20 Year Entrepreneur with a passion for making an impact.Ian grew up in a small family bakery business, helping when and where he could but played multiple sports through high school and baseball in college limiting his time. The time spent there did, however, allow him to see the ups and downs of small business, including the lack of systems and true marketing his parents had. This, in part, pushed him to earn a business marketing degree.In 2001, he officially joined his family’s business, putting in place the first website, sales brochure, and other business development initiatives. Over the next 16+ years, he routinely doubled the businesses year over year sales, eventually franchising the concept, opening 10 locations, and employing over 200. After selling the franchise brand in 2017, he founded The EastMain Business Group to help other businesses “fix-up” and sell theirs, before focussing on business coaching, consulting, and ultimately digital marketing.After realizing most companies are not clear on their true strategy, buyer persona, core message, customer value journey and more. That they do not have a true “marketing system”. They may have other systems and SOP’s in their business but for some reason having a true marketing system, marketing SOP’s a Marketing Machine as he likes to put it is often overlooked. Having worked with nearly 700 companies in his agencies over the last 6 years Ian has taken this knowledge and created the framework for implementing just that for small/med sized businesses.Over the past 6+ years, he has worked with nearly seven hundred businesses, in various capacities, with his ultimate passion and vision of helping other business owners break through the challenges they may be having, enjoy a profitable business and find the true path of their entrepreneurship vision and goals.CORE COMPETENCIES• A strong creative mind with the ability to ideate new campaign approaches and content• Experience in driving marketing to create new business and expand customer accounts• Track record of success in building sales-marketing campaigns utilizing website & SEO• Solid business and technical acumen with executive presence and strong leadership • Skilled in counseling, problem-solving, and conflict management to ensure smooth workflow • Strong written and verbal communication skills with strong relationship management skills• Exceptional organization and interpersonal skills with the ability to prioritize and multi-task • Solid time management with high precision in delivery in a deadline-driven environment