Melton Cartes

Current

Director of Development at The American-Batticaloa Development Fund
Chief Ad Guy at AnAdGuy.com

Past

Marketing Consultant at www.gaycouplesgetmarried.com
Director of Development at The American-Batticaloa Development Fund
Head of Production & Design at Heliographica Press

Creative Director, Integrated Art at Seismicom
Art Director at The Blake Agency

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Education

Academy of Art University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Melton

Connections

49 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

Melton Cartes’s Summary

AnAdGuy.com is a virtual ad agency, providing all of the services a traditional ad agency does without the cost of their overhead. AnAdGuy is not a "person." AnAdGuy is a person and people because what you're hiring is actually a point of view, that of an "ad guy" (or gal).

I personally have twenty years of experience formulating people's messages into advertisements and branding. I've worked on practically every product category and in virtually every medium, from semiconductors to cheese pizzas and from billboards to TV commercials. My specialty is in focusing a business' Key Message and building solid marketing and branding around that.

Check out my posts at the AnAdGuy.com website or my Guides on Work.com:
• Dynamic Websites and Other Confusing Terms
• WordPress: What is it? How do you use it? Why?
• Top 5 Mistakes Advertisers Make with Their Advertising

Melton Cartes’s Specialties:

Corporate identity design, branding strategy, ad concept development, art direction, copywriting, creative direction, team supervision and leadership, product name generation, film, video and television production, XHTML/CSS, CMS integration, web development

Melton Cartes’s Experience

Director of Development

The American-Batticaloa Development Fund

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

The American-Batticaloa Development Fund is dedicated to generating donations for projects that cost no more than $1,000 — such as installing wells and such — to help the Sri Lankan region of Batticaloa that was devastated by the 2004 Tsunami.
Chief Ad Guy

AnAdGuy.com

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 2001 — Present (7 years 9 months)

AnAdGuy.com is a virtual ad agency. Why pay for overhead when you can get big agency talent directly? If you have a business, small, medium or large, you have a message that needs to be communicated to your audience. AnAdGuy.com helps you focus your message, or identifies it for you, and provides a wealth of services to implement that message.
Marketing Consultant

www.gaycouplesgetmarried.com

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Director of Development

The American-Batticaloa Development Fund

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year)
Head of Production & Design

Heliographica Press

(Publishing industry)

January 2004 — March 2006 (2 years 3 months)

Heliographica Press was a subsidy publishing company that published 70 titles. Managed all book design and production (inside and out) and trained authors in self-promotion and other skills to help them gain traction for their titles.
Creative Director, Integrated Art

Seismicom

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Art Director

The Blake Agency

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1987 — 1989 (2 years)