As CEO/Founder at Trumpet Social Media, Carol Blomstrand is an innovative social marketing strategist who creates and executes next level social marketing campaigns. She thinks and breathes digital marketing, waking up every morning with new opportunities on her mind that boost her clients' marketing power in their marketplace. Disrupter and early adopter, she devises ahead-of-the-curve strategies that shake up and dominate her clients' marketplaces. Her strengths are grounded in competitive strategies, creating robust engagement programs, developing compelling content, implementing experience-based brand social awareness, utilizing sales funnels, ROI analytics, and overall marketing goals.
She has produced successful programs for major clients including Wolf Management Consultants, Stanton Orchards' Tart Cherry Concentrate (marketing health products at natural foods grocers throughout the country), Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort, Visit Tucson, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, MC Life Apartment Communities, Lifestyle Hearing Solutions, and many more. Carol is a board member at Visit Tucson (also a business partner), and Waterock. She’s also a team member at Wolf Management Consultants.
As a successful retail marketing strategist to stores and malls in Downtown Chicago from 2000 to 2010, Carol seized on a unique opportunity at the dawn of the social digital revolution in 2006, when the iPhone and Twitter were introduced. She convinced her unwilling clients to phase out print advertising, and to undertake new mobile/ SMS / digital social marketing campaigns that she pioneered. Her first digital campaign was on Twitter for the Atrium Mall in Chicago when she was on Twitter's beta team in 2006.
Previously Carol was a commercial real estate broker with CBRE and other brokerages in Chicago for 20 years. She was also Editor of Chicago Magazine, Chicago Board of Trade Editor, and Advertising VP at The Whittle Group. For 15 years Carol has been a partner in Lienhart Design, a branding, identity, web design firm in Chicago and Tucson. She is also a consultant with Wolf Management Consultants in San Diego. As an entrepreneur, she owns Tucson Desert Wear online at tucsondesertwear.com Contact Carol at carol@trumpetsocialmedia.com Or call 520-369-1223.
Secret info: She’s an outdoor addict who has to hike or bike every day or else she doesn’t feel centered. She a map freak, and an astronomy fan. Give her a room full of strangers and she’ll meet half of them before she leaves. That is all.