Author Profile
The Marketing Clinic is written and edited by marketing consultant, Frank Marafiote.
As the founder and owner of Emerge Communications, Frank serves as an advisor and consultant to small business owners, marketing managers, senior executives, and entrepreneurs who need help defining and resolving marketing and other business issues that are keeping them from achieving their goals.
Frank develops strategic marketing plans, provides public relations services, and performs market analysis and communications planning services.
Thanks to an extensive network of marketing and public relations talent, Frank is able to bring on board for client projects writers, graphic designers, web specialists, and others to serve the creative needs of his clients.
To stay current in his field and to be challenged by students who expect excellence in the classroom and online, he teaches graduate and undergraduate marketing and advertising courses at Southern New Hampshire University.
He started his consulting practice in 1991.
Some quick facts about Frank–
- 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, Internet, nonprofit, aviation, and others. . .
- Author of more than 30 articles, workbooks, and white papers about marketing, advertising, and PR.
- 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 Campaign.
- PR expert who landed appearances on the Today Show, and hundreds of other radio, TV, and print media outlets.
- MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
- BA in English from Villanova University.
Other –
A trained 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 started flying airplanes when he was still in high school and has been a licensed pilot for most of his adult life.
Frank’s other pastime is writing. In addition to writing for his business web sites and blogs, he writes frequently about politics and social issues.
He lives in Portland, Maine.
