DANE DOLPH
ME IN 10 SECONDS
I’ve sold 10,000+ products, advertised for multiple companies, and managed about $1 million per year in retail sales.I'm a entrepreneur, techie, golfer, cigar enthusiast, and I love ads.Illinois native, I now live in Colorado.
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WHAT I'M DOING NOW
(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)
Updated October 20th, 2025, from my home in Colorado Springs, where it's officially fall.
freelance advertising
The main thing I spend my time working on is freelance advertising for anyone who needs a one-man marketing team. I have worked with a few brands over the years and recently spend my time on Chefs' Kitchen & Foundry Saunas.
A sort of curse has set upon me in my early twenties. An inability to pick a single direction and give it all I have. This led me to a poem by Robert Service. There is one paragraph I want to talk about:"If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake."The time I spent in my twenties on hundreds (literally hundreds) of projects, almost every single one of them to no avail, has been a vital part of my growth. It is conflicting to be told to choose a single direction while also knowing you have to try as many things as possible to succeed, or even to find what you like, for that matter.I see this clearly when I look at my peers who are lost with no direction. They are too scared to try even one thing, let alone hundreds. I am not a “success” yet, but I know what it will take. I spent years overcomplicating this exact problem.Business is not the problem. I need to choose a direction. That is my problem.
CHOOSING A DIRECTION
The trouble with complexity is the solution is always simplicity.
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About:
This is just one big page where I can write all about myself, without feeling the need for it to be useful.And some day this site will be all that’s left of me, so I might as well write my own mini autobiography.Last updated: 2025-10-25
Time line for context:
• 1999: born in Moline, Illinois
• 2000: first time hitting the keys on a keyboard
• 2003: started playing golf
• 2006: moved to Coal Valley, Illinois
• 2010: started selling duct-tape wallets via Moms Facebook account
• 2012: worked painting fishing lures for Uncles small business.
• 2013: built a desktop computer and dove deep into Photoshop and hacking games
• 2014: sold first product via eBay and made $0.12, it was a three pack of Ferrero Rocher
• 2015: played golf as a varsity freshman
• 2016: started my first “business” in high school, decided I wanted to be a successful entrepreneur
• 2017: moved to Davenport, Iowa
• 2018: graduated high school, eBay became main focus, started college
• 2019: started selling headphones online via ads as Robinpods, moved to Moline, Illinois, reached 10,452 headphones sold, ~$480,000+ in revenue, Ad account banned by Facebook,
• 2020: dropped out of college, moved to Colorado Springs, covid happened
• 2021: hired by Jvapes; fell in love with running a retail shop, promoted to general manager and moved to my own store at the North location
• 2023: left Jvapes at end of the year, got insurance license, hired by Colonial Life as insurance agent; cold-called and did in-person drop-ins
• 2024: left Colonial Life to work at Xfinity in the billing center, left Xfinity to join Walmart managing the jewelry/shoe departments, left Walmart to start Freelance Advertising
• 2025: ...
About Me:
I’m focused on creating
I need to write this section next.
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Clients & Projects:
This is just one big page where I can write all about my clients / projects, so I can keep building a stack of proof that proves I am who I say I am.Last updated: 2025-10-25
February 2024 - Current
Chefs’ Kitchen is an industrial kitchen that partnered with the owner of We’re Cookin’ Now! to offer ticketed cooking events to locals and their kids in the Colorado Springs area. I was hired to sell event tickets through paid social ads and to remarket to the database with additional SMS and email sequences.Results
• Total ticket sales: ~$105,000
• Tickets sold: 765
• Total ad spend: $10,327
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September 2024 - Current
Foundry Saunas is the West Coast distributor of Voyageur Saunas. They sell top-of-the-line premium saunas that are not barrel or kit models. It is the real deal, paint-matched to your house, starting at around $25,000. I was hired to generate high-quality leads and build nurture SMS and email sequences to turn those leads into revenue. This also included setting up the CRM and related software systems.Results
• Total sales: ~$125,000
• Total deals closed: ~5
• Leads generated: 677
• Cost per lead: $24.60
• Total ad spend: $16,654
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March 2024 - August 2025
Harvest Today is an indoor vertical farming company developing plastics to revolutionize indoor farming. I was hired to generate leads, build nurture email sequences, and manage HubSpot. Toward the end of the engagement, they signed a new contract, then ceased payment and revoked access to all software, so sales data is not available.Results
• Leads generated: 3,606+
• Ad spend managed: $10,388
• Average CPL: $2.88
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June 2021 - December 2023
Jvapes is a vape and smoke shop based in Colorado Springs. I was hired as a cashier and quickly promoted to general manager of the North location. We grew the team to six, including me, and did $20,000 or more in weekly sales.
March 2019 - September 2019
My pièce de résistance: a headphone brand that replicated Apple AirPods at a better price point and in eight colors. I scaled it with Facebook ads to $480,000 in revenue at about a 25% margin, selling nearly 11,000 pairs in six months before the campaign was banned on Facebook.
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