Chris Alphen

Greater Boston Area United States

Energizing Digital and Social Media for Small Business. Small Brand Advocate at Early and Often Marketing

Advertising / Marketing / PR

My grandfather taught me how to build from the ground up. But I was a kid—and like every other kid I wanted to start at the top. The funny thing is the only job where you can start at the top is digging a hole. So my grandfather made me suffer through endless sessions of planning, measuring, and writing things down. And then he handed me a shovel. Those childhood lessons must have sunk in. Not all at once but by the time I became a regional sales manager at a Fortune 500 Co I knew that my toolbox was my friend. I leveraged every tool in the shed to develop a functional system supporting the entire sales process and our division soon became #1 worldwide. In those days there was no intern.