Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeremy Rowan.
Hi Jeremy, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I started In I.T. by hex editing to cheat on video game console emulators on my father’s PC when I was 11. This fueled my passion for computers and allowed me to start college pursuing a degree in Computer Networking at the young age of 16 while all my peers were starting in the 11th grade. My father worked in sales and taught me marketing and advertising at a young age by making sure I was well read by allowing me to read the same books he would read.
After obtaining my degree I was able to gain employment in the I.T. field working in the corporate I.T. departments of big name companies like Chick-Fil-A, THINQ Inc, and Advanced Automation! While working in these corporate I.T. jobs I would often quit to pursue my own entrepreneurial endeavors and have started and partnered with others in the digital marketing and real estate spaces.
Even though I have real estate experience, it was my love of the marketing and sales that I got from my father and my I.T. experience that made me fall in love with digital marketing. It felt like the perfect blending of the two fields. I started my first marketing company in 2015(HangGlide Marketing LLC) and have been in the space ever since.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
No, it’s definitely not been a smooth road haha. At 12 I would have the unfortunate experience of being the youngest person in the juvenile detention center I was in. It was two to a cell and only one bed so my roommate and I would alternate between who would sleep on the bed and who would sleep on the floor. I still remember those nights sleeping on the floor.
I would also have to save this roommate’s life one night by preventing him from committing suicide. I was surrounded by some of the worst kids from the southside of the city and metro area from gilbert gardens, Red Oak, and Boat Rock, all the way down to Jonesboro and Lovejoy.
I would return to this facility three more times between the ages of 12-13 and experience everything from a two years probation, ankle monitors(house arrest), and fighting a felony court case with two years on the line all by the time I was 14 years old.
Due to my behavior, they permanently kicked me out of school by 13 and I would never return. With help From Debra Swank and her sister Stephanie’s youth program at Hearts To Nourish Hope currently located in Riverdale, Ga I was able to attend their GED program at 15 even though the starting age was 16.
I passed my GED on the first attempt at 16 and went to college the same year pursuing a S.T.E.M. Degree in the computer field.
We’ve been impressed with Jeremy The Marketer LLC, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My business was started out of a love for I.T. and sales. Digital Marketing is the perfect blend of the two allowing me to leverage my I.T. experience as well as all of the sales acumens I picked up from my father and the real estate field. Marketing is a vast field with many areas that can be mastered from copywriting to creative design but I focus and specialize in paid advertising online as well as e-mail marketing.
What sets me apart from almost all my competitors is my extensive history in the I.T. field. My favorite saying is that “the first word in Digital Marketing is digital”. How well you understand technology is paramount to how well your business will do in the modern world and I’ve found that very few in my space can match me in this area.
I’m most proud of brand wise my companies ability to explain and help newer and smaller business understand the advertising space and how to use social media, search engines, email, and modern technology to take advantage of all there is to offer using technology. We have been able to educate a number of business owners in these areas allowing them to further their businesses and reach the customers that so desperately need their products and services.
What readers need to know about what I do is that we can help your business grow online by offering everything from consultations to “done for you” services in the space of email marketing, Google ads, Facebook ads, Instagram Ads, Google Analytics, and Youtube ads. Very few understand these areas like we do and we even offer custom packages to fit every business owners budget and needs!
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
The most important quality is definitely “mindset”. With the proper mindset, there is no situation too big that you can not overcome. To quote the author James Allen “The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state…men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
While we can’t control every situation we can definitely control our reactions and thoughts and these are the primary factors that control the final outcome of all situations positive and negative.
Contact Info:
- Website: jeremythemarketer.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremythemarketer/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jeremymarketer
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jerthemarketer
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Jeremythemarketer
