Leonardo Yon

NC State · Raleigh, NC

Hi, I’m
Leonardo Yon.

I study marketing and journalism at NC State. I like figuring out what makes people pay attention, whether I’m interviewing a business owner, writing about Raleigh’s music scene, or testing a new angle for an app notification.

Leonardo Yon

Selected work

Marketing research

ProStone Granite & Cabinetry

My team worked with a local business owner to understand how customers choose a countertop or cabinet provider. We looked at who buys, what shapes their decisions, and how ProStone compares with its competitors.

See the ProStone project on LinkedIn ↗

Journalism · Beyond the Pack

Six months, 16 shows

I wrote a spring and summer concert guide for readers looking for live music around Raleigh. It covers everything from an indie show at Kings to Dreamville at Dorothea Dix Park, with stops for R&B, reggaeton, country, and rock.

Read the Raleigh live music guide ↗

AI & copywriting

Two ways to open a grocery alert

A notebook exercise about using AI to draft copy within the limits of a real offer, then designing a test to compare the openings.

Read the notebook ↓

Harris Teeter internship

Selected work from the app, loyalty email, and website.

Campaign materials

Peaches and Coca-Cola featured in Friday’s Harris Teeter sale
Friday sale creative
Harris Teeter Saturday sale promotion
Saturday sale creative
Harris Teeter Sunday sale promotion
Sunday sale creative
Harris Teeter mobile notification inviting shoppers to see weekly savings
Weekly savings notification
Harris Teeter loyalty email offering 300 bonus fuel points
Bonus Fuel Points email
Pet prescriptions alert from Harris Teeter
Pet prescriptions alert
Saturday sale alert from Harris Teeter
Saturday sale alert
Friday fuel points from Harris Teeter
Friday fuel points
Weekly ad alert from Harris Teeter
Weekly ad alert
Fuel points reminder from Harris Teeter
Fuel points reminder
Sunday sale alert from Harris Teeter
Sunday sale alert
Weekend savings from Harris Teeter
Weekend savings
Bottled water flash sale from Harris Teeter
Bottled water flash sale
Buy-one-get-one offers from Harris Teeter
Buy-one-get-one offers
Sunday sale on mobile from Harris Teeter
Sunday sale on mobile
Friday sale on mobile from Harris Teeter
Friday sale on mobile
Friday sale alert and artwork from Harris Teeter
Friday sale alert and artwork
Free delivery promotion from Harris Teeter
Free delivery promotion
Saturday sale on mobile from Harris Teeter
Saturday sale on mobile
Summer promotion from Harris Teeter
Summer promotion
Pepper Palooza from Harris Teeter
Pepper Palooza
Four-times fuel points from Harris Teeter
Four-times fuel points
HT Plus frozen dessert offer from Harris Teeter
HT Plus frozen dessert offer
HT Plus membership and weekly savings from Harris Teeter
HT Plus membership and weekly savings
Summer fuel points from Harris Teeter
Summer fuel points
Weekly fridge restock from Harris Teeter
Weekly fridge restock

App notifications

Weekly savings, in one notification

I helped refine push notification messaging for Harris Teeter’s app. A weekly savings message used summer heat as the hook, then pointed shoppers to the latest offers.

450,000+Mobile users in the app audience

Harris Teeter push notification inviting customers to see weekly savings
Weekly savings notification and a separate three-day weekend sale creative series.

Loyalty email

What are 300 fuel points worth?

I supported targeted loyalty campaigns and coordinated promotional content across digital channels. This fuel points email shows how the team translated points into a concrete benefit shoppers could recognize at the pump.

1,000,000+Loyalty customers reached by campaigns I supported

Website

Where shoppers find the details

I built and published SEO-aligned landing pages on harristeeter.com using AMP. I worked with brand and merchandising teams to bring campaign content onto the site.

Notebook · AI and copywriting

Two ways to open a grocery alert

I’m curious whether AI can help me get past the first draft. I’d ask it to write a grocery alert with one constraint. All I can promise is that this week’s deals are in the app.

  1. Brief the model. Provide the audience, character limit, approved offer, and a single action. In this exercise, the only approved claim is that new weekly savings are available in the app.
  2. Review the copy. Compare a direct opening (“New weekly savings are here”) with a shopper-focused opening (“Planning your grocery trip?”). Check that each version gives shoppers a clear reason to tap and adds no unsupported price or deadline.
  3. Design the test. Split the audience randomly and keep the send window and destination the same. Compare visits to the savings page and monitor notification opt-outs.

Illustrative exercise and proposed test, separate from my Harris Teeter work.

NC State University

Selected coursework

The classes behind how I think about shoppers, marketing decisions, and campaign measurement.

Marketing & consumer insight

BUS 360 Marketing Methods
Identifying market opportunities and making decisions about pricing, promotion, distribution, and product design.
BUS 460 Consumer Behavior
How perception, past experiences, and social influences shape what people buy and how they feel afterward.
BUS 462 Marketing Research
How to gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative evidence to answer marketing questions.
BUS 467 Product and Brand Management
How to plan a product launch and make marketing decisions for established products and brands.

Technology, data & communication

BUS 340 Information Systems Management
I worked with AI in this class and studied how businesses use data, cloud computing, and business intelligence.
ST 350 Economics and Business Statistics
Using estimation, inference, and regression to answer business questions with data.
BUS 370 Operations and Supply Chain Management
How businesses forecast demand, choose processes, and plan production or service delivery.
ENG 332 Communication for Business and Management
Writing for colleagues, customers, and other audiences, from internal reports to client communications.

NC State course catalog · Business · English · Statistics

Skills & languages

Marketing & strategy

Brand management, campaign development, content strategy, omnichannel marketing, consumer insights, email marketing, social media marketing, Google Ads, and SEO.

Data, AI & operations

KPI reporting, dataset curation, AI prompting, standard operating procedure (SOP) creation, and Microsoft Excel.

Creative & editorial

Graphic design, videography, music production, journalistic writing and editing, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint.

Web & campaign tools

Web content management, Salesforce, AMP, and Adobe Workfront.

Certifications

Training in paid search, spreadsheets, and databases.

View certifications on LinkedIn ↗

About

Leonardo Yon seated in the cab of a truck

A little more about me

Working in retail taught me to pay attention to the questions shoppers ask and the details that help them make a decision. I brought that perspective into digital marketing at Harris Teeter, where I worked on messages and pages that customers encounter away from the store.

I study business administration with a marketing concentration and a journalism minor at NC State. I also have supported event promotion and digital outreach for NC State’s Association of Latino Professionals for America chapter.

Read my résumé ↗