Damon Goude Email & Phone Number

Brentwood, TN

• Speaker Relations
• Bring in speakers to refine content
• Communicate with speakers about content/deadlines
• Brainstorm with speakers/personalities and leadership about new events
• Research and vet speakers
• Create speaker proposals for events

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Lead all brand initiatives for Ramsey personality, Ken Coleman. Manage all business operations including oversight of marketing, social media, show content creation for The Ken Coleman Show, publicity, sponsorships, and all other revenue producing functions pertaining to the Ken Coleman brand.

• Oversee all marketing and advertising for Live Events, including but not limited to, the creation of content for advertising campaigns (radio, print, email, internet, TV, billboard etc.)
• Manage marketing budgets.
• Build brand and name recognition for all Live Events.
• Provide analysis of event sales, attendance, and demographic information regarding Live Events.
• Manage relationships with national vendors and city specific vendors for all specific forms of advertising.
• Attend conferences and stay up to date on new marketing strategies and concepts.

Brentwood, TN

• Secure clients in the book industry for supplemental marketing and tour planning and logistics. Develop strategies along with publishers and management to maximize exposure for clients and their titles.
• Supplemental book marketing for radio and TV talk show host Glenn Beck’s fall ’08 release of The Christmas Sweater. Initiatives resulted in a debut at #1 on the New York Times Best-Seller list.
• Ticketing manager for Sean Hannity Freedom Concerts for ’09 – ’10. Managed the sales and delivery of over 70,000 tickets for 10 concerts between these two years.
• Tour support and PR for Apollo Ohno’s title Zero Regrets. Secured over 75 radio and TV interviews in support of his US book tour.

• Guided overarching strategy of major book releases and brand development including: advertising, merchandising, publicity, events, promotions and budgeting. Developed strategic industry partnerships. Train, motivate.
• Led marketing campaign for The Rick & Bubba Code which encompassed tour logistics for a 15 city 20 event book signing tour
• Built a marketing team from scratch after the loss of key members and in the interim performed all aspects of advertising and public relations for the General Interest and Lifestyle strategic publishing unit

• Had the honor of traveling with speakers from Fox News in New York and Washington, DC and act as the liaison between these personalities and the clients for whom they were speaking. Managed multiple book tours for.
• Handled all on-site press relations, logistics, volunteers and book sales for book tours, personal appearances and speaking engagements for Oliver North, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Neil Cavuto and others.
• Spearheaded all customer service tasks involved in the winter of ’03 push to sell pre-released copies of Sean Hannity’s “Deliver Us From Evil”. This effort resulted in the online sales of over 25,000 copies of the book.
• Planned and implemented the travel arrangements for select personalities, including jet and helicopter charters as well as commercial travel in and out of the US.