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Dharmender Badwal

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I simply define myself as an Inbound Marketer. An innovative & results-oriented Digital Marketing professional with a strong track record in leading SEO/SEM strategies that achieve revenue goals. I’m adept in SEO, paid search/display, remarketing, & demand generation initiatives that achieve ROI goals.

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I simply define myself as an Inbound Marketer. An innovative & results-oriented Digital Marketing professional with a strong track record in leading SEO/SEM strategies that achieve revenue goals. I’m adept in SEO, paid search/display, remarketing, & demand generation initiatives that achieve ROI goals.

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Worked With

  • Neil Patel Digital (Marketing Agency)
  • Western Union (Financial Services)
  • Equifax (Financial Services)
  • Ricoh North America (Business Services)
  • Intact Insurance (Insurance)
  • Ricoh Canada Inc. (Business Services)
  • Moneris Solutions (Financial Services)
  • Opie Marketing Group, Inc. (Marketing Agency)
  • Wickedweb Ltd (Marketing Agency)

Case Studies

Specialty Areas

B2B Marketing
Growth Marketing
Paid Search
SEO
Analytics
Programmatic
WordPress
Marketing Automation
Technical SEO
Content SEO

Vertical Experience

Insurance
Cybersecurity
Enterprise
Lead Generation
B2B
Financial Services
Legal
Law
B2C
B2B Saas
Blockchain
Cloud
Agencies
Advertising

Tools

Marketo
Salesforce
Hubspot
Eloqua
Unbounce
Google Analytics
Mailchimp
Optimizely
Google Optimize
SEMRush
Facebook Business Manager
Google Ads
Outbrain
Google Data Studio
Google Tag Manager
BuzzSumo
Hootsuite
Moz
Canva
Ahrefs
Keywords Anywhere
Yoast
MOAT
SpyFu
Google Search Console
Google Trends
SendGrid
Buffer
Sprinklr
Screaming Frog
Clearbit
Wordpress
BrightEdge
DoubleClick
Bing Ads Platform
Instagram Ads
Twitter Ads
Google Suite
Stackadapt
The Trade Desk
GoogleMyBusiness
Leadpages
Wrike
GoDaddy
Facebook Ads Manager
Google Display & Video 360
Facebook Power Editor
Google Keyword Planner
Facebook Analytics
LinkedIn Analytics
AdRoll
Majestic
LinkedIn Ads
Google Lighthouse
Google Campaign Manager 360
Google AdSense
Microsoft Ads
Facebook Ads
Google Adwords
Metadata.io

Skills

SEO
GTM Strategy
Keyword Research
Lead Scoring
Programmatic
Technical SEO
On Page SEO
Social Media Marketing
Campaign Strategy
Local SEO
Off-Page SEO
SEO Content Strategy
Video SEO
SEO Site Audit
SEO Strategy
SEO site Audit
International SEO
On-Page SEO Optimization
SEO Implementation
Organic SEO
Campaign Planning
SEO Project Management
SEO Reporting
SEO Audits
SEO Outreach
SEO Backlinks
SEO Analytics
Backlink Audits
Technical SEO Audits
On-Page SEO
Backlink Acquisition
Campaign Building
Enterprise SEO
Technical SEO Optimization

Recent Roles

Senior Digital Marketing Manager

Ricoh Canada Inc. | 2018- Present

Ricoh North America, with 30,000 employees, is an information management and digital services company.Being a digital marketing manager, I'm responsible for end to end digital marketing strategy (driving traffic to Ricoh-USA.com & Ricoh.ca) through integrated digital marketing campaigns including paid social, SEM, SEO and display media including re-marketing technologies.

➤ Collaborating with the integrated marketing team to plan, implement and optimize digital marketing campaigns tied to measurable business objectives.
➤ Serving as Ricoh's digital marketing evangelist and subject matter expert (SME).
➤ Executing multi-channel, demand generation programs to generate leads from new prospects and existing customers that meet B2B buyer personas. These programs may include, but are not limited to, Paid Social (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn), SEM, Display Advertising or SEO.
➤ Devising strategies to drive online traffic to landing pages and corporate website.
➤ Reviewing new technologies and keep the company at the forefront of developments in digital marketing.
➤ Developing and executing comprehensive marketing programs in support of business objectives for digital campaigns.
➤ Establishing and managing key performance indicators (KPIs) and budgets for demand generation programs to ensure spend is allocated to highest-performing marketing tactics.
➤ Leveraging Marketo and Eloqua marketing automation and web communications platforms to the program, deliver and measure campaign ROI.
➤ Collaborating with different teams to deploy automated nurture or drip campaign based on key segments.
➤ Utilizing strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end user experience across multiple channels and customer touch points

