Gerald Decelian Starts Successful Urban Culture Agency

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Gerald Decelian is a professional SEO and digital marketing expert who has collaborated with many renowned brands and helped them reach high rankings in their competitive keywords. Gerald has made his way to be called the best Search Engine Optimization experts in all of New York and has worked on corporate projects for Lexis Nexis, AXA, Pepsi and MetLife.

Gerald has studied Bachelors in Science Information Technology from Syracuse University and started his own venture right after graduation in 2012. Fiesta Frog was a social media app designed by Decelian that gained a lot of traction and gained over a million users in a very short span of time. Fiesta Frog was an innovative business that notified users of Parties and events in their area. This was revolutionary in a huge party school like Syracuse University. Fiesta Frog was the winner of the 2012 Panasci Business plan competition. Gerald’s team win $40,000 in prizes. At Fiesta Frog, Gerald designed a social network configured to advertise venues while collecting very useful marketing statistics. He also monitored project development while communicating with overseas developers and SEO specialist daily. Additionally, along with detecting and eliminating Malware while upgrading server security weekly, he also researched and learned ASO (App Store Optimization), which is very important to mobile app development. Fiesta Frog gave him valuable experience as he recruited and overlooked 8+ content developers and managed SEO analyst to increase unique visitors and goal conversions.

Owing to his brilliance, and mastery in Search Engine Optimization, Conversion Optimization and Web Development, Gerald Established a digital marketing company in 2016 in Brooklyn, New York, named SHMONG.

SHMONG is 100% black-owned and works in spreading black culture byways of a culture agency. Gerald recruited, assisted & managed a team of developers for the creation of SHMONG.com. Furthermore, along with optimizing SEM & SEO campaigns which resulted in a 200+% increase in ROI for stakeholders, he also worked alongside the sales team to conversion optimize the website which resulted in increased lead generation. He also optimized affiliate marketing campaigns using industry-specific tools such as Voluum, Retriever and BrightEdge. SHMONG is ranked as one of the top most effective SEO companies in NYC. It has worked with corporations such as Lexis Nexis, MetLife, AXA and Pepsi Company. Gerald’s company, SHMONG, has worked with celebrities such as Torey Lanez, DJ Khalid, Mavado, Alkaline, Jahmiel, Bria Myles and more.

Currently, Gerald resides in Brooklyn and is working on expanding SHMONG and creating jobs for individuals in his old Brooklyn neighborhood. He is now working on a real estate venture, expanding on the SHMONG brand. Gerald is currently exploring buying real estate in the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia areas with his SHMONG business partners.

Gerald Decelian is a 30-year-old entrepreneur who is an inspiration for all the young businessmen across the globe. Not only is he constantly working hard to climb up the ladder of success, but he is also helping people who are around him by providing them with employment.

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