FinElevate

FinElevate is a Fractional CFO service for entrepreneurs.  We help clients achieve freedom and financial clarity in their business and execute a playbook to increase profitability, and improve cash flow.

Founder and CEO

Abacus Unlimited

Managing Partner

Unified Supply

Chairman of the Board

Chief Executive Officer

Vice President and CFO

B&W Cabinets

B&W has provided quality custom cabinets to the DFW Metroplex for over 45 years. The 3rd-Generation family business focuses on empowering our team, and providing excellent support to our builders and remodelers.

Partner and Board Member

AESI - Airport Equipment Specialists

Founder at FinElevate | Fractional CFO Service for Entrepreneurs | EOS Visionary | Strategic Coach 10x Member

Colin Sanburg

Run Tri Bike

Our platform is geared toward being the story teller's story teller. This means that we focus on the ordinary person accomplishing the extraordinary.

We tell stories of alcoholics getting sober and preparing to run a 250 mile race in Arizona. We share stories of mother's coming back from giving birth to racing marathons and triathlons.

We believe that every story matters and will help inspire the next person who doubts that they can participate in endurance sports.

Our vision is that there is a spot at the starting line for everybody. Our mission is to ensure that people know that and we do that through storytelling.

We are on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and our website. We also publish a digital magazine on a bi-monthly basis and drop a newsletter every two weeks.

Athletes, Coaches, Race Directors and Business Owners benefit from our multimedia platform because we all come across hurdles in our life and our stories help move them along.

Whether you're finishing last, DNF'ing or standing on the podium you have a story to tell and our platform is here to help you tell it.

Company Owner

Southern New Hampshire University

Adjunct Professor Of Marketing

Grand Canyon University

Adjunct Professor of Marketing

TravelHost

TravelHost is a 53 year-old multi-media company that provides best-in-class training and support to help those with an entrepreneurial mindset realize their business ownership dreams.

Develop and grow business for multi-media company, providing “franchise-like” business opportunities to entrepreneurs in markets across the country. Maximize SEO, develop digital content, and execute digital strategy for new business development. Motivate and strategize with business owners, sharing best practices in sales, marketing, customer management, market segmentation, product placement, product distribution, pricing, and building partnerships.

Accomplishments include:
* Closed contracts on 15 new businesses, launching lucrative new markets with initial buy in and ongoing marketing service. Top salesperson within company.
* Launched new website, increasing new user visits by 136% and organic sessions by 400%+.
* Created new business model to reduce barrier to entry for potential new business owners. Significant increase in lead generation, building pipeline during uncertainty due to pandemic.

Vice President Sales and Marketing

The Dallas Morning News

Digital sales leader in recruitment marketing for newspaper with leading print and digital distribution. (Ranked #11 in country.) Partnered with print marketing counterpart to cross-sell to existing clients. Cold called new prospects across the country. Mentored and guided a team of six team members to grow total advertising. Led efforts in advertising and event upselling to Dallas Morning News Top 100 clients. Negotiated pricing and services to earn, build and retain customers.

* Increased revenue by 300% and earned customer retention rate of 70%, in three years.
* Innovated digital recruitment through social media recruitment pages, launched in 25 unique metropolitan markets. New ad revenue on track to earn $500K in first year.
* Three-time recipient of President’s Club award and selected for Sales Leadership Council, a cross functional team to target company growth initiatives.

Account Executive

Sonix Studio

Generated, negotiated, and closed sales, helping micro businesses improve online profile and increase sales. Prospected through cold calls, referrals, repeat business, and networking. Strategized digital content for clients including website, blogs, and social media. 

*Grew YOY review by 20% each year.

Sales Director

Marathon Makeover - North Dallas

Marathon Makeover is a 40-week, marathon-training, wellness program starting its seventh year helping ordinary people do the extraordinary — train for and finish a marathon!

We have walkers, runners, joggers and woggers - and most of our past marathoners could barely walk or run one mile when they started. Through our hands-on training, positive motivation and the friendly group experience of Marathon Makeover, people from all walks of life and ages have grown through this life changing experience

Director

FunCitySocialMedia

Manage Outside Sales with an emphasis on small to medium sized business.  I have been able to convert leads to sales by demonstrating the power of social media to help expose a business to customers that did not know the business existed and vice versa.

Manager, Ad Sales

ITN Networks

• Managed P&L of News division with $150M in revenue.
• Provided strategic action plans for Senior Media Planners regarding optimizing campaigns.
• Monitored delivery and cost of all client contracts.
• Trained and coached 10 direct reports to build their “day part” revenues.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Initiated meetings with executive management to present existing buying process and recommended process improvements based on an automated system.  Collaborated with CIO and Exec VP of Operations on developing key elements of the system.  Lead tester providing feedback and necessary adjustments that ensured cost savings and expansion of inventory. Resulted in decreasing man-hours from four to two weeks with emphasis on negotiation and not on allocation.  Company expanded inventory which led to increased sales.
• Analyzed client’s business, categorized requirements and determined demographics to avoid product and program conflict. Collaborated with IT to generate report that provided commercials on a weekly basis and allowed for more efficient pairing. Resulted in increased sales and revenue upfront.  Increased profits, increased number of commercials sold and increased purchasing of additional commercials which reduced costs.
• Achieved 50% increase in revenue over three years and increased profits by 10%.

Vice President - Planning

Innovation Ads

• Wholly responsible for operations of the media and client services department, budgeting, forecasting, P&L.
• Provided strategic and tactical action plans for media buyers and planners.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Increased profits by 5% through innovative cost efficiencies and increased revenue. 
• Collaborated with Director of Sales to reorganize and create a more sales-centric organization. Developed a new compensation package for existing sales staff and newly created client services team. Presented reorganization to C-Level executives. Resulted in a focused sales team who generated more sales leads.  
• Created policy and procedures for purchasing media on behalf of clients.  Laid out “P & P” in a PowerPoint format for C-Level executives, media department, IT department and sales. Created two Excel spreadsheet templates that analyzed each campaign.  Optimized campaigns and added new publishers creating a competitive environment which resulted in higher profit margins.  Client goals were being hit on a consistent basis which led to increased revenue. 
• Developed policy and procedure’s manual regarding media planning and buying.

Director of Media and Client Services

At Run Tri Bike, storytelling is the heartbeat of our mission. We bring the inspiring journeys of those in the endurance sports community to the forefront. Our platform celebrates every milestone, from the triumph of sobriety to the resilience of new mothers returning to competition. With over three years at the helm, our message is clear: "Every story matters."

Run Tri Bike is the Premiere Voice of the Everyday Athlete proving that there is a spot at the startling line for everybody and every body. This vision and mission has led us to be trusted by our growing audience.

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