Hi! Nice to meet you. I’m Dave.

“Dave is terrific. He listens intently to the issues you are dealing with and addresses them directly. He does not offer generalities or think-tank statements. He offers real solutions that you can put to use right away.”

Mark Lonergan, artistic Director, Parallelexit.net

I’m Dave Charest. I’m a speaker, host, content creator, and marketer with over 16-years experience helping small business owners make sense of online marketing.

My mission here?

Simply, to make marketing easier for people who don’t have time for marketing.

Specifically, small business and nonprofit marketers needing practical, step-by-step marketing advice to help them do more business and more for their cause.

For over 11 years, I’ve been fortunate to work at Constant Contact, where I get to share small business marketing advice, speak one on one with our customers, and travel the United States speaking about making sense of online marketing.

I’m grateful to be surrounded by colleagues that share my passion for helping small businesses and nonprofits succeed.

We’ve even won a Content Marketing Award for our work in the Best Multi-Author Blog category. And we were also a finalist in the Best Content Strategy category for our work supporting our audience and our business with content marketing.

I love the people I work with — I love the people we help — I love the online marketing tools and services we provide to make it easier and more affordable for our customers to connect with their most valuable asset…their customers.

I’ve also been fortunate enough to speak at Content Marketing World about the craft of content marketing.

I follow a simple philosophy:

All good things come from focusing on the people you’re trying to reach and helping them become more successful.

Dave Charest

This simple philosophy has allowed me to get what I’ve always wanted from life.

To work hard, love what I do, live comfortably, spend time with family and friends, and enjoy life. All with a smile on my face.

Here’s what I believe:

When you’re doing something you enjoy, you do it to the best of your ability.

I enjoy helping others see the value that a content marketing approach can bring to their work by writing fun, concise, and useful posts as well as ‘Wicked Smaht’ Courses (yes, I’m from Massachusetts).

“Expert” or “guru?” — Hmm…

More like someone who loves to share what I’ve learned with hopes that it’ll help you move forward.

Here’s the deal. Most information out there is boring. Not only is it boring, it’s also riddled with this complicated marketing jargon that, let’s be honest, is just there to make the writer sound smart.

Who has the time to decipher all that B.S.?

If you can’t act on the information, then the information is useless. My goal is to make things simple so you can actually take action and start to see immediate results.

Now that’s ‘Wicked Smaht’ 😉

I love helping busy small business owners looking to make progress on their marketing goals.

If that sounds like you, I’m here to help.

There’s lots of useful information here

Let me know what you like. Or what you don’t. Either way hearing from you makes my day.

Thanks for stopping by!

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You can find more of my work on sites like Inc., Business 2 Community, The Business Journals, Constant Contact, and Duct Tape Marketing.

You can also catch me as the host of the podcasts, Be a Marketer with Dave Charest and Makeshift Brilliance with Dave Charest, and also co-hosting with my wife, Reese, on Manic Joy: A podcast about life, love, and uncertainty.

Talk soon,