My Career Autobiography: How I Went From Employee To Business Owner

In this conversation with a friend, I had the opportunity to give an overview of my entire career, starting as an unpaid intern with the Detroit Pistons of the NBA, to building WordPress websites and creating content as a side hustle, to becoming Director of Marketing and Public Relations at Columbia State Community College, to working "in the agency world," in Nashville for several years, before starting Data Driven Design.

This is a raw conversation in which I unveil more behind my mission to provide the best WordPress websites for small businesses and why I'm so passionate about it.

I also talk a bit about adjustments made during the pandemic in 2020 and my vision for Data Driven Design moving forward as a successful, innovative, remote digital agency.

Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven Design, LLC and founder of The Voice Event, and The Voice Designer, has created and grown businesses via digital strategy and internet marketing for more than 15 years. His sweet spot is using analytics to design and build websites and grow the audience and revenue of businesses via SEO/Blogging, Google Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook and Instagram Ads, Social Media Content Marketing, Email Marketing and most recently, Voice App Design and Development – Alexa Skills and Google Actions. The part that he’s most passionate about is quantifying next marketing actions based on real data.