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Senior AI Marketing Strategist

AI-Driven Marketer

Helping marketers master AI and lead the future of marketing.

Show Host

Danchez

Need help turning your marketing department into a system-driven machine? Send me a DM and I'll show you how you can turn the chaos into systematic results.

AI Marketing Consultant & Creator

Element451

Led all inbound marketing efforts to drive revenue.

Director of Inbound Marketing

Sweet Fish

Led a team of producers to manage 40+ clients' podcasts and content marketing. I led strategic sessions with clients to help them create industry-leading shows.

Executive Producer

Served as head of marketing for Sweet Fish and consulted B2B tech companies across industries on marketing strategy, audience growth, and content marketing. Helped Sweet Fish hit the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list two years in a row and hosted over 200 episodes on the B2B Growth show.

• Generated over one million in revenue through my evangelism on LinkedIn. 
• Helped the B2B Growth podcast rank #1 in the Apple Podcast marketing category.

Director of Audience Growth

Bethany International

Served as the head of marketing and lead a teams in marketing, media, and digital technology initiatives. Daily responsibilities included marketing strategy development, coaching staff, mentoring students, producing content, writing copy, managing processes, and directing design work.

• Tripled the enrollment of BGU & won an award for fastest enrollment growth.
• Grew lead generation from 450 to 4,000+ leads annually. 
• Grew revenue from 6 to 12 million.
• Grew a new website from zero to 500k monthly pageviews from SEO.

Director of Marketing

Bethany Global University

Developed curriculum for and taught ENT211: Marketing Your Small Business for BGU's Transformational Entrepreneurship program where I coached students on how to start and market micro businesses.

Administrative Faculty

Shoptology

Worked with a talented team to build Facebook applications, manage client digital marketing, and provide social media training. My responsibilities ranged from product development, UI design, email marketing, WordPress theme development, Google Adwords, Facebook ad campaigns, and conducting market research for multinational corporations.

Marketing Engagement Specialist

International House of Prayer

I managed social networks consisting of 200,000+ followers as well as their PPC campaigns on Adwords and Facebook.
• Increased website traffic from social media by over 120%.

Social Media Manager

Teen Mania Ministries

Led a team of eight interns in email, social media, SMS text, Google Adwords, and direct mail marketing for one of the largest Christian youth organizations in the world. Managed 23 websites and blogs that exceeded 1.8 million annual visits each year.

• Website optimization for extremecamps.com increased lead generation by over 500%.
• Rebuilt all of their major websites which cut costs by 90% and increased overall performance.
• Successfully automated SMS text and email campaigns to save hours of work each week.
• Developed a marketing department training website for new hires and interns.

Digital Marketing Manager

Just a marketer trying to master AI in 2024 🦾 | Host of AiDrivenMarketer.com

Hi, I’m Dan Sanchez. My friends call me Danchez. 😉

I freaking love ai & marketing  ❤️ 🧑🏽‍💻

I also love:
• Yerba Mate  🧉
• Christmas 🎄 
• The great outdoors 🏕 
• V-neck t-shirts
• & Ultra learning (ask ChatGPT some time) 🤓

I post my most actionable advice to help you leverage AI to: 
 
👉  automate the busy work

👉  amplify your creativity

👉  and clarify your message

every... single...  day...  to help you LEVEL UP 🦾 your marketing game. 

So... connect with me on LinkedIn, 

become a friend, 

and call me Danchez. 🤓 👊

Dan Sanchez

"Let’s clarify your intent" 😍

ChatGPT is getting better.

I've been waiting for this moment. I know it would come but this is one of the first times I've seen it.

AI is slowing down and asking for clarity from my vague instructions just like a human would.

I've seen indicators of this before. If you would have asked it to write a marketing plan a year ago, it wouldn't have stopped to ask about the business you wanted to write it for. Eight months ago it started asking that.

Today, I gave it something that it would have normally moved forward with, but today it stopped and asked for clarity. 

It was the right thing to do.

These models are improving in small ways all the time.

#Danchez

Marketer mastering AI. Join me & 5k others on the journey at AIDrivenMarketer.com

Gemini will overtake ChatGPT when they:

1. Add a collaborate project feature

2. Allow Gemini to access most of the most common Google apps (YouTube, Analytics, etc)

3. Add memory 

3. They expand Google Opal to integrate with other apps outside of the Google ecosystem

4. They consolidate more of their AI features into their core Gemini app

I think it’s likely that these will all get done in 2026.

So, my prediction: Gemini will surpass ChatGPT by this time next year unless ChatGPT has an insane Hail Mary up their sleeve. 

Will you move?

#Danchez

I was 67 episodes in, then I got traction.

It takes time. We have to stop pivoting.

I had started and stopped a dozen blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels. 

I finally stuck with one.

It took a long time to grow.

But it did grow. 

Now it reaches 1,200-2,000 people an episode. 

