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4. Did you walk into the marketing job or how did you get it?
No not really. I started working at at FriendFinder in 2002 as a temp. I worked in the Customer Service department. We have millions of real members calling round the clock. Our CS department is pretty sizable as you can imagine. After about 5 months I was selected to move into our Abuse Team.
We have a staff the works 24 hours a day removing abusive members profiles and those that are created by bots. FriendFinder has always been proactive about keeping the integrity of it's member database sound.
After 7 months of being a temp in both Customer Service and our Abuse Team I was offered a permanent job at FF in the Abuse Team. A few months later I was promoted to the Abuse Team Lead.
I held on to the Abuse Team Lead position for just over a year and then was strongly encouraged to make a jump to marketing. I was very hesitant about it at the time. I felt that I was in line to become a manager in the Customer Service Department and that I might be leaving the department before all my opportunities were met. FriendFinder's HR Director spoke with me and told me that "sometimes the smallest opportunities open the doors to larger ones". (In this case she was 100% right.) I took the position which was later defined as Raquel's (she was the past Sr Affiliate Manager) assistant.
That's how I got into Marketing at FF. I learned a lot from Raquel during the brief time that I worked under her. She was extremely kind to me and started referring to me as her little brother. Whenever we talk now we still joke about that. Raquel wanted to teach me everything she knew. She had a lot of confidence in me and wanted me to be the best that I could be.
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