Pneuma

Connecting deserving brands with their next customers 

3rd Fastest Growing Company in the Rocky Mountain Region
16th Fastest Growing Marketing Agency in the US
170th Fastest Growing Company in the US

Founder

Cancer Treatment Centers of America (acquired by City of Hope)

Management Consultant

TEDx

Working with TEDxWabashCollege has truly been a blessing.

I've had the chance to test my leadership and management skills with a group of 30 students across Wabash College's campus, and also learn more about Event Planning and Marketing.

Our event has seen much success over it's four years, growing from 100 attendees to over 350 attendees, and selling out Wabash College's largest event venue.

We've also seen much professional growth, as our NPS Score has reached a new high of 78 over our 2018-2019 year.

If you're interested in sponsoring TEDxWabashCollege, or speaking at our next event, please contact me directly!

Event Organizer

My first position with TEDxWabashCollege was in the role of a curator.

For our 2018 event, I researched prominent topics on the TED platform, as well as topics that would be prominent to our local community.

With this information, I moved forward and contacted individuals that I believed would be powerful speakers to have at our event.

Once I decided on the three speakers I would like to bring to the event, I worked with these speakers to outline and develop their talks in the TED format. 

Then, it was the day of the event! I prepped each speaker on professional speaker techniques derived from TED to ensure their talk reached its potential.

Curator

Eli Lilly and Company

Corporate Financial Reporting

Founder, Pneuma Media | I turn $1 into $8.12 with a content-first SEO Strategy | DM Me for a Free SEO Audit | John 3:30

At Pneuma, we’re more than a marketing agency - we’re your long-term growth partner in The Search Economy.

Every day, billions of people search for answers, solutions, and opportunities online. We help businesses show up, stand out, and become the clear choice when it matters most, regardless of where people are searching. Through specific Paid, SEO, and Website tactics, we build sustainable systems designed for measurable growth - not quick wins or fleeting spikes.

But what sets us apart isn’t just our expertise—it’s our commitment to partnership. We treat your business like our own because your growth is our growth. That means aligning with your goals, investing in your long-term success, and showing up with care, clarity, and consistency every step of the way.

We’re not here to deliver just "campaigns" and "deliverables"; we’re here to build something meaningful, sustainable, and worth celebrating—together.

David W. Riggs

Hate is a strong word, but it might be the only one to describe how I feel about "traditional" 1:1s

Nothing got under my skin more than to wake up 30 mins early on a tuesday morning to tell my manager about my to-do list, so they could feel productive.

So, when I started Pneuma, I did my best to spin that model on it's head. 

1:1s shouldn't be about work. And if you're talking about a task list for more than 5 minutes, you're doing it wrong. 

Some thoughts below :)

What’s Happening In My World I used to think no one cared about what I was actually doing day to day. I assumed subscribers (you) only wanted the clea

Open article: Building people > building companies by David W. Riggs • 4 min read

Today would be a great day to ask yourself why you have notifications on

4 years into building Pneuma...

Plenty of reasons to have slack and email notifications on...

... and not a single one of them have changed my mind

I've done this for so long I assumed everyone else does it as well, but I don't think that's the case

I'll jump on a meeting with a vendor, and during the meeting the individual sharing the screen has to swipe away notifications every few minutes.

Why? What's the point?

Schedule time to check your notifications, or notifications will end up scheduling your entire day

PS - Use an app like Opal to block socials from your phone to not get distracted

PPS - Use Apple's DND mode to simply turn off everything.

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City Lifestyle

I'm a Colorado Native driven by building relationships and connections within my local community. Broomfield Lifestyle is the perfect way for local businesses to get noticed and share their unique stories with the right people, in the right place, at the right time.

I'm grateful for this opportunity to live and work in my local community, using my time, talent, and skill to support the people and business owners of Broomfield!

Owner/Publisher - Broomfield Lifestyle

Freelance Marketing and Creative Services

• Marketing Consultation
• Web design including landing pages, contact forms, and eCommerce
• Logo design
• Business cards
• Product and company brochures
• Signs, banners
• T-shirt design

Freelance Marketing Consultant, Creative Services

Innovative Discovery

Creative Marketing Specialist

Integro

Marketing Manager

Melco International LLC

• Played a key role in guiding marketing plans, strategy, tactics, and budget.

• Collaborated with internal and external partners to develop digital marketing strategies and tactics.

• Worked with sales manager, engineering leads, CEO, and applications team lead to develop "Go to Market" plans for embroidery machines and software.

• Provided key marketing updates, KPI reports, analytics, and industry reports.

• Worked with executives, directors, and managers to review quarterly progress reports, budgets, and plans.

• Provided insights and guidance including competitor status, new technologies, strategies and tactics to keep Melco competitive in the marketplace.

• Directed events and trade show planning, scheduling, execution in collaboration with CEO, sales manager, and applications team leaders.

Leadership Team: Marketing

Digital Marketing
• Developed and managed lead generation program averaging 500-1,000 net new leads per month.
• Used Unbounce to design and A/B test landing pages and optimize for conversions.
• Researched, developed and implemented DRIFT live chat.
• Strategic management of Google Ad-words campaigns and leading SEO efforts for Melco.com.
• Developed and managed melco.com using Drupal CMS. Successfully integrated online marketing channels with Salesforce CRM for seamless lead mapping, qualification and routing.

Email Marketing/Lead Nurturing
• Used Campaign Monitor and Salesforce to create and execute email campaigns with lists of up to 45,000 contacts. Achieved 15% average conversion rate.
• Wrote subject lines, copy, CTA, designed layouts, graphics.
• Managed SFDC distribution lists, monthly KPI reporting.

Branding/Corporate Identity
• Created brand name for Melco embroidery machine "EMT16X".
• Updated corporate identity for Melco, including branding standards and style guides.
• Used Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign to create business cards, letterhead, product brochures, trade show banners and signs.

Leadership
• Recently helped win $50,000 embroidery/software deal with a popular coffee brand.
• Coached sales team on live chat best practices, improving MQL metrics, boosted daily chat sessions, meetings booked, sales opportunities, and closed-won opportunities.
• Created follow-up sales email templates resulting in improving open rate from over 70% on average.
• Energetic booth lead at trade shows. Coordinated and managed trade shows through planning, scheduling, budgeting, and shipping logistics. Assisted with product demos.

• Worked with the VP of Sales and Marketing, and other leaders at Melco to breathe life into the Melco brand by creating designs focused on brand alignment and imagining consistent with the corporate image.

• Played a key role in positioning Melco as a leader in embroidery technology, thought leadership, and client support.

• Used Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign to create: logos, business cards, letterhead, catalogues, product brochures, trade show banners and signs, web graphics, magazine ads, digital banners, digital ads.

• Used Photoshop for post-production editing of photoshoots for Melco embroidery machines and sample products.

• Created illustrations of machines using Adobe Illustrator.

• Created raster and vector graphics, including icons, logos, splash pages, web banners, web ads, print ads, trade show signs, and banners.

Graphic Designer

Local Value Magazine

Magazine layout and ad design. I collaborated directly with 300+ advertisers to design and produce effective direct mail advertising to drive results and increase business.

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