# Chris Duncan: Growth Marketer

> Growth marketer who has made his living selling and marketing his own products for over a decade. This page is Chris's application for the Marketing Specialist role at EPD Commerce (epd.com). It walks through each responsibility of the role and how his experience matches it.

## Responsibilities

- Instagram: Built a sample EPD Commerce Instagram account (https://www.instagram.com/epd.sandbox) in about 4 hours, plus a 12-page Instagram strategy proposal. Ran the Instagram for his apparel company COURAJ for 4 years.
- Landing pages and funnels: Builds with Cursor and GoHighLevel. This page was built with Cursor using Claude Opus 5.5 and is hosted on Vercel. Has also used ClickFunnels, Instapage, Unbounce, Leadpages, WordPress, and Shopify.
- Email and newsletters: Wrote COURAJ's monthly newsletter and product-launch campaigns. At Together Mobile, used personalized email campaigns to land meetings with marketing executives at Nike, LEGO, Cabela's, American Airlines, Urban Decay, Fossil, PETCO, Orbitz, Avon, Tilly's, ZARA, and Columbia Records. Uses HubSpot.
- Testimonials: Shot and edited video testimonials for LEADstrike (https://leadstrike.fit/).
- Affiliates: Ran LEADstrike's affiliate program on FirstPromoter, earned thousands as an affiliate, and built custom affiliate software for his product SupaSmart.
- Copywriting: Favorite book is Made to Stick. Focuses on avoiding the "Curse of Knowledge" and using analogies to explain complex ideas.
- Creative: Photoshop, Illustrator, Pixelmator, Affinity Designer, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, InShot, and Claude. Designed all creative assets and a video commercial for Attack Energy (https://attackhq.com/).

## Intangibles

- Industry experience: Has run ecommerce businesses on Shopify and WooCommerce, uses Stripe for LEADstrike subscriptions, and has built Stripe API and webhook integrations. Has used Shopify Payments, Authorize.net, Stripe, PayPal, and Square, and was once removed from Shopify Payments over fraud disputes. He is EPD's target market.
- Sales-based marketing: Treats marketing and sales as one discipline, with one goal: generating sales.
- Team player: Played college baseball.
- Ramp-up speed: Already knows the tools this role requires and can get up to speed quickly.

## Contact

- Email: dunc2an@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cruncan/
- Availability: Open to full-time work at EPD Commerce.