William Zhou: Founder in Monterey Park, CA
William Zhou
Founder
Monterey Park | United States
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Industries
Fashion
Streetwear
Tech
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Work experience
TrendPig
Founder | 09/2013 - Current
• Founded a social media agency to help brands with their social media strategy, particularly on Instagram
• Managed paid Instagram campaigns – most successful client went from 600 Instagram followers
to 1,500+ in one week - by repeating tactics, currently has 180k+ followers
• Pivoted the business into a full-fledged digital marketing consultancy, concentrating heavily on user acquisition
• Worked with 30+ brands to figure out key metrics, such as CAC and LTV across various marketing channels
• Helped implement various free and paid user acquisition tactics, also testing various landing pages
• Grew brands’ Instagram and Twitter accounts quickly, leading to an increase in targeted referral traffic –
collectively have helped clients gain thousands of new followers a day
• Presented data to help brands gain insights into their paid marketing campaigns (Facebook, Google display,
remarketing), as well as their marketing communications (email and social media copy)
• Ran highly converting Adwords search campaigns by creating dynamic ad copy and dynamic landing pages
Winter Lotus
Founder | 08/2014 - Current
• Founded a menswear brand and designed every piece
• Grew the business from zero to 100+ orders a month in five months, with 500+ customers
in 30+ countries worldwide in eight months
• Used reddit to create initial fanbase and generated $1.5k+ in revenue in the first month with no marketing spend
• Grew an average of 35% month-to-month in web traffic (sessions)
• Managed, created, and optimized all social media content, growing Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr accounts
to over 28,000 combined followers with almost zero spend
• Executed ‘viral’ giveaways – most recent produced 2,000+ legitimate emails for mailing list in ten days
• A/B tested email opt-in boxes, capturing thousands of emails from otherwise lost visitors
• A/B tested shopping cart abandonment emails, recovering hundreds of dollars/month
• Segmented customers and automated cross selling campaigns through Mailchimp
• Implemented and A/B tested paid acquisition for reddit (display), Facebook (display), and Google (search and display), followed up by generic and dynamic retargeting ads
• Achieved a 4x ROI from VTCs and CTCs on web and Facebook retargeting ads
• Collaborated with tastemakers in the niche – social media influencers, bloggers, etc
DuPont
Marketing Specialist | 06/2012 - 08/2013
• Helped grow the business from $65MM (Oct 2011 – Sept 2012) to $90MM+ (Oct 2012 – Sept 2013)
as the only new hire in the sales territory
• Learned the ins and outs of an ultra-complex, technical knowledge driven industry with zero prior knowledge
• Automated weekly reports, tailored for each sales rep, showing territory-specific competitive data
• Pivoted data and built custom formulas to seek out competitive threats and growth opportunities
• Led downward demand creation activities by segmenting and analyzing end-use customers
• Delivered presentations in regional and national sales meetings in front of business leaders
• Presented a 20-page digital marketing proposal to business leaders
Education history
The University of Texas at Austn
Bachelors in Business Administration | 2008 - 2012
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