My Virtual resume

Aka. an about me!

Hi!

I’m an email wizard (no, not self-proclaimed, but actually, awarded), with 7+ years of experience in marketing. Based out of Vancouver, BC, I’ve been (mostly) fully remote since 2015.

I have shaped Lifecycle Marketing strategy across email, push, SMS, and mobile and web in-app messages.

I believe all marketing strategies can be mirrored industry to industry, so although I specialize in SaaS, I work with E-commerce, B2B, D2C, you name it!

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Resume

2016-2019

Co-founder &Community Operations Manager of taskiapp.com

Taski was created to bridge the gap between high turnover, and the hospitality industry. By creating a platform that allowed for staff to sign up to restaurant shifts, hotel gigs, and catering events on a one-off basis, the hospitality workforce could craft their own schedule.

In this role, I wore many hats, from crafting nurture campaigns to the hospitality staff in Hubspot, Autopilot, and Customer.io, I nurtured the user from lead to signup, to product activation in picking up their first shift. Additionally I crafted a referral program for “taskers” to refer their friends and receive an incentive bonus. This role also owned the business onboarding, and nurturing businesses through the same lifecycle-focused key moments - conversion to creating an account, to posting their first shift, to paying “taskers out”. Taski served top hotels in BC including Fairmont, Four Seasons, Delta, and Sheraton in its tenure.

2019

Customer Onboarding Manager at Braze

As a Customer Onboarding Manager at Braze, I worked with clients in their first 90-180 days after contract signature to set up key marketing campaigns they needed to launch. Braze being an incredibly powerful marketing automation tool, I worked with industry-leading brands to set up push notifications, in-app messages, SMS, and most importantly… email! During our onboarding time together, I was their main point of contact for IP warming, SSL certificate setup, deliverability best practices.

2019-2021

Email Marketing Specialist at Later

Instagram’s first to marketing scheduling tool Later, was where I refound my love of being the driver in charge of all things marketing campaign-related, and I joined them in late 2019 as their first Email Marketing Specialist. I worked with the content, and product team to shape their lifecycle strategy for their over 3,000,000 email subscribers globally, and increase conversion by 75% in the first 30-days through select campaigns. I worked to build out the email department and worked to consolidate the use of 3 ESP’s simultaneously into one.

2021-2022

Email Marketing Manager at Invoice2go - February 2021-November 2021

Invoice2go is an all-in-one business tool kit, famous for it’s name, it is self-explanatory in nature in that it provides business owners a tool to invoice, track payments, and manage business operations all from inside of it. At Invoice2go I work on the go-to-market team to convert freemium subscribers to a paid plan, nurture active users, and launch in-app messages, push notifications, and SMS campaigns that will continue to build the relationship with subscribers.

Lifecycle Marketing Manager at Invoice2go (acquired by Bill.com) - November 2021-present

My responsibilities and achievements include leading the CRM strategies to maximize product activation, monetization, and retention via multichannel strategy across email, in-app messaging, push notifications, and SMS. Optimizing the customer journey from start to finish via A/B and multi-variant testing. Building retention campaigns with a 7% conversion rate to paid, and win-back campaigns with an 11% conversion rate to reactivation. Working cross-functionally across departments including Product, Product Marketing, Engineering, Data Analytics, and more to drive behavioral driven communication

2022-Present

Consultant - Parcel

I joined parcel.io as a consultant in January of 2022, aiming to help bring the product out of beta alongside Avi Goldman, the founder. Little did I know 8 months later Parcel would be acquired by Customer.io and I’d be given a chance to join full time!

Product Marketing Manager at Parcel (acquired by Customer.io)- August 2022 - Present

At Parcel, I manage all things marketing and GTM!

Check out my work!



Freelance

I often take on freelance projects part-time depending on if my values align with the brand, if they are locally based in Vancouver, BC (#supportlocal), or if its a good learning opportunity for both the client and myself. Types of freelance projects I take on are:

  • Q&A sessions

  • Audits

  • Conferences

Tools I’ve used

  • Customer.io

  • Braze

  • Klaviyo

  • Mailchimp

  • Intercom

  • Autopilot

  • Drip

  • ActiveCampaign

  • Campaign Monitor

  • Constant Contact

  • Marketo

  • Iterable

  • Cordial

I am currently open to hearing about opportunities where I can grow a team, be an internal evangelist of a marketing program with a focus on customer empathy, or provide YOU with the resources you need to excel at email marketing. Feel free to shoot me a message to have a discussion.

