I'm Lydia B. Fiedler, a curious and communicative professional who thrives on creating engaging marketing copy and nurturing online communities. I enjoy writing, product marketing, and teaching while embracing the unique challenges that come with managing large-scale online platforms. Technology excites me, having extensively beta tested popular social media tools and continually adopting new innovations. With an MBA in Marketing and a background in Slavic Linguistics and English, I combine logical thinking and coding experience to effectively debug and optimize processes. My work ranges from lifecycle marketing in retail to community management of one of the largest papercrafting online communities, ensuring brand consistency and driving engagement through multiple digital channels.

Lydia B. Fiedler

I'm Lydia B. Fiedler, a curious and communicative professional who thrives on creating engaging marketing copy and nurturing online communities. I enjoy writing, product marketing, and teaching while embracing the unique challenges that come with managing large-scale online platforms. Technology excites me, having extensively beta tested popular social media tools and continually adopting new innovations. With an MBA in Marketing and a background in Slavic Linguistics and English, I combine logical thinking and coding experience to effectively debug and optimize processes. My work ranges from lifecycle marketing in retail to community management of one of the largest papercrafting online communities, ensuring brand consistency and driving engagement through multiple digital channels.

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I’m Lydia B. Fiedler, a curious and communicative professional who thrives on creating engaging marketing copy and nurturing online communities. I enjoy writing, product marketing, and teaching while embracing the unique challenges that come with managing large-scale online platforms. Technology excites me, having extensively beta tested popular social media tools and continually adopting new innovations.

With an MBA in Marketing and a background in Slavic Linguistics and English, I combine logical thinking and coding experience to effectively debug and optimize processes. My work ranges from lifecycle marketing in retail to community management of one of the largest papercrafting online communities, ensuring brand consistency and driving engagement through multiple digital channels.

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Language

English
Fluent
Russian
Advanced

Work Experience

Lifecycle Marketing at GNC
February 1, 2024 - Present
Manage email builds for GNC Canada and deploy SMS and push notifications for the US promotional audiences. Responsible for platforms used by franchise operations, including building templates and content that ensure brand voice standards. Create and test browser push messaging, abandoned cart flows, with GNC sending 5 billion DTC messages per year.
Community & Content Manager at Internet Brands
April 1, 2010 - Present
Manage the internet's largest papercrafting community with over 317,000 members and 550,000 monthly unique visitors. Responsibilities include creating site-wide initiatives, managing member issues and policies, providing technical support, collaborating with advertisers, driving traffic with social media content, growing social platforms organically, producing weekly newsletters to 235,000 subscribers, designing and managing site upgrades, sending email marketing campaigns for craft industry manufacturers, and producing videos and blog posts.
Director of Market Development at Nirvana Systems
January 1, 2010 - August 22, 2025
Responsible for all facets of product marketing for technical analysis and stock trading software, including direct mail campaigns, PR, advertising, training seminars, web marketing, graphic design, lead generation, viral marketing, and media buys.
Director of Marketing & Public Relations at Facility Solutions Group
January 1, 2008 - August 22, 2025
Oversaw corporate communications and PR strategy, created marketing materials and direct mail campaigns, managed internet marketing, handled external and internal communications, newsletters, advertising, promotions, and pre-sale/RFP/account management for Fortune 500 National Accounts. Developed interactive catalogs and attributed lighting products using Progress programming language. Founded HR department, managed payroll, benefits, employee dispute resolution, and received two President's Awards for employee orientation and best place to work. Started in Accounts Payable and moved into Operations Development conducting training and process improvement.

Education

MBA In Marketing at St. Edward's University
January 11, 2030 - August 22, 2025
MA In Slavic Linguistics at University Of Texas, Austin
January 11, 2030 - August 22, 2025
BA In English, Russian Studies at University Of Rochester
January 11, 2030 - August 22, 2025

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Retail, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Consumer Goods