Tom Guard

Local Search Engine Optimization Professional

Location: West Palm Beach, Florida Area
Industry: Marketing and Advertising

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Tom Guard's Overview

Current

Thomas Guard Internet Marketing at Tom Guard Search Engine Optimzation Web Design

Past

Volunteer Web Designer and Webmaster at Palm Beach Centennial
Editor/Copywriter for VOD website at Galaxy Internet Group
Bus Driver at Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Education

Kent State University

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7 people have recommended Tom

Connections

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As an expert in the field of Social Media Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing, my role is to build and execute strategies for companies seeking to engage their community via the social web utilizing blogs and social media sites.

Building a social network is not about setting up a Myspace page and letting it sit there in hopes of someone finding your business. It's about building and pro-actively engaging people and interacting with people within your social community.

I would like to work with businesses or individuals that want to use social media or search engine optimizaton strategies to expand their brand's awareness. I want to let people know that you are more than a product sitting on a Facebook page with out any compelling content.

As a specialist in search marketing, I have grown companies in industries such as television, advertising, real estate, local governments and more.

I was responsible for raising millions of dollars in revenue for non-profits.

Specialties

Social Media Marketing.SEO, Affiliate Marketing, SEO for Startups, Installing, building and maintaining Wordpress blogs and using the latest search engine optimization techniques to make them rank well in the search engines. Article marketing. Using Twitter to run marketing contests using specially designed Wordpress plugins. Adsense and adwords experience, Google tools, experimenting and learning about the latest social networks.

Thomas Guard Internet Marketing

Tom Guard Search Engine Optimzation Web Design

January 1997 – Present (15 years 2 months) Cleveland - West Palm Beach

Various SEO and Website design jobs.
- Built Town of Palm Beach Golf Website
- Built sites for union officials
- Search Engine Optimization on various sites in various industries from Real Estate to Restaurant Construction.
- Edgy video and viral marketing
- Affiliate Marketing
- Blogger

Volunteer Web Designer and Webmaster

Palm Beach Centennial

November 2009 – April 2011 (1 year 6 months)

Designed and maintained the website for the Town of Palm Beach Centennial Commission. 700 hours of volunteer work.

Editor/Copywriter for VOD website

Galaxy Internet Group

October 2006 – April 2009 (2 years 7 months)

Write original keyword rich copy for retail website.Worked on two VOD projects as copywriter and video editor. Trained new employees on VOD software. Test and recommend new time-saving techniques with editing software. Come up with extremely creative tags or meta data on VOD site for proper search engine optimization. Won employee of the month in less than a year.

Bus Driver

Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; FGROF; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry

March 1999 – August 2006 (7 years 6 months)

Drove buses and did various website work for the union. Trained new employees. Received many awards for safety.

Kent State University

Advertising, Creative Writing, Psychology

1991 – 1998

Was experimenting with the internet when "Bigfoot" was a search engine...lol

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Interests:

New technology, new SEO techniques, reading, fishing, comedy clubs, jokes, youtube, social networking and social marketing. Wishing Cleveland would win a championship in a major sport. (Not curling or shuffle board.)

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