⏤ Naomi

Certifications & Awards

  • MailChimp

    MailChimp certified

  • MailChimp

    Email automations certified.

  • MailChimp

    Email Marketing Certified

  • Moz

    SEO fundamentals

  • Braze

    Certified marketer

  • Amplitude

    Marketing Insight award - Pinoneer Finalist Awards


Award

Awarded 2021’s Email Wiz Award at eiq 2021

Presented by 2019's winner Brooke McDaniel, The Email Whiz is defined as:

"Whether strategic planning or in the trenches, this person is already achieving awesome things in the world of email marketing. They’ll shine even brighter as they get more involved in the industry."

Link to EIQ.


Speaker

Canadian Email Summit 2022

Topic: Developing a scalable A/B testing strategy

Developing a scalable A/B testing strategy. A/B testing is one of the joys of marketing. It allows you to create a hypothesis, action out a plan, and give yourself a pat on the back when your personal favourite wins. But beyond just testing emoji’s in a subject line, marketers have an opportunity to create a strategy that will allow them to test, action from result, and scale their email program based on findings when using the correct approach. Through this talk, Naomi will guide through three examples of how she scaled one-off campaign strategy using A/B testing, increased email acquisition conversion by testing various email popup form copy, and A/B tests automations to find the right approach to nurturing her subscribers.

Speaker

Speaker

Mailmodo - Email automation masterclass

Topic: How does messaging and design impact an email automation flow?

Join Naomi West, Jen Capstraw, and Natalie Jackson in this panel to discuss how messaging and design impact various email automations and the audiences that receive them!

Speaker

Mobile Growth Online: Women in Mobile

Mobile Growth Online is connecting experts in the field to discuss the most relevant issues and strategies in mobile. We ask leaders and innovators from brands you love about their mobile growth strategies and success stories.

In this live 45-minute panel discussion you'll have the chance to hear about:

- Rules of engagement in an ever-changing mobile landscape

- Strategies for acquisition & the best channels to acquire users

After the discussion, we'll open the floor to some live Q&A from the audience.


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Ep. 3 Splat chat

Here’s yet another challenge for the modern email marketer. We’re tasked with boosting email engagement, and the best way to do that is by providing more personalized email experiences. But can email personalization go too far?

Link to recording.

Speaker

Adworld 2021

Topic: Discover the Only Engagement Metrics To Focus On With Email Marketing

Link to recording coming soon…

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Movable Ink’s “Rethink” 2020

Topic: Empathy in Email: How Using Data Fuels Better Customer Experiences

How many times have you heard "we should be sending more email!" After all, high frequency is the best way to keep your customers engaged, right? Maybe not. In this session, Naomi will share how decreasing the volume of emails actually increased customer happiness at Later. You'll learn how to demonstrate true empathy for your readers, and how to find that sweet spot between inbox space and providing value to get higher engagement rates in the long run.

Link to recording.


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EIQ 2021

Topic: Empathy Vs. Data: How to Marry Two Divergent Forces & Drive Your Email Forward

Data-driven programs are the gold standard of email. But now more than ever, empathy is a pivotal force for companies when it comes to their email programs, clients and other stakeholders. Dive deep with experts from various backgrounds on how to leverage data while creating authentic inbox experiences in a post-COVID environment.

Mandy Huang (Goldman Sachs), Naomi West (Invoice2Go) & Melissa Pringle (Ansira)

Link to recording.

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Digital Summit Dec 2021

Topic: How Invoice2go uses email to build long-term relationships

Email marketing can be used to drive buyer retention or the opposite of scaring your contacts straight into unsubscribing. Striking a balance between remaining top of mind, and top of the inbox, and the point of no turning back can be difficult to pinpoint. Developing a lifecycle-focused marketing program that touches users beyond the initial conversion point will ensure you aren’t over-communicating at times, and under-communicating at others. This session will outline a B2B case study from Invoice2go  on retention-focused email marketing in the SaaS industry. 

After this session, you’ll be able to:

  • Understand key user lifecycle moments where email can drive engagement

  • Frame your email marketing with best practices for deliverability

  • Create valuable A/B tests with scalable results

Link TBD.

Speaker

Nightmare at email camp

Topic: How to Not Spook Your Contacts: Retaining Your SaaS Subscriber for the Long Haul

Link to recording.