Lynford Saldanha, Online Marketing Manager

Lynford Saldanha

Online Marketing Manager

Growth Solutions

Location
India
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Statistics
Experience
14 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months

Online Marketing Manager at Growth Solutions
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since October 2014

Marketing for B2CJewels.com an online jewelry retail website.

My task included the following:

1. Planning and Strategising - planning the day to day activities related to execution of SEO, SMO and online reputation management projects.
2. Exploring - Exploring new websites and to build a partnership to increase business and revenue.
2. Budgeting - Looking into budgets of each project, making sure to complete the project in the lowest cost.
3. Recruiting and Training - Interviewing right candidate as and when required and training them to align with the goals and vision of the organization
4. Reporting - Generating daily, weekly and monthly reports to be presented to the respective stake holders.
5. Evaluating - Evaluating the performance of the team members on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis. Suggesting solutions to improve on the performance and setting goals.
6. Team meeting - Daily, weekly and monthly updates to plan and discuss hurdles.

Team Leader at Ugam
  • India - Mumbai
  • August 2011 to October 2014

Role:

• Plan, recommend, prepare and oversee business development strategies for current and potential clients
• Participating in client meetings and pitches
• Ensure a high quality and consistent service delivery across the marketing team, with a rigorous approach to managing work schedules, reporting and managing change
• Work across multiple projects with an active involvement in managing available resources and capacity
• Ensure first class reporting on campaign performance across all our active services to our clients
• Continuous review, improvement and development of our digital services
• Suggest digital marketing strategy, including content marketing and social media activity
• Share your experience and knowledge by coaching and developing team members
• Liaise with clients throughout active campaigns
• Produce detailed performance reports & presentations where necessary
• Attend / speak at internal events

Achievement:

• Increased conversion of sales related projects by offering 360 degree insights with respect to ROI comparison
• Collaborated on award winning internal tools to create a single platform to identify efforts of sales, business development and internal team
• Managed and identified social media opportunities to engage fans, launched Facebook promotional campaigns, develop video marketing to increase performance and rankings

Senior Executive at Eclerx
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2010 to June 2011

Role:

• Perform keyword research in coordination with client business objectives to optimize existing content and uncover new opportunities Provide SEO analysis and recommendations in coordination with elements and structure of websites and web pages
• Provide recommendations and execute/manage strategies for content development in coordination with SEO goals - general and keyword specific
• Help to create and support marketing content to socialize and use for social media purposes (e.g. customer videos briefs, customer case studies, blog posts, posts from analysts and customers)
• Develop and implement link building campaigns
• Develop, manage and execute communication/content strategies via social communities in coordination with client goals
• Implement and administer search engine programs (XML sitemaps, shopping feeds, webmaster tools)
• Monitor and evaluate search results and search performance across the major search channels in order to improve rankings
• Monitor and evaluate web analytics dashboards and reports in order to develop and recommend SEO strategies
• Communication with team and management on project development, timelines, and results

Achievement:

• Awarded the best team member for 2 times in a span of 1 year
• Help reduce the time taken to compile ranking data across various geo locations with the help of macros.

Executive at Pinstorm
  • India - Mumbai
  • June 2009 to January 2010

Role:

• Keyword research, text ad creation, image ad ideas, bid management & USP comparison with competitors
• Analysis on various factors of campaign including online and offline ads
• Handled campaigns like HSBC NRI, HSBC Savings, dhfl UK, Greenpeace India, GoAir, etc
• Helping SEO to improve quality by off page activities like bookmarking & content optimization
• Assisted in campaign handling on Google, Yahoo & MSN

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Statistics
  • at Sterling Institute of Teaching
  • June 2006

B.Ed courses have become mandatory for people who are aiming to teach in the higher primary schools and high schools. To enter into these courses, the minimum educational qualification is Bachelor in arts, science or commerce, according to which the interested candidates can go for teaching in respective streams. Those with educational background of arts can go for teaching in history, civics, geography, and languages. Students of science stream can teach mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. With background of bachelor in commerce, the students can teach economics and other commerce subjects. Courses being monitored - National Council for Teacher Education is the highest statutory body regulating teaching education in India. With the introduction of B.Ed and M.Ed courses and an integrated course of Bachelor of Elementary Education or B.El.Ed, wholesome and professionally qualified elementary teachers are possible to be recruited. These are meant to increase the subject knowledge, human development, pedagogical capabilities and communication skills in incumbent students.

Bachelor's degree, Statistics
  • at K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce
  • May 2003

Statistics plays a vital role in every fields of human activity. Statistics has important role in determining the existing position of per capita income, unemployment, population growth rate, housing, schooling medical facilities etc…in a country. Now statistics holds a central position in almost every field like Industry, Commerce, Trade, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Mathematics, Biology, Botany, Psychology, Astronomy etc…, so application of statistics is very wide.

Specialties & Skills

Digital Marketing
Business Development
New Business Development
Pre sales
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ADVERTISING
AUTOMATION
BUDGETING
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Affiliate Marketing
Google Web Console
MS Office
Training
Social Media Optimization
Pay Per Click
Search Engine Optimization
Email Marketing
Google Analytics
Digital Marketing
pre sales

Languages

English
Expert

Hobbies

  • Cricket
  • Swimming