February 22, 2012

Scott Gardner, Lead Advisor

Scott Gardner, CEO, has over ten years experience in developing successful Digital Marketing strategies and deploying results-driven execution with Clients.  He consults with mid-market, large enterprise marketers, and leading Internet brands in both B2B and B2C industries.  Scott founded New Media Advisors (NMA) to provide highly-concentrated SEO, Link Building and Social Search solutions to national brands whom are tired of the “average Joe”, over-priced, full-service agency model.  NMA offers a virtual agency model where tactical experts work with your company to help you better leverage People, Processes, Technology & Strategy to dominate Organic Search.

During his career, Scott has worked closely with many of the the world’s leading Internet brands to help them dominate their industry vertical(s); including Internet Retailer 500 clients, Fortune 1000 brands and hundreds of upstart Internet brands.  Prior to launching NMA, Scott served as Vice President of SEO for Triangle Direct Media & SEOtool, which was recognized as an Inc 500 company during his tenure.  He served as Director of Sales & Marketing for WebSourced (a Search Marketing Agency), Inc which grew from $500K to $25MM in annual sales over a five year period and from 10 to 180 full-time employees.  The company was named the world’s largest search marketing agency in 2003 and was voted Best Place to Work in the Raleigh-Durham market for two consecutive years.

Scott has been a guest speaker on several SEO & web-marketing panels at conferences such as eTail, Internet Summit, Search Engine Strategies, and CED Tech to name a few.

Scott is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, an active Rotarian & Ram’s Club member, and resides in Raleigh, NC with his wife and two sons.  He is a sports enthusiast and has a burning passion for emerging Internet technologies, services & trends that drive value in today’s business climate.