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Hillary Read

PPC Associates

San Mateo, CA, UNITED STATES

Content marketer fluent in blogging, social media, and digital marketing strategy

Social

Biography

Hillary Read joined the search engine marketing world in August 2011 after over 5 years of e-commerce site and product management at ivgStores, LLC, and Mercantila, Inc. Since joining PPC Associates, she has established two daily blogs: PPCAssociates.com/blog and FBPPC.com. Prior to her move to the West Coast, Hillary was a sportswriter for the Burlington (VT) Free Press and a sports copy editor for the Boston Globe. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in English; she has also spent time in New Mexico as an artist-in-residence (fiction writing) at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM. She is a sports zealot and has a working knowledge of French.

Industry Expertise (4)

Sport - Professional

Media - Print

Social Media

Advertising/Marketing

Areas of Expertise (3)

Social Media

Blogs

Branding

Accomplishments (1)

PPC Associates blog, FBPPC.com (professional)

2011-11-01

I have launched and curated two daily blogs in the world of online marketing and social media; these blogs have helped me grow the profile of PPC Associates, which has doubled in size (both revenue and # of employees) since I joined in August 2011.

Education (2)

Harvard University: Bachelor's, English 1998

Harvard University: Bachelor's, English 1998

Graduated cum laude; received several scholarships for academic merit; played varsity softball for all four years of college.

Affiliations (1)

  • PPC Associates, Harvard University

Style

Availability

  • Moderator
  • Panelist

Fees

*Will consider certain engagements for no fee