Hopefully I’m the Zach Olsen you were looking for.

I'm less pale in person

I live in Boulder Colorado with my wife Natalie and my two daughters Jane and Olive. I work for Finish Line as Ecommerce Marketing Manager. I dig the outdoors, music and film.

I am Google AdWords certified in search engine marketing and do freelance work from time to time. If you need some help with Pay-Per-Click advertising or Search Engine Optimization, contact me.






I started a little T Shirt business called Minimalist Tees. Buy yourself a set here.


Here are a couple eBooks I’ve written (pdf):

The Purpose Is The Product A Social Media Strategy



Here is my 15 minutes of fame list

Avinash Kaushik quoted me in a post (bottom)
Ignite Denver talk about Star Wars and politics
30ish film fest submission in Denver
Quoted in Google Doubleclick White Paper (pdf)


Here Are My Latest Blog Posts

Two Most Important Steps For Managing Product Listing Ads

Product Listing Ads are currently one of the least transparent, (no avg. position, no impression share, no keywords) yet highest converting products in AdWords. By holiday 2013 I think PLAs will be one of the highest cost sections of any ecommerce paid search account. After you have set up your Product Listing Ads campaign(s) and [...]

Marketplaces The Future Of Ecommerce?

Amazon, Ebay, Sears, WalMart and Newegg are a few examples of the stores that offer marketplaces for third parties to sell their products alongside the company’s own inventory (won’t be long until Facebook and Apple are there too). These marketplaces are making huge strides to weeding out competition and consolidating the ecommerce landscape by providing [...]

It’s Either Social Media Or Nothing

The barriers to entry to publishing a book, or distributing music or any other creative endeavor used to be so high that artists had to spend much of their time trying to get in front of those decision makers.  Now the internet has placed all the tools of distribution and marketing into the hands of [...]