Sharath Verghese
Coffee, Puns, Sriracha, Dogs, Internets.
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- Search Marketing Associate at POSSIBLEMarketing and Advertising | Greater Seattle Area, USSummary
SEO dude, digital strategist, and aspiring copywriter getting my feet wet in the world of advertising. Puns are the highest form of humor and coffee is a food group.
Specialties: Digital Marketing, Making Eggs, Social Media Use and Abuse, SEM, SEO, PPC & Display Advertising, Saying Hi to Dogs, Prolific Hair Growth, Web Analytics, Carrying on Conversations with Dogs.
Experience- Mar 2013 - PresentCopywriting Intern / Wexley School for Girls
Tacos. Jerky. Burritos.
- Jan 2012 - PresentSearch Marketing Associate / POSSIBLE
Clients: Microsoft Hardware, Microsoft Visual Studio, Audi USA, Mitsubishi Motors North America, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Cochlear.
- Oct 2011 - Jan 2012Media Services Intern / ZAAZ
Provide support for ZAAZ's paid search accounts and SEO campaigns for tier 1 and 2 clients including: Microsoft, Mazda, Alaska Airlines, Audi, KB Homes, Godiva and TUI Marine. Perform keyword research to identify opportunities for paid and organic campaign optimization, generate weekly client KPI reports, write ad copy and html tags, and assist in SEO audits.
- Jun 2010 - Oct 2011Marketing Manager / Inkd
Oversee online marketing for Inkd. Evaluate and maintain display advertising campaigns, manage and grow social media presence, generate and pursue business development relationships, and manage existing strategic partnerships
- Jan 2010 - May 2010PR/Marketing Intern / EnergySavvy.com
Helped to implement E-mail/Social Media Marketing for EnergySavvy’s initial product launch in January of 2010.
- Apr 2009 - Jul 2009Community Marketing Intern / Wetpaint
As a Community Marketing Intern at Wetpaint, I worked with the Community activation team to build, maintain, and grow our network communities employing Social Media, SEO/SEM, and and analytics tools such as Google Analytics, and Omniture suite.
Education-
2007 - 2011Seattle UniversityBachelor Of Business Administration in Business Economics
Activities: Engineers Without Borders, Core Honors Student Advisory Board -
2003 - 2007Lasalle High School
- School of Visual ConceptsAdvertising Copywriting
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Tweets
- RT @NickBossRoss: Getting a tattoo so I finally have something to talk to people about.May 28, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- 13 dads. One office chili cook off.May 28, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @TessCheatle You know what they say...A selfie a day keeps meaningful relationships with other well-adjusted humans away.
- Drinking a Superfuzz Blood Orange Pale by @elysianbrewing — http://t.co/kXDbh2MIMx
- Finished AD season 4. Now I won't feel left out when all the other schoolchildren at work talk about it near the tire swing tomorrow.
- MARITIME LAW. TAKE TO THE SEA.
- Oh my fucking god. Halliburton Teen. My diaphragm. It hurts.
- Zack really likes Daft Punk. https://t.co/0Uh3xNpqZU
- RT @mattkesselring: @Monochromeseas I'll be live tweeting the weekend as "@Sharathsjorts" while wearing a tie-dyed belly deep v. Keep an ey…May 24, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @mattkesselring Mostly my pre-cut jean shorts, Iron and Wine crop Top, and culturally insensitive native american headdress.
- So excited to Instagram myself and my festival-wear at Sasquatch, you guys.May 24, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @mpwriter: Apparently, gif is pronounced "jif." Jood news for jraphic designers, jraphic novelists, jrandfathers and jrigjori rasputin.May 23, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- So I think playstation played their reveal much much much better. Here is one of many reasons: https://t.co/hy4bxeQ0xfMay 23, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Uh yes. https://t.co/icKINJ8EnBMay 23, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Good morning indeed. http://t.co/pFM8RxkjH6May 23, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- It's only Wednesday. Shit.
- @kumailn I cared when I could play FFVII on my PS2.
- @biancayvonne Yeah. Once again Xbox targets it's core demographic of bros who eat at Fox Sports grill three times a week with their wives.
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Posts
My first three pieces for the Lazer Lips and Glass Helmets art show at Secret Headquarters with Toby Cypress. Opens 3/1, with art on display all month!
Venus I: Eyes on your coordinates
Venus II: We are perfectly alright
Venus III: Never tire of killing time
- Hi. I’m a Rich Media Banner Ad, and I’m in love with you.
Much to my despair, McSweeney’s ran a piece about banner ads a few days before I got contacted by the editor. Blergh. Thought I’d throw it on here for more giggles than shits. Enjoi!
