Welcome to Community Coaches Callout, where we shine a light on the awesome individuals who make up the Community Coaches team. These dedicated super users go above and beyond to provide invaluable product and marketing insights to their fellow users in the Constant Contact Community. Our Coaches bring a unique perspective as business owners themselves.
We're thrilled to highlight Aaron Wesley Means of ACTIVATE Business Solutions this month.
Can you tell us about your business?
ACTIVATE Business Solutions is a micro-agency of specialists, providing custom marketing services, consulting, and training to organizations of all shapes and sizes.
How long have you been in business?
12 years
What does an average workday look like for you?
I wake up around 5 am no alarm, just happens naturally. I go to my office downstairs, make coffee, and go through my email inbox and my project management software schedule to map out the day. I address all needed short-term communication to clients and prospects and then move into tasks. Around lunchtime, I exercise to break up the day and move to my other office station upstairs in a sunroom. Throughout the afternoon, I execute marketing initiatives for clients, present topics to groups through webinars or seminars, manage and optimize marketing and advertising campaigns, and wrap up around dinnertime.
How long have you been working with Constant Contact?
12 years
What inspired you to become a Community Coach?
I've always been a natural speaker, teacher, and trainer and this was just a natural extension of the ongoing long-term close relationship I've had with Constant Contact as a trusted partner over the years. There are no other brands that I'm willing to get behind and work closely with like Constant Contact.
What is your favorite feature or tool within the Constant Contact platform, and why?
The new AI content generator threaded into the marketing screens, and even better the brand new AI Campaign Builder. Game change doesn't even cover it. Not only do my clients love having AI content generators in the specific tools, but their bigger picture questions have always been how to map out and plan a campaign: content, timing, calendar, length, etc. This does that for them and it's truly remarkable.
When you're not running your business and contributing to the Community, what do you like to do?
I workout daily and often that includes trail runs through a wonderful forest that my house and office back up to. I also love watching TV, movies, and reading fiction. I'm a shameless media-file, but I guess the outdoor activities and working out balances that back out!
Is there anywhere in the world you haven't been to that you'd love to see?
Paris. I come from a military family, so I grew up in Germany as a little boy and have never been back. My brother who is the creative director for ACTIVATE was born there. I've been to the UK many times and studied abroad in England, Scotland, and Ireland but never quite got back to Europe central... so I'd like to go to France and probably back to Germany while I'm at it.
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