Joe Reid, Marketing Expert in Dublin, Ireland
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Joe Reid

Verified Expert  in Marketing

Marketing Expert

Location
Dublin, Ireland
Toptal Member Since
July 14, 2023

Joe is a digital marketing consultant with 12 years of experience, primarily with B2B SaaS organizations. He specialized in multiple disciplines, including UX, CRO, SEO, content marketing, SEM, paid social, and globalization at a Fortune 500 company. He also owned digital marketing end to end at several startups while working agency-side. Joe leverages this experience to deliver integrated and impactful digital marketing strategies and help organizations scale their digital marketing activity.

Project Highlights

Product Page Optimization
Contributed to the redesign of product pages on Salesforce.com, delivering over 20% uplift in leads.
SEO-focused Content Campaign
Led the creation of several web pages that became some of the largest drivers of organic traffic to the Salesforce.com website, including "What is CRM" and "What is Salesforce."
Restructuring Google Search Ads
Delivered record pipeline from online advertising with a 10x pipe-to-spend ratio from Google search ads.

Expertise

Work Experience

Senior Manager | Digital Globalization

2020 - 2023
Salesforce
  • Co-created a global tiering model for prioritization rolled out across the marketing organization, ensuring projects were right-sized and aligned with available resources.
  • Identified and implemented improvements to global web pages and coordinated the international rollout of high-priority pages. Contributed to a significant increase in lead generation from product pages.
  • Led the globalization and scale requirements for the new CMS and digital platform, shaping the product roadmap and user experience for internal and external customers and resulting in a 5x reduction in time to market for content globally.
  • Managed regional deployment and adoption of the new digital platform and marketing campaigns.

Co-founder

2020 - 2022
Against The Tide Apparel
  • Built and established a sustainable fashion brand and social enterprise.
  • Grew the Instagram following to 2,400 followers organically in a niche market by focusing on values-based marketing.
  • Generated six-figure sales with a high volume of repeat customers, of which 5% of revenue was donated to charity while educating our audience on sustainability issues with a particular focus on fast fashion.

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist | EMEA

2019 - 2020
Salesforce
  • Devised customer journey frameworks and digital guidelines to enable regional teams to deliver integrated, cross-channel digital experiences. The solutions were adopted across EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
  • Established a research, testing, and optimization program for the EMEA web team, securing dedicated resources.
  • Designed and tested a new demo experience that resulted in a globally upgraded demo experience.
  • Achieved a 16% lead uplift and a 15% pipeline YOY.

SEO Marketing Manager | EMEA

2014 - 2019
Salesforce
  • Led multiple globally impactful projects such as hreflang, Schema.org implementation, and SEO videos, improving the global search visibility of Salesforce.com.
  • Developed some of the highest traffic pages on Salesforce.com, including "What is CRM?" and "What is Salesforce?" Ranked first for "CRM" on Google and won the featured snippets space.
  • Achieved EMEA SEO traffic growth of 230% over four years, 37% YOY growth in the SEO pipeline, and a 35% ACV growth in the final year.

Online Advertising Specialist

2013 - 2014
Salesforce
  • Restructured the UK Google Ads search account, creating a high-performing model that was later replicated across EMEA.
  • Managed a seven-figure budget and delivered 35% of all leads to the UK sales team.
  • Achieved record pipeline and an average pipeline to spend of 10x for pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, exceeding targets.

Digital Marketing Manager

2011 - 2013
SiliconCloud
  • Managed between 8 to 10 clients simultaneously, delivering full digital marketing programs for each.
  • Planned and executed full digital marketing plans end to end, meeting and exceeding client lead generation targets.
  • Managed all key accounts and doubled the contract value of our two largest clients.
  • Leveraged multiple SEO tools and website crawlers (e.g., Screaming Frog) to drive results.

Product Page Optimization

https://www.salesforce.com/uk/products/sales-cloud/overview/

Contributed to the redesign of product pages on Salesforce.com, delivering over 20% uplift in leads.

Worked as part of a cross-functional team representing global stakeholders to improve the performance and scalability of Sales Cloud product pages.

Leveraging data and insights from the regional markets, I made a number of recommendations that led to the successful redesign. The final design closely maps to my original sketches. The "Get the tools you need to sell faster and succeed now." section received the most positive feedback during user research. I proposed this to answer how customers can achieve the outcomes and benefits stated elsewhere on the page.

These pages have since been iterated further in the US with a dramatic reduction in page count—heavily influenced by my page performance insights from the regional markets.

SEO-focused Content Campaign

https://www.salesforce.com/crm/what-is-crm/

Led the creation of several web pages that became some of the largest drivers of organic traffic to the Salesforce.com website, including "What is CRM" and "What is Salesforce."

Identified that Salesforce.com was no longer ranking as highly as it should for keywords such as "CRM" in EMEA. This was due to a change in the type of content appearing on SERPs. Where our product pages previously may have ranked, educational content started dominating the top positions.

Salesforce also did not rank anywhere for the term "What is Salesforce?" which meant we did not control the brand narrative. I led the team that created a series of articles designed to educate top-of-funnel prospects on the basics of CRM, Salesforce, and related topics to recapture search real estate for these highly searched terms.

We eventually ranked first for "CRM," "What is CRM," and "What is Salesforce," overtaking Microsoft, Wikipedia, and other major sites in the process. We also captured the featured snippets area and ensured our brand was highly visible on these business-critical SERPs.

The pages we created remain some of the most visible and visited organic channels on Salesforce.com.

Restructuring Google Search Ads

Delivered record pipeline from online advertising with a 10x pipe-to-spend ratio from Google search ads.

Managed the advertising accounts for the UK and Ireland, the largest EMEA market. Restructured the UK Google Ads account in my first month, and the increased performance this delivered led to the model being rolled out across EMEA. I also delivered the first seven-figure pipeline number within a single month in January 2014 with a 10x pipe to spend—my target was 8x pipe to spend.
2007 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Management and Entrepreneurship

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) - Dublin, Ireland

MARCH 2023 - MARCH 2024

Google Ads Search Certification

Google

JUNE 2016 - PRESENT

UX Foundation Training

UX Design Institute

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