Patrick Hodgdon ☘️'s Linkedin Analytics

My Why: I have a passion for solving business challenges to deliver growth. My How: By exploring and making new connections between different ideas, people, stories, tools, and companies. Career Highlights: • Starting a company at age 21 • Managing a sports apparel company at age 25 • R&Ding the first pair of bicycling gloves with touch-screen compatible fingertips in 2011 • Being featured on ESPN.com and SI.com • Identifying through Twitter data analysis, Red Baron Pizza's niche following in the eSports community, then creating a campaign to partner with Major League Gaming, and leveraging 10 pro gamers as social media influencers to generate 50 MM impressions & increase brand favorability by 77% • Leading Carmex’s partnership with LeBronJames.com which led to “the half-court shot seen round the world” and over 510M brand impressions and $7.1M in exposure • Turning a pair of $225 custom Nike shoes I designed as a gift to LeBron into 4 MM brand impressions when he wore them in a nationally televised game on ABC • Consulting for D.J. Irie, the two-time Global Spin Awards DJ Entrepreneur of the Year, and official DJ of the Miami Heat, Target, Carnival, and Beck's. • Growing a client’s online business 3X with Google Ads and updated landing pages • Becoming a podcast host and interviewing leading experts on Learning & Development best practices. • Playing a key role in launching a new brand and a complete digital transformation project for the Catholic Church in Detroit. • Leading all digital marketing efforts for one of the Top 100 Furniture Retailers in the country. 5 Strengths: WOO (Winning Others Over), Ideation, Strategic, Activator, Belief