Shane Bridges

Responsibilities:
• Monitor all company social media and forum accounts as well as customer reactions on outside social media channels.
• Create, post and evaluate communication through all social media and forum channels.
• Produce unique social media promotions to engage customers through social media.
• Provide a public face and open communication channel for players through social media, forums, email and
Skype.
• Represent the brand at both conferences and private client meetings.
• Monitor and maintain tournaments & promotions in our backend software.
Achievements:
• Increased brand awareness and maintain customer confidence under increasingly difficult circumstances.
• Increased Facebook post reach by 750% in the first two months solely through engaging organic posts.
• Increased Facebook timeline visits by 650% in the first month in this role
• Oversaw the fulfilment of over $700, 000 in promotions.

Responsible for managing marketing, advertising and promotional staff and activities for a large services club that incorporates multiple restaurants, cafes and bars, entertainment including live music and gaming as well as 2 gyms.

Takes steps to measure, enhance, and enrich the position and image of a company through multiple mediums including internet, radio, print and B2B networking.

• Plan marketing and branding objectives.
• Expand product solutions and offerings.
• Prepare marketing strategies alongside other company executives and staff.
• Analyze market trends and recommend changes to marketing and business development strategies based on analysis and feedback.
• Prepare and adhere to budgets.
• Oversee creation and delivery of press releases, advertisements, and other marketing materials.
• Design print ads and publications.
• Ensure brand messages are consistent.
• Gather and analyze customer insight.
• Nurture and enrich all external perceptions of the company and growth of market share.
• Engage consumers on social media.
• Deepen relationships with all media to ensure the most effective messaging and positioning of the organization.
• Lead all areas of content generation and production across all media platforms.
• Take calculated risks based on data-driven analytics.
• Drive overall CRM and direct marketing.
• Engage other organizations within the community.
• Collaborate with sales and sourcing to develop strategic partnership activities and implement the execution framework and strategic plan on identified opportunities.
• Develop and lead a marketing team that will develop and execute new concepts, business models, channels and partners to position business as innovator and leader.

Responsibilities:
• Daily affiliate management including basic communication, account management and complex dispute resolutions.
• Monitoring and development of affiliate performance including recruitment and reactivation of affiliates.
• Liaise with development & marketing teams providing relevant feedback for product development.
• Attend conferences representing the company with both clients and suppliers.
• Produce content and deliver regular bulk mailers to update and vitalise affiliates.
Achievements:
• Increased new affiliates by 83% in the first 6 months in the role.
• Systematically engaged and reactivated existing affiliates through personal communication.
• Ran a successful weekly bulk mailer with a 20.54% Open Rate over 12 months, well above the Mail Chimp
benchmark for the gambling industry of 18.72%.
• Regularly took meetings with prospective new clients and closed on deals to bring them on-board.
• Met with suppliers and successfully negotiated new terms for our relationship.

Responsibilities:
• Follow up on leads and source new business.
• Liaise with new clients facilitating the migration progress to our backend and games systems.
• Perform role of client services manager for a portfolio of clients.
• Represent the brand at both conferences and private client meetings.
Achievements:
• Successfully managed 16 clients including day-to-day operations as well as negotiating new terms and in some cases terminating contracts.
• Negotiated terms and closed contracts for 7 new clients as well as managing integrating their poker room into our system getting their rooms operational and training all staff in our systems.
• Instigated and negotiated a successful merger of two brands to save a room (and its players money) that was unable to meet its debts.

Responsibilities:
• Basic affiliate management as above in the similar role at Lock Poker.
• Creation of marketing materials for affiliates.
• Evaluation and restructuring of the affiliate program including both the visual and functional aspects.
• Participation in the recruitment and training of new employees.
Achievements:
• Achieved a $62, 567 turnaround in monthly profit in my affiliate group turning a $18, 559 monthly loss to a $43, 968 monthly profit in 10 months.
• Oversaw over $1 million in gross gaming through my affiliate group through those 10 months.
• Was the only staff member to hit bonus targets every single month of the life of our staff bonus program.
• Negotiated terms on a successful partnership with PokerNews.com which included a large promotion
culminating in 7 players from America winning trips to Melbourne for a live tournament where I also hosted the players.

Responsibilities:
• Writing original content for both websites and marketing materials including press releases.
• Monitor and maintain player forums & liaise personally with players.
• Host players at live events and act as media liaison for the brand at tournaments and conferences.
• Create concepts for and design print advertisements.
• Source and design all marketing merchandise.
• Manage merchandise store.
Achievements:
• Wrote most of the early content for the Poker.com website some of which is live 7 years later such as the Poker Pro section.
• Created from the ground up a VIP store where players could purchase branded items with points earned from play. This included both the design of items as well as sourcing of items from both local & Chinese suppliers.
• Organised and hosted several live event trips for players including booking flights and accommodation and then
supporting players at the event in Crown Casino as well as organising excursions for the players away from the casino and acting as a 24/7 concierge for the players.

Responsibilities:
• Pre-press and print production for digital, offset, screen and large format printing.
• Correct provided artwork to meet printing requirements.
• Create new artwork for printing from client brief.
• Manipulate existing client art for new applications and printing formats.
• Produce negative film for screen and offset printing.
• Operate Roland large format print and cut machine.
• Manage digital data and client files.
• Liaise with walk in customers in both a sales and support function.