CMO & Ops Architect

• Nov 2022 - Present

Project Manager + Operations Consultant

• Mar 2022 - Dec 2022

Want to get yourself and your company out of Slack Hell and/or Email Hell? Feel like you and your team waste hours upon hours each week in meetings? Or that things get agreed to in meetings but then fall into a void with no clear ownership & next steps? Maybe you struggle with understanding how much bandwith your team members have.... ....if their work time is being used effectively.... ....or when the right time to start the recruiting and hiring process is.... ....or you're blind when it comes to knowing how *truly* profitable your company is on the various things it offers.... These are the things the Sniper Operations team can resolve for your company. Contact me at steven.d@yoursalessniper.com to share the most painful issues in your business & see if the Sniper Ops team can help fix them. Show less

Head of Marketing & Growth

• Oct 2019 - Dec 2021

Litterati members all across the Earth are working together virtually to clean the planet. When a member of the team picks up a piece of litter while using the Litterati app on their phone, they capture key data on what was polluting the area. Each piece picked up contributes to a larger set of LitterData. This LitterData is being used to create more effective environmental solutions in our neighborhoods, communities, cities, countries, and for the world as a whole. Armed with this data, individuals & organizations are now significantly more able to influence policy changes by local governments, national governments, and corporations that are good for the environment. Instead of being "just one less piece of litter" on Earth amongst billions of them.... ....every piece matters. Every piece is powerful, important, and valuable. And as more people keep joining the Litterati team.... ....we've seen these solutions and policy changes get implemented faster & more successfully. My role at Litterati is to help: (1) Shape the product to make the most enjoyable, rewarding, habit forming, and shareable app as possible for Litterati (2) Fuel growth to effectively expose the Litterati product to as many individuals, organizations, schools, municipalities, & corporations as we are able. Show less

Conversion Optimization - Helping Businesses Increase Profits & Spread Their Mission

• Mar 2014 - Oct 2019

Are you a mission driven business looking to increase profits + maximize the positive impact you make in the world? We do this through systematically increasing the conversion rates on your website (sign ups, subscribes, purchases, referrals, shares, renewals, etc). Our primary goal is to serve those who are serving others. To increase the growth, reach, and impact of your message & cause. Our aim is to deliver more profits and more purpose. And we have a knack for over-delivering. SOCIAL BUSINESS ConversionForGood.com donates 10% of all profits to various charities. I try to find different charities to donate to - - if you know if any good ones, please connect with me and let me know! Note: We primarily work with ecommerce, SaaS, and information product businesses but are open to discussing how we can help you if you don't fall into one of those three categories. Show less

Demand Generation & Marketing Manager

• Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

Founder & Author

• Oct 2010 - Oct 2014

Teachers Retirement Help runs the largest blog on issues related to teacher retirement and personal finance for teachers in the United States. Teachers go to TRH for free, unbiased articles and advice on 403b plans, updates for their state's teacher retirement system, to learn about teacher tax deductions, and a host of other financial issues teachers face. The goal of TRH is to improve the quality of teacher retirement across the country and to safeguard them from possible teacher retirement system benefits reductions. Steven Daar is the Founder & Author of Teachers Retirement Help. TeachersRetirementHelp.com is the largest blog on teacher retirement and the personal finance issues teachers face in the United States. Steven has produced several courses, guides, webinars, and ebooks covering topics such as: - The best 403b plan for teachers - A unique set of strategies and techniques for teachers to save and earn thousands of dollars more each year - How to avoid the top retirement mistakes teachers make every year - Saving teacher retirement from an underfunded & failing state teacher retirement system SOCIAL BUSINESS Teachers Retirement Help donates 10% of all profits to education based charities. We don't want to just help teachers with their finances and retirements, but we aim to help them in the classroom as well. We can't think of a better way to do that than by giving back to teachers through charities that directly impact and benefit our school systems & classrooms. Show less

Internet Marketing Consultant

• Dec 2012 - Feb 2014

Spent the first 12 months at Rise Interactive where I managed Paid Search (AdWords + AdCenter) campaigns for Fortune 500s & other medium to large sized businesses that were client of Rise. During those 12 months, I did some consulting on conversion optimization projects as well. For the last two months, I was full time on the conversion optimization team. During those two months, I helped lead the effort to completely re-structure the conversion optimization process Rise used to get results for their clients. I left Rise to start SteveDaar.com and provide conversion optimization services to social businesses & mission-driven entrepreneurs. My goal is to help them increase their profits and maximize the positive impact they are making on the world. Show less

Financial Advisor

• May 2010 - Oct 2010

Intern

• May 2009 - Aug 2009