Chad LaBass
Costa Mesa | United States
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Interests
Graphic design
Travel
Photography
Family
Healthy living
Marketing strategy
In my own words
— ChadHighly effective marketing tactician with 20+ years of branding expertise across outdoor lifestyle and action sports consumer brands.
Specializing in a wide scope of digital marketing strategies to drive lead generation, e-mail acquisition, consumer loyalty, and e-commerce revenue growth.
Advertising Platform Expertise: Amazon, Google Ads, Bing, Facebook Business Manager, Twitter, Adroll, MailChimp.
Trajectory
Mar 2017 — Nov 2019
E-commerce Marketing Manager · Pelagic Gear
• E-commerce revenue generation driven by creative digital marketing, increasing audience and market share, and online business optimization.
• 360-degree digital strategy: SEO, SEM, email, social, retargeting, MAP enforcement, fraud prevention, and fulfillment.
• Site merchandising, landing page optimization, and inventory management.
• In first year grew YOY e-commerce revenue by 30% across Pelagic Website & Amazon Seller Central.
• End to end creative direction for the digital advertising campaigns of Pelagic’s top 2 selling products in 2018.
Sep 2015 — Feb 2017
Marketing Manager · Body Glove
• Daily support for Body Glove licensees to implement marketing initiatives across a $1.2M budget.
• Manage marketing calendars and advertising campaign execution across all channels.
• Execution of all public relations activities from press releases, product seeding, influencer marketing, tradeshows, and events.
• Synergized licensee tradeshow operations to reduce Body Glove tradeshow expenses by over $50k.
Jan 2002 — Sep 2015
Director of Marketing · Freestyle USA
• Direct all marketing activities to grow brand awareness and increase sales on a $700k marketing budget.
• Increased sales 130% from 2010 – 2015 via the successful relaunch of the original Shark Watch.
• Creative direction and execution of all marketing initiatives including digital, mobile, social media, print, direct mail, catalogs, events, tradeshows, and athlete ambassadors.
Activity
Education history
University of California
Bachelors Degree | 1996 - 1998





