About Us

Frank Marafiote, President

Quick Facts about Frank Marafiote --

• 25 years marketing, advertising, and public relations experience.

• 17 years successful business consulting and coaching experience.

• Experienced in a diverse group of industries: publishing, financial, manufacturing, health care, professional services, nonprofit, aviation, and others. . .

• Author of more than 30 articles on starting and running a home business, marketing, advertising, and PR.

• Editor of Coaching News & Events, the online resource for marketing news and analysis for the coaching industry, and Men At Home, a blog for men who manage a home business.

• Successful small business publisher with an international readership.

• Award-winning advertiser in the categories of Best Direct Marketing Campaign, Best Newspaper Campaign, and Best Overall Advertising.

• PR expert who landed appearances on the Today Show, and hundreds of other radio, TV, and print media outlets.

• 12 years experience teaching marketing, management, and advertising at the graduate and undergraduate level.

• MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree from Southern New Hampshire University.

• BA in English from Villanova University.

• Certified community mediator and Board Member (2005 - 2008) for the New Hampshire Conflict Resolution Association.

Narrative Summary -- 

With a successful communications and marketing career spanning more than two decades, Frank is president of Emerge Communications, a strategic planning and communications company he founded in 1991. 

An accomplished communicator, Frank’s has made personal appearances on the Today show and numerous other TV news programs, on-air interviews with over 150 radio stations from New York to Tokyo, plus feature articles and mentions in publications such as USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Detroit News, US News & World Report, Time, and many others. 

He is the editor of several workbooks, white papers, and tutorials, including the "Strategic Planning Guide," and "Internal Marketing: How to Make Your Employees Your Best Customers."  He is also the editor of Coaching News & Events, an online resource for marketing news and analysis for life, career, business, and executive coaches.

Frank received his bachelor's degree in English from Villanova University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Southern New Hampshire University. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses. 

A certified community mediator, Frank does volunteer parent-child mediation for the Belknap County Youth Services Bureau and served on the Board of Directors (2005 - 2008) for the New Hampshire Conflict Resolution Association.  He is a private pilot and lives in Gilford, NH.