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Meet Our Team

Team TradeMark is a blend of creative talent, web savvy and strategic thinking with one goal in mind: to get you noticed and get you measurable results. No matter your size or budget, we can transform you into a marketing powerhouse.

Travis Morin, President

Travis has an MA from Grace College and a BFA degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has extensive experience with marketing national, regional and local clients. He worked for some of the area's top advertising agencies before starting TradeMark Advertising in 1996. He is married to Tish, has four children and was recently named one of Knoxville's Top 40 Under 40.

J.R. Hertwig, Business Consultant/Account Executive

J.R. has an MBA from the University of Tennessee and over 5 years experience in account management, sales and marketing. His mission is to understand your unique challenges and direct our team on how to best champion your cause. J.R. is ready to serve you with a wealth of technical, corporate and small-business environment expertise.

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George Corley, Director of Web Services/CEO

George leads up the Development team, utilizing over 10 years of experience developing interactive web applications. He has a BS from FullSail University. Over his career he has managed the successful launch of over 200 web projects ranging from corporate web applications to high traffic university websites. If you need web guidance he's the guy to talk to!

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Don’t be infamous! Check your negative search engine terms

Most people know that it’s important to identify the keywords people are searching for when looking for you, but most forget all about the dark side of negative search terms. Say for instance you are a place that serves beer in Knoxville, and you want to be the first position for the following terms:

Brandon Tillman, Charming Creative Director

Brandon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee in Advertising as well as a Business minor. He has over 5 years graphic design and video production experience and has worked with a wide variety of businesses and non-profits. His goals are to exceed expectations and generate results. For him, design isn't just about colors and trends, it's about reaching your customer and getting them to respond. He is also our resident country music junkie, as well as a proud Tennessee Volunteer.

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Social Networks in 60 Seconds

Parents flock to facebook, kids turn to twitter, businessmen lean on linked in, and procrastinators swarm to stumble. These days almost everyone's connected, and every 60 seconds more people joining in. What can we learn from this?

Darryl Ballard, Developer Supreme

Darryl is an accomplished software engineer specializing in object-oriented design and analysis and is well-versed in modern W3C web standards. Darryl has a degree in computer science and is a physics enthusiast.

Kenny Graham, SEO Specialist/Web Developer

Kenny is an HTML, SEO and CSS guru. As a key part of our interactive team, he is our resident expert on standards compliance, accessibility and usability. He is also a certified Professional Search Engine Marketer and handles our large pay-per-click campaigns as well as optimization of web sites. Outside of work, he enjoys laser tag.

Corwin Walls, Office Manager/KOTD

Corwin has a Business Management degree from Pellissippi State College. He worked his way through college maintaining a GPA above 3.0 and has worked in the film and entertainment industry for seven years. Corwin manages finances as well as assists with coordination of print and campaign projects. Besides being the friendly voice to greet you, he loves to volunteer at his local community theatre and is a fan of science fiction.