I started The Thirsty Pig in 2008 as a food & travel blog. The journal has posts and photographs about Shanghai, Los Angeles Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong and many more places. The Thirsty Pig has been featured in City Weekend and Talk Magazine.
- An English language blog, first based in Los Angeles, then in Shanghai for 5 years, and now returned back to LA.
- Organically grown audience as one of the top Shanghai bloggers, through network of relationships and collaborations with public relations companies, related subject-matter bloggers & marketers, and restaurateurs.
- Created and maintained an online marketing strategy to organically grow traffic by developing collaborators, link exchanges, and participating in the online blogging community.
- Successfully maintained growth while migrated from Blogger.com to a Wordpress CMS and a transition of subject matter from Los Angeles to Shanghai market in 1st quarter 2010.
- Rudimentary Search Engine Optimization (SEO) skills
- At its peak, in 2013 analytics highlights include 16,000+ monthly page views, 7000+ visits.
- Social Media stats include Instagram with 850+ followers, Facebook Page with 450+ likes, Twitter with 6600+ tweets & 1050+ followers
- Additional experience with Google Adwords, Wordpress plug-ins, Hootsuite, Mailchimp, Survey Monkey, Plurk, Foursquare, Tumblr, Plurk, Weibo, Tencent QQ, Yelp.
