Mike Duncan
CEO
Mike Duncan is a third-generation Wilmington native and UNCW alumnus. Not wanting to stray far from the beach, in 1997 he co-founded Sage Island, a local marketing agency. As CEO and Creative Director, Mike oversees a staff of 20 talented marketing strategists, graphic designers, and programmers. Sage Island began as a custom programming company serving high-profile government sector clients including OSHA. The agency quickly expanded into commercial web design and eventually full-service marketing. Today, Sage Island has built a powerful reputation through award-winning designs, brand strategy, and internet marketing services, including search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising. Using a fully integrated approach, the agency combines interactive and traditional marketing services to successfully increase visibility for local businesses as well as Fortune 500 companies both nationally and internationally. An avid surfer and skateboarder, Mike channeled his passion for action sports in 2002 to found Warehouse Skateboards. The online skateboard retail company has since grown to become one of the biggest skateboard retailers on the Web. His experiences as a retailer led him to co-found the Board Retailers Association in 2004, a trade organization that represents over 3,000 storefronts in the action sports industry.
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Job Opening for a Front-End Web Developer / Web Programmer
Summary
Are you a hardcore Front End Programmer or UI Developer?
Do you live, breathe and eat HTML/CSS/JavaScript?
Are you looking for an opportunity in the Wrightsville Beach, NC area?
If so, please read ahead..
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This is a great opportunity to be a part of a high-quality team that is responsible for the development of large-scale, customer-facing websites. This person will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge web technologies, including HTML5 / CSS3 and JQuery!
What you’ll be doing
- Develop high quality, great looking, cross-browser web applications
- Work closely with visual and interaction designers, product managers and back-end engineers
- Translate UI requirements and art direction into clean and stable code
- Working closely with developers and programmers to develop the company’s front end design
What’s in it for you
- Excellent compensation package commensurate with experience
- Company paid medical, health, and dental insurance
- Casual work environment
- Paid vacation and holidays
What you need
- Experience building / developing XHTML based web pages for high traffic websites
- Expert-level hand-coded, standard compliant, cross-browser supported JavaScript and CSS 2/ 3
- Experience performing cross-browser compatibility testing & adhering to 508 Compliance / W3C Standards
- Ability to provide significant input to user interface and look and feel functionality requirements
- Excellent proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
- Ability to quickly learn and understand internal systems and methodologies
- Dot Net Nuke / WordPress development experience
- Nice to have .NET architecture (ASP.NET, Silverlight, C#, SQLServer)
- Minimum of 3 years experience in web development
- Recent Portfolio/work examples showcasing web/interface design examples
Send cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to jobs@sageisland.com.
Specify Front End Web Developer on cover letter.
Job Opening for an Account Executive
Summary
Sage Island is seeking an Account Executive to serve as the liaison between clients and the agency. The Account Executive partners with the client to understand their overall business objectives in the sales and development stages of a project and leads in the development of marketing strategies to meet the client’s objectives.
- Build business relationship with potential customers to assess their needs and propose appropriate marketing services
- Able to lead and develop sound, results-oriented, strategic recommendations based on clear understanding of each client’s customers, competition, industry and business
- Fully understands and recommend agency services
- Manage all aspects of the project from start to finish
- Develop, administer, and communicate project details and schedules to manage both agency and client expectations and ensure jobs deliver on time to the highest level of excellence
- Demonstrates “can do” attitude and does whatever it takes to get the job done
Skills/Abilities & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3 years digital marketing experience; agency experience preferred
- Strong project management skills
- Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal
- Proven track record in planning and managing website development & marketing campaigns
- Experience scoping, planning and managing technical projects a plus
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong client relationships
- Strong decision-making, organizational, planning and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced work environment.
- Ability to create and manage budgets and manage internal teams to get the job done
- Self starter with a positive attitude, can work independently yet be a pivotal team player
Full-time with benefits package. Send cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to jobs@sageisland.com. Specify Account Executive on cover letter.
