Dillon S. Smith has built a career around developing innovative strategies for effectively delivering his client's messages to their defined markets. His expertise focuses on media driven and marketing intensive strategies. Dillon’s experience began in the political arena, where he served as a consultant and campaign manager for candidates in state and national elections. In 2014, he accepted the challenge of finding a way to reach middle and high school students with a mental health message. Knowing that music can be a universal and uniquely effective method of communication with young people, Dillon developed a music-based presentation with artists who had personal stories about the trauma of bullying. He founded The Allstar Nation Tour, through which he was able to reach hundreds of thousands of middle and high school students in performances in public schools nationwide. His tour and mission has been recognized by hundreds of media outlets and has been featured on numerous live TV segments. Dillon built on the tremendous success of Allstar by developing, organizing and directing the Socials Tour, which exploded in 2019 into the leading tour of social media influencers and creatives. The Socials Tour takes the most well-known social media creatives and artists on a nation-wide series of performances. The tour reaches the target market of young people from ages 10-20, and includes a strong focus on attending parents. Virtually every performance is sold to capacity. More significantly, the tour generates hundreds of thousands of followers for the creatives and artists who are featured nationally. The combined social reach of the talent on Socials Tour exceeds 50 million followers.In addition to his strategic touring and marketing focus, he and his team manage a select group of individual artists and creatives, focusing primarily on tailoring individually-designed strategies to keep them in the public eye and to build follower bases that run into the tens of millions. His clients at Team Checked include some of the globes largest influencers, multiple 2020 iHeart Social Star Nominees, X-Factor Finalists, and Billboard charting artists/song writers, netting a combined following of over a half a billion people. As part of Dillon’s management focus, he and his team integrate brand media outreach with their Talent, developing innovative campaigns utilizing the newest technology. He has worked with numerous companies, foundations, non profits and benefactors, include Chipotle, Verizon, Warner Music Group, Hitco, The Ayers Foundation, and many more.