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Lead Designer / Owner

PerfectWater

Director of Marketing

Marketing Specialist

Ezekiel Rochat Marketing

Website Designer

I'm a designer, developer, Christ-follower, husband, and entrepreneur.

I love helping consultants, creators, and coaches trade in frustration and confusion for a website that brings clarity, confidence, and strategic growth.

When you and I make more money because we work together, that’s pretty sweet.

When I’m not growing my own business, I enjoy well-brewed coffee, reading business books and fantasy novels, playing board games with friends, and losing myself in an unexplored world on my Xbox. Nerd alert.

My wife Kylee and I live in Knoxville, Tennessee, near the Great Smoky Mountains.

I believe that small businesses are the backbone of America—thanks, Dave Ramsey—and I want to contribute to the success of yours by helping you launch a website that you are eager to share.

Building a profitable business that makes a positive impact on others isn’t easy. If it were, everyone would do it.

Too many business owners cringe when look at their own websites because what they see there doesn’t represent who they really are, whom they help, and the value they create. No, what they see is bland. Blech.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

The best websites make a strong, positive first impression. They win trust through thoughtful design, solid copywriting, and artful strategy. They persuade the right people that they have nothing to lose by taking the first step.

Those websites are the ones I build. 

Over the years, I have fine-tuned my process and simplified my packages and prices. 

I share easy-to-understand prices up front.
Website “sprints” keep us focused on what matters most. 
By launching a strategic website sooner, you see ROI sooner.
I even offer a 100% refund with our initial package. If you followed the process and strategy and don’t believe I kept my promise, I will return your money.

That said, I only work with about 20 people each year, so I’m very invested in making your project a success. It’s in my best interest to do so: I want to use your case study to win my new client!

My clients tell me I make them feel like they’re my only client, and a lot of them ask for monthly subscriptions after we go through several sprints. You’ll have that option too.

Whether you work with me or find a better fit elsewhere, I truly wish you all the success in the world and hope you make a wildly positive impact on your family, team, and clients.

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When you're ready, there's 2 ways I can help you:

1. Download The Homepage Blueprint on my website.

2. Work with me to get a new website!


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Ezekiel Rochat

Ezekiel Rochat

Timothy (Tim) Hughes 提姆·休斯

DLA ignite

The last 12 month have been pivotable in sales and marketing as social media has changed both society and business.

We are seeing the results from cold calling and email marketing getting less and less, year by year, Hubspot recently showed research that you can expect a 98% failure rate by using these techniques.

Then we got hit by the global pandemic and the world has gone totally virtual.  Companies have grappled with the current sales model of having a group of telephone SDRs and face-to-face salespeople, that just isn’t fit for purpose in a Covid19 world.

 This is scary for all savvy business leaders, but what are you to do?

Most business leaders don’t have an experience of social and think it’s about cat photos, rather than a robust methodology that is used by many household name businesses.  This means that it’s often dismissed as “new and won’t work for me”, rather than the mature choice for businesses today.

DLA Ignite is not some “fly by night organisation”, we haven’t just pivoted, we have spent the last 4 years creating and refining our social selling methodology, to take the thinking out of digital selling.  All of our programs are based on data, we have analysed our clients and know what works and what doesn’t, so you don’t have to waste your time.  We can accelerate you to virtual selling.

You are not alone, CEO after CEO are signing with us and saying “we came into this pandemic analogue and we are going to come out of it digital”.

But it’s not just about transforming sales.  It would be trendy to call it digital transformation, we see it more as business transformation. We start with sales and implement social selling and then roll out social across Marketing, Customer Service, Human Resources, Employee Comms. Social Selling is, after all, a random act of social.  By truly transforming the business with social you can strip out cost, increase incremental revenue and gain competitive advantage.


For more information contact tim@dlaignite.com

CEO and Co Founder

Since the launch of my first book in 2016 I've been a creator and influencer using both my LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube networks as part of the creator economy.  I'm often in lists from Thinkers360 and Onalytica for being one of the top thought leaders, creators and influencers in the world.  In my given subjects of social selling, digital selling, virtual selling, modern selling, sales, marketing, digital marketing, leadership and management.  I'm always interested in partnering and co-creating content with brands.  My audience and influence is not just based on numbers, but also quality of that community and ecosystem.

Content Creator

I'm the RevOps leader for DLA Ignite, we decided we needed to take an end-to-end view of the revenue generation business process.  This allows us to have driving predictable revenue, across marketing, sales, renewals, and expansion, all of which keeps the lifeblood of a company flowing.

Revenue Operations RevOps Leader

Digital Growth Collective

The Digital Growth Collective unites business leaders, tech experts, and investors in a global community. We forge strategic partnerships across five key industries: information technology, healthcare, financial services, energy, and manufacturing.

By deepening stakeholder dialogue and aligning strategic assets, we prioritize value growth at its core – empowering our partners in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to capitalize on tomorrow's business opportunities today.

Global Partner

ThePowerMBA

ThePowerMBA are creating a new module for sales and I have been asked to be featured in one of the business case interviews.  I will be doing this along with other start-up founders and C-level executives from the world's most disruptive startups and corporations (i.e. founders of companies such as Youtube, Tesla, Netflix, Waze, Shazam, WholeFoods..and C-levels from + 50 companies of Fortune 500).  This will part of a new curriculum option on sales.

