Alicia Navarro's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

I am a passionate tech entrepreneur, with a background in product management of web and mobile applications. I love coming up with product ideas, and making them happen. I have an instinct for making quick decisions, and thrive in an agile iterative development environment. I am the CEO and Founder of Skimlinks (www.skimlinks.com) - the leading content monetisation service for online publishers. We work with thousands of sites around the world: blogs, newspapers, content sites, blogging platforms, forums, social shopping, web apps... Skimlinks helps sites earn referral income from the content they write, without requiring any effort, resource, or change to current processes. Its a complete automated solution, with no impact on user experience or editorial integrity. I began my company in 2006, in a very different guise. It began life as skimbit.com (now called SkimIt.com) - a social decision-making tool that helped friends share and make group decisions. I then evolved it to Skim-in-a-box - a white-label of the social decision-making tool. It was while trying to monetize the user-generated content on SkimIt.com and Skim-in-a-box that we came up with the concept of Skimlinks, and in November 2008 Skimlinks was launched as a stand-alone solution aimed at online publishers. Skimlinks - and related monetization add-ons - is the sole focus of my company now. Since launch, we have won dozens of international awards for Skimlinks' innovation, technical sophistication, and customer service. Besides running Skimlinks, I love giving back to the tech community that helped me when I first started: mentoring, networking, and meeting other inspiring people.CEO & Founder @ In 2008, Alicia's company - Skimbit Ltd - launched Skimlinks http://skimlinks.com. It is a service that helps publishers make money from affiliate marketing with no technical or administrative effort. Publishers sign up for free, and add a piece of code to their site template. Then Skimlinks converts URLs on the publisher's site into their respective affiliate link equivalent, on-the-fly. With 20,000 integrated merchants and 35 global affiliate networks, unique support for non-deeplinking merchants, and high conversion rates, Skimlinks is a simple solution for large and small publishers wanting to add an incremental revenue stream with no risk or cost. Skimlinks goal is to change the way publishers monetise their content, so they are rewarded for the role they play in purchase intent generation. Skimlinks has won many awards in 2009, including: A4U AWARDS | Innovative Affiliate of the Year 2009 A4U AWARDS | Best New Entrant in Affiliate Marketing 2009 A4U AWARDS | Best Use of Technology within Affiliate Marketing 2009 NMA AWARDS | Best New Business 2009 NMA AWARDS | Special Award for Technological Innovation 2009 GOLDEN LINK AWARDS RUNNERS UP | Best New Publisher 2009 GOLDEN LINK AWARDS RUNNERS UP | Technology Genius Award 2009 From November 2008 to Present (7 years 2 months) CEO & Founder @ Alicia founded Skimbit Ltd in 2006. The first product launched was Skimbit.com, a social decision-making tool for people making group decisions. http://skimbit.com Skimbit then launched Skim-in-a-box, which is the white-label version of Skimbit.com, that publishers can add to their site. Skimbit Ltd was selected for Web Mission 08 as one of the top UK-based startups. From 2006 to 2008 (2 years) Business Development Manager - Online Advertising @ I was responsible for the monetization of Fairfax Business Media's online properties. This includes the Australian Financial Review (afr.com), Business Review Weekly (brw.com.au) and other financial titles. I identified and deployed an advertising platform, integrated it with a distributed ad sales team, set up and trained a traffic management group, and negotiated terms with an ad inventory planning platform. From May 2007 to September 2007 (5 months) Consultant - Mobile Solutions @ Designed mobile business applications for various clients, including Nokia, Optus and Commonwealth Bank. From February 2006 to May 2007 (1 year 4 months) Head of Products @ I designed, built and deployed a collection of mobile business applications, including Email, IM, Salesforce, and Travel Management. I negotiated terms with large content providers and phone manufacturers, and managed a team of developers and suppliers around the world. I designed and deployed a self-provisioning and self-managing web interface, allowing businesses to manage corporate accounts and multiple users. From 2004 to 2005 (1 year) Global Product Manager @ Designed and launched products across 26 countries, including portal personalisation, content integration, and content rendering technologies. From 2001 to 2004 (3 years) Consultant @ From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Information Technology, University Medallist @ University of Technology Sydney From 1996 to 1998 Alicia Navarro is skilled in: Product Management, E-commerce, Affiliate Marketing, Start-ups, Online Advertising, Entrepreneurship, Online Marketing, Integrated Marketing, User Experience, Management, SEO, Social Media, Business Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Business Development