NICK RING

Experience

• Engaging SocialCurrent

  Co-Founder & CEO

  The mission is to make social media easy and affordable for businesses and brands of all sizes. With simple, carefully chosen features for ease-of-use, EngagingSocial™ is the all-inclusive social media solution.

  EngagingSocial™ is a core set of tools that allow you to schedule updates to your social networks in advance, analyze social performance, build customer reward campaigns, offer discounts and coupons to your customers, generate leads, and monitor your social networks so that you know when you have a new potential customer.

• Media Giveaways2008-2010

  Co-Founder & COO

  In a time where Groupon™ and LivingSocial were continuing to grow, the economic situation in the U.S. still was prohibitive for people buying half-price certificates. Media Giveaways launched a series of network sites, powered by radio, where businesses could launch an offer that would be free to consumers. The consumer was required to participate in marketing research prior to claiming the free offer.

  I was responsible for generating new revenue streams for the product as well as helping increase awareness to increase consumer signups. Within the first month, more than 35,000 consumers signed up for the service and businesses were put on a wait list to participate.

• Clear Channel Media + Entertainment2001-2011

  Director, Digital Operations

  With 238 million monthly listeners in the U.S., Clear Channel Media and Entertainment has the largest reach of any radio or television outlet in America. Clear Channel Media and Entertainment serves 150 cities through 850 owned radio stations. The company's radio stations and content can be heard on AM/FM stations, HD digital radio channels, Sirius/XM satellite, on the Internet at iHeartRadio.com and on the company's radio station websites, on the iHeartRadio mobile application on iPads and smartphones, and used via navigation systems from TomTom, Garmin and others.

  During my time at Clear Channel, I managed multiple web properties along with their respective social media properties, developed strategic sales opportunities that lead to many digital success stories throughout multiple markets, all while growing the digital audience more than 400%.

• Popweekly Entertainment1999-2001

  Founder

  After making some contacts by working on Britney Spears' official website, I decided to start my own entertainment publication online. I called it Popweekly Entertainment. The website featured news and photos for some of the top artists and celebrities at the time. Through Popweekly, I started gaining more contacts in the entertainment industry - which led to me covering artist tours and exclusive parties. For one summer, while still in school, I went on the road with 98 Degrees for numerous shows.

  At the end of 2001, at 18 years old, I decided to sell Popweekly Entertainment (my first company) and use the money to help fund other projecdts I wanted to be involved in.

• Britney Spears1999-2000

  Web Designer

  For a high school computer science project, we were instructed to build a website for a business. I decided to build one for an artist who i saw in a poll on AOL.com. ("Who will be the next big artist in 2000?"). One of the choices was Britney Spears. I developed a website for her and after the end of the project - reached out to see if they wanted to use it.

  In 1999, the website I built was used and I helped maintain it until it was eventually turned over to Entertainment Drive in late 2000.

Public Speaking

• National Association of BroadcastersNashville

  Is Social Media the New Powerball?

  Spoke at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Nashville to a record breaking number of attendees, explaining how media can best maximize their social efforts and showcasing specific examples of what is currently generating revenue in the their segment via social media.

• Media Financial ManagementCaesar's Palace, Las Vegas

  Maximizing Digital in a Traditional World

  Spoke at the Media Financial Management "Financial Focus 2012" conference at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas to hundreds of executives, showing them how to maximize digital and social media with their traditional forms of media to help generate new revenue streams.

• Wisconsin Broadcasters AssociationMultiple Locations

  Social Media for Radio & TV

  The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association has a network of 308 radio and television stations in the state. I spoke to those stations about how to use social media to increase awareness of their brands, help their employees save time and help their sales teams generate more revenue.

• Dane Buy LocalMadison, WI

  Social Media 2.0

  You're on Facebook - now what? Social Media is such an important part of every business. Most businesses are already on Facebook, but there are so many other social networks out there. What do you need to focus on - and what will give you the best chance at success?

• Local ChambersMultiple Locations

  ROI in the Digial Space

  I've had the pleasure of speaking at various Chamber of Commerce events talking about how local businesses can use the power of new emerging technologies to increase business - and how to prove a Return on Investment.