CEO, Creative COW.net, publisher, Creative COW Magazine
San Luis Obispo, California Area
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- Publisher, Creative COW Magazine at Creativecow.net
- CEO, Director of Marketing & Business Development at Creative Cow
- Past
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- Founder at Media 100 Worldwide Users Group
- Managing Editor at Pacific Coast Business Magazine
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Ron Lindeboom’s Summary
As publisher of Creative COW Magazine and the CreativeCOW.net website, Ron draws on his 25 year background in all facets of marketing and business development; including a proven track record of acheiving strong results in repositioning and redefining previously unsuccessful products or companies. He enjoys the challenge of start-ups or reinventing ideas or products which have not yet acheived their promise. He once turned around a 30 year old manufacturing company heading into bankruptcy; increased sales over 500%, used JIT strategies to control raw-to-finished goods, turned average of 84 day turn-around of goods to less than three days, etc. And in 15 months, company was on solid footing, with money in the bank and debt-free. Also took company that was divested of all tangible assets but had key leaders still in place and repositioned company with new trade name and re-enetered market to become dominant leader in their field, occupying the Number One position within their market in under two years.
Ron Lindeboom’s Specialties:
Brand building, product positioning, strategic planning, test marketing, analysis, consulting.
Ron Lindeboom’s Experience
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Publisher, Creative COW Magazine
Creativecow.net
(Privately Held; Media Production industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
In April of 2006, into a glutted market with many long-entrenched publications, Creative COW Magazine was launched with a focus on extending the CreativeCOW community into print. It was done to deal with "larger issues" that the internet does not best address. The magazine has prospered and has now surpassed nearly all of the long-entrenched titles, both in content, circulation and advertiser support. The publication's no-nonsense approach, married to its thematic/concept presentation, has found an eager market. The magazine began as a bi-monthly and in order to keep its signal as high as possible, the magazine remains bi-monthly. Today, Creative COW Magazine has grown to over 40,000 print circulation. The Magazine's PDF distribution is arguably the largest worldwide industry publication, with a PDF distribution that reaches another 50,000 or more per issue.
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CEO, Director of Marketing & Business Development
Creative Cow
(Online Media industry)
March 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)
CreativeCOW is the worldwide home to over 1,000,000 professionals in film, broadcast, audio, graphics, effects, DVD and related crafts. The COW works with a wide range of advertising clients including Adobe Systems, Sony, Avid, Panasonic, Matrox, Canon and many other high-tech software and hardware vendors wishing to reach media professionals. The COW has earned the #1 ranking in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 according to Amazon.com's web traffic watchdog and ranking site at Alexa.com and is confirmed by other 3rd party resources like Google Analytics, Quantcast.com and others. The COW site's web traffic surpasses that of the web traffic of every competing film and video industry trade magazine COMBINED -- according to statistics tracked and compiled by sites like the aforementioned services and TrafficEstimate.com and Compete.com. Among it's direct web-based competitors, Creative COW holds the high ground and is pursuing its future by extending its brand into related fields like DVD training products, magazines, podcasts and many other related areas of the market.
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Founder
Media 100 Worldwide Users Group
(Online Media industry)
June 1995 — July 1997 (2 years 2 months)
The Media 100 Worldwide Users Group was the genesis for what today has become CreativeCOW.net. Beginning with a membership of a few hundred, the idea grew and flourished over the years, eventually culminating in CreativeCOW.net, a site that now adds 100,000 new visitors each month. The COW's Media 100 forum remains a strong community, and is the most active dedicated Media 100 community found online today.
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Managing Editor
Pacific Coast Business Magazine
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
November 1985 — August 1989 (3 years 10 months)
Mr. Lindeboom served as the managing editor of Pacific Coast Business Magazine for nearly four years. In this post, he was responsible for the content and focus of the magazine which was targeted at smaller businesses in California. During this time and in this capacity, he was also invited to join various business round-tables at California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) and to serve as a guest instructor at Cuesta College. He also worked with major banks in the area, such as Mid-State Bank and Santa Lucia National Bank, using his skills to assist in turn-around strategies for troubled accounts.
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Ron Lindeboom’s Interests:
Joint ventures, strategic alignments, empowering ideas and individuals and companies, technology, building ventures that work in the modern world, helping reshape communication and business, team building, consulting in new media/technologies and how businesses can use these forces to compete in the new business arena, music and reading.
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Focal Press
Ron Lindeboom’s Honors:
Recognized at National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 1997 with the "Vision Award" for pioneering efforts in building media professionals communities online;
Named in 1989 by SatVision Magazine as one of the industry's top marketers.
Ron Lindeboom’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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