Being the trailblazing iconoclasts that we are, we decided to buck the recessionary trend and do some hiring. Joining citrus Portland this month are:
Steve Klinetobe, Associate Creative Director. Steve co-founded Portland’s Curiosity Group, an agency that plans, builds and evaluates content for some the worlds largest brands—HP, SEGA, Dreamworks, Microsoft, to name a few. Steve is a bit of a Renaissance man whose skills span strategy, digital design, content development and actual, bona fide advertising. He also likes monkeys.
Keely Phillips, Account Manager. Keely comes from Portland’s HereNow agency where she was Project Manager on Nike. Prior positions include Event Marketing Brand Manager at Chicago’s Alli (Alliance of Action Sports via NBC Sports / MTV Networks) where she managed the national Dew Tour, and marketing positions with the Portland Trail Blazers and Global Spectrum (Rose Garden Arena and Memorial Coliseum).
Ali Swaim is our newest Account Coordinator. She hails from Bend’s DVA Advertising where she was Traffic Director and Account Coordinator.
Tracy White is citrus’ new Marketing Director and will be working with us to ensure that we are providing the best marketing services for all of our existing and potential clients. Tracy comes from Entercom Portland. Entercom is one of the five largest radio-broadcasting companies in the United States. (In case you didn’t already know.)
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I admit it. I am in it for the money. OK, I do get pleasure out of making smart, effective marketing communications programs. But, lets face it, if I won $400,000,000 in the lottery I'd be, um, writing this from Provence.
So, in between buying tickets (full disclosure: one of our clients is a state lottery so I am a user), I think about making money.
Dylan Boyd of EROI passed on this post today from [Jason Baptiste] about how to use email newsletters to make moolah. Its a great read. Hey, where was Groupon with its huge valuation a couple of years ago?
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