Simon Ashton oversees all search engine optimization, pay per click, email marketing and other similar projects for company clients. With more than nine years of experience in Internet marketing, Simon has worked with an extensive range of clients in a variety of industries from travel and recreation to e-commerce and industrial markets.
Simon also co-founded the SIMS Agency, which provided a variety of Internet marketing services to clients, such as Spiritline Cruises, Absolutely Charleston, the Vacation Company, Charleston New Homes Guide and many more, in 2004 with Bud Di Maggio. The SIMS Agency has since merged with Step Ahead, Inc. Prior to founding the SIMS Agency in 2004, Simon worked at Open Vision, an Internet marketing firm in Hilton Head, as director of new technology. Additionally, Simon worked with Overture (previously GoTo), handling pay-per-click marketing and has developed campaigns for many pay-per-click providers, such as Kanoodle, ePilot and FindWhat.
A graduate of the University of Wolverhampton, England, Simon also holds an advanced certificate in search engine marketing from the Academy of Web Specialists. He currently resides in Hilton Head with his two children.