It’s not huge, but it’s enough to keep it in the top 50 marketing podcasts. 

If you are just starting, just realized that it takes time. 

If you want to give up, keep going.

If you want to speed it up, publish more AND do improve the quality a little every time. 

Also, 67 wasn’t the magic number, it’s just when I noticed that things began to grow at a slightly faster rate. 

I was also not starting from zero. I had 25k LinkedIn followers and 10k monthly page views on my site and it still took a long time.

#Danchez

PS - Want me to take a look at your pod? Drop a link below and I’ll send a quick video with some rapid fire feedback.

OpenAI’s gearing up for war with Google.

But here’s the problem…

Google owns the map, the email, the docs, the OS… OpenAI owns ChatGPT and Sora. That’s it.

They’ll burn billions chasing compute, so building their own “Google Suite” from scratch? Impossible.

If I were Sam Altman, I’d go all in on acquisitions that scare Google:

👉 Notion: where real people actually work.
👉 Proton Mail: where privacy isn’t an afterthought.

Imagine a future where “OpenAI Suite” means private, fast, AI-powered everything.

Google would finally have a rival worth sweating over.

What company would you buy if you were OpenAI?

#Danchez
I help marketers use AI to move faster, build better, and think smarter.

PS – I built a free tool to make posting on LinkedIn easier. Try it (Link in profile).

Can you write a book with AI?

Would it be any good? We'll find out.

Naturally, there are dozens of programs that will spit out a book with a single prompt and all of them will be garbage. 

But, what if AI was just the ghost writer? 

What if you fed it your:

👉 Ideas
👉 Stories
👉 Style
👉 Structure
👉 Instructions

What if you let it interview you for more details?

That's what Ken Freire and I are attempting to do one podcast episode at a time. We've outlined the book using our existing ideas, broke down each chapter, and are recording an episode nearly every day this month that Gemini is turning into a chapter with the transcript.

We will still have to edit, but getting to v1 of the written draft was always the hard part (for me anyway). 

Will it work? 

The first drafts I'm getting out of Gemini tell me, yes.

You get to be the judge when it's published.

#Danchez
Marketer, mastering AI. 
Connect with me (Dan Sanchez) to join me on the journey.

PS - Today's episode (ch. 5) just dropped. 

Apple: https://lnkd.in/eSfvJqM8

Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e9dQqyYH

YouTube: https://lnkd.in/ekNcZKPM

TPM Focus

➡️ www.tpmfocus.com | TPM Focus Strategy --> Business Innovation Consulting
➡️ marketing.tpmfocus.com | TPM Focus Marketing --> Marketing Strategy and Execution for New Product and New Market Launches

My team and I leverage our deep backgrounds in technology, engineering, business, and leadership in various industries to assist B2B companies with the execution of innovative business concepts to maximize scalability and profitability.  

We create business strategies that align marketing, sales, technology, and customer success with financial goals.  

Too often these departments either don't exist yet (because you're a startup) or work in silos within companies, hindering the progress of the business.  

Aligning a company's strategic goals, teams, and metrics enable better decision-making on where to focus to accelerate growth.


TYPICAL CLIENTS ARE:

➡️Research Universities

➡️Startup Incubators and Accelerators

➡️Economic Development Agencies across the World (International and National)

➡️Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship Programs

➡️Executive Founding teams of innovative startups

And we work directly with Entrepreneurs who are a part of of these entities.

𝐖𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝟐𝐁 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬....And thus, they hire TPM Focus because the outcomes we provide directly align with the financial interests of all involved. 

𝐖𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 which in turn provides jobs, further builds the economy, and moves society forward.

Many of our clients are international companies seeking expansion into the U.S. and we apply our unique approach, strategies, and industry connections to jumpstart them.


Go to 👉🏼ｔｐｍｆｏｃｕｓ.ｃｏｍ／ｃｏｎｔａｃｔ👈🏼 to get more info on how we can work together.

Founder & Chief Innovation Strategist

Focused Innovation Group

FIG, or Focused Innovation Group LLC, is a family-owned search fund created to acquire and operate small businesses that are ripe for innovation and digital transformation to increase their efficiencies and profitability.

We're experienced in building and growing businesses and actively seeking companies for our portfolio that meet the following criteria:

➡️Established B2B service company with $1.5MM to $5MM EBITDA
➡️Located in one of the following cities:
  -Atlanta, GA
  - or direct flight from ATL
➡️Current owner seeking to divest and exit the company.

At FIG, we believe that providing a healthy company culture and taking care of the employees ensure you have happy, longstanding customers.  We have a "people first" mentality and believe in investing in our people and the community.

President

Unpolished MBA

This podcast broadcasts conversations I have with smart and interesting people; most are tech entrepreneurs. Some of them have MBA's; some don't. Those with MBAs share whether it has been useful on their entrepreneurial journey, while both share critical components of their story to where they are today.  

