Amanda Vega Consulting - CEO
Phoenix, AZ
http://www.amandavega.com
Amanda Vega Consulting works with clients and agencies alike. Using over 17-years of interactive and traditional advertising, marketing and public relations experience, our team aims to educate businesses and individuals about how technology fits into an overall business strategy to help them market smarter and more efficiently. Whether it be the development of a core brand and identity, a Web site redesign complete with search engine optimization, social media, and CRM tools, or a formal public relations plan tied into marketing and advertising outreach activities, Amanda Vega Consulting takes an approach much like that of McKinsey and Company where a team of subject matter experts to ...
Amanda Vega Consulting works with clients and agencies alike. Using over 17-years of interactive and traditional advertising, marketing and public relations experience, our team aims to educate businesses and individuals about how technology fits into an overall business strategy to help them market smarter and more efficiently. Whether it be the development of a core brand and identity, a Web site redesign complete with search engine optimization, social media, and CRM tools, or a formal public relations plan tied into marketing and advertising outreach activities, Amanda Vega Consulting takes an approach much like that of McKinsey and Company where a team of subject matter experts to work on your project rather than a group of generalists. Technically as well, we were the first social media company in the world – providing services in this area before it had a name.
Amanda Vega began her career at AOL as a chat moderator over 15 years ago. During her tenure at AOL she directly helped to develop and rollout Instant Messenger and Love@AOL (now Match.com’s technology.) Amanda has an MBA from Columbia University, and known industry-wide as an insightful and honest speaker that doesn’t talk AT people, but instead talks with them. After selling her second interactive agency to Ogilvy in 1999, she moved to New York City and opened Amanda Vega Consulting which works with agencies and clients directly helping them optimize and integrate the ongoing stream of new technology and marketing options growing in the online space while also more effectively integrating those into their traditional programs.
Amanda is a published author of “PR in a Jar” and contributor to the best selling book “The Social Media Bible. She’s a frequent industry expert speaker at such conference as Search Engine Strategies and Ad:Tech. She has additionally been featured on Oprah and spoke for the White House Press Core about social media. She is a board member for many local and national non-profits and professional organizations. Amanda was one of the first bloggers on the Internet and helped shape many of the “social media” tools we have today – well before they had a name.
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