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Hi. I’m a Rich Media Banner Ad, and I’m in love with you.
By sharath Verghese
Dear Laurenw@gmail.com,
Hi, Lauren. Ok. So your name might not be Lauren, but I took the liberty of rooting through your Amazon.com shipping history and matched it with your LinkedIn account email. Sorry for the intrusion. Hey, at least I’m not going through your inbox for credit card info right? Ha ha…ha. Sorry that was a joke.
Maybe we got off on the wrong foot. Well at least you did. I don’t have feet. But I play guitar and make a mean omelet! Nothing? All right, maybe it’s too soon for humor. I was previously living above the fold on Funnyordie.com. Thought I’d try a shot at my dream of standup comedy. But then one fateful morning I got retargeted.
I remember that morning like it was three weeks ago mostly because it was exactly three weeks ago. The time was 3:57:07 AM PST. I was no longer serving a Red Bull ad to an 18-25 year old male somewhere in the Scottsdale, Arizona area. The clock struck the millisecond and I got a whiff of your intoxicating browser cookies. I remember the first time I saw you…You were casually browsing Bedbathandbeyond.com for Ramekins… Le Creuset Stoneware if I remember correctly. I must say, you have fantastic taste, my dear. I didn’t want to frighten you with my zeal, so I admired you from afar. You were so cute flitting about the kitchenware section of the site, browsing colors, and then jumping the page to look at lemon zesters. My pixels fluttered like I was a little 300x250 banner again. Shoot the duck and win 7 iPhone 5’s. Ah, when we were young.
You then decided to read an article on Jezebel. I felt that my moment had finally arrived. As soon as you clicked through the search result, I swallowed my fear and took the biggest chance of my rectangular life.
When the page resolved there I was: above the fold, top right, flashing a carousel of colorful immersion blenders. I’ve heard human women typically like flowers, but it was the best I could do based on your browsing history. I nervously presented to you the line that I’d been going over in my head for hours: 25% off all blenders at Sur La Table! If I had palms, they would have been sweaty at this point.
You locked eyes with my display for a moment. It was the first time I looked into those gorgeous green orbs. There seemed to be an ethereal light in your eyes. I assume your screen brightness was maxed out. You skimmed the article and left. My Adobe Flash Player supported heart sank.
But I couldn’t let you out of my life that easily. I knew right then that we are meant to be together. Through the course of those 2 minutes and 15 seconds I fell in love with you, LaurenW@gmail.com. Deeply, foolishly in love.
So I began to follow you around the web. You live a fascinating and active online life. For weeks wherever you went there too was I, serving you elaborate animations of whisks, and spatulas, and muffin trays hoping you’d notice me. I know it may seem stalkerish…and I guess it is, but it has only deepened my longing for you. For instance, I learned that you studied human-computer interaction at The University of Washington and actually made banner ads as a first job. Can’t you see we’re made for each other, my love? There’s something special about the way you Google for bar happy hour menus and browse Pinterest for crochet art. Something gentle, graceful, even. Something that is so pure it transcends the uncanny valley between us and stirs the very essence of my digitized soul. Oh, LaurenW@gmail.com let us show the World Wide Web what human-computer interaction truly means! I am not ashamed of our love. I would shout it from the highest screen resolutions:
CYBERSPACE, I AM IN LOVE WITH LAURENW@GMAIL.COM! AND I DON’T CARE WHO KNOWS IT!
I’m terrified to think about what will become of me if I never get to see you again. I imagine I would fall into a pit of despair, pushing knock-off erectile dysfunction pills on a porn site somewhere, or anti-gay marriage petitions on Christianmingle.com. The very thought of losing you is far too much for me to bear.
So here I am writing you this letter, looking in longingly through your open browser window, and praying you feel the same. Free breadsticks with any medium sized pizza! The words of my heart sing within the confines of my meager frame hoping to move yours. Please tell me you have room enough on the homepage of your soul for a kind and loving piece of display media. All I ask of you is one chance… just one click.
I’ll be waiting.
Love,
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POPE FRANCIS UNDERWOOD
HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP. HAILING FROM SOUTH CAROLINA’S 5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Sandy Smith - Firewall, 2005
The Firewall was a 10ft high wall, entirely made from computer equipment, that divided the gallery space in two. It uses around 90 computers and 26 monitors, and uses music from Daft Punk’s “Homework” album. As all the computers face the same direction, it creates 2 distinctly different spaces, which the viewer must move under an arch of monitors to walk from one side to another. The monitors display standard Windows/Apple desktops, but with different flat colour backgrounds. These monitors light the front space with a strange fragmented light, while the rear space is lit by a small sodium lamp, positioned facing the corner to dull the light.
