Michael Wilcher
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Michael Wilcher

Philosopher + Content Strategist in Cambridge, UK

Rethinking Content Strategy

4 months ago

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Virginia Beach, VA

I manage a team of 9 content writers create content for 23 websites in our portfolio that together form an organic content marketing channel generating upwards of $220-million in net sales in 2023.

Biggest Wins: Improved overall content output of web pages created and updated per month from 12/month to 240/month (+95%) which contributed to +91%YoY Qualified Lead Volume growth through the Organic Marketing Channel, +33% sold leads YoY, and +3.87% sales YoY

2022 — 2023
Virginia Beach, VA

I managed search optimizations across 23 websites in the company portfolio with an emphasis on research-heavy localized content.

Biggest Win: Scaled content creation for a +$1bn national company with top-down automated workflows, standardization, and templating. Promoted to SEO Content Lead.

2020 — 2022
Virginia Beach, VA

I led content strategy and SEO for a fast-growing e-commerce platform and maintained a calendar spanning both blog and Youtube content.

Biggest Win: +600% blog traffic YoY and +35% sales YoY

2016 — 2018
Virginia Beach, VA

Conducted one-on-one tutoring sessions undergraduate, graduate, and research postgraduate students.

Biggest Win: +1,500 hours of turning terrible writing into great writing.

Education

2016 — 2018
MTS at Regent University
Virginia Beach, VA
2011 — 2015
BA in Communications at Regent University
Virginia Beach, VA

Projects

2024

Goodie Radio is a passion project that I hope to build out into a full-scale music-centered content hub. For now, it showcases the albums that that I listen to every day, has a couple of simple surveys, and lists numerous resources and methods that you can use to to find new music.

2024

At Groundworks, we launched a Youtube channel focused on answering our customers top queries. In conjunction with our Creative Department, I contributed to the project with keyword research, scripting, and editing the scripts drafted by our team of content writers. We created these videos to be able to be broken up into 1 long-form video with 2-3 other short-form videos to meet organic search queries on Youtube and Google, and to show up in For You results in Youtube and Tik Tok.

Videos in the project include:

2022

We launched an organic search Youtube campaign for Dayspring Pens' in 2022. My contribution to the project included keyword research, scripting, and hosting a few of the videos myself.

Other videos from this project include:

Awards

2020

MPhil Examiner’s Award for excellent dissertation in the field of Philosophy of Religion

2017
Robertson Endowed Honors Scholarship from Regent University

A full scholarship for academic achievement in Theological Studies.

2016
Fred W. Beazley Endowed Scholarship from Regent University

A full scholarship for academic achievement in Theological Studies.

Certifications

2023
2023
Intermediate JavaScript from Codecademy

Speaking

2020
Cambridge, UK

I chaired this panel at the University of Cambridge in which up-and-coming academics in the field of philosophical theology presented papers on the possibility of Trinitarian ontology in the post-modern world on the theme of absoluteness and nothingness.

GitHub