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Patrick Galvin

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Patrick Galvin

Chief Galvenizer, Galvin Communications
Buzz Marketing Expert

Programs:

  • The following material can be covered in keynote presentations, breakout sessions, or in half or full day seminars.

    Galvanizing Business with Buzz
    Companies of all sizes find advertising increasingly ineffective since consumers are oversaturated with commercial messages. Learn how to galvanize consumers through creative marketing techniques that generate a high return on investment such as referral programs, public relations, blogging, networking, and events.

    Why Pay for Advertising When You Can Get Great Free Press?
    A handful of companies command the media’s attention generating free publicity that ignites growth. It’s not necessarily the most interesting businesses that dominate the news but those that tell their stories the best. Discover the secrets of making your company irresistible to the media.

    Beating the Competition with Stellar Customer Service
    Consumers have many different buying options. When you provide service that leaves a positive, lasting impression, you build relationships that help secure a competitive advantage. Explore how to deliver a stellar level of customer service that gets people coming back and referring their friends.

    Networking for Fun and Profit
    For many people, networking is uncomfortable and unproductive. Yet, there are simple techniques that extroverts or introverts can use to generate a significant portion of their sales through networking. Unlock the secrets of the best networkers and see how to apply these lessons to grow your business while having fun at the same time.

    Boosting Your Business with Blogging
    Millions of Americans read blogs. Savvy individuals and companies have discovered that blogs provide an excellent platform to communicate with existing customers and reach out to new ones. Learn the secrets of America’s most successful bloggers and how to create a blog that will drive your business to new levels of success.

    Reaping Rewards from Repeat and Referred Customers
    The most successful businesses are those that get their customers to come back and refer their friends. Discover the seven secrets that successful companies use to guarantee repeat and referred business.
    Doing Well By Doing Good: Socially-Responsible Marketing Programs that Build Goodwill and Sales
    Since consumers are increasingly worried about global warming and many other environment and social issues, companies have opportunities to support worthy causes that engender goodwill and drive revenue growth. Examine how companies are doing well by doing good and how yours can too.

 

Patrick is a longtime believer in the power of buzz marketing and public relations. As a college sophomore, he broke the Guinness World Record for hammock swinging to promote his parents’ hammock stores. He created buzz for the event by telling journalists that he was trying to make hammock swinging an Olympic sport. The record resulted in widespread press coverage that increased hammock sales and convinced Patrick that publicity is an excellent way to build a business.

After graduating from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with a Bachelor of Science, Patrick worked for various politicians and political campaigns and used his marketing skills to raise over one million dollars for a non-profit organization in less than a year.

Fascinated to learn why people buy, Patrick enrolled at Thunderbird in Arizona where he graduated with an MBA in international marketing. His fluency in Spanish and Portuguese led to a regional sales manager position for an industrial and agricultural equipment manufacturer.

In three years, he built a sales network in Canada and Latin America and created marketing programs for both regions. Seeking a bigger challenge, he became president of his family’s furniture stores and quadrupled sales in five years through word of mouth marketing and public relations.

In 2002, Patrick co-founded Galvin Communications to help companies grow through buzz rather than expensive advertising. Galvin Communications has helped increase sales through word of mouth marketing and public relations for over 75 businesses, from sole proprietorships just starting out to a publicly traded company with more than $5 billion in annual revenue.

Patrick, who is immediate past president of the Oregon Chapter of the National Speakers Association, is an accomplished speaker who has addressed groups of entrepreneurs, managers and CEOs on buzz marketing and public relations. He writes regularly about a variety of marketing topics on his Buzz Builder Blog and monthly Buzz Bulletin e-newsletter as well as for numerous trade and general interest publications.

 

Booking Info:  Gail Hand
(561) 807-7769 East Coast
(503) 284-2342 West Coast
gail@gailhand.com