We talk business, life, career, and share bits of wisdom for those on the fence about their next career move---MBA or No MBA? Entrepreneurship or Corporate Employee? 

Each episode is less than 30 minutes and can be found on all the major podcast platforms or at www.unpolishedmba.com.

Host, Executive Producer of "Unpolished MBA" Podcast

Techstars

Startup Mentor

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers

Licensed Realtor(R) with extensive knowledge and experience in real estate investing and construction.  
http://focusedrealtors.com

Focused Realtors LLC is affiliated with BHGRE Metro Brokers, the world's largest and most successful affiliate of Realogy Holdings Corp.

I assist clients with strategic planning and execution of real estate investments (residential and commercial) and small business relocation.  Member of the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors.

Founder and Managing Realtor(R) - Focused Realtors, LLC

Founder Institute

Launched cohort of new technology entrepreneurs in Atlanta, GA.  Provide mentorship to early-stage tech entrepreneurs.  Taught curriculum sessions on Product Development and Product Management.
Based in Silicon Valley, the Founder Institute is the world's premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program in 200+ cities around the world. (http://fi.co)

Director (former) & Mentor (current)

Georgia State University

I teach "Entrepreneurial Thinking For Startups" at GSU's College of Business as part of the University's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute.

This course focuses on applying evidence-based entrepreneurship methods to go from an idea to a sustainable business model. Specifically, I teach students how to apply behavioral economics, the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup methodology to develop, test and introduce new products/services to the market with a viable business model that can profitably fulfill their value proposition.  In addition, students are taught to persuasively pitch to prospective customers/investors.  

➡️ Teaching the process of entrepreneurship and innovation in addition to imparting practical knowledge and strategies that empower others to learn how to create value for the world and themselves is one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

Entrepreneurship Lecturer

Berry College

Strategic advice and implementation for Women Of Color In STEM Entrepreneurship initiatives and NSF-funded research

Strategy Consultant and Advisory Board

STEM to Market

STEM to Market advances STEM women entrepreneurs, cultivates intentional and inclusive investors, and develops connections across STEM entrepreneurship ecosystems.  
It's a Kauffman Foundation-funded project of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and consists of two components: 

1.) The AWIS Accelerator which provides entrepreneurial education and support to STEM women with research or technology they want to commercialize. 

2.) AWIS Intentional Investing which leverages systemic change expertise to empower investors and funders with the tools and strategies needed for inclusive and profitable investment decisions.

The Association of Women in Science (AWIS) focuses on increasing the representation, advancement and impact of women in STEM through evidence-based strategies, policies and solutions that eliminate barriers and bias from the workplace.

Advisory Board Member

Vanderbilt University

Strategy Consultant

GTM and Value Creation for Startups and SMBs

Entrepreneur = Someone who has designed a business model that enables them to get paid to solve problems

As a result of my curiosity and perpetual need to solve problems, I have founded 5 companies and work every day, helping companies capture opportunities and navigate business challenges.  

My current companies prioritize increasing REVENUES and ensuring PROFITS for companies using a customer-centric, technology-forward focus.

𝙏𝙋𝙈 𝙁𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 - We work with Tech Startups, SMBs, Economic Development agencies, Consulates, and Research Universities and have developed partnerships with several of the most well-known Incubators and Accelerators nationwide. 
As a result of my experiences, there isn't much I haven't done or seen regarding building a company from scratch. 
Currently, we're heavily focused on helping companies prepare for a future with AI and understanding how it will affect their businesses

𝙁𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥--> This venture was created for me to acquire SMBs in B2B services with $1.5-5MM in EBITDA anywhere in the U.S. Most companies are owned by retiring owners who are seeking an exit from the business. 

I'm motivated by learning opportunities, solving big problems, and adding value to society by utilizing my skills, gifts, knowledge, and talents. 

I hold 
--an MBA with a concentration in Management of Technology, 
--a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology, 
--multiple leadership certificates, 
--a real estate license, 
--and the PMP® (Project Management Professional) credential. 
I'm also certified in online pedagogy at the University-level and love to teach what I know from experience as an Adjunct Professor at Business Schools (when I have time). 

Yea, I know...that's a lot! 
I've done a lot in my career and it wasn't by mistake.
I believe in making the most out of life, so it's critical to explore your interests and enjoy the journey as I've done. 

Although I'm a degreed electrical engineer and began my career as a highly technical expert in various industries, over time and with the addition of my MBA, I've expanded my interests and capabilities beyond anything I'd previously imagined.  

Well, If you're still here reading this ➡️ Don't interpret any of this bio as bragging. My education and experience are the leverage that has enabled me (and someone who looks like me) to be invited to be at the table, and it was a necessity for me to have maximum impact in the world to help others.

Happy to connect, learn new perspectives, and add value to the business ecosystem.

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