Grant Bistram Email & Phone Number

Champlin, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for the marketing and communications for all East View Companies consisting of East View Information Services, East View Geospatial, East View Map Link, and the publishing division of East View Press. Responsible at the product level for support and e-commerce development for the Longitude Maps, Omnimap, Fishing Hot Spots, Lakemaps, East View Nautical, and East View On Demand brands.Key stakeholder and contributor to the ongoing development, trademark, branding and market launch of the global program series; Global Press Archive, Global Census Archive, China Research Gateway, and future digital resources.Engaged in the exploration of new business development and marketing opportunities to attract historic print publishers from new market segments to develop digital archives of their resources.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

East View's mission is to bring Uncommon Information from Extraordinary Places to academic, corporate, legal and government information professionals throughout the world. Responsible for the evaluation of current organization across multiple business units and the development of internal marketing resources, processes, production and their transformation to meet immediate and future organization business objectives for academic and corporate markets.

Roseville Mn

Responsible for all aspects of marketing within the organization such as branding, marketing plan implementation, budgeting, research and analysis, advertising and promotional strategies to create external awareness of organization as well as all supporting product collateral information via print, web or other media formats. Internal responsibilities include developing infrastructure for sales channel communication and support as well as long range planning and strategies for organization. Coordinating communications with internal departments and external vendors such as customer service, sales, operations, product engineering, distribution channel(s), ad agency and customers.

Plymouth, Mn

Responsible for media and support materials to USA and Mexico markets by directing 10 or more people as well as an ad agency for creative and consistent branding of technical information distributed to 400+ sales channel partners. Manage advertising budget and other marketing support materials totaling several million dollars. Direct expanding duties in the organization by developing a series of cost efficient marketing programs that deliver high quality technical information within tight deadlines. Created empowered environment for direct reports that resulted in a strong, fast and unified department. This resulted in low employee turnover often praised by distribution partners. • Catalogs, brochures, CD’s, website, software, 2D and 3D CAD files• Advertising, press releases, editorial and tradeshows

Plymouth, Mn

Responsible for recruiting and developing a true marketing department to fulfill all aspects of position above in an effort to make company more self sufficient for various marketing needs in addition to a significant hands on role in the creation and direction of the materials.

Plymouth, Mn

Supervised and developed USA marketing materials and processes for publication of catalogs and brochures in addition to supervising and developing technical documentation and CAD resources.

Plymouth, Mn

Developed content and final production of large product catalogs using desktop publishing, CAD and related software. This included the acquisition of technical data, illustrating, proofing, printing and distribution to national sales channel.

Plymouth, Mn

Part time drafting duties developed into full time position for support of CAD and technical documentation needs as well as creating all illustrations for full product line catalog.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing, Operations, Strategy, Finance, Accounting, Negotiations And International Business

Ba, Marketing Management

Associates, Mechanical Design And Drafting