended

8 people have recommended Michelle

Connections

326 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

Michelle Greer’s Summary

Recently awarded Austin American Statesman's "Social Media Award 2009:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/life/stories/other/03/16/0316winner.html

At BMW of Austin, I helped run the second most profitable eBay Motors store on the web in 2005, earning over $500,000 profit with just two people.

At Volusion eCommerce, I was a Marketing Specialist during a 200% period of growth. During this time, I wrote Volusion's copy, press releases, blog, and newsletters.

Now as an independent marketer, I have:

--used social media tools like Twitter to organize a blood drive that doubled the Blood and Tissue Center's traffic with just three days planning
--run a Twitter campaign for domain registrar NameCheap that earned them 8000 Twitter followers, a 10% increase in traffic, and over 200 backlinks to their website in just one month. Revenues have increased 20% since engaging in social media.
--been one of the global organizers of Twestival, a Twitter-based fundraiser that raised over $250,000 for charity:water in less than two months.

I actively seek clients who work very hard to improve their product, service, or NGO and want to help them get their story online for people to see.

Michelle Greer’s Specialties:

branding, copywriting, market research, blogging, social networking, search engine optimization, and software sales.

Michelle Greer’s Experience

Founder

SimpleSpeak Marketing

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

There is no magic bullet with social media. I can't make customers like you or your company. What I can do is connect you with people who would benefit by your product or service and encourage those already loyal to you to spread the word about your brand. I can find people who aren't happy with your service and figure out what if anything went wrong.

If you like this honest and straightforward approach, you'll probably like how I do business.
Marketing Specialist

Volusion Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2006 — May 2008 (2 years)

I was Volusion's Marketing Specialist in a period of 200% growth. Since starting in this position, I was interviewed regularly by Practical Ecommerce Magazine as well as ECommerce-Guide. As the industry geek at Volusion, it was my responsibility to keep our senior management as well as sales staff current on competitive and industry news and trends.
Webmaster/Internet Sales Assistant

BMW of Austin

(Internet industry)

September 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 9 months)

I organized eBay and website listings for BMW of Austin at a time when buying cars over the internet was crazy. I figure if I can sell a BMW 6 series over the internet, I can sell ANYTHING.
EPP Sales Representative

Dell

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)

September 2003 — June 2004 (10 months)

As a sales rep, I was often one of top five representatives on the floor in close rate and Dell Financial Services pen rate. My manager John Lilley named me as the official "Fish Monger" for his team, which allowed me to organize our team for events such as the Dell blood drive and campaigns to offer employee feedback. In Q1 2004, the General Sales Manager chose me to be honored at the quarterly manager's meeting for enhancing the customer experience. I also served as a Dell Ping Pong Champion Extraordinaire and frequent challenger of Dell Big Brother tactics.

Michelle Greer’s Education

The University of Texas at Austin

American Studies , 1998 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

Walked on NCAA Women's Tennis Team in 1999, but figured I actually wanted to save my knees for future use. Took eight writing components including a senior honors thesis course.

Additional Information

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Michelle Greer’s Interests:

I am currently trying to find computers for Burmese refugees here in town. For more information, see this post on Refresh Austin's site: http://www.refreshaustin.org/2008/collecting-computers-and-other-goods-for-austins-less-fortunate If you have computers or other goods to offer, you are welcome to attend Refresh Austin's meeting, or email me at michelle(at)michellesblog.net and we can discuss pickup. I attend just about every technology social networking function here in Austin, so if you are at one and you see someone who looks like my goofy avatar, please say "hello".