Experience
Drew Horine is an online marketing veteran. He laid out his first yellow-page ad in the 80′s at age fourteen and built his first website in 1996.
In 2,000, Drew opened up Aim Forward Design Studios and learned what it means to tough it out through difficult times like the dot-com crash and 9/11. Not only did he survive, but he managed to make his clients pretty successful in the process.
Dream Vacations, for example, went from a little two-person operation to the number one Apple Vacations reseller on the planet – increasing sales by the millions. By the way, they still hold that title today.
Drew was recruited by Anderson Communications to work on high-profile client websites in 2006. Anderson was the South Carolina Lowcountry’s premier advertising agency, located on the sub-tropical island of Hilton Head.
Initially hired as the senior web developer, Drew’s success quickly elevated him to manager of the entire web department. Clients like Savannah, Georgia’s Convention & Visitors Bureau and Pulte Home (Sun City & Del Webb Communities) benefited from this success through increased traffic, growing opt-in subscriptions and higher conversion rates.
Today, Drew heads up the Web Marketing Department at Hallelujah Acres (HA) in Shelby, NC. The company teaches health and nutrition through seminars and publications with a strong mail-order business, local health-food store and a real estate development for health-minded individuals.
Since then, HA has seen a 55% growth of E-Commerce revenues. Facebook fans have grown from 0 (yes, zero) to over 10,000 with 89% monthly interaction. Opt-in email subscribers have grown from 30,000 to over 100,000, with an average of 20-25% open rates.
Community Involvement
Drew spends his weekends teaching elementary-age kids what it means to be a true superhero through life-lessons and character education.
“Today’s kids will be running our world in a very short time. If we can teach them at an early age to take responsibility for themselves and strive for excellence, we can change the world in the next generation.”
