Robert C. Vogel Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

United States

As the first-ever Chief Development Officer, I direct and manage the development and marketing efforts to drive revenue for the organization. I work with a dedicated and passionate team to support The SoulFisher Ministries, as we respond to the needs of youth with incarcerated parents, and promote restorative justice for those currently or formerly incarcerated.

Through consulting and contract work with the Good Faith Business Network, I help organizations generate new and incremental revenue. I help businesses efficiently connect and collaborate on targeted growth opportunities with one another, with select non-profits, and with social enterprises, and I do so by using achievable action plans and proven ‘relationship development’ principles.I'm proficient in connecting sales, marketing, and operations by clearly bridging the gap between strategies and tactics, and as a thought leader I leverage trusted relationships to 'connect, cultivate, and collaborate' for ongoing success ... understanding that 'Relationships Create Value' (RCV).

I’m very excited to be able to continue to align and leverage my business and relationship development expertise for creating and cultivating individual, corporate, and civic partnerships with my passion for building stronger communities that are focused on social equity, enhanced education, empowered and invested leadership, and continuous positive change.The Urban League of Metropolitan Saint Louis is the largest such affiliate in the nation, as it directs and manages 60 social services programs from 23 agency facilities.

Based In Saint Louis; Available Virtually Everywhere.

As the Director of Business and Relationship Development, building strong and sustainable relationships with education leaders, I successfully engaged university and college presidents, trustees, CFOs, COOs, facilities directors, superintendents, boards of education, and others.Upon concepting and creating 'Issues in Education', I served as the Executive Producer of this novel internet broadcast, podcast, and video-stream roundtable of topics most critical to education, featuring experts and leaders from PK-12 school districts and higher education.

RCV means Relationships Create Value ... in this entrepreneurial consultancy role, I created and implemented customized and practical sales and marketing programs to achieve sales goals and objectives for measurable growth in revenues, profits, and margins. Among other initiatives, I provided strategic planning, branding, and positioning direction for Express Scripts' Pharma Business Services – successfully rebranded and relaunched as Rx Outreach.

As the Director of Development and Corporate Partnership Programs, I created, directed, and cultivated individual, corporate, and community relationships to build long-term growth for philanthropic development efforts, as well as short-term growth of immediate fundraising efforts to support multiple social services programs.I started and directed a Major Planned Giving program ‘from scratch’, beyond the very successful day-to-day development and marketing initiatives directed, which resulted in new gifts of cash, investments, property, wills, annuities, trusts, insurance, IRAs, retirement plans, and gifts of residence. I secured a $1.1 million estate trust, multiple six-figure private foundation gifts, a $100,000 endowment, five-figure estate trusts, $100,000 insurance gifts, and many recurring corporate and individual major gifts.In this role, I directed grant writing initiatives, developed targeted educational marketing collateral, and provided operations support. I served as the agency liaison to the United Way of Greater Saint Louis, as a trained, top-rated United Way Annual Campaign Speaker. As the Director of Development and Partnership Programs, I directed marketing, public relations, and development-related communications efforts.

As the Director of Marketing and Partnership Development for SchoolReach Instant Parent Contact and GroupCast Messaging, I directed marketing communications efforts to drive a high volume of quality sales leads for the company's public and private school education markets, promoting 'real time' broadcasts of voice mail, email, and text messaging. I spearheaded alliances with various state school administrators' associations to help generate over 200 percent of monthly quotas for team sales reps.

I produced $7.1 million in sales over three years within the healthcare services market for Marketing Direct, Inc., now Wunderman Thompson Health. I successfully created and managed new client relationships with Express Scripts, Inc., a pharmacy benefits management (PBM) company, along with several large and mid-sized managed care organizations (MCOs) from across the country.

As the Founder, and Sales and Marketing Director for RCV Marketing, I provided strategic planning, project management, branding, and 'positioning' direction for clients, including Rx Outreach and Express Scripts, a national leading pharmacy benefit management organization. I developed sales and marketing communications programs to build brand awareness and achieve goals for measurable market share, sales, and relationship development growth ... because 'Relationships Create Value'.

As the Vice President, Director of Marketing, I established the first formalized sales and marketing department, supporting a record 22% annual sales growth in the combined consumer, commercial, and OEM markets. I established a Sales and Marketing Tracking System to evaluate initiatives, resulting in a 30% increase in the number of projects managed, with a 35% decrease in the average cost per project.

I created Bondex International's first-ever sales support and marketing department (now DAP Products), driving average annual sales growth of 19% via strategic planning, product and category branding, precise tactical execution, and company and product acquisitions. I repositioned product categories to streamline the purchasing process for buyers at Wal-Mart, Kmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, TruServ, and ACE Hardware.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Mass Communications

Activities and Societies: Sold advertising for the Alestle Newspaper.I specialized in Television and Radio Production, with strong.

International Marketing

Associate Of Arts Degree, Mass Communications

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