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist

Ricoh Canada Inc. | 2014- 2018

➤ Being a member of the demand generation team at Ricoh North America (US & Canada), I own, define and lead the comprehensive and integrated digital marketing campaigns through organic search, paid search, paid social and display media channels.
➤ Be subject matter expert for paid digital marketing and search engine optimization (SEO).
➤ Provide strategic and technical leadership for all digital initiatives.
➤ Drive traffic through paid search (Google and Bing), SEO (Search Engine Optimization), paid social (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube), display media marketing (Google Display Network, Bing and Remarketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google and Adroll), content syndication, marketing automation platforms (Marketo and Eloqua) and CRMs (Salesforce and Oracle Sales Cloud) etc.
➤ Recommending and managing media budgets and optimize for KPI's and key business metrics including MQLs, SQLs, opportunities, pipeline and revenue generated and work across the marketing and sales teams to improve performance against these metrics to maximize ROI.
➤ Delivering detailed digital reports and dashboards on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
➤ Building SEO strategies through SEO audits, backlink analysis and SEO competitive analysis.
➤ Implementing a comprehensive SEO strategy through link building as well as highly technical on-page SEO efforts.
➤ Leading the relationship with third parties and agencies.
➤ A/B testing of campaign assets such as landing page, ad copy and campaign targeting etc.

Digital Marketing Strategist

Moneris Solutions | 2014- 2014

➤ Developed online marketing strategy for the Moneris Solutions, collaborating with Corporate Marketing & Brand Management.
➤ Managed SEM channel with the objective to constantly optimize ROI, via Google Adwords, PLA’s, Bing, retargeting campaigns and other related initiatives.
➤ Led the relationship with third parties and agencies that supported the SEM strategies.
➤ Provided ongoing reporting of results for all SEM, display advertising, and Paid Social (Facebook & LinkedIn) marketing programs.
➤ Built monthly/annually target forecasts & tactical priorities for all channels in alignment with the business goals.
➤ Presented SEM-related research, insights, campaign performance and recommendations to key internal and external stakeholders.
➤ Defined the requirements, tasks, and resources associated with SEO strategy.
➤ Managed day-to-day management of search engine optimization campaigns.

Search Marketing Consultant

Opie Marketing Group, Inc. | 2012- 2014

➤ Managed an SEM monthly budget of over $10,000,000, covering 9 countries, 3 languages and 8 websites.
➤ Hands on experience of leading SEO team in post penguin cleanup process of on-page as well as off-page SEO.
➤ Strategized advanced SEO techniques, post panda-penguin updates in April, 2012 in 3 languages (English, French & Spanish) and for 9 countries.
➤ Formulated strategic content production and syndication, purely for advanced SEO techniques.
➤ Strong knowledge of and experience with Google Ads, Google Ads Editor, adCenter (Bing Ads), Google Analytics, and other platforms and analytics tools.
➤ Led SEO campaigns for multi ecommerce websites.
➤ Established, interpreted, and analyzed critical KPI targets.
➤ A solid understanding of digital analytics and reporting and the ability to build insight and strategies to optimize marketing programs (Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager).
➤ Educated the team on SEM, SEO best practices.
➤ Acted as a liaison between multiple teams viz. content production, web development in the organization and attend briefings, understand business needs and review all content for SEM and SEO campaigns.

Senior SEO/PPC Specialist

Wickedweb Ltd | 2009- 2012

➤ Managed all SEM and SEO programs and report on performance of each; including analytical post mortems of campaigns.
➤ Led SEO & PPC team and responsible for all decision making processes.
➤ Ranked website on Google’s First Page for multiple keywords.
➤ Experience in on-page optimization, including keyword research, website design, copywriting, usability and visitor conversion.
➤ Managed Pay-Per-Click (PPC) account with more than 3 million keywords, using advanced PPC techniques.
➤ Used Social Media to increase the web presence of businesses.
➤ Developed a comprehensive training program to ensure SEO campaigns are executed efficiently by other team members.
➤ Evaluated and tested existing site's content, layout; Keyword Market Research on targeted markets searching habits. Created competitive analysis reports, analyzed existing data from server logs and created statistical analysis to project current search engine traffic patterns.
➤ Used ethical/white-hat Search Engine Optimization techniques to produce solid high rankings for numerous keywords.
➤ In-depth knowledge of online reputation and brand management by monitoring various outlets such as search engines, blogs, social communities.

Certifications

BrightEdge SEO Certification
May 2020
Digital Media Buying and Planning (DBPC) Via DSP
April 2020
Google Ads Certified Professional
August 2020

Languages

English

Education

University of Leeds
MBA Quantitative Mathematics
Punjab Agricultural University
BA Engineering

Case Studies

230%
ROAS on Search Marketing Campaigns

Paid Media Growth Marketing for Ricoh North America

230% ROAS on Search Marketing Campaigns

Client Verified

I have been heavily involved in B2B lead generation using paid media channels.

How we did it

- Provide direction on client and content marketing initiatives including SEM, SEO and display media campaigns. - Develop and execute comprehensive marketing programs in support of business objectives for digital campaigns - Leverage Marketo and Eloqua marketing automation and web communications platforms to the program, deliver and measure campaign ROI - Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end user experience across multiple channels and customer touch points

What clients are saying

Innovative possibilities are two words that describes Dru Badwal. He takes the initiative in providing valuable feedback. Dru keeps well-informed of the strength and weaknesses of competitors. He sets SEO goals that are next level, realistic, achievable and credible. Partnering up with Dru Badwal will be your #1 chance to stay relevant in your business.
Leonard Morley, Senior Implementation Manager at Mind Genomics Advisors, LLC
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