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Interactive Agency Experience: Social Media content development & Online Brand Reputation Management services for National Retail Clients including:

NEW! Current role!

Social Media Strategist for SAAS Web Start-up EZWebplayer.com

Blog, Twitter & Amazon store setup, graphics & coaching for lifestyle / interest blog Karmatarian.org

(Food photography by Richard A. Bouchez)

Nozumi Japanese Cuisine, South Barrington: Blog & Twitter accounts setup and multimedia shoot including “how to” and about videos.

Vist the Nozumi Blog

Visit Nozumi’s page on Twitter

View the Nozumi Web video: HOW TO make a Nozumi Forbidden Roll

(Shot & edited by Richard A. Bouchez)

Delidirect.com Blog & Twitter account creation and multimedia shoot including “Cooler Tour” and “About” videos

Visit the Delidirect blog

Visit the Delidirect Twitter page

Watch the COOLER TOUR, shot and edited by Richard A. Bouchez

10/2009 SEO SEM & SOCIAL MEDIA BASICS Slideshare presented with MicroshareLLC for the Barrington Chamber of Commerce (VIDEO coming soon).

Seminar Notes
I presented on Social Media Marketing slides 38 to 43. Other sections break down as follows: SEO slides 5 to 9, SEM Adwords / PPC slides 10 to 23, Stats / trends (cost per click and click through rates) slides 24 to 36, 10 steps to success for keywords slide 37, Social Media

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Engaging new media projects deliver targeted ads and affiliate marketing directly to niche audiences.

TwitterFunny.com

InovediaMarketing

Karmatarian BETA

RichandDaveShow

NCgoGreen

PintsizedSports

Raleigh.MyNC.com

BouchezGalleries.com

Social network build MyNC.com

Blogs

Politics

Classified ads

Music

Community news, calendar, features (cities, towns, etc.)

Mouse over to browse MyNC.com site examples, direct mail, promo materials and more. >>>

$400k Studio Build: Multi-platform reporting environment

COS / WXFN custom kiosk project
Relevant real-time weather information delivered right to travelers. *Ad supported.
WXFN.com (offline)
A forward thinking online weather channel that saw personalization as a key driver in future.
WeatherFirstNow channel 9
Colorado’s first hyper local weather channel!

SpringsResource.com
	Retail “one stop shop” with prefered search and other tiered services.

NewsFirst Email Newsletter
	Automated content delivery to subscribers. *Ad supported.

KOAA site redesign 2003
Award winning design featuring top story video & wx.

Extensive multimedia production experience
Including projects with: The Chicago Bears, Entertainment Tonight, The Chris Zorich Foundation, Chicago Juvenile Protection Agency, The Olympic Training Center and many Television & Radio stations across the country.
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MEMORABLE MULTIMEDIA

NOTE: Please click here for my TELEVISION PROMO BRANDING REELS, below you will find creative AUDIO / VIDEO ideas & suggestions from my archive.

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ADD VALUE WITH HOW TO VIDEOS

IDEA: St. Patty’s Day UGC

Simple, clean & clever:

Commercial for NCgoGreen.com

Educate & compel:

Facebook Investigation

Post something cool: Timelapse

Cut through creative:

The New 7Pm News

Over the top & fun!

Controversial: Clear Cutting Promo

Branding via metaphor on radio:

Click here to view my Demo Reels

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Richard Bouchez

►New Media Marketer & Creative Director, 2008 – Present

InovediaMarketing.com: New Media Management, Development & Creative Services

Tinley Park, Illinois

Interactive Ad Agency Experience: Full-time client facing role engaging fans on behalf of nationwide home improvement retailer with home offices in over 35 markets. *please contact for details.

• Manage Twitter & Facebook content using Hootsuite to schedule tweets & status updates.
• Daily monitoring and reporting using social media listening platform Radian6. Recommend & implement customer service oriented actions against complaints & negative posts.
• Execute aggressive brand reputation management initiatives working closely with agency management, Yelp.com, Radian6, Knowem.com and in-house marketing team. Discover & report Facebook pages infringing on copyright.

• Actively grow & manage social media accounts using tools such as Tweepi & directories such as WeFollow.com.
• Also tweeting & Facebooking on behalf of agency and beauty industry clients. Assist sales in the development of competitive analysis reports for New Business Presentations & pitches.

