Tony Colan Call Me at 800-250-3707

Current

• Sales Director at Marchex Voice Services

Past

• Owner/Founder at ALDnet Media Group (Wholesale411.com)
• Business Development at Worknet Communications

Education

• John Carroll University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Tony Colan

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• Marchex.com

Tony Colan Call Me at 800-250-3707’s Summary

Strong start-up sales, management and marketing experience in click and call based advertising.

Tony Colan Call Me at 800-250-3707’s Specialties:

Call tracking, PPC sales, direct response marketing, Internet strategy, online advertising, contextual advertising, partnerships, sales, online marketing, online affiliate programs. Wireless technology and applications, strategy, sales. Conference speaking, networking, and deal making. Pay per click, pay per call, local search, blogging, RSS, Blog Networks, syndication strategies. SMO, social media optimization, widgets, widget advertising, Voicestar, Marchex, IVR, call measurement.

Tony Colan Call Me at 800-250-3707’s Experience

• Sales Director

  Marchex Voice Services

  (Public Company; MCHX; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Marchex Voice services is the leader in call tracking, Pay Per Call, Click-to-Call, Form-to-Phone and proxy based dynamic number replacement technologies that are used by SEO/SEM firms, direct marketers, lead generation firms, online directories and PPC portals as well as yellow page publishers online and offline. In my first full year I generated over $700,000.00 in recurring billable contracts.

• Owner/Founder

  ALDnet Media Group (Wholesale411.com)

  (Internet industry)

  February 2002 — October 2007 (5 years 9 months)

  Founded a pay per click search directory and developed leading edge bid management, budgeting and distribution software that allowed us to become a top 1000 ranked Alexa website in a short period. Our ppc directory site revenues were derived from acquiring direct advertisers and securing high quality publisher/distribution partners for our XML feed of advertisers as well as working with Overture(Yahoo)'s backfill. Our average click prices were consistently in the .50 range. In 2005, I sold the Intellectual Property and code to Liquidity Services Inc, which then went public. During this period and shortly after, I owned or managed the following web properties: Wholesale.com, Wholesale411.com, Fishingsupply.com, Adimpact.com, Blogster.com, Greasy.com and FranchiseNetworks.com.

• Business Development

  Worknet Communications

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  November 1999 — June 2002 (2 years 8 months)

  Business development for 2.4GHZ and 5.8 GHZ ISM Wireless Point-to-multipoint wirless Internet provider. Last mile/First mile solutions, roof rights acquisition.

Tony Colan Call Me at 800-250-3707’s Education

• John Carroll University

  BA , English , 1989 — 1993

  St. Ignatius High School 1985-1989
  College Prep.

  Activities and Societies:

  Green Gator Rugby Club
  Football Manager

Additional Information

Tony Colan Call Me at 800-250-3707’s Websites:

• Marchex.com

Tony Colan Call Me at 800-250-3707’s Interests:

Walleye Fishing on Lake Erie, starting online businesses, Internet research and search technologies.

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