Global Instructor and Business case contributor at ThePowerMBA

Institute of Sales Professionals

The ISP are a Government-backed professional body representing sales in the UK and around the world.
We are proud of our profession and passionately believe that sales should be a chartered body - this is part of our mission.
We are bringing sales into parity with other professions by providing qualifications and lettered accreditation, underpinned by life-long learning, for those who choose a career as a sales professional.
We uphold the quality, ethics and standards of professional selling and are here to celebrate everything that is great about being a sales professional.

Leader

The Digital Download

Producer and contributor to the longest running weekly business talk show on LinkedInLive

Podcast Producer

Social Selling London

This job is to see if social selling london appears in the search on LinkedIn.

RevOps Co-op

RevOps Co-op is a slack group (it is NOT a pod) we strive to create a safe, empowering, and inclusive environment for RevOps pros to learn and connect with each other.

Contributor and active in a network of RevOp professionals

HighChloeCloud

HighChloeCloud was the brainchild of Chloe Hacquard while studying her Masters at INSEEC Business School in Paris.  HighChloeCloud (as do DLA Ignite) believes that Social Media has changed the world.  It has changed society and it has changed the way we do business.  Both HighChloeCloud and DLA Ignite believe that we can merge the benefits of the social changes and the business changes from social media to create social mobility for all.  To empower and transform the disadvantaged across society and transform people and society for the better.

Non Executive Director

Rutgers Business School Executive Education

Working as part of the program that Neal Schaffer has produced, the program is for sales people and business leaders to understand social in today's digital world.  My input in terms of the program covers:-
1.  Change management requirements and how to manage the people change
2.  How to "sell" a Social Selling program to different stakeholders in your organisation
3.  Organisational blockers and how to manage them
4.  Measures, Governance and (building a business case) Return on Investment (ROI)
5.  Business benefits of Social Selling via case study
Other faculty instructors include social selling thought leaders Brynne Tillman, Sandra Long, and Spencer Smith.
Neal describes the program as follows:-

"Bringing together leaders and influencers who have trained dozens of companies from a variety of industries internationally in social selling, this program goes beyond simple "I already knew that" LinkedIn training and provides participants a global perspective on leveraging social media that is applicable to both B2B and B2C salespeople.

The objective of this innovative program is to train salespeople to not only master the tactical functionality that is possible with social media in order to help engage with the digital buyer at every stage of the sales cycle, but also to build internal leaders and change agents who will truly impact an organization's sales and internal digital literacy after taking the program."

For me this enables me to pass on the baton of social media and social selling to a future team of sales people and business leaders!

Social Selling in a Digital World Faculty

RevGenius

RevGenius is a group of revenue-generating sales and marketing professionals brought together to learn, share, support, and grow with each other. You can consider us your alt work family!

Contributing member

Should have Played Quidditch for England

I’m writing this with tears in my eyes. Watching the changes, we help people make always makes me tearful. At the start of our blogging session today (which is the last as part of our social selling programme) one of the salespeople said, “I really don’t see the relevance of this.” By the end of the session, it was this person who was the first to publish their blog! And, what a blog it was.
 
This is why Adam and I set up the company. Not to do Linkedin training, nor to be just another marketing agency and not to transform only sales by using social. Here at DLA Ignite, we transform the whole organisation. Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Internal Comms, Customer Service, all with social.
 
For me, it all started 15 years ago when I joined Twitter (now X)
 
Later, I was part of an ambitious sales transformation which took 4,000 sales people and tried to turn them into social sellers. We made mistakes along the way. We tried LinkedIn training. We tried About/profile writers and we even tried masterclasses but they all failed. Why? It is because, they didn’t create the mindset and habit change that’s vital to become social.
 
After this, there was my best-selling books, “Social Selling - Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers” followed by a second, “Smarketing - How to Achieve Competitive Advantage through Blended Sales and Marketing” (both available on Amazon worldwide).
 
Finally, we a deep desire to transform lives as well as companies.
 
In sales, we transform people every day (through our Social Selling programs). Outside of this, we are also empowering and transforming people in roles across the Enterprise creating the classic, “more for less” scenario. The impact of this means that, “legacy process” competitors may never catch up.
 
So why the tears? To be honest, it doesn’t matter how many people and companies we transform. What matters is seeing people change their mindset and develop. This is very moving for me and all of us in the global team. We get one hell of a kick out of this!

Timothy "Tim" Hughes 提姆·休斯 L.ISP

10 books every modern leader should read


Leadership is evolving fast and the leaders who thrive are the ones who stay curious, stay informed, and stay open to new ideas

I’ve just pulled together reviews of 10 standout leadership books that have shaped my thinking and challenged me to lead with more intention, clarity, and impact

From mindset to influence… from communication to culture… each book brings a different lens on what it really takes to lead in today’s complex world

Whether you’re a senior executive, a founder, or someone stepping into leadership for the first time, these books will give you:

✅ New perspectives
✅ Practical tools
✅ A deeper understanding of your own leadership style

I’ve compiled them all into one blog to make it easy for you to find your next great read

Great books by
Matthew Egan
Peggy Bud and Tamara L. J.
Ray Eitel-Porter, Dr Paul Dongha and Miriam Vogel
Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
Javier Marcos, Rodrigo Guesalaga, Andrew Hough FF.ISP,Cranfield Lecturer and Richard Vincent
Sujay Dutta and Siddharth Rajagopal
Dr. Oleg Konovalov
Roderick Jefferson
Natalie Nixon, PhD
Amy Osmond Cook, Ph.D., Ryan Westwood, Bala B.
Adam Gray and Hugo Whicher

Which leadership book has made the biggest difference in your career? 

Share it below, I’m always adding to my reading list

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