Alan Thompson-General Manager

Alan Thompson is the chief technical marketing consultant for Gold Rush Consultants. Alan specializes in search engine optimization, web site development and management, Internet marketing services, and customer retention.

Alan's extensive business communications and marketing background includes:
  • Internet Marketing Consultant for over four years. Providing web site function and content development, "virtual webmastering," search engine positioning and marketing management. Specialized in search engine optimization, with over 100 sites optimized to date.
  • Ten years' experience in business to business and consumer marketing and sales management
  • Sales and marketing materials development and presentation, with more than 100 marketing seminars conducted nationwide
  • Accomplished writer with over ten years of professional writing experience:
    • 3 years' experience with newsletter writing and editing for a technical sales and marketing newsletter for the microwave communications industry
    • 5 years' experience providing customer service training, telemarketing sales training, and marketing materials development
    • Authored more than 40 sales and marketing articles for a national industry trade magazine
  • Past clients have included Oracle, Netscape, Iomega, Qualcomm, NEC, Palm Computing, Hewlett Packard, Hyperion, Silicon Graphics, Remedy, Platinum Technology, and PeopleSoft

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Debra Webster, Writer/Designer
Gold Rush Consultants
2711 Mosquito Road
Placerville, CA 95667
Phone: 530-409-0132
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