Nina Greaves

Nina Greaves

SEO & Internet Marketing Specialist

United Kingdom

Current
  • SEO & Internet Marketing Specialist at www.funkypigeon.com
  • Google Specialist at Spilt Ink Studio Nature of Business: Online businesses
  • Remote SEO Somerset, UK at Spilt Ink Studio
  • SEO Consultant - SIA UK at Murrall Holdings
  • Online Sales at Organisation
  • Advertising Team Leader / Field Sales at Organisation
Past
  • SEO Consultant at Morrell Holdings Nature of Business: Online businesses
  • Business Development Manager at Teamwork Energy Bureau Services Ltd
  • Financial Recruitment Consultant at Nature of Business: Recruitment
  • Accountancy Recruitment at Badenoch & Clark
  • Recruitment Consultsant at Change Recruitment Services
  • Marketing Manager at eBay
  • Sales Team Leader at Archant Plc
Education
  • Weston College
  • Weston super Mare College
  • The Brunts School, Mansfield
Connections
16 connections
Industry
Consumer Goods
Websites

Nina Greaves’s Summary

Google ranking specialist, encompassing Google Analytics, Google Adwords and website critique.

Website Optimisation, SERPS, PPC, Google specialist

Web copy, advert design and campaign management experience.

Nina Greaves’s Specialties:

Sales, Marketing, Management, SEO, PPC


Nina Greaves’s Experience

  • SEO & Internet Marketing Specialist

    www.funkypigeon.com

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    August 2009Present (4 months)

    Promoting and evolving the company brand www.funkypigeon.com providing an online service to personalising cards and gifts.
    Implemented changes and SEO actions to rebrand from remind4u.com to funkypigeon.com, including 301 redirect, deep linking 301 and SERPs research for competitors and a blanket Adwords campaign

  • Google Specialist

    Spilt Ink Studio Nature of Business: Online businesses

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    August 2009Present (4 months)

    Responsible for driving internet traffic to the Companies' website and goal conversion
    Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) using the administration login
    Providing Google Analytics (GA) code to the IT department to add to the websites
    Analyzing GA trends, visitor frequency, traffic sources, keywords, Goals and KPI's, and making recommendations to IT accordingly to maximize online response
    Responsible for creating Google AdWords account, deciding the best keywords and advert wording, to PPC and Cost Per Click, keywords, placements and ad variation, banner placement
    Creating keyword rich blogs, newfeeds and updating regularly
    Submitting monthly traffic and GA reports to the director
    Responsible for creating website content text from scratch to suit company image
    Achievements to date: From an Alexa ranking of 1,405,000 down to 750,3005 in the 6 weeks of employment. In some areas of Adwords responsible for increased traffic to key areas of the website by 6,000%. Advised web programmers in the best possible ways of optimization.
    Second website Alexa ranking down from 11,000,000 to 1.300,000 in three weeks

  • Remote SEO Somerset, UK

    Spilt Ink Studio

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    August 2009Present (4 months)

    SEO eMarketing Internet Specialist

  • SEO Consultant - SIA UK

    Murrall Holdings

    (Security and Investigations industry)

    June 2009Present (6 months)

    Responsible for improving the google rank of the new business, search engine optimisation
    There are several websites under the Murrall Holdings umbrella, currently I am working on www.siauk.org and www.newsecurityjob.com

  • Online Sales

    Organisation

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    December 2003Present (6 years )

    Specifically only 12" vinyl records
    Nature of Business: Ebay
    Duties:
    Carrying out market research for popular selling products
    Marketing best selling products in an enticing manner
    Creating online auctions to attract buyers
    Responsible for international shipping
    Resolving customer queries via internet and telephone
    Responsible for personal budgets and cashflow

  • Advertising Team Leader / Field Sales

    Organisation

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    February 1999Present (10 years 10 months)

    Nature of Business: Media
    Duties:
    Responsible for a small sales team of 4
    Selling advertising space with 3 newspaper titles over the telephone and in person
    Cross selling advertising space for the entire group of newspapers throughout Somerset
    Arranging meetings with clients for face to face presentations
    Agreeing price negotiation with clients
    Responsible for team motivation and to exceed revenue targets
    Creating and designing attractive advertisements
    Working to tight copy and printing deadlines
    Liaising with management on a weekly basis for sales updates and brainstorming
    Processing new accounts and collecting pre payments, safe cash handling
    Responsible for lead generation and developing existing database of clients
    Assisting the page planner to ensure correct placing of adverts before printing
    Training staff on internet use, letter composition and emails

  • SEO Consultant

    Morrell Holdings Nature of Business: Online businesses

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    June 2009July 2009 (2 months)

