Alicia Navarro

Alicia Navarro is CEO and Co-founder of Skimlinks, a content monetization platform that helps websites get rewarded for the purchase intent created in their content. Prior to launching Skimlinks, she worked for over 10 years designing and launching mobile and internet-based applications in Australia and the UK. Since 2007, Alicia has grown the company to over 85 employees across offices in London, San Francisco and New York City.

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Alicia NavarroTuesday, March 15, 2016

Skimlinks Data Provider Checklist – Asking the Right Questions

Until recently, digital marketers and ad agency professionals who were looking to make programmatic ad buys confronted a black box data scenario. Most aren’t engineers or data scientists, and they had to take a leap of faith and trust the data provider’s claims about data quality, reviewing results after implementation — and after the purchase was already made. But what…

It all started as a book club.

Yes, I’m serious. I started my work on the web more than two decades ago. My first site was Helping Hand, which curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and navigate resources on the Internet. Years later, I sold the domain to a company that helped folks quit smoking, one of my first big contracts.

I began blogging on Blogger and waxed poetic about everything from politics to Internet tools. I was all over the place and mostly wrote for myself – without much of an audience. I belonged to a Marketing Book club in Indianapolis that quickly grew out of control. Over time, I discovered that more and more of the group were coming to me for technology advice. The combination of my technology background and my business and marketing acumen was in high demand as the Internet rapidly changed the industry.

After reading Naked Conversations, I was motivated to better brand and control the content on the site. I also wanted more control over the look and feel of my blog, so I moved to my domain in 2006 and built my first WordPress site. Since I was focused on marketing technology, I didn’t want the domain with my name to get in the way, so I moved the site (painfully) to its new domain in 2008 where it’s grown ever since.

The Martech Zone is owned and operated by DK New Media, LLC, a company I started in 2009. After working with virtually every major online marketing department in my tenure at ExactTarget and launching Compendium, I knew there was a great demand for my expertise and guidance within such a complex industry.

DK New Media oversees my consulting, publications, podcasts, workshops, webinars, and speaking opportunities. Highbridge, my agency with two other partners, helps companies maximize their investment in sales, marketing, and related products. We offer integration, migration, training, strategic consulting, and custom development.

Thank you so much for your support over the years!

Douglas Karr
CEO, DK New Media

Skimlinks Data Provider Checklist – Asking the Right Questions

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