35+ Years Marketing / 20+ Years Digital Marketing ...
Once-upon-a-time Portrait Artist
Krisada in Thailand: I was born in Thailand and came to the US when I was 4 yrs old
Krisada @4yrs old & Family: Meeting up with my new grandpa and grandma (not shown) in Honolulu Hawaii on our way to the mainland.
Krisada @16yrs old: Art class at Canandaigua Academy NY. I have always been an artist. Sold my first commissioned drawing in Jr. High for $20 to my wrestling coach.
Krisada Eaton 17 yrs Old - Karns HS 84 Homecoming.
Krisada Eaton 21 yrs Old. Saloon Keeper Grady's Goodtimes B'ham.
Me & My Daughter, Sumalee, when I worked for Budweiser in Birmingham Alabama, first as a sign painter and then POS marketing manager ... Circa 1995 - 2 Buds!
Krisada @30ish? yrs old: Corporate Life & Ad Agencies
Krisada @40ish? yrs old: Freelance SEO Marketing Life moving about the country. This was back in my hometown of Canandaigua NY.
Krisada @57 yrs old: +20 yrs of Work-Anywhere-Life has been great. In 2017 I started living part time in Hawaii. This was 2023, driving to Volcano House at Kilauea Volcano, Big Island HI.
About Me: Krisada Eaton v3.01
I was Born in Thailand.
We moved to the United States when I was 4 yrs old.
Honolulu was our port of entry.
In recent years I've returned to Honolulu and lived downtown in Waikaki and Ala Moana, as well as on the Big Island. That's me holding my newly "adopted" grandfather's hand in the pic. He was fond of lining us up to meet his friends to point out that my older brother and I weren't "Real" Eatons ...but my youngest brother was.
Settled into Upstate NY
My grade school days were spent in the glacier carved rolling hills and corn fields of Victor, Farmington and Canandaigua New York in the 5 Finger Lakes region south of Rochester.
Moved to Tennesseee
When I was 16, my dad relocated us to Knoxville Tennessee for his new Job at Knox Porcelain. There I finished out high school at Karns HS and later 1 yr college at ETSU and the rest at University of Tennessee.
1st Business: Portrait Artist
There wasn't much of an internet when I started my first business as a portrait artist in the early '90s.
Marketing Out of Necessity
Fine art led to graphic arts in an effort to market my own home based business which I eventually abandoned to became a full time marketing professional.
1st Corporate Marketing Job: B'ham Budwieser
My art skills landed a job as a sign painter for Birmingham Budweiser. Later I was promoted to my first corporate marketing position as their POS/Sign Shop & Events Marketing Manager.
After almost 4 years there I went through a flurry of marketing industry jobs:
- Sign Shop Production Artist
- Traditional Print Marketing Artist
- Screen Printing Art Director
- Creative Director
- Art Director
- Marketing Director
After The Birth of Google
Shortly after Google was born, I found myself learning SEO (Search Engine Optimization) while freelancing as a self taught web designer at an "Internet" Ad Agency.
I didn't know it then but I would be a freelance contractor for the rest of my life.
+20 Years Self-Employed Life
For the last +20 years, I have been a Freelance SEO Specialist with a brief interruption as a w-2 for Winn-Dixie Grocery Store as their webmaster and marketing specialist.
SEO Marketing for All Kinds of Industries
I've marketed for Luxury Real Estate Brokers, some more Ad Agencies as a white label SEO and a number of other businesses, some that I still work with.
That's My Real Life SEO Marketing Career in a nutshell.