As President of Expert SEO Consulting, Eric Richmond is responsible for managing the business operations and client relationships of the company.
Eric has been focused on organic search and audience development in general for nearly 20 years and his clients cut across many verticals: publishing, finance, legal, health and medical, travel, pharma, real estate and ecommerce. Prior to launching Expert SEO Consulting, he was the Head of Audience Development for Complex Media. During his tenure, Eric’s team was responsible for growing the Complex Media network from 100 million unique users to a publishing behemoth that attracted nearly 350 million unique users and 1.2 billion pageviews a month using paid search, organic search, content syndication, social media and email.
Before moving to Complex, Eric was the Vice President of Search and Social Media for TechMediaNetwork (now called Purch). While at TMN he and his team we focused on driving traffic to the Company’s series of tech shopping and lifestyle sites using organic search, email and social media. Prior to TechMediaNetwork, Eric was the VP of SEO and Technology for Ad Agency 360i where he and his team developed many of the proprietary technologies for optimizing organic search campaigns that are used by MSO (Martha Stewart Optimedia), Enterprise Rent A Car, Turner Broadcasting, NBC/Universal and others.
Before 360i, Eric ran Enterprise Sales for technology vendors RichFX (purchased by ChannelAdvisor) and Viewpoint, and was the VP of Interactive Services Grey Global Group where he was the acting Global CIO for the 28 world-wide offices of Grey Interactive. At Grey, Eric participated in both international and domestic new business pitches delivered a speech on email marketing to the press in Istanbul, Turkey. As Grey Interactive’s Director of Technology, he lead the New York office’s 30 person technology development team and was instrumental in developing the industry’s first rich email campaign for Cover Girl in 1998.
Eric has spoken Weber State University in Ogden, UT, University of Hartford in Hartford, CT, HSMAI, SES and SMX on organic search engine optimization; is a member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Oldtimers Foundation, and a founding Board Member of the US Internet Pioneers Foundation.
Eric resides in Rowayton, CT where he lives with his wife Annette and their 2 4-legged children Holly and Katie. An avid car enthusiast, he is a long time member of the legendary Madison Avenue Sports Car Driving and Chowder Society and volunteers at Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park.