Highly motivated, creative and versatile sales professional with 10+ years of experience and 8+ years experience in business development and account management. Result-oriented and able to constantly meet or exceed defined revenue objectives. Demonstrated experience in building strong business relationships with prospects; proven ability to provide creative and flexible solutions to sales challenges and to quickly adapt to market and company change. Specialties: Extensive experience selling SaaS model E-commerce technologies, CRM and complimentary enterprise systems to online merchants. Mobile commerce, E-commerce, online marketing and advertising, performance marketing, SEO, SEM, CSE, CPC, CPA, PPC and CPM marketing, data feeds, shopping feeds, affiliate marketing, social media compliance sales and business development. Technology start-ups, and technology sales.

Business Development, Merchant Services Fashion and Apparel Category @ Amazon Services’ Business Development organization connects the technology powering Amazon.com to businesses worldwide. We are responsible for establishing new business partnerships with sellers who wish to utilize Amazon’s suite of e-commerce solutions. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Greater Seattle AreaSales Manager @ Launched in early 2008, BrandVerity provides services that detect online brand and trademark abuse. The technology investments made by infringers have drastically outpaced the investments by brand owners. We intend to change that. Our services are simple, straightforward and extremely good at what they do. PoachMark, our first service, detects affiliate abuse of paid search policies. The service captures some of the most sophisticated techniques employed by trademark poachers and surfaces actionable information to our customers. BrandVerity's Social Media Compliance service monitors twitter, public facebook status updates and the landing pages associated with each link found on those services to provide proactive compliance tools for brand managers, affiliate managers and legal compliance teams. BrandVerity Coupon Code Monitoring tool allows you to easily: Find affiliates posting unauthorized coupons Identify custom coupon codes on unauthorized sites Alert when expired codes are still displayed on affiliate sites Efficiently contact affiliates posting disallowed codes Track the rollout of new coupons and reach out to affiliates that haven't yet posted your updated coupons We are discovering and implementing more use cases all the time From May 2012 to February 2013 (10 months) Greater Seattle AreaRegional Sales Manager @ Mercent is a leading provider of online channel marketing technology and services for retailers. Through its award-winning Mercent Retail™ SAAS technology and Mercent Performance™ professional services, Mercent helps the world’s most successful online merchants including 1-800-Flowers, Bass Pro Shops, Brookstone, GUESS?, L'Occitane USA, Redcats Group, and REI optimize online shopping channel marketing campaigns to drive customer acquisition, revenues, profits, and inventory velocity. From April 2008 to April 2012 (4 years 1 month) Greater Seattle AreaBusiness Development/ Sales Manager @ Seattle based startup. Hired to create mPoria's sale process for its now market-leading GoMobile! m-Commerce technology. Helped executive management build in-house sales team; team grew sales 300% quarter-over-quarter to exceed company’s 2007 sales targets. Developed and managed sales marketing materials to train new hires. Responsibilities also include customer support efforts, executing strategic programs to drive broad retailer awareness of mPoria and its unique technology, and customer education. From January 2007 to April 2008 (1 year 4 months) Sr. Account Executive @ Advised and consulted mortgage and agent brokerages on business and revenue growth strategies. Presented and sold House Value’s software solutions, lead service packages, marketing materials, and web based CRM’s. From September 2005 to January 2007 (1 year 5 months) Sr. Loan Officer @ Assisted borrowers through end-to-end refinance and home buying process. Assessed and determined appropriate loan program for consumer’s individual needs while providing counsel on long- and short-term financial goals. From March 2004 to November 2005 (1 year 9 months) District Manager/ Regional Trainer @ Head of sales operations and customer relations. Responsible for developing and managing sales training seminars to equip and prepare new hires. Recognized as one of the top 50 sales reps nationwide in 2002 and Top trainer in Pacific Division for 2003. From March 2002 to March 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Ernest III is skilled in: Sales, Comparison Shopping Engines, Affiliate Marketing, Web Analytics, Account Management, Digital Marketing, Customer Acquisition, Google Adwords, Conversion Optimization, Display Advertising, Mobile Marketing, Social Media Marketing, B2B, Google Analytics, Search Advertising, PPC, E-commerce, Strategic Partnerships, Online Marketing