Effective E-Commerce Strategies
Strengthen your website with Integrated Marketing
ASD Trade Show was established in 1961. They are one of the nation’s largest merchandise trade events in the industry, with over 3000 exhibitors and 45,000 retailers from all over the world, held in March & August. ASD Las Vegas showcases 4 major verticals—Gift & Toy, Jewelry, Style/Beauty, and Value & Variety. The Show runs February 27-March 2, 2010 at the Sands Expo Center. Sage Island’s CEO Mike Duncan will be giving two one hour seminars on Monday, Feb. 28th and Tuesday, March 1st. For more info on ASD Trade show visit their website at www.asdonline.com.
Mike is scheduled to speak on Feb. 28 and March 1st. His seminar “Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan” will teach business owners the tactics behind growing an online brand.
Check out the seminar schedule.
Strengthening Your Website through an Integrated Marketing Plan
Your website is a critical component of your business. At a time when online competition has never been so fierce, it’s crucial to ensure that qualified traffic is coming to your site. This seminar, presented my Mike Duncan, CEO of Sage Island addresses the necessity of a well designed, innovative website, and how to properly market it through a hands on approach of planning, analysis, and optimization. Mike speaks to the art of SEO and PPC tactics, successful eCommerce strategies, and how to properly utilize social media platforms to drive results and maximize your bottom line.
ASD Trade Show invites Sage Island to present!
ASD Trade Show was established in 1961. They are one of the nation’s largest merchandise trade events in the industry, with over 3000 exhibitors and 45,000 retailers from all over the world, held in March & August. ASD Las Vegas showcases 4 major verticals—Gift & Toy, Jewelry, Style/Beauty, and Value & Variety. The Show runs February 27-March 2, 2010 at the Sands Expo Center. Sage Island’s CEO Mike Duncan will be giving two one hour seminars on Monday, Feb. 28th and Tuesday, March 1st. For more info on ASD Trade show visit their website at www.asdonline.com.
Mike is scheduled to speak on Feb. 28 and March 1st. His seminar “Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan” will teach business owners the tactics behind growing an online brand.
Strengthening Your Website through an Integrated Marketing Plan
Your website is a critical component of your business. At a time when online competition has never been so fierce, it’s crucial to ensure that qualified traffic is coming to your site. This seminar, presented my Mike Duncan, CEO of Sage Island addresses the necessity of a well designed, innovative website, and how to properly market it through a hands on approach of planning, analysis, and optimization. Mike speaks to the art of SEO and PPC tactics, successful eCommerce strategies, and how to properly utilize social media platforms to drive results and maximize your bottom line.
BizTech Conference & Expo – Wilmington, NC
The BIZTECH CONFERENCE & EXPO is a two-day event featuring the region’s most successful people in business and technology. http://www.wilmingtonbiz.com/biztech/
Keynote speakers, seminars and the expo will help companies and their employees develop professionally, make new connections and reach new customers. Topics include:
Strategies to finance your business, social media marketing, search engine optimization, internet marketing and more!
Perspective Internet Marketing & Sage Island will be just a couple of the Seminar Sponsors. BIZTECH SEMINARS
- The Rise of Health Information Exchanges
- Microsoft’s View of the Cloud
- Facebook Marketing Campaigns — Strategy to Metrics
- Strengthening Your Website’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan
- The Future of IT
- Lessons in Leadership
- Cyber Security
- How to value your business
We are excited to be a part of this special event featuring the area’s most successful people in business and technology, including our very own Mike Duncan. The expo, held at the new Wilmington Convention Center will include keynote speakers, seminars, and over 100 exhibitors. The event will help connect employees with new customers and will include an all start line up of educational internet marketing seminars.
Mike is scheduled to speak on the 14th from 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. His seminar “Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan” will teach business owners the tactics behind growing an online brand.
Don’t miss the areas largest business event! For full Biz Tech Schedule and to get your tickets click here!
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