Tom Anthony

About me:

In 2009 Tom launched IMS Strategic Internet Marketing Services. IMS uses a combination of consulting services and turn-key management of Search Engine placement, Social Media Marketing, and Internet Delivered Advertising. The company also manages and produces webinars, corporate videos, and audio and video podcasts.

Background

Born and raised in Manhattan, Tom moved to central Florida at just about the same time as starting in the Radio business while attending Winter Haven High School (Florida) in 1974. After working in broadcasting for over a decade, Tom Moved back to New York where he managed a Long Island night club (Chevy's) between 1988 and 1992.

Returning to Radio as a copy writer and eventually as production director at WMJC/WGSM Huntington, New York Tom won a BOLI (Best on Long Island) advertising award and was featured on the nationally distributed RAB great ideas reel radio commercials. Tom also won the Arbitron Great Radio Promotion award as part of the 1993 Mercury Awards. In 1993 Tom moved to Norfolk, Virginia as production director for WFOG.

In 1996 launched his own a multimedia and web-design company specializing in streaming media on the Internet. His success in this endeavor led The New York Times Company to invite his company to design and implement the New Media Marketing Plan for (then NYT owned and operated) WTKR television in Norfolk, Virginia. Other notable clients included the National Patient Advocate Foundation and Joe Cipriano Promos.

(Joe is one of the most recognized television voice talents in America, being the voice of NBC drama promos the Fox Television Network, and the Food Network).

In 2000 Tom was recruited to head the New Media division of Goodman Consulting and Technology, a Division of one of the largest certified public accounting firms based in Virginia, Goodman & Company LLC. There Tom helped launch an enormously successful web application development enterprise.

He later joined Web Teks,(www.webteks.com) a Chesapeake Virginia web development firm, as Sales Director leaving only to become an equity partner in a Virginia Beach Network Management company, Hampton Roads Host, Inc. In 2004 Tom took an equity position in Pinnacle Online Inc., and in 2005 became its Chief Executive Officer.

In 2004 Tom took an equity position in Pinnacle Online Inc., and in 2005 became its Chief Executive Officer.

Tom headed the team creating Pinnacle Wireless LLC, trading as "Atrius Technologies", by merging Pinnacle Online, Hampton Roads Host and acquiring a third technology company; Virginia Beach based TeliOn. As Chief Executive Officer, Tom led Pinnacle Wireless to end its initial fiscal year in the black.

Tom retired his position as the Chief Executive Officer and ended his direct employment by the firm to persue his interests in media. In 2007 accepted a position as the Senior Web Consultant for Web Teks, an eBusiness consulting and solutions firm headquartered in Hampton Roads,Virginia. As mentioned above Ton founded his own Internet marketing company in 2009