Ramon Vela

CommerceFocused Media, Inc.

CommerceFocused Media produces in-house podcasts, social media channels, and original content and provides podcast production & management services to personal/corporate brands and organizations.

Managing Director

Compass Rose Ventures

Advisor and Media Strategist

The Story of a Brand Show

Welcome to The Story Of A Brand Show. Hear the unique entrepreneurial journeys of 1000+ Consumer Brand founders. We tap into the doubts, failures, wins and inspirations that come with building Consumer Brand startups in extremely competitive times. Whether you own a brand or work for one, you will learn from our guests as they share the building blocks of their brand’s evolution. Who knows, you may even discover a few new products that become faves.

Host & Producer of Top Podcast featuring the Founders of Consumer Brands

Founders' Paradiso

Launched in April 2023, Founders' Paradiso is a podcast where listeners learn business lessons directly from the founders of successful Direct-to-Consumer, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Omnichannel consumer brands and the experts that helped them get there.

Podcast Producer, Entrepreneurship Show

Economics Explained

As the podcast co-producer for the relaunched show, I manage 1) Topic Generation, such as presenting topic ideas and identifying suitable guest partners. 2) Promotion Strategy, such as developing a comprehensive strategy to promote the podcast. 3) Partnerships, such as driving collaborations with relevant media outlets, newsletters, and public figures. 4) Content Extraction, such as distilling promotional material from each episode for various platforms. 5) Format Strategy, such as strategizing diverse podcast formats and subgenres. 5) Post-Production Oversight, such as overseeing post-production editing and quality control.

Advisor for the Leading Economics Brand on YouTube

ReSci (Retention Science)

Constant Contact, Inc. acquired Retention Science. 1) Generated outbound calls/messaging to drive pipeline sales. 2) Identified key contacts, trends, and messaging to be used to support discussions. 3) Supported any marketing/campaign planning to help develop leads and drive the leads to opportunities within the new/existing customer base. 4) Achieved quarterly and annual targets based on defined set accounts and objectives set by the business.

E-commerce SaaS Executive

Oracle

Hired on to Bronto Software. Bronto was acquired and became division of NetSuite. NetSuite was acquired and became division of Oracle. 
• Awarded Revenue Recognition Award for achieving 123% of Quota in 1st Fiscal Quarter of 2018 for selling SaaS
• Responsible for driving new software sales including identifying and qualifying opportunities, deal progression, and closure of new business with a contract value of $200,00+

Ecommerce SaaS Executive

MSP Marketing Services

My role was two-fold: 1) Identified, prospected and sold digital marketing and lead generation services to small IT managed service providers.  2) Implemented services sold, including graphic design, branding, content creation, email marketing, telemarketing, event management, and lead generation services

SMB Marketing Consultant

StreetSmartVAR

Changed name from Vela Alegria Consulting Group, LLC; launched a successful multi-million dollar consulting company serving over 260 enterprise technology services firms nationwide, including several Global Fortune 100 companies. Provided outsourced marketing and sales consulting and services.

Formed, managed, and grew coaching business comprising over 60 business owners & founders in the southern California area; provided business planning and management coaching; planned and conducted monthly business building events; Sold in 2011.

Founder & President

Host of Top Podcast Featuring the Founders of Consumer Brands

Why appear on our show? 

We believe that people want to buy from Brands they love, admire, and feel community with.

Our show attempts to illustrate “Why” people connect to a Brand and how the Brand connects the customer to the world around them.  

If you have had some success, have crazy happy customers, and are passionately obsessed with delivering an amazing customer experience and are interested in appearing on our show, please message me here on LinkedIn.

Host of Top Podcast featuring DTC, CPG, Omnichannel Brands

Interviewed the CEO’s of PAIGE, Sugarfina, Diff Eyewear, Pair of Thieves, HUM Nutrition, The Bouqs, Mighty Audio, Burst Oral Care, Ties.com, Tenzo Tea,  Lola Getts, and many more.

💛 What happens when two sisters decide to protect everything they love?

Earlier this year, I recorded a powerful conversation with Hayley and Stephanie Painter, the Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Painterland Sisters. After you listen to this episode, you'll see why their story hits so deeply.

In this interview, the sisters talk about what it really means to grow up on a family farm, to watch that way of life disappear around you, and to decide: 

"We’re going to fight for this. Not just for their own farm — but for all family farms, for real food, and for a generation that's craving connection back to the land."

