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

John Short

Compound Growth Marketing

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Revenue marketing for scaling technology companies.

Underscore VC

The Underscore Core is a curated group of exceptional entrepreneurs, executives, and experts who work in partnership with Underscore VC, an earliest stage venture capital firm, to identify transformative entrepreneurs and support them as they build iconic companies. Core Members have collectively built hundreds of companies, created thousands of jobs, served millions of customers and created billions of dollars in value for their stakeholders.

Core Member

Endeavor Greece

I spend three plus hours a month talking with companies from Greece and Cyprus helping them to figure out demand generation strategies, go to market, and US expansion.

Mentor

Demand Sage

My teams have spent a lot of time on pulling reports and then analyzing them so when I had the chance to work with DemandSage, a product that automates the reporting, and pulls data out of Hubspot into Google Sheets and provides access to reports that I have had trouble pulling in Hubspot natively, I was excited.

Advisor

Workable

Workable is a hiring platform that improves the way high growth companies hire. We help you post the job out to the top job boards, and most importantly organize the hiring and interview process. We've raised $34M in venture funding today and are going fast by all SaaS benchmarks. To try it out, go to www.workable.com (there is a 15 day free trial) and let me know what you think.

VP Demand Generation

Worked on software and ecommerce properties. Clients include: Greycork, LogoMix, Morgan Stanley

Consultant

Yesware, Inc.

• Built Company Dashboard
• Identified channels for customer acquisition leading to explosive growth
• Developed lifecycle marketing touch points in product and with email campaigns

Marketer

LogMeIn

• Developed marketing campaigns for join.me, BoldChat and Rescue
• Worked with paid search, display, retargeting, online video, mobile, and TV

Search Marketing Manager

• Built marketing dashboard for entire company
• Developed customer economics model evaluating P/L

Senior Business Analyst

SEMPO Boston

Board Member Social Co-Chair

Monster

SEO Specialist

CEO at Compound Growth Marketing

As the CEO of Compound Growth Marketing, I help B2B technology companies drive predictable revenue through effective demand generation, go-to-market, and US expansion strategies. I have over 13 years of experience in online marketing, new media, and Google analytics, working with various SaaS, B2B, and B2C companies. 

My mission is to share my insights and best practices with other entrepreneurs, executives, and experts who want to grow their businesses and scale their impact. That's why I host the Compound Growth Marketing Show, a podcast that tackles the challenges and opportunities of revenue marketing in the tech industry. I'm also a core member at Underscore VC, a mentor at Endeavor Greece, and an advisor at Demand Sage, where I support and partner with transformative and innovative founders and teams.

Here is what I know... when you invest in upfunnel advertising, everything downstream can improve. People are more likely to:
🔥 Add you to their day-one consideration list
🔥 Respond to your outbound emails
🔥 Click on your retargeting ads
🔥 Engage with your content

The impact compounds.

The measurement challenge is real, but solvable.

You can see:
📈 Engagement lift on owned channels
📈 Response rates on outbound sequences
📈 CAC improvement across paid channels
📈 Pipeline quality metrics

If you're planning 2025 budgets and want to build a disciplined case for top-of-funnel investment, I can help. We have the frameworks, the data, and the measurement approach your executive team needs to see. Full disclosure, you won't get buy in from every executive, but for the ones who are open to new ideas of measurement, we can support you. 

DM me, allow us to give you the data to empower you.

We tested CTV and saw a 6X conversion on downfunnel conversion. 

I'm sure it wasn't the only benefit, we likely saw a lift in branded search, direct and email response from outbound. 

In B2B, when we get on the day one list, we see better efficiencies down funnel. 

But we (B2B marketers) are hesitant to run brand media because its not measureable (most of the time). 

We ran CTV to 91K people across our ICP. The study showed accounts exposed to those ads converted at 639% higher rates than unexposed accounts when they later hit our lead forms. We also saw a 14% lift in click-through rates.

We didn't track branded search lift. Or direct traffic. Or email response rates from the same account lists. But after running programs like this before, I am sure:
- Branded search volume from those accounts is increasing
- Direct traffic from their domains is likely up
- SDRs' emails to those accounts are probably getting opened more
- Sales conversations with warmed accounts should feel different

Why? Because I saw a similar impact when I've run Meta ads for a proptech vendor, or when I ran TV ads when I was at LogMeIn.

None of this would show up in the CTV attribution. No clean conversion path. No last-click pixel. But the behavioral change is real. But it can be (not always) tough to prove. 

We know intuitively when we create momentum. When it feels like our brand is everywhere... that the result will be better conversations with sales. 

92% of buyers end up buying from companies that were on their day one list. Its very difficult to reverse this momentum. 

Reach out if you're planning 2026, and trying to figure out how to measure upfunnel brand impact.

Them: This will be the last time I follow up. 

Me: Do you promise?

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