Experience

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  www.withjacob.com

  • Utah, United States

  • Life Insurance Field Underwriter

    • Jun 2023 - Present
    • Utah, United States

    State licensed field underwriter for life insurance, working to secure your family and legacy. As an independent broker I work with several insurance companies to offer a range of coverage for all age ranges. Visit www.withjacob.com

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  Shoot For Love

  • Partner, Creator

    • Jan 2013 - Jun 2023

    If you need help showing off your business, your products, your employees, or your self then we have content creation solutions you can use immediately!In the age when content is king, little things like updated headshots for the office or a 360-degree tour of your business can make a BIG difference. Since we come to you with very little hassle these are great places to start working with us.FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS: We offer photography and content making workshops and to that end published the book in 2020 called "Make Your Portraits Magic," by photographer Jake Garn.

  • Professional Photographer

    • Jan 2011 - Jun 2023

    Commercial photography including product, fashion, beauty and food photography.

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  Reddit, Inc.

  • Client Partner

    • Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

    Had an absolute blast sourcing, closing and working direct with clients and agencies running six figure monthly spends on the Reddit platform, re-crafting branding to with Reddit's unique demographic.

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  MarketStar

  • Ogden, Utah

  • Agency Strategist for Waze

    • Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
    • Ogden, Utah

    Self-extracted, sourced, sold, planned and launched full funnel campaigns on Google’s internationally viral platform, Waze. Worked with national clients in a diverse number of verticals, everything from National Parks to restaurants or insta-care centers, reminders to buckle up and unique start-ups like one that flies people over Los Angeles traffic.Meeting stellar leaders at MarketStar and cool folks from Google was a pleasure! Giving mid-market businesses a truly new way to reach nearby folks in a digitally enticing way was so much fun!Wins:•Completed 2019 as the top-grossing sales rep on our team•Was the first MarketStar rep to close a six-figure annual deal for Waze•Helped train a new rep through their first saleDay to Day:•Used Sales Force to manage a book of 70-100 leads and clients.•Self extracted 70 leads before making the first call using Datanyze, Email Hunter, LinkedIn, and Google.•Reached out via phone, email, and LinkedIn; everything from cold calls to post-launch follow-ups.•Created media decks for sales introductions and custom proposals based on industry and available market-space.•Ran metrics using proprietary software within the Waze infrastructure to determine the number of eyes available in the immediate vicinity of any business in North America, typically I would run numbers for organizations with 1 - 4000+ locations.

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  Standup Commentary

  • United States

  • On Air Radio Personality, Producer

    • Jul 2015 - Dec 2018
    • United States

    Host and creator of the live talk-radio comedy show, Standup Commentary. We took an absurdist view of all things political, conspiratorial, spiritual or pop culture. Broadcast live five days a week on AM radio within the Wasatch front and internationally online.Personally booked and performed interviews with activists, authors, actors, politicians, comedians, musicians, an internationally syndicated cartoonist, a zen master, a mathemagician and took live calls through all of it!Wins:•Took unedited, un-screened, live calls on a political talk radio show on every single show.•Practiced handling trolls with tongue-in-cheek savagery.•Had dozens of regular callers from across the world and if you heard them you'd swear I set them up... I didn't.

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  Corbin's Grille

  • Layton, UT

  • Creator & Managing Partner

    • Mar 2006 - Aug 2015
    • Layton, UT

    Corbin's Grille was created to fill the much needed fine dining niche in Davis County. Our award winning restaurant fed actors, platinum recording artists, hall of fame athletes and United States Senators.The star of the show was our food. Most popular were steak and salmon off the wood grill but our appetizers garnered national attention, like the Seafood Martini appetizer featured nationally in Bon Apetit magazine; stellar reviews and awards from a myriad of local publications including Salt Lake City Weekly and Utah Business magazine.After nine years in business averaging over a million in revenue each of those years, we sold operations.

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  KSG Distributing

  • Kaysville, UT

  • Director of Marketing

    • 2003 - 2005
    • Kaysville, UT

    Created business proposals, branding, sales tools, signage, fixtures, corporate website and marketing strategies for international distribution business. Clients included grocery chains, travel center chains and more.

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  I-Link

  • Senior Web Designer

    • 2000 - 2002

    As the senior web-designer I worked on a team to create and maintain corporate website and other marketing projects. The website was featured in a special Forbes Best of the Web issue.-Met regularly with the marketing team and senior management including the CEO.-Directly created and prepped nearly all the two dimensional graphics for the three website redesigns, including slicing and optimizing images for use in HTML tables.-Directed a flash animation designer.-Worked amongst a team of programmers and coders, learning to speak and work within technical lingo.