    Attended an intensive two day SEO course covering all areas of search engine page rakings, keywords, metatags, backlinks, blackhat, networking, blogs, directory submissions and more
    Responsible for driving internet traffic to 4 of the Companies' websites via Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
    Providing Google Analytics (GA) code to the IT department to add to the websites
    Analyzing GA trends, visitor frequency, traffic sources, keywords, Goals and KPI's, and making recommendations to IT accordingly to maximize online response
    Responsible for creating Google AdWords account, deciding the best keywords and advert wording, to Cost Per Click, keywords, placements and ad variation, banner placement etc
    Creating keyword rich blogs, newfeeds and updating regularly
    Client contact to encourage new vacancy listing on www.siauk.org security recruitment website
    Resolving candidate queries over the telephone and electronically
    Submitting weekly traffic and GA reports to the four directors
    Autonomy to voice new ideas for website improvement, creating website content text
    Researching new ways to constantly improve web presence for the sites assigned to me

  • Business Development Manager

    Teamwork Energy Bureau Services Ltd

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    December 2008June 2009 (7 months)

    uk.com
    Nature of Business; Responsible for evolving the company brand, reporting to the two directors
    Primarily implemented a number of positive changes to the company website,
    Boosted Google rankings by an unforeseen amount estimated 2,000% with the use of online directories and AdWords and SEO focus.
    Responsible for creating advertisements for the Company and market testing, reporting and recommending future presence in different forms of media
    Promoted brand awareness by a consistent telesales marketing strategy
    Promoted brand awareness by launching an email broadcast to high level decision makers, total autonomy in following this up with telephone calls and mail marketing. Responsible for copy writing, proofing and also tying the campaign in with 'freebies' through the post.
    Generated at least 3 incoming calls per week via website promotion alone
    Confident and consistent cold calling to multi-site companies, decision maker presentations both face to face and over the telephone
    Experience in tender applications, confidential company information handling, preparing reports, letter composition
    Gained a valuable insight into green renewable energy, energy surveys, carbon footprint reduction and bureau services within the private and public sector.
    Achievements:
    Historically, the Company has never required a Sales department, as 58% of their work is Government contracted, the remainder is from local authorities and business networking throughout it's 11 year presence in the Energy industry.
    My role was to implement a new marketing strategy, including weekly meetings with surveyors and estimators to change the Company presence on the internet from 'invisible' to prominent which was achieved within a 5 week period.
    Already I have proved new business in excess of £10,000 with other projects and tenders in the pipeline with proposals valued at over £2million
    There is no current database system held by this company, I utilise Excel for this purpose.

  • Financial Recruitment Consultant

    Nature of Business: Recruitment

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    December 2006November 2008 (2 years )

    Duties:
    Responsible for developing business with new clients through telephone and face to face presentations
    Communicating at all levels, to fully qualified accountants and finance directors
    Generating new leads and business contacts, following up company literature
    Creating tempting adverts for current vacancies
    Registering, interviewing and pre-screening candidates to assess suitability
    Matching candidate skills and experience to client vacancies
    Selling candidates and arranging interviews with clients
    Referencing candidates to ensure suitability
    Honestly assisting candidates with interview technique
    Liaising with clients and candidates to resolve day to day queries
    Maintaining accurate data on the company database
    Complying with industry regulation and company policies
    Representing the company honestly and professionally at all times
    Maintaining the confidentiality of client, candidate and company information
    Matching clients needs with available candidates on behalf of 3 companies, specifically covering Bristol, Avon and the Somerset area.

    Achievements:
    Employed to help with the launch of the new finance division, on a cold/warm desk, I created several marketing campaigns specifically designed to create client awareness of this new service. I had total autonomy with every marketing campaign and brought on several key accounts and new clients. 3 recruitment companies with identical job description

  • Accountancy Recruitment

    Badenoch & Clark

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

    November 2007May 2008 (7 months)

  • Recruitment Consultsant

    Change Recruitment Services

    (Accounting industry)

    December 2006November 2007 (1 year )

  • Marketing Manager

    eBay

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; eBay; Internet industry)

    June 2004November 2006 (2 years 6 months)

    Selk emaplyed at home for 2 years purely selling on eBay

  • Sales Team Leader

    Archant Plc

    (Newspapers industry)

    February 1999February 2003 (4 years 1 month)

    Newspaper Advertising Sales - Managing a small team


Nina Greaves’s Education

  • Weston College

    Creating writing / web content and copy 20092010 (expected)

  • Weston super Mare College

    AAT , Accounting , 19992000

    REC

    Activities and Societies:
    B&I Bristol area
  • The Brunts School, Mansfield

    'O' levels grade A to C, 2 GCSE's grade 1, AS Level Biology


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Nina Greaves’s Interests:

Collecting music

Nina Greaves’s Groups:

  •    UK SEO, PPC & Social Media
  •    UK Sales, Marketing and Business Development Network
  •    www.OnlyMarketingJobs.com - it pays to know people
  •    Marketing Week Live
  •    Business Development Professionals (UK)
  •    SEO & Internet Marketing group UK

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