Josh Dahmes
Vice President/Director of Online Marketing
Hired: November, 2005
Education:
- University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management - BSB in Marketing
Life Before Risdall:
* 2002-2005, Online Advertising Manager at Ciceron, Minneapolis
* 2001-2002, Project Manager of Internet Marketing at MARKnETING, St. Paul
* 1999-2001, Project Manager of Internet Marketing at iPares (Dillon New Media), Minneapolis
* 1998-1999, Affiliate Marketing Specialist at NetRadio, Minneapolis
Tools of the Trade:
Josh brings a wide variety of skills to RAA including: extensive search marketing optimization (organic and sponsored) experience, online media buying, affiliate marketing, web analytics and a focus on ROI/ROAS/Performance.
I Couldn't Have Been Prouder:
Some of the most memorable events in Josh's life include the birth of son, Braeden Joshua, his wedding day, closing on a first house, his wife's completion of her graduate thesis, bowling a 267 game (!) and ejecting an entire basketball team while refereeing an intramural college basketball game.
Sweet!
Favorite candy at Risdall? Nerds! (The Wild Cherry ones with lemon coating.)
Beyond 9 to 5:
Favorite activities include volleyball, poker, Minnesota Vikings (and football in general,) dancing, wine, reading (classics and science fiction) and "24."
A Job Well Done:
Josh can cite a number of significant marketing achievements including: * Managing and optimizing a client's paid search program to a level of success which required them to shut down their marketing efforts so that they could catch up on fulfilling their current orders - which included seven straight months of record sales.
* Launching an online media buy for a client targeting a niche online audience. The results far exceeded expectations and broke records for most leads being generated to that specific product in any specific time period.
* Planning and launching a paid search program for a large offline retailer to drive store traffic and increase sales. Client launched in test mode, but quickly more than doubled the initial spend budget to capitalize on overwhelming results achieved in just two months.
Risdall Believe It or Not!
Amazing as it seems, Josh claims to have never eaten a fast food burger