Greg started Visionary View in early 2006 with the goal of providing new media business development to emerging organizations with fascinating products. Drawing from a background of evaluating new technologies and market opportunities while identifying strategic partnerships and potential targets for acquisition, Greg has yielded success monitoring deal integration while ensuring maximum value and revenue growth.
Greg's hands on business development and product management experience includes VZ Navigator, Verizon Wireless mobile location based services (LBS) application, adding a new revenue stream generated from media partnerships with Tribune Media, Citysearch, YellowPages.com, Ask, Casale Media and Ingenio resulting in a 300% increase of paid subscribers.
Greg was also brought on board to develop and launch Local.com -- a local search site from scratch.
Local.com generated 4.4M unique visitors in 3 months and was ranked The Fastest Growing Internet Site by Comscore. Additionally Greg developed a new syndication revenue stream utilizing a “white label” local search hosted platform allowing regional publishers to add local search to their site.
Other milestones include e-commerce experience covering 60K+ products, “virtually” managing the local search optimization and online listing management of 45 retail locations- eventually generating a 120% revenue increase in online sales in just 12 months.
Greg's award winning work has been recognized with Merit awards from AT&T and Macy's , featured on CNN,
Entrepreneur Magazine and Tech TV. Greg holds a B.A. Degree in Political Science from the University of Canterbury, is a Google Adwords Professional (GAP), a Certified Internet Marketing Consultant (CIMC) and a Certiport IC³ credential.
Michael has been a pioneer in the eCommerce industry since 1999 establishing the first public drop off points for eBay, Amazon & Yahoo. Over the years, he has met with hundreds of small business owners and entrepreneurs who faced many challenges in their businesses. Almost 90% of small businesses fail in the first five years, some never get started at all.
Michael would like to change those statistics for the better and today he consults with a variety of business owners and entrepreneurs to support them in their endeavors.
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