John Dilbeck

Owner, Dilbeck Marketing

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Area
Industry: Marketing and Advertising

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John Dilbeck's Overview

Current

Owner at Dilbeck Marketing

Past

Owner at Dilbeck Consulting

Education

Tri-County Community College
University of Phoenix
Georgia Institute of Technology

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My main goal is to help locally-owned small businesses in Murphy, NC market their goods and services more effectively using a variety of online venues.

I accept a limited amount of online marketing consulting from people in other areas, but it is not the focus of my efforts.

I no longer accept any computer programming or computer systems consulting work.

Specialties

Marketing consulting, Macintosh computers and applications, website development, online marketing, social networking, social marketing, email marketing, blogging.

Owner

Dilbeck Marketing

July 2002 – Present (9 years 8 months)

Owner

Dilbeck Consulting

September 1977 – July 2000 (22 years 11 months)

Consulted with small businesses, mostly, and a few divisions of large corporations. I greatly preferred working with smaller companies.

Designed, programmed, and installed custom computer software and trained staff how to use the systems.

Taught seminars and classes on multiple computer operating systems, programming languages, and computer applications.

Programmed mainframes and microcomputers using mostly COBOL, FORTRAN, and Basic+. Programmed microcomputers using assembler, Basic, FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, C, C++, and other languages.

Notable clients included:

John C. Campbell Folk School, where I designed, programmed, and installed a database system for managing classes, instructors, and students. It was used for about 10 years.

Grove Enterprises, where I worked first as a consultant and later as their Systems Administrator. I was on the team that created the first ISP in far western NC: Grove.net, which later became WebWorkz.

Tri-County Community College

A.A.S., Business Administration

1988 – 1990

I was the lead computer programming instructor at TCCC and took courses that led to three associates degrees during my spare time.

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa

University of Phoenix

Business Administration

1983 – 1983

I took one class in business administration. I was planning on getting a degree, but I moved from Arizona to NC and taught computer programming, instead.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Engineering

1969 – 1971

I did not like going there and studying engineering. I would have been better off studying computers, because that was where my interests were focused.

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Interests:

marketing, advertising, website development, helping others, home business, telecommunications, Macintosh computers, reading, playing guitar and banjo, music, movies, consulting, blacksmithing, heritage tourism

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