About Chris Fawcett, Founder of Third Marble Marketing, LLC
With 18 years of direct marketing experience and 14 years of internet marketing experience, Chris Fawcett decided to start Third Marble Marketing in September of 2009 with the goal of helping small business owners get their fair share of marketing on the internet. Chris has been involved in internet marketing for as long as internet marketing has been around and built his career around enhancing company’s bottom line through the latest and greatest marketing tools available. Prior to starting Third Marble Marketing, Chris spent 9 years at First STREET, Inc. in Colonial Heights, VA as their VP & COO of Marketing. At First STREET, Chris lead all the company’s direct marketing efforts, including the marketing and development of their $10 million e-commerce website dedicated to improving the lifestyles of senior citizens. Chris understood the unique product line he was selling and the niche customer base to create innovative marketing strategies to increase sales year over year. In 2005, Chris re-designed the company’s website and that website won one of the nationally coveted “Internet Retailer’s Top 50 Best of the Web” Awards, joining the ranks of such online retailers as Best Buy and Amazon. Before joining First STREET, Chris spent 3 years as the Director of Marketing and E-commerce at J.Jill in Boston, MA where he developed J.Jill’s first e-commerce website. In its first year of operation, the website, www.jjill.com, generated $80 million in sales for the company through marketing strategies Chris developed. Chris started his marketing career with a national marketer of innovative lifestyle products called Comtrad in 1992 and helped develop their first website in 1995. Chris proudly graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering.
