Chris Lake

Name	Chris Lake
Job Title	Director of Product Development
Organization	Econsultancy
Member Level	Staff
Member Since	17 Nov 2003
Areas of Expertise	E-commerce, Social Media, Search Marketing - Organic/Natural (SEO), Strategy and Planning, User Experience and Usability

About Me

<b>I am Director of Innovation at Econsultancy, an entrepreneur and a long-term internet fiend.</b>

I started my career in magazine publishing, moved to London as the dotcom boom kicked off, worked in a (non-digital) agency for a year, lucked into a job as a technology journalist, and then in 2003 joined Econsultancy as editor (CEO Ashley Friedlein's first hire, back when we were a bona fide startup).

When I joined I knew the basics, but I wanted to gain practical knowledge about how e-commerce and digital marketing actually works. I have since learned a great deal about the internet industry.

In the past eight years I've moved from editor, to editor in chief, to director of innovation, my current role.

In my spare time I like to listen to The Fall, among other things.

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My Links

My Econsultancy blog
I regularly blog about my favourite subjects, including: social media, SEO, startupland, usability and optimisation, mobile, publishing, multichannel and customer retention.

My entertainment and celebrity gossip blog
I launched Hecklerspray.com in 2005. It now attracts around 750,000 unique users per month and was named as one of the 'top 50 most powerful blogs in the world'.

My LinkedIn profile
Hook up with me on LinkedIn if you'd like to.

My Twitter feed
Tweets, retweets, links and random observations, and 95% of the time it is internet-focused (no catfood updates). Follow me up!

The stuff I listen to
From Ariel Pink to the Theme From The Waltons. It's all in here at Last.fm.