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Blog on Anthony Sharot Freelancer of the Year 2009 Marketing Category Winner

by Angela

Anthony Sharot won Freelancer of the Year award Marketing Category Winner for SEO and PPC work for Wellcome Trust. What did he do to deserve it?

Anthony won his award for the audit of four Wellcome Trust websites, and presenting a report on each covering Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click and web analytics - basically analysing which key words attracted people to read the websites and on each page find it easy to take action to contact the company.

Anthony’s company, Market Appeal, works to help both new and established companies improve websites to reach their target market and connect potential buyers with the services they are seeking. He also does in-house training so that staff in different branches of a big company can set up and monitor the effectiveness of their websites.

Whilst still at Merchant Taylors School, Anthony won an award for Young Enterprise. Anthony’s background includes a degree and postgraduate studies from Brunel university. His early sales experience included working in retail shops, telephone sales and in-home sales visits. His skills and work experience are varied, ranging from the practical, engineering - to people-orientated - cv writing. His Master of Arts was in a branch of psychology, Psychoanalytic Studies. His qualifications include one from The Society of Medical NLP, earned studying NLP with doctors - involving analysis of language, positive thinking, motivation and personality types.

He worked in recruitment. Then he set up his own cv-writing company. You can read an extensive list of his clients on business networking site LinkedIn. Or read about him on Facebook.

And the future? He is helping companies expand globally. He and his family have lived in England, the USA (where he was at school), and Singapore. By the age of 13 he had travelled to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, ski-ing on the demanding black slopes in all those countries. Now he can offer help setting up effective websites in European languages, French, German and more, as well as others such as Mandarin, Hebrew and Hindi.

What does he need? More work? A steady girlfriend? As Anthony says on LinkedIn, ‘I'm always on the look out for a new challenge.’

The award was sponsored by Haymarket, who run http://www.BrandRepublic.com/, http://www.Campaignlive.co.uk/ and http://www.Marketingmagazine.co.uk/. Their Online Marketing Manager Stephen Dodds presented the award to Anthony, and Neil Hamilton, a headhunter at Xchangeteam who first nominated Anthony.

PS Kind comment from friend and journalist Yvonne Plaut:

What a fabulous achievement but then with parents like you I am not in the least surprised.

A very hearty congratulations to both of you, and above all Anthony

Yvonne

Humorous comment from ‘Shan-Shan’ - Huang Shanshan, Regional Business Director

Peach Interactive, also Red Research, in Singapore:
Wow! He's so bright and capable. How come his folks genes are different...

Companies needing help or journalists seeking interviews please contact:

Anthony Sharot

Search Director

Market Appeal

Tel: 07956 990 216

anthony@marketappeal.co.uk