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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Founder, Creative Director and StrategistWhat can Don do for you? Quite simply yet spectacularly, become your evangelist. Don excels at championing his client's products, and focusing his energies on leveraging the breadth of today's communication channels. You won't find another marketing professional like him. Before opening Huffman Communications, Don served as vice president/ director of client services for Elliott|Dickens, a prominent advertising/ technology agency in San Jose, Calif. He provided strategic planning, creative strategy, and account management services and played a critical role on the executive management team. "Working in Silicon Valley offered exciting challenges and excellent opportunities, but there was too much concrete. I wanted to be in a creative landscape," Don explains. Technology clients included: Macromedia, LivePicture, Sieko, Hewlett Packard, Philips Inc., FlyCast, Vantive, Viasoft and more. Additionally, Don worked at one of the Midwest's largest independent integrated marketing agencies, Kragie|Newell of Des Moines, Iowa. He played a lead role in multi-unit retail sales marketing for K|N (NAPA, McDonalds, Firestone) and established its business-to-business marketing group (Rockwell, Ruan Transportation, Vermeer) growing this segment of the business from $0 to $9 million in gross revenue in 16 months. Don also directed strategic alliances with local markets generating local advertising for many of the same. Prior to K|N, Don transitioned from large agency (DDB Needham in San Francisco) a small agency, to owning his own design/advertising firm in San Mateo, California. He worked with some of California's largest retailers including Safeway Stores, Orchard Supply Hardware and NAPA Auto Parts. All in all, Don has been involved in marketing for more than 18 years and still likes it. In his tenure as an advertising professional, he's been a part of the advertising-agency industry's growth through the acquisition period of the late '80s. He survived the downsizing period in the early '90s, and has played a major role in new marketing technologies. Now, Don is ready to put his skills to work for you. |
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