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Yarmouth, Me, Us

Yarmouth, Maine, Us

Brand Shepherd & Storyteller. Avid observer, listener, talker, copy-writer, strategist (careful with that word, it gets us in trouble!), visioneer and relationally driven. Ben is a guy who just loves using business as an excuse to engage people more thoughtfully. For him, Pivotol began as a quest to answer a bundle of unanswered questions from his college days. Since then, he’s worked in a variety of brand, management, marketing and leadership roles within a variety of small businesses, organizations and industries around the USA. He moved from Texas to Maine in 2016, a result of marrying a Mainer. He’s a huge fan of both places! Ben is a general partner at Pivotol.

Fredericksburg, Texas, Us

My role is to Shepherd the Brand at Highcrest. Which means, I make sure that the big ideas that drive us make their way into every facet of communication. Visual, Verbal, written, auditory. Inside and outside of the company. I make sure that we inform people clearly in the best ways possible, and improve and simplify as we go. It’s my job to make sure that learning something about Highcrest or our products should be the easiest thing to do.

I analyze current business investments as well as opportunities to define their viability and strategic paths to success.I manage 80,000 sft of commercial real estate office space in Fredericksburg and San Antonio. My job is like taking care of giant houses. Just think about all the little things that are constantly breaking in your home, multiply that by 10 and you have an idea of what I do all day.

I led in the development of core business systems as well as visual and brand development. This included strategic development, authoring the marketing plan, implementing the marketing mix, graphic design, photography, videography, creative writing, digital marketing, and whatever else needed to be done. I spent several days at a street corner handing out flyers. Where it was necessary, I stepped in and assisted in making large decisions about the fundamental structure of the business and the models with which we operated.

Fredericksburg, Texas, Us

I worked in our small branding/marketing department to help clarify the brand language and strategy for communicating with our target market. We worked on defining a series of "Opt-in" services offered by HCM and then promoted these based on a data-driven marketing strategy that outlined key demographics, and what they sought. I got to dive into a variety of departments to get familiar with their services, which added focus to the market data we were compiling.

I assisting my dad in the management of several of his business ventures. I did anything from authoring marketing plans to constructing excel data sheets to handy-man work. During this time I was introduced to the property management business and began to learn about the basic structure of real estate investments.

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I assisted Barry Landis in generating ideas, following up with contacts and organizing data lists. Our goal was to create a company that served small Christian film producers with a gateway into the larger Christian distribution companies. We also served as marketing contacts for these film-makers and organized the early stages of their b2b messaging.

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I acted as the assistant to the executive staff on the film Project "7 Days in Utopia" starring Lucas Black and Robert Duval. This was an incredible experience in the world of movie-making. Although it is not my passion at this scale, seeing the story come to life out of a series of seemingly unrelated scenes was unique and inspiring. It's amazing to watch something meaningful come out of a bunch of people, technical gear, scenery and words.Prior to this project, I served PEP by completing brand research to identify opportunities for the creation of a national perimeter defense corporation. Their goal was to purchase small fencing, alarm, and general security companies and combine them into an all-in-one security solution for government bases, private power and water companies as well as small municipalities. The findings from this study ended the project as we discovered that the only way to build rapport in this business was to have a leadership structure completely filled with military and security SMEs. We ended up saving the partners a lot of time and money on something that probably would not have worked.

I helped re-brand the department, construct/manage tours and build relationships. During this job, I worked on web advertising as well as several marketing initiatives that introduced me to the world of web-design and the basics of guerrilla marketing. We had a stringent budget that allowed for a lot of creative thinking and strategic work to build unique opportunities for people to experience our artists. We focused hard on key partnerships and clients who could connect personally with our talent and then share this with their networks.This experience taught me a great deal about the crucial human element in any business. Without a core set if ideals, the mind of man cannot really find something to settle in to, but with a clear and direct mission, it takes very little to keep the team moving in the same direction. Vision-casting and people skills are essential in this, and any business. I had an excellent teacher in Jeff Berry, the executive artist manager.

During a study-abroad program in London in 2007, I met a musician named Josh Kelley at the airport. He invited me to come to one of his shows where I was introduced to a few producers. I became friends with one of these men during our 6 week stay, and he invited me back to be an intern the following summer. The opportunity was very unstructured, but I set to work revising the back office operations while observing producer Martin Terefe as he recorded a series of demos for artists like Train. I was able to watch Thomas Juth, one of their lead engineers, mix and master an album for Jason Mraz and learned a great deal about the world of audio-engineering and production.

During my time in Uproar Records at Baylor, I had the pleasure of meeting Ben Howard, one of the executives at Provident Label Group. He offered me a summer internship under his VP of marketing. Working on a series of releases, marketing initiatives and attending daily meetings was a great siteline into the world of commercial music. During a slow day, I began playing around with statistical relationships between radio play and record sales within major markets. This data soon turned into a large project which I then proposed to the executive team as a means to more fruitfully apply promotional dollars to markets where sales showed a strong correlation to promotional efforts. I really enjoyed my time there with the team and my colleagues.

Bachelor’S Degree, Marketing

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