Devin Bramhall

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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

I help people and organizations get unstuck, find purpose, and build momentum. 

I help people and teams through coaching, courses, and workshops delivered via My Authentic Story.

I help entrepreneurs, leadership teams, and organizations implement EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) via Traction on Purpose.

I love a good quote. The world is filled with people savvier, smarter, and more eloquent than me. The least I can do is amplify their brilliance and quotes are a pithy way to start. 

“Humility is the noble choice to forgo your status and use your influence for the good of others. It is to hold your power in service of others.”

-John Dickson

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances".

-Viktor Frankl

“Demons wilt at genuine self-confidence.”

-Bob Odenkirk

How about you? What's your favorite quote?

Suneet Bhatt

I understand why this is such a popular approach to happiness. 
I just don't agree with it. 

Satisfaction and contentment matter. They give us calm and breathing room. They help us feel settled.
But they are not happiness.

And when we treat them as happiness, we shrink the role happiness actually plays in our lives.

In my upcoming book Making Sense of Purpose, I touch on how we blend these ideas together (happiness, satisfaction, contentment) and as a result weaken all of them. Satisfaction is an evaluation. Contentment is settling. Both are useful and healthy, and both can support happiness. But happiness itself is something different. Happiness is something we generate through practice, attention, and intention. It does not depend on circumstance or comparison.

Here is the part I keep coming back to:

Happiness is the backdrop that makes the human experience work.
It is the emotional foundation that makes purpose sustainable.
It is the counterweight that keeps ambition from burning us out.
It is what allows meaning and momentum to take root and last.

Without happiness, purpose becomes pressure.
Without happiness, progress becomes exhaustion.
Without happiness, everything we care about becomes harder to carry.

We are also famously bad at predicting happiness. Not because there is something wrong with us, but because we rarely look back and study the moments and practices that have created happiness for us. We do not acknowledge them. We do not lock them in. We cannot predict what we have not examined.

So yes, appreciation and contentment can open the door. They can help quiet the noise. They can create the conditions where happiness is easier to access. 

But they are not the same thing.

Happiness is not settling.
Happiness is not the absence of desire.
Happiness is a practice that gives us the clarity and strength to live with purpose.

And it deserves its own space.

Not as an aspiration or a reward, but as the steady backdrop that helps us become who we are capable of becoming.

Want the research I incorporate to make this argument in my book?
Affective Forecasting (Gilbert & Wilson)
Humans consistently mispredict what will make them happy because we overestimate the emotional impact of future events and underestimate our ability to adapt.

Negativity Bias (Baumeister et al.)
Negative experiences carry significantly more weight than positive ones, which means happiness requires active reinforcement rather than passive hope.

Hedonic Adaptation (Brickman & Campbell)
We quickly return to emotional baselines after both positive and negative events, making satisfaction a constantly shifting target rather than a stable source of happiness.

Positive Psychology and Intentional Activity (Seligman)
Long-term happiness is shaped more by intentional daily practices than by external circumstances or achievements.

#makingsenseofpurpose #myauthenticstory #happyproudnotyetsatisfied

EOS Implementer | Executive Coach and Facilitator | Rutgers University Lecturer on Finding and Evolving Purpose

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