Benjamin Brickweg, Esq. Mba Email & Phone Number

Morrison, Co, Us

Conifer, Colorado, United States

Conifer, Colorado, United States

Boulder, Co

Ben has years of experience helping clients realize and create valuable businesses, as a business owner, business consultant, and attorney. Ben focuses on assisting clients build valuable and sellable businesses, through structuring proper foundational framework, strategizing for future growth, assisting clients close financing deals, and helping clients prepare for smooth and successful exits.

Boulder, Co

Tensleep Equity Partners invests in niche brands in the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoors, and Tactical markets.Holdings include positions in: Pinyon Ridge Outdoors, FlyFishingBundles, Project X Holdings, and several early-stage product and service companies.

Boulder, Co

Provide general counsel legal services to owners of small to mid sized businesses. Areas of focus include: complex negotiations, succession planning, strategic business planning, commercial real estate, contract drafting and negotiation, intellectual property, business start-ups, HR & employment, corporate governance and maintenance, technology, internet, and e-commerce.

Boulder, Co | Minneapolis, Mn

Venator Business Advisors helps entrepreneurs BUY, FIX, & SELL companies. Focus industries include: shooting, hunting, outdoor sports, tactical, manufacturing, industrial and e-commerce companies. Specific services include various transaction related matters like sell-side advisory, retained buy-side advisory, due diligence, financial analysis, distressed asset liquidation, turn-around services and complex negotiations.

Minneapolis, Mn

Specialized in reviewing, drafting and negotiating business agreements. Assisted clients with entity formation, corporate record book maintenance, independent contractor agreements, confidentiality agreements, mergers and acquisitions related documents, commercial leases, and securities documents.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

At the region's largest Business Brokerage and Mergers & Acquisitions firm, I provided guidance to numerous small to mid-sized business owners in various aspects of buying, selling, and exiting their businesses. In addition to this, I led rebranding projects for the firm's home office, which included web, technology, and marketing strategy initiatives.My responsibilities also included assisting with back-end deal functions such as due diligence, financial analysis, cash flow statements, outbound calling, and valuations. I managed vendors and developed strategies for the launch of the new website, increased monthly page views, and implemented lead conversion tracking as part of the analytics package.To improve the firm's online presence, I developed and implemented a Search Engine Optimization strategy that resulted in first-page placement in Google search results for 34 regionally targeted keywords. This, in turn, led to a $96,000 annual reduction in direct advertising costs. I also created a drip email marketing plan consisting of 12 messages sent every 30 days to nurture prospective clients.I handled the customization of Salesforce.com from idea to execution and served as a system administrator. Additionally, I managed ongoing CRM training for a 25-member sales team.Other responsibilities included managing monthly direct mail campaigns involving list building, data mining, copywriting, split-testing, coordinating with the letter shop, and follow-up calls. I conducted advanced cash flow analysis and financial recasting on 86 client companies and managed the online data vault to monitor and control access to confidential client information.I used private databases to determine market price and deal structure for potential transactions and made weekly outbound telephone calls to prospective clients. I acted as the first point of contact for incoming buyer inquiries for managing partner's portfolio of deals.

Contracted and short-term projects involving web, technology and marketing strategy initiatives. Worked on projects with, a multi-channel tactical equipment retailer, a streaming web video start-up, multiple real estate & mortgage professionals, a contract metal products manufacturer, and other companies.• Created and implemented strategic channel sales plan to identify and recruit sales team of 12 independent representatives and reseller partners for streaming web video product in the automotive industry.• Increased opt-in membership list from 118 to 5,372 qualified prospects within 9 weeks using telephone sales, affiliate agreements and direct response web strategies.• Managed brand presence, trained sales staff, and managed product placement in showroom, website, and print catalog for top vendor within a multi-channel retail environment.• Led market research, analysis and pre-launch projects for product developed by a manufacturing company.• Managed development, rebranding, Search Engine Optimization, pay-per-click advertising, lead conversion, and analytics for 13 websites in Real Estate, Mortgage, Professional Training, E-commerce, and Consulting industries.• Worked on one-time and recurring projects with marketing agencies such as: Mosaic Sales Solutions, K & L Field Marketing, Alloy Marketing & Promotions, and 141 Worldwide Boomerang on client accounts such as American Express, Qwest, Epson, Activision, Unilever, Simon Delivers, and CashWorks.• Managed and audited field events, merchandising agreements, POP displays, and field sales reps at hundreds of locations to ensure compliance with program benchmarks.

Golden Valley, Mn

Coordinated product presence at tradeshows, retailer demonstrations, contests, and other special events. Helped create and deploy a nationwide product demonstration tour. Managed a team of 11 professional extreme sports athletes in a demanding environment requiring regular communication between the team and headquarters, contract management, photo incentive and travel disbursements.

Neenah, Wi & Minneapolis, Mn

Helped manufacturers of 23 action sports brands promote products at local retailers, ski resorts, and contests in the overlooked & under-performing Midwest region. Created a line of Jupiter Snowboard Team branded products as secondary source of revenue. Managed a team of 5 semi-professional athletes at contests and demo events.

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