Jeff Cagle Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

28 West Creative is a small creative agency that provides services for small businesses including photography, digital marketing, content strategy and content creation. We also take a documentary approach to family lifestyle photography to capture life's little and big moments for clients to cherish for generations.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Created food lifestyle and product photography for world leader in bakeware and cake decorating supplies in an agency-like studio environment. Photographed assets for packaging, marketing, e-commerce and other needs.» Worked collaboratively with food and prop stylists to create visually compelling, on-brand food lifestyle scenes that tell a story under.

Was responsible for all facets of social media management including organic and paid content creation, digital customer relations, and engagement analysis on platforms including Instagram, Facebook and Twitter for Standard Market’s retail grocery store and multiple restaurant concepts. » Shot all in-house photography for use on social media, print and web.

Geneva, Illinois

Responsible for planning, orchestrating and oversight of day-to-day brewing, taproom, private event, branding and marketing operations.» Wrote and managed daily, weekly and monthly brewing operations schedule, modifying as needed to accommodate deviations from daily schedule.» Corresponded with clients, planned and managed private events calendar then.

Geneva, Illinois

Hired as company’s first employee to assist with developing strategic direction and then executed day-to-day operations of brewery’s taproom from an idea to a proven concept. Developed systems and processes for staff to follow to ensure smooth daily operations. Hired and managed taproom staff to assist with day-to-day taproom operations. Developed, built.

» Freelance editorial and commercial photographer with a publication list including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times News Group, The Wall Street Journal as well as a number of bars, restaurants and other small businesses throughout Chicagoland and beyond.» As comfortable shooting in a documentary, editorial style covering news, features and sports as.

• Provided training and consulting to small business owners on how to use various social media platforms as effective marketing and customer service tools.
• Produced short, informative and engaging marketing videos to upload to video sharing sites to enhance companies’ search engine placement and connect with customers.

• Reported and wrote stories for DownBeat and Music Inc. magazines.
• Fact checked, copy edited, researched and contributed photography to both publications.
• Received editorial assistant acknowledgements for proofreading work on "The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from DownBeat Magazine," a compilation of articles spanning more than 50 years of the artist's life

• Edited copy for content, style and grammar for all sections of paper from writer drafts to production proofs.
• Mentored student writers from the college’s Newspaper Workshop class.