Direct eMailing & Sales Promotions Expert wanted (USA or Canadian only)

I run a large contractor-tools website with about 15,000 products. Sales have slumped, and I need an experienced person to promote new sales via email flyers, Blogs, and link building, and any other means suggested. Due to past experience, I will ONLY accept USA or Canadian residents as applicants. I also will not consider a ‘chop shop’ company to this work. I want a guy who works from his home, wants a long-term client who pays quickly, and is willing to put in the time to get results. So, if you know your stuff and can promote our trades-tools website, I’m all ears. This is a serious position, with serious compensation. ## Deliverables Please help me assess your skills by Cut/Pasting the questions below and emailing me your INLINE answers. If you’re sloppy with your answers, I’ll assume you’ll handle my account the same way. So, I’m ready to take you seriously. Please do so with me. This is a Bulletin Board ad, so emailing me directly is OK (per Rent-a-Coder’s policy).Whatever details you can share are appreciated, and I’ll likely keep your response for about a year, should other opportunities come up. Please send your reply to <Mike@[login to view URL]> . Thanks. 1) How long have you been in this SEO/SEM (or whatever you wish to call it) business? 2) How do you spend your free time? (Frankly, if you tell me you relax by reading WebMasterWorld’s SEO postings, you’re gonna get my attention!). 3) Do you have any sort of hand-tool experience? Do you know what a rebar bender is? 4) How many ‘big’ sites have you promoted? If you haven’t, OK… but tell me why I’d turn-over promotion to you. I mean, what makes you think you’re ready for this level of responsibility. Don’t B.S. I need clear answers. 5) I’m obviously out of my element here, so tell me whatever else you think I should know that will help me appreciate why I’d hire you, over the other candidates. 6) Please share your PHONE and email with me. Even if I don’t call you right away, I’ll store your response for future reference. (Your contact info is NOT a violation of RAC’s policies, since this is a Bulletin Board ad.) Thanks for taking the time to respond to my ad. ## Platform LAMP and PostGreSQL, using Smarty templates, JS, JQuery, some XML, our server uses Cent-OS. All code is custom (including the carts) within an SVN development environment. We use CSS to keep the code-to-text ratio down per Google's ranking requirements, and use Verisign, PayFlowPro, and [login to view URL] as the payment gateways. Coders can work any hours or timeframe they wish, but must be available by phone for quick contact during California, USA business hours.