Stephan Spencer

Current

• Founder and Managing Director at Netconcepts Ltd.
• Founder and President at Netconcepts LLC

Past

• Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Molecular Virology

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• University of Michigan

Recommended

3 people have recommended Stephan

Connections

310 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Netconcepts
• Stephan Spencer's Scatterings
• CNET Searchlight

Stephan Spencer’s Summary

Stephan Spencer is the founder and president of Netconcepts, an 11 year-old multinational web agency specializing in search engine optimization (SEO), web design, ecommerce, and website auditing, as well as email marketing through Netconcepts’ gravityMail division.

Stephan is a Senior Contributor for MarketingProfs.com. He has contributed to DM News, Practical Ecommerce, Multichannel Merchant, Catalog Age, Unlimited, Marketing Magazine, Building Online Business, and others. He is co-author of the analyst report “The State of Search Engine Marketing 1.0 - New Strategies for Successful Cataloging” published by Catalog Age. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences around the globe for organizations such as the DMA, the AMA, Search Engine Strategies, Internet World, IQPC and IIR.

Stephan Spencer’s Specialties:

SEO (search engine optimization), search engine marketing, ecommerce / online retail, email marketing, RSS, web marketing, web development, usability, blogging, podcasting, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, WordPress

Stephan Spencer’s Experience

• Founder and Managing Director

  Netconcepts Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2000 — Present (8 years 5 months)

  Founded Netconcepts Limited in New Zealand as the production arm for Netconcepts LLC. Based in Auckland's North Shore (a block from the beach!), the company boasts dozens of some of the Web's finest -- SEOs, developers, designers, information architects, project managers, systems administrators, etc.

• Founder and President

  Netconcepts LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1995 — Present (13 years 5 months)

  Founded Netconcepts as a web design firm in 1995, specializing in creating dynamic, personalized, community-building Web sites. Duties primarily involve strategic planning, forging strategic partnerships, marketing, public relations, and development of new products, services and company-owned web properties (e.g. Writers.Net and InnSite.com). Sought-after speaker and contributor to various magazines. Took the company from start-up to a multi-national firm focused on SEO (search engine optimization), with a client roster that now includes HSN, REI, AOL, Kohl's, Gorton's, Cabela's, Verizon SuperPages.com and many others.

• Research Assistant

  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Molecular Virology

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  September 1993 — December 1994 (1 year 4 months)

  Research assistant in the laboratory of Dr. Max Nibert while a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry. Research focus was the mammalian reovirus. Conducted some "wet bench" work such as plaque assays, gel electrophoresis, etc. But work primarily involved molecular vizualization of virus structures. My work on radial depth cueing of 3-D cryoelectron microscopic reconstructions of reovirus datasets was published in the Journal of Structural Biology (1997) and one of my images made the front cover of the issue. Presented a paper "Communicating Information about Virus Structure and Biology Via the World Wide Web" at the Second International World Wide Web Conference in 1994. Developed the award-winning website for the Institute for Molecular Virology. Contributed dozens of computer-generated animations and images of various viruses for Academic Press' Encyclopedia of Virology CD-ROM.

Stephan Spencer’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  M.S., Biochemistry, 1993 — 1994

• University of Michigan

  B.S., Cellular & Molecular Biology, 1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Stephan Spencer’s Websites:

• Netconcepts
• Stephan Spencer's Scatterings
• CNET Searchlight

Stephan Spencer’s Interests:

racquetball, downhill skiing, hanging out with my wife and kids, reading, learning new things, blogging, stargazing, French language, watching Stargate (I miss Star Trek... sigh!)

Stephan Spencer’s Groups:

Shop.org, American Marketing Association, Direct Marketing Association, Sales & Marketing Executives International, Marketing Association (NZ), Sales & Marketing Institute (NZ)

•    LinkedSEO member
•    SMX - Search Marketing Expo member

Stephan Spencer’s Contact Settings

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