Their journey is equal parts heart, grit, and truth. This episode will make you see your yogurt—and your food system—completely differently.

Listen to find out how two young women from rural Pennsylvania turned a near-loss into a national brand rooted in purpose, place, and perseverance.

👇👇 Podcast Episode Link in Comments!👇👇

Then make sure to visit this amazing brand: https://lnkd.in/gJwvHGaV

#PainterlandSisters #TheStoryOfABrand #CPGFounders #RuralEntrepreneurship #FarmToSpoon #WomenInBusiness #FoodSystem #FamilyFarms #PurposeDrivenBrands #EntrepreneurshipStory

Top Podcast Focused on Founders, Brands, & Products

✨ What if the habits you build today become the strength you need for tomorrow’s darkest moments?

In this clip from The Story of a Brand Show, Angelica Fuentes, Founder & CEO of NOWFUL, shares why rituals are far more than “wellness moments.” They’re what anchor us when life knocks us flat.

Angelica opens up about losing everything — her company, her assets, and almost her daughters — in a single 24-hour period. And she explains how the tiny rituals she’d practiced for years — grounding, clarity, sleep, spiritual work, self-belief — became the only things that carried her through that unimaginable chapter. 

Her message is powerful: rituals aren’t optional. They’re how we come back to ourselves. They’re how we rise.

🎥 Watch the clip here and then listen to the full episode here:

 NOWFUL – How Tiny Rituals Build an Unstoppable Life
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BIG THANKS TO Madelaine Kukanza Goldstein for referring such an amazing founder and brand to the Show!

#TheStoryofaBrand #NOWFUL #FounderStories #Resilience #Wellness #Mindfulness #WomenInBusiness #PersonalGrowth #EmotionalStrength #Leadership

Andrew Christison

Retencity

Retencity is a full-service lifecycle & loyalty marketing agency built to unlock growth for fast-scaling brands. With decades of combined expertise in email & SMS, we design high-impact programs that drive sustainable revenue.

Guided by our core values of Humanity First, Grow to Goals, Rise Together, and Candor, we deliver founder-level attention with a team of lifecycle veterans who craft strategic, ongoing solutions for retail, mobile app, and eCommerce brands.

As a 1% for the Planet member, Retencity has planted 75,000+ trees and served 100,000+ meals—because businesses flourish when people and the planet do, too.

Co-Founder & CEO

Sendlane

Led ecosystem strategy and execution, privileged to build a small, yet powerful partnership team to establish Sendlane's technology and agency partnerships practice.

Whether through interdepartmental championing of partnerships, working on external positioning and GTMs, or Co-hosting events and podcast episodes, I developed, advocated for, and executed on an ecosystem-focused & ecosystem-enabled strategy that set a foundation for growth.

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Tinuiti

At the intersection of data and creative, strategy and execution, Tinuiti partners with brands to identify, engage, and acquire customers across the Triopoly, and beyond, and retain and reactivate them as they continue their digital journey. This integrated approach is the best way to amplify brand impact quickly and efficiently.

Tinuiti is proud to be top partners of Facebook, Google, Amazon, TikTok, Klaviyo, and more, while consistently earning channel and company-wide recognition, such as 2019 & 2020 AdAge #1 Best Place to Work, 2019 & 2020 Inc Best Workplace, and 2019 & 2020 Gold Stevie Awards. 

We're happy to know you. And happy to grow you.

Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships

Elite SEM, CPC Strategy, Email Aptitude, Ortega Group and OrionCKB are now Tinuiti.

Senior Director, Business Development

Elite SEM (Re-branded to Tinuiti)

Elite SEM

★ Elite SEM is an award-winning digital marketing agency founded on search and focused on holistic performance-driven digital marketing. Elite's expertise spans Paid Search, SEO, Shopping & Feed, Paid Social, Display Advertising, Amazon & Marketplaces, Affiliate Marketing, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), CRM, Email Marketing, and Creative Services – collectively supported by Integrated Media Strategy and Analytics/Marketing Science teams. 

