Jackie Hermes

Accelity

We help companies grow faster with bold sales and marketing processes that actually work—not the “push content and say a prayer” method that many agencies use.

Our team is a blend of bold thinkers, creative problem-solvers, and data enthusiasts who love turning challenges into wins. We’re obsessed with helping businesses scale by delivering smart, tailored strategies that convert leads into loyal customers.

With our friendly, hands-on approach, Accelity is more than just a partner—we’re an extension of your team. Whether it’s building brand awareness, generating demand, or optimizing for conversion, we make marketing make sense.

DM me 👉 let’s create something bold together.

Founder & CEO

Just A Girl Inc.

Advisory Board Member

gener8tor

Startup Mentor

Building Brave

Mentor to Female Professionals

The Commons

Mentor

Women's Entrepreneurship Week

Women's Entrepreneurship Week is an event series that spark business and economic growth by showcasing, educating and connecting women entrepreneurs and professionals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and beyond.

Learn more at https://www.wewmke.com/

Co-Founder

Golden Angels Investors

Advisor

Sweet Monkees

Sweet Monkees are delicious dairy-free cookies made with healthy ingredients, found at select Milwaukee area grocery stores and Milwaukee-area events. I built this business from the ground-up, marketing and successfully selling to over 10 grocery chains over 3 years. In 2014, I sold this business to focus on Accelity.

Owner

Zywave

I managed the marketing department at Zywave. As product marketers, we focused on go to market strategy and brand awareness. In addition, my team created joint sales and marketing communications and demo materials to speak to clients in a meaningful way. The marketing department also manages zywave.com content and Zywave's social media presence.

Head of Marketing

The Market Analyst is a marketing and product management role. I was the analyst on Zywave's best selling product—Broker Briefcase Benefits. In this role, I studied market developments and maintained an understanding of the constantly changing field. In addition, I conducted won, loss, exit, and other partner interviews to gain a deeper understanding of Zywave's broker clients. Another key piece of this role is analyzing product performance monthly to identify hot topics, product usage trends, and focus for content to reinforce product roadmap.

Market Analyst

I worked to brand Zywave as a premiere Milwaukee employer and expand local awareness. Presented at speaking engagements on local campuses, at job fairs, and other volunteer opportunities. I was part of a task force that pioneered Zywave's social media presence by writing vision documents, evaluating reporting tools, holding company-wide training sessions, and creating pages on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin.

Recruiting Consultant

GE Healthcare

Worked in the cardiology department to expanded Computed Tomography marketing library by coordinating image layouts and text in customer brochures, Powerpoints, and other materials. In addition, I founded the Marketing Path program to enhance associates knowledge of the role of Marketing in Healthcare. My team led a business improvement project that concentrated on increasing Net Promoter Score in the cardiology department. Finally, I provided sales support for 14 Account Managers who exceeded an sales target of $56 million in 2008.

Sales & Marketing

Growing B2B software co's w/ marketing that *actually works* | founder + CEO @ Accelity | built from $0 to 7-figures with no funding

It all started in 1986 in Lansing, Michigan.

Kidding. (Well, not really, but that’s not how I’m going to start this story.)

I started my entrepreneurial journey with cookies. Really. A vegan cookie company… and I wasn’t vegan (I gave it a shot and dang, it was hard!). I turned four cookie recipes into a business—designing packaging, finding a kitchen and making the cookies, eventually outsourcing production, then selling and establishing distribution to 12 grocery stores around Wisconsin.

The cookies taught me how to hustle. As a 24-year-old MBA, I definitely didn’t picture myself hoisting up tents at farmers markets to hand out $5 bags of cookies, or being the demo lady at the grocery store, but there I was. I still had a full-time job running the marketing department at a SaaS company, and a baby.

I’m so grateful for that experience because the money I made helped me start Accelity. What began as a one-woman consultancy blossomed into a kick-ass team of 20 and counting and a group of amazing, loyal clients all over the US.

LinkedIn has been a HUGE contributor to our growth over the past few years. I got talked into—okay, almost forced; I really, really didn’t want to do it—publishing videos about my entrepreneurial experiences in mid-2018 and have steadily grown an audience since. The LinkedIn community has given me so much love and support and I could not possibly be more grateful for the opportunities.

Outside of my professional life, I was a foster parent for two years and two of my three beautiful kiddos were adopted in Milwaukee. People always ask about hobbies, so here you go: lots of travel, fitness, exploring Milwaukee, and playing a lot of Taco vs. Burrito with my kids.

We help B2B software companies grow faster with bold sales and marketing processes that actually work—not the “push content and say a prayer” method that many agencies use.

We’re different. An agency born from software, our team has years (and years) of hands-on experience working with high-growth B2B software companies.

Want to know how we do it? Check out the links below.

Uplift Marketing Inc.

