Robert Lum

Brand and Marketing Leader

I'm a Web and Media Marketing Leader with 15+ years creating, distributing, and optimizing fully organic content that drives measurable growth and brand visibility, from a leading YouTube channel to top-ranking Google keywords.

Robert Lum

Turtle Tracks

Portfolio

Alexander College YouTube Shorts channel
100K Silver Creator Award

YouTube Viral Strategy

Grew Alexander College's YouTube channel from a standard institutional presence into the most-subscribed post-secondary channel in Canada, built entirely on organic, repeatable content systems.

96.9M

total views

106K

subscribers

Vancouver SkyTrain at Lougheed Town Centre station
Technical SEO

Vancouver SkyTrain

Built a single page targeting "vancouver skytrain" to page-one, position four, in 11 months, just after Translink, Wikipedia and TripAdvisor, through a dedicated video, our own in-house photos, on-page architecture, internal linking, and consistent content updates since launch.

Pos. 4

page 1

11,700+

organic views

TMNT Tracks Instagram grid, quote card designs and merch
Personal Project

TMNT Tracks

A personal passion project outside of my day job, TMNT-inspired quote designs spanning eras from Mirage to present, grown into an engaged niche community from a standing start.

1,186

followers

861

posts

G2 Athletics website
Next.jsSanity CMS

G2 Athletics Demo/Test Site

A site built solo. Claude Design through a Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Sanity CMS build, deployed on Vercel.

10 pages

Next.js 16 build

Sanity

headless CMS

Alexander College website homepage
Custom WordPress

Alexander College Website

Rebuilt alexandercollege.ca from the ground up in 2024, from Figma design through a custom WordPress and Bootstrap 5 build, hand-coded in-house with small team.

2024

ground-up rebuild

In-house

team of 4

Students in front of UBC Sauder School of Business
Pillar Cluster Strategy

BC Transfer Guide

Applied a HubSpot-style pillar-and-cluster strategy to a high-intent, high-volume keyword, ranking #2 for a term searched 12,100 times a month by prospective university transfer students across BC.

#2

ranking

12,100

monthly searches

Meta Lead-Gen Campaigns
Paid Social

Meta Lead-Gen Campaigns

Ran and optimized always-on Meta lead generation campaigns with a voice AI qualifier in the funnel and weekly pipeline reviews with enrolment and executive leadership, keeping cost-per-lead low while scaling.

5,344+

leads

$1.49

cost per lead

Alexander College TikTok profile
Short-form Content

TikTok Viral Strategy

Took the brand from zero presence to the largest post-secondary TikTok account in Canada, establishing a short-form content system and growing past all Canadian universities.

77.8K

followers

25.6M

views

Who had the pepperoni and ice cream?

Skills

Content & Distribution

AEO GEO SEO Organic Blog Strategy YouTube Strategy TikTok Strategy Instagram Strategy Video Content Multichannel Distribution Editorial Planning & Editing Authentic Content Pillar + Cluster Model

AI Tools & Workflows

Claude (Code, Design, Cowork) AI Search AI Brand Visibility Custom GPT Development ChatGPT Perplexity Sanity Gemini Lovart Notion Gamma Kling Seedance ChatGPT Image 2.0 Google Nano Banana AI Lead Qualification Workflows Prompt Engineering

Creative & Brand

Creative Direction Brand Identity Video Photo Writing Graphic Design UX/UI Design Print Canva Adobe CC Suite Brand Guidelines Interior Campus Design Merch Design

Web

Custom WordPress Development GitHub VS Code Semrush Google Analytics & Search Console PHP MySQL JS Vercel Slack Microsoft Teams Microsoft 365 (Admin, Apps) Mailchimp Envoke Etsy Store Management

Leadership & Management

Team Leadership Budget Management Stakeholder Communication Hiring & Onboarding People Leadership Team Building & Culture Mentorship Negotiation Executive Reporting

Paid & Growth

Meta Ads Google Ads Ad Copy Landing Pages Campaign Optimization Lead Quality & Pipeline Reporting KPI Measurement & Reporting HubSpot CampusLogin

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About Me

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦
Family Wife, 2 Boys, Dog
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fan Since 1989
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Canucks Fan Since I was born!
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Technology Web and AI
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Grizzlies and Raptors Fan Since 1995
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Design Creative and Branding
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JDM / Japanese Cars Car Enthusiast
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Overwatch Winston Main
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NHL 94 to NHL 26 Sega to PS5
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DeMar DeRozan Favourite Player
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Bret Hart Favourite Wrestler
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Leonardo Favourite Turtle

Cowabunga

Let's connect!