Duane Brown
CEO & Head of Strategy | 12+ Years
About
Who is Duane Brown?
- Founder and Head of Strategy at Take Some Risk Inc.
- I manage our industry PPC Salary survey each year.
- I have been to 48 countries on 6 continents.
Duane Brown is the Founder and Head of Strategy at Take Some Risk Inc. In my role, I spend some time managing a few key client accounts, while thinking about and working on strategy across our agency as well as our client’s business.
We strongly focus on ecommerce, direct-to-consumer (DTC) and SaaS brands.
Advice For Anyone Joining The Industry
Get out from behind your desk and meet people, network and spend time reading anything outside of advertising and marketing. Your best ideas will happen when you are not working.
Areas Of Interest
- Paid ads
- CRO
- Business Strategy & connecting the dots in a business.
Education, Awards, Certifications
- Shopify Partners
- Shopify Experts
- Google Premier Partner
- Feedonomics Certified
- Humber College: Public Relations, Communication
- Toronto Metropolitan University: Certificate, Business Management
- Toronto Metropolitan University: Certificate, Marketing Management
Affiliations & Past Work
- LARQ
- Pela Case
- Birdies
- FTD / ProFlowers
- RockerBox
- Quantcast
- Unbounce
Published Work & Inclusions
Podcasts
- How To Dominate Google Merchant Center [Podcast]
- Power Up Your Paid Social Approach
- How to increase your Shopify store’s revenue with data and insights with Duane Brown
- Sweathead, A Strategy Podcast
Press
- DTC Briefing: TikTok ban threatens to eliminate a channel of discovery for young startups
- PPC salaries 2023: How much do in-house, self-employed, and agency search marketers make
- Meta Introduces More Places to Advertise, Brand Safety Controls Amid Macroeconomic Headwinds
Also manage our industry PPC Salary survey each year:
Cool Fact
- I have been to 48 countries on 6 continents.
- I have also lived in 6 cities and enjoy traveling as much as marketing.
Favorite Food And/Or Restaurant
- Anything with with flavour, spice and heat.
