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Coached over 200 CEOs. Mentored multiple start-ups. Rated 5 stars on both platforms. Mentored CEOs and Founders in English, Spanish, Italian and French.
Dominick Miserandino
3x CEO/CMO - Internet Pioneer/Founder
New York City, United States (-05:00 UTC) English, Italian, Spanishfrom Brooklyn, United States
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$200 / hour
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Bio
Hi there! I'm Dominick Miserandino, and I'm proud to say that I'm a three-time internet CEO with a specialty in the online publishing space. In fact, I was even one of the pioneers in this field as I founded TheCelebrityCafe.com, one of the first online publications. Most recently, I served as the CEO of Inquisitr.com where I was able to lead a company-wide reorganization that not only increased profitability, but also took the site in new and exciting directions. I've also held leadership positions at Adorama Pix as CMO and Bigfoot Media as Director of Internet. I've had the privilege of working as a consultant for some big names in eCommerce and publishing, such as the Wall Street Journal, Morgan Stanley, Hearst Publications, Scout, NASA, Goldman Sachs, and more. Over the past 20 years, I've worked with more than 100 different web properties and consulted with top-tier digital publishers, e-commerce, and app-based businesses. On top of that, I've even authored two travel books! I'm also a past president of the Press Club of Long Island and enjoy sharing my knowledge by lecturing about web businesses and analytics at universities such as Hofstra University, Stony Brook, NYU, and other local colleges. In my free time, I love being creative as a musician and photographer. I'm also conversational in Italian, Spanish, French, and Sicilian, and have experience handling media in these languages. I'm proud to have received awards from organizations such as SPJ (Volunteer of the Month/Chapter of the Month), Stony Brook University for Charity Work, 40 Under 40, and a New York State Citation Award.
Expertise
Bootstrapping
Launched three companies from zero to fully functional. TheCelebrityCafe.com alone went from one employee to over 40 people involved. Did this multiple times as a mentor.
Building a team
Hired and built multiple teams. Have done this as a three time CEO but also as a Director and Head role multiple times too. Involved in multiple aspects of the hiring and organizational process.
Content marketing
Created the first online publication ever. Helped launch over 30+ other publications in my 30 year career. Advised and owned pieces of dozens of content marketing companies.
Data science
Lecture in Data Science at Hofstra University. Member of both: AdMonsters Media Data Advisory Board as well as Hofstra University Information Technology & Business Analytics Advisory Board
Go to market strategy
Been an active go to market strategy coach and mentor for the past decade. Dozens of hourly clients over the past decades focusing on CEOs and Startups growing their business to the next level.
Growth marketing
Grew two online publishers as well as an ecommerce company. Helped scale multiple ecommerce, sas as well as online publishers as a board of advisory role
Mindset coaching
Been an active mindset coach for the past decade. Dozens of hourly clients over the past decades focusing on CEOs and Startups growing their business to the next level.
Public relations
Lectured at Hofstra University on Public Relations. Lectured for the Public Relations Society of Long Island. Taught masters classes on Public Relations
SEO
Taught classes at the university level for SEO. Owned a firm focusing on SEO for multiple years. Lectured on SEO to various publicity and marketing conferences.
Social media
Taught classes at the university level for Social Media. Owned a firm focusing on Social Media for multiple years. Lectured on Social Media to various publicity and marketing conferences.
Technology and tools
Brought quite a few SAS and ecommerce products to market as an advisor and board member. Brought quite a few SAS and ecommerce products to market as an advisor and board member.
Toolkit
Google Analytics
Been active on Google Analytics since it started. Have given multiple classes and master classes on how to use Google Analytics. Google Analytics is probably my primary analysis too.
Google Search Console
Been active on Google Webmaster Tools since it started. Have given multiple classes and master classes on how to use Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Tools is probably my primary analysis.
LinkedIn Ads
Been active on LinkedIn since it started. I'm a Content Creator and on Linked In with 22k followers. Have given lectures on LinkedIn Content Marketing
Semrush
Been active on SEM Rush since it started. Have given multiple classes and master classes on how to use SEM Rush. Use other SEO tools but quite familiar with SEM Rush
Industries
E-Commerce
CMO for major e-commerce retailer and advisor for 100+ economies companies to meet their growth targets. Brought multiple to exit and getting funding goals.
Marketing
CMO of AdoramaPix. Multiple Advisory, Mentor and Board of Advisor Roles for over 30+ start ups in the B2C space. Also, consultant and advisor with various others.
E-Commerce
CMO of AdoramaPix. Multiple Advisory, Mentor and Board of Advisor Roles for over 30+ start ups in the ecommerce space. Also, consultant and advisor with various others.
Digital Media
Ceo for multiple digital media properties. Brought three companies to exit. Did over 100+ advising rolls in the Internet. Space. Worked from a 50,000 point of view and down.