Web Start-up Experience: Social Media Specialist for Online Video Player (SAAS).*please contact for details

• Develop & execute Social Media Marketing systems, blogging best practices and Linkedin.com marketing strategy to meet objectives including lead generation and affiliate marketing program support.
• Manage blog.EZWebplayer.com
• Designing and implementation of Customer Service oriented social media campaign to build online branding & content creation initiatives for growing social media fans & driving blog traffic.
• Implement SEO best practices such as keyword tagging and link building.
• Develop streamlined solutions for updating blogs and numerous social media sites simultaneously via RSS, email, Ping.fm, SocialOomph.com and others.

Blogger & New Media Development:

Create engaging online products & including blogs, such as InovediaMarketing.com/blog and social media content streams. Write targeted blog posts. Highly successful in driving views to from 0 to 25k in 12 months using only social media marketing tactics including Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Stumbleupon & Digg. Design intuitive user interfaces that are simple & effective using WordPress, HTML and Adobe products. Monitor site traffic using Google Analytics.

►Director of Marketing / Creative Services, 2006 – 2008

MyNC.com Social Network, NBC17-TV & Weather Plus ch219

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina

Lead marketer for executive team implementing a new social networking concept that ties together local blogs, news resources and classified ads as MyNC.com. Core initiatives: User Generated Video & photo sharing, custom Content Management System concept, aggregation of blogs & classified ads and niche site development of PintsizedSports.com, NCgogreen.com and NCpolitcs08.com among others. Community Development initiatives: identifying strategic partnerships with new & existing blogs, blogger meet and greets, community ascertainments, launch events and training for local businesses bloggers on shooting, editing & uploading video. Build & launch: Identify vendor and custom Content Management System supporting: personalization, “Google-like” widgets, strategic partners and ad integration. Lead responsibilities: logo design, creation of marketing materials including direct mail campaign that exceeded expectations delivering 1^st month sales in excess of 50% of direct mail production costs. Determine new media SWOTs, identify unique sales opportunities and aggressive guerrilla marketing strategies. Combined marketing budget of over $1million.

Manage all NBC television affiliate brand, marketing & promotional efforts including implementation of new station graphics, branding initiatives and music packages. Turned around a department whose processes and equipment had been neglected for years. Reinvigorated and refocused staff into a team that strives to execute with excellence. Executive Producer responsible for all station image, sweeps & topical promos. Oversee event promotion and marketing plans supporting sales initiatives such as: Health & Fitness Festival (annual attendance 40k) and Tree of Lights (30k). Responsible for department budget & hiring.

►Director of Creative Services, 2003 – 2006

NBC 5/30, KOAA.com, WFN cable channel 9

WeatherFirstNow.com & SpringsResource.com

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Responsible for branding and marketing of NBC Affiliate, #1 local news product and numerous brand extension products including Colorado’s first local 24-hour weather channel and SpringsResource.com. Develop long range strategic objectives to grow brands and awareness of television channels across multiple platforms including: broadcast, web, radio, cable television, newspaper, and billboards. Work closely with local sales team designing and implementing online revenue generating initiatives.

Responsible for department budget and network /syndicated co-op dollars, training, hiring and building a strong team of 4 full-time creative professionals as well as 2 part-timers. Approved and revised scripts working with staff to improve production values station-wide. Served as Art Director re-designing station graphics giving new updated look to outdated station-branding package. Implement new traffic system and control on-air inventory.

ADVERTISING & PROMOTIONS WRITER / PRODUCER

ABC / WLS Chicago, Illinois 2003

CBS / WBBM Chicago, Illinois 2001 – 2002

NBC / WMAQ Chicago, Illinois 1999 – 2001

WPBF West Palm Beach, Florida 1998 – 1999

NBC / WMAQ Chicago, Illinois 1998

Promotion Intern ABC / WLS-TV Chicago, Illinois

EDUCATION

BRADLEY UNIVERSITY, Peoria, Illinois 1998

► Bachelors of Science in Communication

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Branding Reel NBC 17, Raleigh- Durham NC

Promo Reel Chicago: WLS-TV, WBBM, etc.

Branding Reel KOAA-TV 2005, Colorado Springs CO

Branding Reel WFN9 2005, Colorado Springs CO

Memorable?

A controversial topic… a unique creative approach