The challenge was differentiating American Eagle Outfitters from its competitors in the teen specialty retail space as well as keeping all social media channels fresh and unique to increase followers, engagement and traffic to the website.

The previous marketing agency was developing a ton of pages and providing blog assets, but after four years, they just couldn't deliver in developing actionable leads. So when taking over the customer, we had to rebuild the customer website, build out an email campaign and work on programs that make the phones ring.

• Defining the global media strategy and playbook based on business goals for Existing and New customers through direct and indirect channels using ATL-BTL media. Supervising the execution of media campaigns to drive growth for the business through media, launching new products and services across 16 different markets integrated with CRM and Sales. 
• Defining customer segmentation and audience-data strategy; identifying personas, and segments, user journey and selection of media-data-channels to target.
• Driving growth and improving conversion rate by planning testing roadmaps through paid and owned channels and data sources: Paid social / Facebook and Linkedin, Programmatic display, ABM, Paid search, email marketing automation (Pardot) and landing pages.
• Reporting and success measurement: Standardizing ways to measure success through the whole funnel, identifying metrics and set of media and performance reports.
• Driving digital transformation by developing media training, generating content and presenting it live and via mobile app formats, focused in 2 main areas: Media planning (process-focused) and media strategy (strategy-focused) delivered to 22 local markets.

1. Bringing a product to market requires months of strategy and research into the target market. Slinger Bag hit the market for the first time with their portable tennis ball launcher, so our understanding of the U.S. tennis player and general consumer sports goods market was imperative. The product was also set to launch in the U.K, which required a separate strategy.  
2. Generating brand awareness, especially for a new brand, requires an essential mix of paid search and social campaigns and an effectively designed landing page to optimize traffic for sales. 
3. COVID-19 initially shut down manufacturing and continued to add unforeseen manufacturing and shipping delays throughout 2020