Internet
Advised numerous Internet start ups in the Internet space. Advised over 100+ Internet start ups via , both growth, mentoring other platforms. Founded multiple
Marketing
Cmo for various companies both online and brick and mortar. Advised multiple companies in the area of marketing and advertising with strategy and leadership
Management Consulting
CMO of AdoramaPix. Multiple Advisory, Mentor and Board of Advisor Roles for over 30+ start ups in the B2C space. Also, consultant and advisor with various others. Called by various Venture Capital firms to help evaluate acquisitions.
Experience
Miserandino.com
Various PubsI run a few pubs in the mil+ range. Advise about 10 pubs on a weekly basis 400+ pubs on my mailing list Mentoring and coaching of e-commerce and e business clients
RTMNexus
Podcast HostWe'd love you to subscribe to our Retail. Tech. Media. Nexus. Leadership Podcast: https://pod.link/1833501767?view=apps&sort=popularity
RTMNexus
Chief Executive Officer/ FounderRTM Nexus is a dynamic platform operating at the exciting intersection of retail, technology, and media. Who Do You Want to Meet Today?
Parla Retail
Advisory Board MemberParla Retail supercharges e-commerce with people-centric video software and AI solutions that fuse in-store retail engagement with online shopping.
escalated.io
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) - FractionalIncreased branding, thereby leading to a strong increase in inbound leads. Accounted for relationships with five of the top clients. Built relationships with top tech companies leading to mutually beneficial sales growth
YouNow Media LLC
Interim Head Of Content* Helped manage team of over 80 employees. * Built internal processes and organization to increase growth. * Developed 30, 60, 90 day plan to scale business. * Daily oversight over multiple teams in markets such as English, Spanish, MENA and Germany.
Inquisitr.com
CEOLed a team building a best of breed mainstream website read by up to 50 million monthly. * Handled growth strategy and built team from scratch * Directly managed the advertising, tech, editorial, marketing and operations teams. * Reorganized the entire company and organizational structure and leadership team * Managed team of 80+ total * Increased branding and recognition achieving national media and multiple media hits a week including NBC, ABC, Fox and WSJ (http://Miserandino.com/media). * Created the process and organization of editorial newsroom. * Reorganized company from 6 figures of debt to nearly debt free. * Created and built traffic relationships with 10 different traffic sources. * Brought company to sale and exit with various partners. * Held monthly board meetings.
Other
AdoramaPix.com
CMOBrooklyn, NY * Established and managed entire marketing budget * Moved sales from negative 30% year over year to 30% positive year over year * Achieved historic, record day of sales outside of Holiday Season * Achieved Record quarter of sales growth * Achieved record day of social and grassroots growth and engagement * Achieved Highest month of grassroots traffic, month over month * Crafted new digital marketing strategy * Implemented new digital campaigns. * Restructured organization, recruited and hired new staff * Recruited new vendors * Identified and deployed industry’s best practices in customer service procedures and protocols * Retrained existing staff on how to up-sell and close a sale * Launched successful media PR campaign, garnering newspaper, online and TV placement * Relaunched all marketing channels: Social, Advertising, CPC, Affiliates, as well as numerous business relationships
E-CommerceThe internet's longest-running entertainment magazine, read by 8.5 million people a month at its peak (per Quantcast.com). Activities: * Brought companyto six figures of monthly revenue * Influenced countless other publications. * One of the first to follow the top-10 format * Created and coded our own custom CMS * Launched dozens of smaller sites that were spun off * Managed staff of 6 full-timers and 40+ freelancers, covering up to 100 news stories daily * Personally interviewed 600+ A-list celebrities such as: Joe Cocker, Gary Coleman, Gloria Gaynor, Al Jarreau, Tom Smothers, Phil Ramone, Ricky Skaggs, Milla Jovovich, Alfonso Ribiero, Tina Yothers, Raffi, Bruce Hornsby, Bryan Adams, Aaron Carter, John Oates, Penn Jilette * Sought-after media guest, appearing on TV, in newspaper and on radio worldwide
OtherPress Club of Long Island
PresidentThe Long Island chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Founded first national journalism scholarship for the disabled.
The Wall Street Journal
Senior Developer- Supervised/Mentored group of various junior developers - Built the scripts and coding to display the top stocks helping migrate from print - Created system and architecture for migrating stock listings and earnings from print to web - Directly worked on verifying data for Bush/Gore recount - Helped in migration for post- September 11th. - Used Perl, SQL queries, JavaScript, XML and DHTML to create various web based applications - Created various Excel VBA macros to to publish web pages and for customer usage. - Responsible for creating templating system in VBA Excel/Word - Created templates and applications in Vignette
Morgan Stanley
Senior Web Developer- Developed various Perl script applications to assist in trade research and database usage. - Created and developed architecture for internal technical documentation web site . - Documented internal database and server protocols.