NEW: My first book, Web 2.0 and Beyond: Understanding the New Online Business Models, Trends, and Technologies was recently released by Greenwood Publishers. (Movie rights are still up in the air, but the role of me has George Clooney written all over it.)

I have 13 years experience in online marketing, web development and ecommerce. I'm interested in making contacts in ecommerce management, website development, technology, online advertising, direct marketing, and business in general.

I am Senior Marketing Manager, Digital & Direct at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. I joined the company in January 2011. 

In 2007 I joined the ecommerce development and marketing firm Timberline Interactive to manage client services and perform search-engine optimization campaigns, cost-per-click advertising, Google Analytics consulting, A/B testing, promotional email, online PR, and other online marketing.

Timberline clients included Lake Champlain Chocolates, Wine of the Month Club, Garrett Wade woodworking tools, Ann Clark Cookie Cutters, Terry Precision Cycling, Dakin Farms, Dinn Trophy, Liberty Orchards, Danforth Pewter, Vermont Bicycle Touring, and American Meadows.

For six years prior to Timberline, I managed the websites of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company, including VermontTeddyBear.com, PajamaGram.com, CalyxandCorolla.com and other specialty gift sites. These websites transacted over $42 million in revenue annually and during peak holidays witnessed volumes of 2,000 orders per hour.

I've worked with various ecommerce platforms including Yahoo! Store, Demandware, ePages, InterShop, TI Commerce, CommerceV3 and BroadVision, and I enjoy comparing notes with other merchants using these and other platforms. We're also now working with the Ning social-networking platform.Before moving to the web in 1995, I worked in book and magazine publishing, mostly in production and desktop publishing.

Tom Funk’s Specialties:
Website production management, ecommerce website design and development, technical and functional spec writing, Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and other SEM, search-engine optimization (SEO), Froogle, Shopping.com, Shopzilla and other comparison shopping networks, content management, affiliate marketing, web analytics including Google Analytics, Google Web Site Optimizer, user experience.

Let's Connect!

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Experience

VP eCommerce Client Services
Timberline Interactive
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

March 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Manage development projects and online marketing for ecommerce clients including Lake Champlain Chocolates, Vermont Bicycle Touring, Gorton's Fresh Seafood, Liberty Orchards, etc.

Perform search-engine optimization campaigns, cost-per-click advertising, affiliate program management, paid inclusion, promotional emailing, online PR, and other online marketing services.

Web Manager
Vermont Teddy Bear Company
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; BEAR; Consumer Goods industry)

November 2000 — February 2007 (6 years 4 months)

Manage the content, features and performance of VTB's gift-retail websites including sister companies PajamaGram.com and Calyx & Corolla. Company located in Shelburne, Vermont and Vero Beach, Florida. Vermont Teddy Bear is a Yahoo! Five-Star Merchant, a three-time BizRate Platinum award winner, and the company's website was named to the "Best of the Web Top 50" list by Internet Retailer in 2004.

Director of Web Publishing
Mobilia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

September 1994 — November 2000 (6 years 3 months)

Managed online publishing of website dedicated to the antique and collectible car market. Also edited the company's monthly print magazine. Located in Middlebury, Vermont and Williston, Vermont.

Managing Director
Atrium Publications
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

1990 — 1993 (3 years)

Managed operations of a start-up non-profit educational publisher of books and curricula. Located in Middlebury, Vermont.

Production Manager
Overlook Press (dist by Penguin USA)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

December 1987 — March 1990 (2 years 4 months)

Directed production of hardcover and trade paperback books, for a small independent publisher in New York - - a distributed line of Penguin USA

Education
Middlebury College
BA, English, Computer Science, September 1983 — May 1987

currently active in Alumni Association.

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude.
University of Vermont
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science 1985 — 1986

Winchester High School
1983

Winchester, Massachusetts

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Wrestling, Eagle Scout
Bread Loaf Writer's Conference
Fiction August 1987


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Additional Information
Tom Funk’s Websites:
New: Tom Funk's Web 2.0 book
Lake Champlain Chocolates
VBT Bike Tours
Tom Funk’s Interests:
Cycling, ice hockey, travel, internet, books especially history, business, economics and other nonfiction including Paul Fussell, Seth Godin, Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs & Steel), Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), Thomas Friedman.

Tom Funk’s Groups:
New England Mail-Order Assn. (NEMOA), Vermont/New Hampshire Direct Marketing Association, SEMPO, SEMNE, Middlebury College Alumni Association, FullStride hockey league, SERVAS traveler and host