My fiance Lindsay and I recently made a big move in more ways than one…We are now first time homeowners and first time landlords. I think that our route is definitely the road less traveled, but I wanted to share our story and experience with my readers. There were lots of ups and downs to [...]
Invention to Venture Presentation
This past week I had an educational session on branding, marketing strategy, SEO and social media at the Excellence in Entrepreneurship course for start up CEO’s and executives. This Friday I will be speaking at the Invention to Venture boot camp about the same topic. I finished up revising my presentation earlier this week and [...]
Happy Birthday Brand Advance
Last year on this date, September 6th, I officially started Brand Advance. We started debt free without investment and were cash flow positive from day one. We had a great first year & have an awesome team made up of very smart, motivated & talented people. We’ve had over 100 design, marketing and consulting projects [...]
When to hire internally versus use a marketing agency
Robert Urban, Chief Marketing Officer of Brand Advance, recently wrote an awesome white paper giving suggestions on when it makes more sense for a company to train an existing employee, hire a new employee, or to utilize the services of a marketing agency for various marketing initiatives. Here’s the link to download the white paper: [...]

