Jon Pape is an Internet Marketer from Grand Rapids, Michigan who specializes in Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). His current company, Meijer, is one of the largest privately owned companies in the United States and the twelfth largest retailer in the country.
At his last company, Jon acted as Director of Internet Marketing and oversaw a marketing budget of approximately 10 million a year, managed several brands, Google, Yahoo and MSN pay-per-click campaigns and SEO, a large variety of micro-sites, comparative search across seven providers such as Google Product Search, Yahoo Product, Shopzilla.com, Smarter.com, Pricegrabber.com, Shopping.com, and Become.com. As a team leader, Jon was integral in getting Google Checkout, an alternative payment system, integrated into a complex ordering system and supply chain.
Previously, Jon worked as an Internet Traffic Manager at Hotel.com (later Expedia Specialty Product) and helped build a small intranet for the Grand Haven branch. He was also responsible for researching XML data feeds between different branches of the company concerning his divisions product feed.
Jon also worked briefly as a freelance web developer after graduating from Davenport University. He specialized in PHP programming and primarily customized open-source applications (OSCommerce) for small clients. Jon was a good programmer but bad at billing customers and still has a problem not charging friends and relatives for web development work and computer repair.