Jared DeValk

Unbundled Attorney

Legal network connecting clients looking for attorneys that offer affordable or unbundled legal services. We provide these on a pay-per lead basis to lawyers and firms that join our network and agree to take up our mission to provide affordable legal services to everyone.

I'm managing the Google, Bing, Remarketing, and SEO for the flagship brand, Unbundled Legal Help.

Search Engine Marketing Analyst

Nashville Digital Marketing Consultant

Service-based, legal, and manufacturing brands work with our team and partners to develop and execute on marketing campaigns involving Search Marketing, Content Marketing, Go-To-Market Strategy, and Lead Generation.

Consultant

SeeSnap - Currently accepting beta customers!

As an equity holder in the company, I provide Fractional Marketing Leadership for SeeSnap, the way field employees like builders, maintenance, and contractors manage their deskless work. 

My function includes:
-Develop the key ICPs that direct website content, ad copy and the overall communication style of the brand.
-Develop overall marketing strategy for going after those ICPs including Lead Generation, SEO, Social, PR, and Outbound Sales strategies in particular.
-Assist CEO with strategic business strategy to align Marketing Goals with Revenue Growth.
-Provide direction, coaching, and leadership to the marketing team to develop marketing efforts for scale.
-Provide tactical support when needed with landing pages, Google Ad campaigns, specific website copy, SEO research, social media posts, and other creative needs.

Snapshot Interactive

I developed and led marketing strategies for brands such as Emerson, RIgid, LKQ, Lee Company, Harley Davidson, Watkins Wellness, and CoreTrust on:

>Marketing Strategy
>RevOps
>Web Design & Development
>Digital (Search, Paid Ads, Email, & Social)
>CRM & Marketing Automation
>Content & Video Marketing

Snapshot builds award-winning marketing experiences that look, feel, and sell your brand to your target audience.

Client Growth Specialist, Digital Marketing & RevOps

Grip'd

It all started when we had the idea of starting a full-service web development agency with the main focus geared towards excellent customer service. Let’s face it, this stuff doesn’t come naturally to a lot of people. A few years later, hundreds of projects and tons of experience, we can truly say we’ve built an amazing business. Our only goal, aside from orchestrating amazing marketing campaigns, is to serve our clients

Clients love us primarily for Website Design, SEO - Local, Regional, & National, Google Ads, Social Media, Video, Branding, Graphic Design, Direct Mail, Online PR, and Marketing Strategy.

VP of Sales & Marketing

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

The Digital Marketing Certificate Program at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga Center for Professional Education empowers you with the latest integrated marketing strategies and tactics to win in today's hyper-competitive marketplace.

Member Of The Board Of Advisors - Digital Marketing Program

Flypaper Digital Marketing

Generated and managed a book of business over $600,000 in recurring annual revenue in 3 years, consistently outperforming over 25 consultants in revenue generated and the number of new clients added. This was accomplished via cold telephone prospecting, social selling, email prospecting, online lead generation, and networking.

I was also responsible for developing salespeople and account managers. I provided thought leadership and strategy for all my customers' marketing campaigns.

Flypaper provided digital marketing services for Small to Medium-sized Businesses.

I consulted with businesses on how to utilize Web Design, SEO (Content Marketing & Local SEO), Google Ads, Display, Social Media, Video, and other platforms to help our customers generate leads and establish their brands.

Digital strategies provided to local business owners included:
-Marketing Funnel Development
-Marketing Automation
-Web Design
-SEO - Content Marketing & Local SEO
-Search Engine Marketing/Google Ads
-Social Media
-Display & Retargeting Ads
-Video Production
-E-commerce Development
-Graphic Design

Senior Digital Marketing Consultant

Thacker & Associates

I consulted with Thacker on the following areas after my departure as an employee:

-Sales Management
-Accounts Receivable/Collections
-Accounts Payable
-Business Systems & IT
-Compliance & Risk
-Conflict Resolution
-Vendor Management
-Affiliate Management

Operations Management Consulting - Contract

Thacker and Associates

-Business Development Management
-Sales Management
-Accounts Receivable/Collections
-Accounts Payable
-Business Systems & IT
-Compliance & Risk
-Conflict Resolution
-Vendor Management
-Affiliate Management

Director Of Operations

The Flower Bar

We sold the business.

Flower.Bar is a boutique Floral Design Company that served the Greater Nashville Area.

My responsibilities included
-Sales
-Accounting
-Marketing/Business Development
-Investor Relations
-Legal
-Human Resources

Part Owner

Executive-level marketing generalist with experience in:
>Developing omni-channel marketing strategies
>Creating content marketing strategies
>Leading web development projects
>Developing teams in high-growth and startup environments

I am passionate about content marketing and growth marketing, however, my agency time has used my skills in projects involving:
-Voice, SMS, and Chat AI Development
-Web Copy, Design & Development
-SEO, Local SEO, & Paid Search
-Paid & Organic Social
-Display, Retargeting, & Remarketing
-RevOps: CRM, Marketing Automation, & Go High Level
-Email Marketing: Cold & Opt-in
-Video Production & Advertising
-Growth Marketing & Demand Generation

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Supported by a National Science Foundation grant, Saint Mary’s is at the forefront of this transformation by launching our Center for Business Analytics as a hub for cutting-edge technology training and community outreach.  The center has partnered with universities across the country to develop innovative research initiatives, and to support the next generation of business and technology professionals. The center is also committed to creating educational opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds and to enrich the local community.

