Devin Bramhall

DEVIN

I will help you overcome obstacles and achieve your goals faster - devinbramhall.com
- Scale your agency and increase profitability
- Increase marketing ROI
- Improve output from your own leadership

I’m not a talking head. I’ve executed at every level from IC to manager to VP and CEO and use my hands-on experience to identify opportunities for your company and set up a foundation that you can easily maintain and build on.

For over 15 years, I’ve helped startups, agencies and enterprise companies grow by building repeatable, scalable frameworks in marketing and agency operations that expedite progress toward their growth targets. 

Cisco, Google, Wistia, Saasworks, Help Scout, Animalz

Services include:
- Growth strategy 
- Building your first marketing function
- Hiring
- Team structure & KPIs
- Reporting

Growth Advisor

Don't Say Content

A podcast for marketing leaders and business executives. We use our combined 20+ years of experience to explore the challenges and opportunities behind industry hype to bring listeners fresh perspective, strategy & insights. Our goal: Increase the business impact of marketing by creating shared understanding of its purpose and outcomes among marketing leaders, founders/CEOs & others in the C-suite. From business and marketing strategy to hiring and talent, weekly episodes inspire and reinvigorate hundreds of leaders who tune in & engage every week.

Podcast Co Host

Animalz

Highlights
- Achieved +3x revenue growth in 2 years at 19% profit margin
- Built C-suite team 
- Grew team from 18 to 130 people
- Diversified product line
- Attracted biggest names in tech including Google, Amazon, Slack, Spotify, Facebook & more

Chief Executive Officer

• Grew revenue: 33% 2018 • 57% 2019
• Grew team from 18-50, evolved org structure & roles to improve content marketing function
• Advised on customer content strategy including Google, GoDaddy, Wistia 
• Updated Animalz brand across messaging, look/feel, and product positioning

VP of Marketing

Self-employed marketing and communications consultant

Freelance Marketing Consultant

Help Scout

Developed strategy to grow traffic and customer acquisition. Managed a team of content marketers and collaborated with design and development teams on campaigns, website, and brand initiatives. Accomplishments included:

- Grew website traffic from ~300k to 430k monthly unique visitors
- Created goals-driven content strategy focused on traffic and subscriber acquisition.
- Managed content partnerships and led strategic partnerships with Support Driven, the largest community for customer support pros.
- Managed brand awareness including PR, conferences, and community management 
- Launched customer service education platform, HelpU (https://www.helpscout.net/helpu/), to increase customer acquisition and grow brand awareness.

Director of Content

Boston Content

Boston Content is the largest community group and career development resource for content marketers in Boston, founded in 2011 by Jay Acunzo and Arestia Rosenberg. 

As Executive Director:

- Led 6-person executive committee in charge of events, membership, and sponsorship  
- Oversaw development of first volunteer program
- Grew membership 100%
- Launched "Content Marketer to Watch" award
- Created Boston Content’s blog posting 2x/week
- Developed marketing “Jobs” page and weekly jobs email to our 1,200+ members
- Doubled event programming, attendance and sponsorship program

Executive Director

The Master Slam

The Master Slam is a story slam-style debate that turns the traditional panel discussion into an exciting evening of live performance. Held four times a year and covering a variety of topics from Startups, Tech, Marketing/Advertising, Education  and more, the Master Slam is the new way for anyone passionate about their industry to flex their intellectual muscles in a fun, creative environment. http://www.themasterslam.com/

Founder

Alignable

Lead community engagement strategy through ongoing research, relationship building, testing and analysis to discover what small businesses need and how to incorporate that into our marketing strategy and product.

Marketing Manager

Shareaholic, Inc.

Product Marketing Manager

Springpad

Increased engagement among Springpad's 5M users through unique content marketing campaigns, including a live Google Hangouts series focusing on creative ways to use our app for organization and project management. Developed strategic partnerships with influential bloggers and brands to drive brand awareness and user acquisition.

Content Marketing Manager

Managed community of over 5 million users, providing technical support and content for all support/help pages as well as in-app to improve user comprehension of the Springpad's robust features on all platforms.

Streamlined customer support using new CRM tools. Curated engaged community of users to help evangelize and promote Springpad. Executed large and small scale beta testing and user feedback sessions of new features.

Happiness Specialist

Co-host: Don't Say Content. Marketing Advisor. Agency Growth Strategist. Former CEO of Animalz.

As a growth advisor, I bring over 15 years of marketing & leadership expertise at startups, agencies, and large corporations. 

I am the former CEO of Animalz, the leading content marketing agency for B2B SaaS companies, where I successfully grew revenue 3x in two years to nearly $12M.

I am also a fervent community builder and previously served as the Executive Director of Boston Content, the largest community group and career development resource for content marketers in Boston. During my 2-year tenure, I more than doubled membership and revenue from sponsorships and programming. 

