Nick Wittman Email and Phone Number

The Gnar Spot is the skate, snow, mtb side of my life and business. Initially a blog for Gear News Advice Riding, eventually becoming a brick n’ mortar retail store in 2011. We hosted 5 monthly skate comps each summer, multiple movie premieres at the local theater, created our own radio marketing and social media campaigns as those platforms came to market. Nowadays, The Gnar Spot, LLC is an independent sales agency with original media content production. I represent various snowboarding and mountain biking manufacturers across the PNW. My accounts are primarily REI, Evo, Next Adventure, many ski resorts and independent retailers. Over the years, I have curated a team of regional riders, content creators and professional video/photographers we collectively call Factotum Cinema. With their help, I have created product videos, catalog photos, premiere tours and, most impressively, hosted two very successful retailer dealer retreats we call “Meet Y'all in McCall".Happy Paddlin was the fruit of my labor for 7 years. I was a tech rep for Ethan Ebersold, hired primarily to help with REI store visits and staff training for all of his lines across the entire country! I began completely ignorant of paddlesports, learning paddling skills from shop owners/ managers along the way. I learned how to travel alone across the country, build a training schedule and routine, complete with custom made training handouts and well rehearsed clinics. In-store visits became both national & regional training events, eventually leading to producing REI’s example/ template for their online staff training portal, SPARK, as my last big project.From that mentorship came the knowledge of the sales rep trade while I brought a different skill set to the agency. HappyPaddlin.com as a website for our distribution channels, dealer tools and more. But I took it to the next level. I built and trademarked the Happy Paddlin brand’s logos. We later added a store to the website with SMU merchandise, donating a portion of sales to kids paddling classes & camps. I launched and managed the Happy Paddlin Instagram and YouTube accounts, producing original videos, custom info/ training sheets, and candid lifestyle photos. Some of my work landed cover shots or product shots in dealer & consumer catalogs.