7thingsmedia are recruiting!

April (7thingsmedia birth) already seems a million miles away. As I create this post in early July we already have a strong handful of clients including multi-channel retailers, well known brands and new adopters to the online space. Last month I brought in a strong senior recruit bringing Femi Omoluabi from Zed Media as Director of Client Services and I'm delighted to say we are now looking to further strengthen the team with an Account Executive to join 7thingsmedia.

We're a very passionate start up digital agency and believe very highly in good, honest service. I feel, 7thingsmedia can provide an excellent opportunity for a bright individual who certainly isn't afraid of hard work and are looking for excellent career opportunities - with an aim to have some fun along the way.

We are looking for an individual to grow into coming a confident account executive to communicate with easy to clients our partners and naturally internally to the wider team. If you feel this suits you or you know someone who you'd think would be interested in working within the affiliate and search side of digital marketing please check out the link to the full job description below.

Here is a link to the full job description - http://www.7thingsmedia.com/about-us/careers/account-executive/

...and a nice trendy shot of the 7thingsmedia office.

If you are interested in the role, please submit your current CV and a covering letter to jobs@7thingsmedia.com.

NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE and we can only take candidates who are eligible to work in the UK.

Newborn entrepreneur separation anxiety

Those who follow my blog or know me will be aware in April I left the safety of being employed by a large company to going it alone and setting up my own online marketing agency, 7thingsmedia.

Well as I come to the fifth week of trading I am glad to say I am still here trading and armed with over double the passion and drive for the business as I had on day one. From a young age I’ve always felt a strong passion for business and demonstrated entrepreneurial flair – my earliest memories are either selling toast at primary school, trading with my toys, or my mafia esq car cleaning patch – it’s something that has always been with me.



Even in its early embryo stage (and blatantly honeymoon period) I feel such enlightenment from actually directly owning the business and being involved in all business matters – well, apart from now understand the cost of printer cartridges! Cliché as it sounds but I am learning every single day and delighted I’ve taken on the challenge to assist/make a difference to my clients online trading and grow myself as a young businessman & person.

I’m delighted to say the company has already managed to sign clients for both affiliate management and search and these are ranging from multi-channel premium fashion retailer; USC, new entrant into the UK market from France; Croquet & Golf, gardening specialist; Garden Bargains, personalised & celebrity jewellery from KendiJewlz.com and last but certainly not least US luxury chocolate retailer Vosges Haut-Chocolat. Each to whom I thank for their trust and business to which I will aim to exceed their expectations with service levels from the agency.

The biggest challenge I set myself was to move from a one man band operation to a recognised and respected independent agency and I am now setting the foundations to both employ individuals into the business and currently in the final sets of securing office space in Central London – I’m happy with the pace I’ve managed to come to this step and feel pace is a very importance word to uphold to.

Work-life balance is definitely a key factor and I’ve enjoyed the occasionally early night and weekend BBQ to relax however I do feel like a new mum that is unable to let her new born baby go and I must learn to relieve my laptop/iPhone separation anxiety.



Anyway enough of my late night ramblings (sorry for the sleepy typos!), I’ll aim to keep this blog up to date with the challenges and fun of running my own business and aim to keep as light hearted as possible – thanks to all whom have supported me so far with kind words and best wishes – apologies already if I now constantly bore you with my newborn company tales!

Clocking off at 00:49, but still lovin’ it!

Chris

New Affiliate & Search agency; 7thingsmedia

As I posted earlier in April I've now left my position at House of Fraser and last week set up an affiliate and search marketing agency, 7thingsmedia.

Setting up a digital agency has always been on my agenda since I began in online media many moons ago - back in the early 2000’s I was an online publisher with a sports network but looking to move across into assisting advertisers and brands with their e-business adoption. From there I proudly became one of four people to graduate in the UK’s first BA (Hons) e-business degree.

Since then I have taken online acquisition roles at Johnson & Johnson, TradeDoubler, Hotel Chocolat and most recently House of Fraser to which I aim to use this wealth of digital experience to drive 7thingsmedia, to assist clients in the various aspects of eCommerce trading and build a very passionate online agency.

The core focus will be on outsourced affiliate management and assisting clients in their paid search campaigns whether on a traditional CPC model or a CPA method were 7thingsmedia pays the Google bill and we work on a commission basis.

Anyway, enough of the services information - please click for more information on 7thingsmedia.

Thanks, Chris