Storytelling is at the root of my passion for marketing. I founded The Master Slam, a poetry slam-style debate about startups and tech. I am also a TEDx organizer and speaker trainer and have competed in several storytelling competitions. Additionally, I created an incredibly popular General Assembly workshop called "How to Use Storytelling to Get What You Want," which is still taught today.

Your CEO doesn’t hate marketing. They hate that you can't prove that it works.

I’ve sat on both sides of this table.
As the marketer who lost the room pitching “brand.”
As the CEO who had to choose what to fund.

Here’s the pattern. Execs don’t fund activities. They fund de-risked outcomes.
And when you speak marketing, you sound risky.

Here's what I mean: Two leaders pitch the same plan.

Leader A: “We need thought leadership content to build trust.”
Leader B: “We are losing deals in month seven because trust shows up too late. This content builds trust in month two. That cuts our close time nearly in half.”

Leader A got a nod and a freeze.
Leader B got the budget and two hires.

Same plan. Different frame.

Here’s the translation guide.

“Brand awareness” → “We are invisible to in-market buyers.”
“Thought leadership” → “We cut months out of the sales cycle.”
“Community building” → “Customers close deals for us.”
“Content strategy” → “Prospects show up already convinced.”

The work doesn’t change. The way you sell it does.

When I missed, it wasn’t because the strategy was wrong. It was because I made my CEO choose between understanding my plan and trusting me with their budget. They picked what they understood.

So ask the uncomfortable question. If your CEO doesn’t get it, is that their problem or yours?

Stop defending your strategy. 
Start translating their risk into your outcomes.

If you are done with tactics and incremental progress and want systems that compound, follow along. I wrote a book about that. Link in profile.

Chief Growth Officer [Fractional]. Author: “B2B Content Marketing Strategy” out now on Amazon

KIPP St. Louis

Educator

St. Louis Teacher Residency

Resident

BRANDEST

COO & Co-Founder

Live LinkedIn Audio Sessions:
20. 6/2/23 (coming soon)
19. 5/26/23 (coming soon)
18: 5/19/23 (coming soon)
17: AI Open Conversation 5/12/23
16: AI Open Conversation 5/4/23
15: AI Open Conversation 4/28/23
14: AI Open Conversation 4/21/23
13: AI Open Conversation 4/14/23
12: AI Roundup Featuring Favorite Friends 4/7/23
11: AI Community Building with Seth Pyrzynski 3/31/23
10: AI Ask Me Anything (AMA) 3/23/23
9: AI Breaking News with Chris Branch 3/17/23
8: AI Copyright Updates with Kristina Kashtanova 3/10/23
7: AI Tools for Nonprofits with David Norris 3/3/23
6: AI Creative Tools and Publishing with Brian Castleforte 2/24/23 
5: AI Ethics Conversation with Laura Miller 2/17/23
4: AI Content Use Cases 2/10/23
3: AI Emerging Creative Trends 2/3/23
2: Generative AI Generative Text Tools 1/2722
1: Generative AI Generative Art & Graphics Tools with Bas Waijers 1/20/22

Select AI Engagements:
● Regular co-host of "Generative AI In Marketing Agencies," via "The How's It Growing Podcast" by Seedily (Event by Artificial Inspiration and Chris Branch) 2023 - Present

● Co-host of "From I Sketch to AI's Catch and 3D Revolution" by Sandu Baciu, with Bryan Sykes

● Founding Member of Artificial Intelligence Creative Community (AI/CC) 4,000+ members on LinkedIn: 9/2022 - Present

● Moderator of “AI Art Universe” group with 550,000+ members on Facebook: 8/2022 - Present

● Moderated panel discussion: “Women’s Perspectives on AI Art” at QLD XR FESTIVAL
Brisbane, Australia on Zoom and live event broadcast: 11/25/22

● Spoke at "AI's Role in Fine Art and NFTs - MidJourney AI for Artists" with Kent Charugundla, Alexandra Peers (CNN), Denise Leitch Jackson, and Bharat Rao on LinkedIn Audio: 11/8/22

● Co-hosted "Intro to NFTS" with Bas Waijers, featuring Seth Pyrzynski on Zoom: 11/1/22

Co-host of “THE MAIN EVENT: Artificial Intelligence for Content Creators” on LinkedIn Audio

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Some early highlights were designing and hand printing concert posters for L7, Pavement, Le Tigre, and others for their St. Louis shows.

Owner

PAIRIS

Co-Founder

GroundTruth Nonprofit Consulting

Cofounder & Salesforce Consultant

The NICU Nonprofit LOGiC.baby

Cofounder

Association of Fundraising Professionals, St. Louis Chapter

Member Board of Directors

Buzzbold

Organizational Stewardship Manager & Salesforce Consultant

Washington University in St. Louis

Graduate Student

Administrator

I'm a science teacher at KIPP Inspire Academy middle school in St. Louis, Missouri. I have a BA in Anthropology, MA in Management of Nonprofit Organizations, and I'm working on a MATL, all from Washington University in St. Louis.

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