Land More Customers through Online Marketing: How to reel in more business through SEO, Social Media & Content Marketing
David Brim is the CEO and founder of Brand Advance, an Internet marketing and design agency based in Orlando, Fla. Since 2009, Brand Advance has helped hundreds of companies, spanning a variety of industries, grow their business online. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, where he majored in marketing, David is the only two-time winner of the school's Joust Business Plan Competition and was also a finalist in the in the Sunshine State Venture Challenge in Cocoa Beach and the Nascent 500 Business Challenge in Indianapolis. Prior to founding Brand Advance, David helped start and manage the premium blogger and influencer program at IZEA, a top social media marketing company. In that position he helped plan, execute and measure social media campaigns and connected online influencers with well-known brands such as SeaWorld, Kmart, Microsoft, British Airways, Armani-Exchange and more. During that time David also co-founded GroupTable.com, a collaboration software that had over 10,000 users around the world at the time of exit. David has been involved in many Internet ventures and has expertise in marketing strategy, search engine optimization, analytics, social media, affiliate marketing and online lead generation. He has been featured in one of the most popular entrepreneurship textbooks Successfully Launching New Ventures and has been interviewed on Fox, ABC and CBS about topics such as entrepreneurship and internet marketing. A guest blogger for Copyblogger, one of the top marketing blogs, David has spoken at the Disney Entrepreneurship Center, Invention 2 Venture and Junior Achievement's CEO Bootcamp, just to name a few. David's latest venture, Bright Impact, is a technology that helps students and educators manage their service learning initiatives and measure their impact. He's also actively involved in Economic Gardening, an entrepreneurial approach to economic development and job creation focusing on helping second stage companies grow.