From discovery through acquisition, and now with a stronger emphasis on retention and reactivation, Elite's services span all stages of an integrated marketing strategy and through the entire customer journey allowing leading industry brands to effectively and strategically evaluate digital marketing spend and increase cross-channel performance. Clients include: Bombas, Timex, the San Antonio Spurs, USA Today, The Sak Brand Group, GrandLife Hotels, U.S. Polo Assn., Francesca's, Einstein Bagels, Tommy Bahama, Melissa & Doug, Hugo Boss, Freshly, Theory, Aaptiv, and Terminix.

Director, Business Development

Email Aptitude (Acquired By Elite SEM)

★ Email Aptitude is an ESP-agnostic agency focused on full-service email program management, advanced email strategy, CRM, and creative services. A team of more than 85 email marketing experts, known for shattering performance records for clients through game-changing strategy and full-service program management, will merge under the Elite SEM umbrella. Email Aptitude brings an award-winning creative team that will enable Elite to offer comprehensive creative services for all digital channels.

Email Aptitude has grown and managed email programs for some of the fastest-growing startups and global enterprise brands, including Pura Vida Bracelets, Peter Millar, Halston, Diff, Brooks Running, MVMT, and Frederick's of Hollywood. Email Aptitude was named to the Inc. 5000 as the #1 fastest growing email agency in the country; #22 on the Bay Area Fast 100; and honored as #17 on the AdAge Top 50 Best Places to Work in the US.

Prior to and since the acquisition, shared clients like Eddie Bauer, Bombas, and Francesca's, where both agency teams collaborate on data, have seen a lift in performance across managed channels and services. Both Email Aptitude and Elite have experienced extremely fast growth, and with this acquisition, the new combined agency has more than 330 digital marketers and expects to close 2018 north of $60M, a 30% increase from last year.

Core Functions: strategic partnerships, business development, public relations, department leadership, consultative advising, strategic planning, competitive analysis, content development

University of Arizona Global Campus

After spending years advising and coaching advisors on entry-point course facilitation from the outside, I was excited to take the opportunity to get students motivated about their lives and education by teaching EXP 105: Personal Dimensions of Education, which focused on transitioning students into intentional learners and critical thinkers, broadening their understanding of how they think and learn, to expand their arsenal of effective strategies for success in the workplace, classroom, and daily life.

Associate Professor, Department of General Education

Bridgepoint Education

Leading with experience, I coached students to success, through leadership, one on one advisement, and both formal and informal training & development in Admissions, Student Relations, and Student Advising.

Higher Education Advocate

Expedia Home Loans

With a core focus on consultative advising, I developed a network of clients, Realtors, and industry professionals to help aspiring and current homeowners to have a seamless real estate experience.

Senior Mortgage Consultant

Mobile Phone Industry

Implementing award winning sales leadership, I maintained consistent top sales and management performance, trained dozens of sales representatives on effective success strategies, led local markets and locations in production, and helped get mobile devices into the hands and pockets of thousands.

Retail Sales Manager

Lifecycle marketing is more than communicating on behalf of brands, it's a way to forge lasting connections with customers. 

As Co-Founder of Retencity, I lead a team that works with fast-growth brands like epres, Revision Skincare, 111SKIN, and Diamond Art Club to build thoughtful, data-driven email, SMS, and loyalty programs that build sustainable customer relationships that drive real growth. 

My journey here has been shaped by diverse experiences: leading go-to-market for the world’s fastest-growing email marketing agency, founding the Strategic Partnerships practice at a leading performance marketing firm, and now growing Retencity to help brands cultivate deeper, more meaningful relationships with their customers. 

Beyond the work, impact matters. Retencity is a proud member of 1% for the Planet, has planted over 80,000 trees with Trees for the Future, and served over 100,000 meals through food banks across the U.S. When not marketing, you’ll likely find me exploring the Pacific Northwest with my family, refining my Taekwondo practice, marathon training or diving into research on human history, regenerative agriculture, or the origins of words.

Co-Founder

Built with a mission to unleash growth for fast-growth and enterprise brands, Retencity is made up of established lifecycle leaders and the marketing minds of the future. Laser focused to help brands meet their full potential, the Retencity team relentlessly works to elevate brands to exceed their goals. 

Retencity works closely with eCommerce, retail, and mobile app brands building purposeful lifecycle programs that stand out.  Whether email + SMS, onsite list growth, push and in-app messaging or all of the above, and we manage programs for optimal ongoing growth.

Retencity has pledged a portion of their revenues and equity towards the planet and collective good.

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