Richie Hannah
Digital Strategy & Marketing, Web Development, Design, Social Media & Mobile, Marketing and Advertising
Richie Hannah: CEO & Founder of Yellow Cap Media - previously at GreatCall/Jitterbug, Jenny Craig, Nestle, Provide Commerce & ProFlowers.
Richie Hannah's Bio:
Richie Hannah's Experience:
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Founder & CEO at Yellow Cap Media
February 2014 - Present | Southern California -
Director of Digital Marketing at GreatCall
September 2012 - February 2014GreatCall is the inventor of the Jitterbug cell phone for aging Americans, and has matured rapidly into a growing provider of health and safety services and mobile apps. I was hired to take over digital and app marketing, then expanded my responsibility to also cover website development and operations. From scratch, I built a high-performing internal team, and effectively directed them and several external agencies to accomplish the following: Digital Marketing • From 2012 to 2014, managed and optimized a digital channel blend of paid search, display & mobile advertising, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing and social media marketing, resulting in: • Double-digit % increase in digital advertising impressions and organic search engine traffic • Triple-digit % increase in GreatCall.com monthly traffic and e-commerce sales • Double-digit % reduction in digital cost per sale Website Operations • Replaced legacy process between marketing and technical teams by building a cross-functional team, aligning web, marketing, software, IT systems, billing operations, customer care & sales. • Transitioned from a traditional waterfall development process to an agile scrum environment, increasing project efficiency and accuracy. • Implemented technologies such as Adobe Analytics, Tealium Tag Management and GitHub, to improve web analytics, site performance and development efficiency. • Managed the analysis, design & implementation of a modern, simple ecommerce shopping cart. • Implemented responsive design techniques to optimize key website sections for mobile devices. Mobile App Marketing • Launched MedCoach medication management, 5Star personal safety and Urgent Care medical alert apps on iOS and Android platforms. • Both Urgent Care and MedCoach have been the #1 medical app in both iTunes and Google Play. • Progressively tested mobile advertising networks and agencies to increase app install rate, generating over one million downloads.
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Director of Web Development, Online & App Marketing at GreatCall
November 2011 - June 2012 -
Director of Online and App Marketing at GreatCall
August 2011 - November 2011 -
Director, Web Development & Content at Nestle, Jenny Craig Division
September 2008 - July 2011As a major national brand with 8m+ annual visitors, Jenny Craig's consumer-facing websites are critical to acquiring new and retaining existing customers. I was hired to manage the development and optimization of the company's global web operations, my responsibilities then expanded to cover all web creative & content. o Managed internal team and digital agencies to produce compelling content and functionality to improve conversion of potential clients and delight existing clients in support of marketing strategy. o Overall responsibility for conversion of website visitors to contacts and sales. Increased contacts by +4% in challenging economic environment. This translated to a +7% increase in contacts per visitor, and +7% increase in sales per visitor. o Reduced page response time by -2 seconds (33%) from 2009-2010. Increased availability +0.2% and improved consistency by +37%. o Implemented A/B/n testing framework & success-tracking methodology, then executed iterative testing process which generated over +$5m incremental annual lifetime revenue. o Developed Social Media, Mobile App & Website strategy & implementation o Defined & implemented process throughout web operations to increase quality, improve efficiency and communicate effectively. o Developed & maintained comprehensive, automated web metrics dashboards to trend & understand key web activity, identify top opportunities to increase conversion & improve customer experience, communicate learning to leadership and key stakeholders. o Developed & implemented content hosting & systems ownership strategies. Keywords: Web, Marketing, Strategy, Digital, Conversion, Development, Web Analytics, SEO, Creative, Design, Customer Experience, Usability, UI, Social Media, Mobile, Acquisition, Retention, Content, Process, Site Optimization, AB Testing.
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Director of Web Development at Jenny Craig
September 2008 - June 2010Details above ^
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Web Content Director at ProFlowers/Provide Commerce
1998 - 2008During the 10 years after I joined ProFlowers as employee #4, we experienced rapid growth from startup to leading online flower retailer with highest web conversion in the ecommerce industry (comScore). This required extremely quick evolution in all areas from web scalability to process development, project throughput, team development and web analytics. o Managed team of up to 11 web development, creative and project management professionals to provide efficient, accurate and on-time delivery of over 5,000 web content and creative projects of varied size, complexity and levels of ambiguity. o Worked with over 30 internal clients representing all company departments to define business requirements and design optimal web content solutions. o Managed production of regular marketing emails to 7 million+ customer base with up to 90 individual segmentation cells receiving unique content, products & promotions. o Managed execution of business and time-critical website updates during holiday peaks generating over 700,000 page views and 16,000 orders per hour. o Built all new brand & partner websites, including: www.providecommerce.com (also designed logo & corporate identity); www.cherrymoonfarms.com; www.uptownprime.com; internal company intranet and customer service order tracking interfaces. Co-led web analysis & design of www.redenvelope.com platform migration. o Recommended & implemented a Digital Asset Management System to manage over 30,000 assets with complex categorization and extraction processing requirements. o Developed key web traffic & conversion performance indicators and managed ongoing reporting o Developed Multivariate Testing framework and tracking systems for landing pages and html email - winning landing page design increased page conversion by 13%. o Implemented several site redesigns with A/B split tests across entire site to validate new design with roll back or roll out plan and follow-up testing. Keywords: HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, .NET
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Web Designer at Communicata, Inc
March 1995 - July 1997After teaching myself html by viewing the source code of very early websites, designed and built over 20 websites using proprietary development platform for clients including Sony Europe, the Scottish Qualifications Authority and General Accident Insurance.
Richie Hannah's Education:
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The University of Edinburgh
1991 – 1995BSc -
Hermitage Academy
1985 – 1991
Richie Hannah's Interests & Activities:
Marketing, Advertising, Mobile Apps, Photography, Music Production, Digital Marketing, Online Advertising, SEM, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Adwords, Display, E-Commerce, Web, Marketing, Strategy, Digital, Conversion, Development, Web Analytics, SEO, Creative, Design, Customer Experience, Usability, UI, Social Media, Mobile, Acquisition, Retention, Content, Process, Site Optimization, AB Testing, HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, .NET, Digital operations management - Process development & improvement - User experience & conversion improvement - Metrics & project reporting, #sm #seo #sem #advertising #branding #mobile #apps #social #web #analytics #strategy