Rusty Jenkins

Rusty Jenkins

President and Co-Founder of Mergelocal.com.

Website: http://www.mergelocal.com
Woodland Hills, California, United States
Member since April 12, 2012
  • About

I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I love the hustle!

My favorite startups:

Mergelocal, Pandora, DropBox, postbox

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Most frustrating: dealing with large/slow companies / Agencies , being under-funded, not having enough hours in the day!

Most rewarding: working with people that share your passions, knowing what you do matters, choosing your work, doing what people say can't be done.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Giving up too early!

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. Learn your strengths and weaknesses. Focus on what you do best and hire what you don't do well.

2. Be passionate on your project, but remember to be humbled to remember to get feedback / criticism on an outsiders perspective. Talking to people that are not close to your project is the best way to learn, evan if you don't make exactly what they ask for.

3. Surround yourself with people smarter than yourself. Never stop selling yourself!

Full bio

Creative, Organized and Savvy Online Marketing Manager/Affiliate Marketing Manager/Sales Director/ Advertising Network Manager with a reputation for Generating Revenue & Profits, New Business Development and Strategic Partnerships. Professional with acute business acumen and record-breaking performances in Computer and Internet businesses. Strategic and Critical thinking Manager with a knack for Developing New Business Relationship as well as nurturing existing business relationships. Excellent communicator with Sales Training experience.

Key Accomplishments:
• Key member since inception, (2002) in creating a proprietary ad-serving solution that ultimately served over 80 million banner impressions daily, - AccessMedia 
• Responsible for creating business rules for the artificial intelligence that is still in use today. - USI Technologies
• Personally took sales from 5K monthly to 1.1 million monthly in 3 months, - USI Technologies

Specialties

• Sales & Marketing
• Revenue Generation
• Project Management
• Banner Campaign
• Strategic Planning
• Business Development
• Cross-Functional Teams
• Multi-Channel Marketing
• Customer Relations/Service
• Strategic Partnership