Principal, NSF Grant,  Center for Business Analytics

Program Director for Bachelor and Master's degrees in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics with graduate-level certificates in Business Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.

Program Director - Business Intelligence Academic Programs

The Business Intelligence and Analytics major provides the knowledge and training for analytically focused careers in business.  The emphasis of the major is on applications of data analysis, business forecasting, modeling, operations management, market analysis, and project management techniques.  The student in this major will learn information technology skills to provide information for decision support systems.  The major is based on the functional areas of business such as finance, operations, marketing and enhanced with statistical and decision science techniques. Students with this major are equipped for careers in any of the functional area of business that requires business data analysis.

Associate Professor of Business

Assistant Professor of Business

Wiley

Research Fellow for Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business Review 

Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member

Self Contractor

Technically it isn't a job because I haven't been paid for this yet, but I have a 700 page novel that I would like a publishing company to pay me for.  If not, I'll just bind it myself and start my own publishing company.  

Update 4/14/10:  Kidding aside about starting my own publishing company, I am editing my novel myself and with the assistance of an english professor.  I am looking for proper literary agents in the field of medieval fantasy with historical and theological arcs.

Fiction Writer

I've been in the trading market for 10 years, but in the investing world since my parents took my savings bonds when I was 7 and bought shares in a local company that went from one dollar to 2 billion at 50% gross profit margin,

Day Trader (SEC/IRS), I trade often

Fastenal

Train, develop, lead and serve international project management teams of up to 250 individuals in product management, purchasing, supply chain, sales, and negotiation roles with a catalog of 1.1 million products and 300,000 active customers.  

Focus is placed on the following areas of Fastenal's dynamic business model.

•Actively support buy side negotiations for unit cost reduction, cost denial, deferment, and deflection
•Provide sales with training, customer interaction for price increase deployment and price decrease defense. 
•Conduct Profitability Performance studies on transportation costs related to market conditions
•Perform cost audits on over 2000 suppliers representing over 1,100,000 products across more than 40 countries and 200 materials.
•Administer monthly commodity intelligence reports to 12,000+ readers
•Maintain Price Risk Management Software covering 1,100,000 skus
•Administer resource budget with international intelligence suppliers and consultants
•Coordinate cost strategy with pricing strategy
•Opportunity Buys - based on forecast commodity pricing
•Forecast Commodity Prices
•Hedging (forward, option, ground zero)
•Currency Risk Analysis
•Price Risk Management / Cost Mapping 
•System Development (I write my own economic models using SQL Server, C++, vb.net)
•Purchasing Strategy Development (worldwide sourcing locally)
•Value Chain Analysis

Business Development - Performance Management

Double Bit Blade

Arms dealing - design, import, and resell of melee weaponry for personal protection and decoration.   This is similar to a company that I sold in 2001, but with a larger "scope".

Owner

Duties include retroffiting company pricing strategy away from textbook strategy towards alignment with market and competitive conditions. Developing list price optimization, promo price strategies, and counter-intelligence apparatus.

Pricing Development Manager

Analyzed commodities that go into the products we sell, assisted in national account negotiations, procurement negotiations, and built intelligence models that map out every product we sell.

Commodity Intelligence / Strategic Account Research Manager

Answered the questions&quot;

&quot;Why do customers buy from us?&quot;

&quot;What do they buy from us?&quot;

&quot;How often do they buy from us?&quot;

&quot;How can we motivate them to buy more from us?&quot;

Market Research Analyst

Double Bit BLade

Owner of retail martial art equipment business, growing from weaponry to accessories, and Asian novelty items.  Sourcing from Pakistan, China, Italy, and Taiwan.

Certified in Business Intelligence.  The Program Director of the Business Intelligence and Analytics programs at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.

Launched in 2013 with over 75 undergraduate students, our students learn Information Systems, Data Analysis, Forecasting, Dashboarding, R-Programming, Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Data Mining, and overall Business Analytics curriculum in a robust, hands-on environment with real-world data sets and industry guests who judge a series of student presentations in every course.  In Fall of 2021, we added to our portfolio by launching specialization tracks in Business Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Supply Chain Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.

Students are tasked with analyzing real-world data from businesses across the globe.  My philosophy is to teach each student the skills needed to help businesses grow through big data, IoT, and artificial intelligence, combining street smarts with book smarts and a social conscience.

If you or your company are interested in having my students look at some of your business data, please contact me via LinkedIn Mail for details.  My students do fantastic work and would love the opportunity to analyze your data and present their work to you in a confidential setting.

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