Uplift Marketing is a team of growth obsessed paid search and social media marketers. We help brands just like you extract every micro-cent of ROI out of their paid media budget with our psychology + marketing approach. We help lead gen and user acquisition companies, eCommerce brands and start-ups take their digital advertising profitability to the next level. 

We do this by helping clients:

✅ Drive consistent conversions across channels
✅ Decrease their cost per acquisition and eliminate wasted ad spend
✅ Build brand awareness with their most valuable audiences
✅ Increase inbound leads at scale
✅ Implement full-funnel strategies that nurture customers down the buyers journey


SERVICES WE OFFER:

✅ PPC (Paid Search) Management
✅ Facebook Advertising 
✅ Programmatic Display Advertising
✅ Remarketing Campaigns
✅ Google Shopping Management
✅ Content Marketing
✅ Conversion Rate Optimization
✅ Video & Mobile Advertising


WHY WORK WITH US?

✔️ We’re a certified Google Partner with each member of our team having over 1000+ hours of training in Display, Search, Shopping and Video Advertising before ever managing a clients account. 

✔️ We do not require long term contracts. We believe that as marketers, our clients success and our success should live in harmony which is why our customer retention rate is over 98%.

✔️ We’ve earned our Facebook Blueprint certification for proficiency. 

✔️ We take a humanized approach in everything we do and invest the time to really understand the goals and marketing challenges that our clients face. Every paid media strategy we build is personalized for the unique objectives of each individual customer.

✔️ For every client that joins the Uplift family we give them the option to donate 3% of our management fees to a charity of their choice each month.


FIND US ON SOCIAL:

Twitter: @myupliftppc
Instagram: @upliftmarketing
Facebook: @upliftppc


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Website: www.myupliftmarketing.com

Founder

NBMC Inc.

Chief Marketing Officer

Toshiba Business

Responsible for overseeing branch business development and MPS implementation efforts for this Global Fortune 100 company. Led a team of 11 account executives and solutions specialists, aggressively capturing competitive market share while fortifying relationships with existing clients to positively impact contract renewal rates and customer satisfaction. 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:


✅ Saved the branch over $135k by resolving major maintenance service issues within a major account. 

✅ Closed the largest contract of Q4 resulting in $234k in net new revenue. 

✅ Designed and implemented a new MPS sales training program, increasing sales rep service knowledge.

✅ Mentored one of the lowest performing sales executives turning their performance around to overachieve quote for the year inside 6 months.

MPS - Solutions Manager

AllureTECH Networks

Vice President

Ricoh USA, Inc.

Retained to expand market share, elevate customer loyalty and improve customer retention in an underdeveloped market for this 82 year old, Global Fortune 500 company. I planned, developed, deployed and scaled business development efforts within my region while working closely with a team of professional services specialists to grow revenue across company offerings. 


ACCOMPLISHMENTS:


✅ Winner of the FY-2015 Gold Award for signing the largest net new business professional services contract of the year. 

✅ Increase profitability with current accounts through selling auxiliary services (Document Management Software Solutions, Managed Print Services, Managed IT Services, etc.) collectively resulting is $100,000 in net new revenue while simultaneously adding value to each client's information/document workflows, helping them achieve regulatory compliance and cost management objectives. 

✅ Maintained a customer retention rate of 100% for the duration of my tenure through investing the time to truly know my customers as human beings and aligning myself as well as the corporation with their core value systems. 

✅ Scaled my sales pipeline to over $7 million inside 14 months securing net new opportunities in competitor accounts across countless verticals.

Commercial Services Executive

My story begins growing up as the child of two entrepreneurs that started a paging company out of a janitor's closet the day after I was born. That company grew into a multi-million dollar business with thousands of customers. It also ripped my family apart and threw me into the roller coaster ride I’m living today.

By the time I was 17 I had almost died 3 times and was a certified expert in making bad decisions. And, for a while I let pain, fear and my past call the shots. However, I always had a dream that pointed me to my true north. That dream was entrepreneurship.

Fast forward and I’m working for a Fortune 500 company as a full time slave. Years later, I’m working with another Fortune company, this time in a leadership role. This is where I was supposed to feel fulfilled. After all, I was a success, right?

The truth is I hated every day of my corporate career. So, I began my entrepreneurial journey like any sensible person, with 2 failed start-ups. Why? I had the best plans to be the greatest planner who ever planned.

Soon after, I reinvented myself.

I learned to get out of my own way, ditch the “woe is me” mindset and fell in love with action. Then, I founded Uplift Marketing, a digital agency focused on search, social and programmatic advertising. Finally, I had a successful business. I sighed and said “I’ve arrived”. I was wrong.

I was putting in 17 hour work days, experienced health issues and had myself convinced I was too busy to live. That brick wall held some lessons.

My present day truth is that 1% of life actually matters and to be happy we have to cut out the other 99% that holds us down.

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