Linda Brandt is an experienced marketing professional who has worked in NYC for Fortune 100 companies and worldwide ad agencies where she learned the value of teamwork, research, deadlines, and excellence. In 1998, after moving to Asheville, NC, Linda started LB Marketing Services to assist small businesses who had tremendous frustration with their marketing efforts. The dollars they were spending were just not getting the results they needed.
Today, after over a decade of consulting with businesses in various industries, Linda continues to live and work by her values of integrity, reciprocal communication, respect, and a win-win partnering mentality.
In her spare time, she enjoys hiking with her chocolate lab, Max. The sheer joy of watching him run through natures beautiful landscape is heavenly. With her two boys now in college, she has more time to explore new adventures and volunteer. So much to do and never enough time.
Linda works with a seasoned team of marketing professionals who have, individually, decades of experience.
Melissa Stanz is an Asheville, NC-based strategic writer and marketing professional with more than three decades of experience in both profit and nonprofit sectors. She spent her first two decades with Fortune 100 companies directing advertising, marketing, and corporate communications. Moving to Asheville from Atlanta in 1995, she made a conscious lifestyle shift and managed communications for a small private college and a book publisher. In 2000, she started her own marketing communications business, a career she passionately enjoys today.
Helping clients clarify and focus on their service and/or product benefits is a joy for Melissa. She skillfully translates those into compelling content, which includes SEO friendly content for the web, print and broadcast promotional copy, and feature and news articles.
Melissa is inspired by many things: sometimes it’s the way clients get excited about their products and services, other times she finds inspiration in quiet walks in the mountains or in her deep connection with dogs and horses. Learn more about Melissa, click here.
Benjamin Porter is an award-winning photographer who specializes in world wide photography and video. His photographs have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Japanese Vogue, American Arts, and The Christian Science Monitor.
“I love photographing people and making them comfortable in front of my lens. I love to cook, travel, and explore foreign culture. I have spent years photographing in Latin America and thus I am fluent in Spanish and conversant in Portuguese. In South America, I first learned how to photograph in a different setting. So much depends on the trust established between the photographer and subject."
Benjamin Porter is represented by the agency Panoramas International and he is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the International Association of Panoramic Photographers. To learn more about Benjamin, click here.
Tony Delia is a genius in graphic design, web design, and branding. Born and raised in New Jersey, he worked in New York City for almost 20 years, before moving to Asheville 6 years ago. His experience covers the entertainment, consumer, construction, and healthcare world and ranges from the creation and development of concepts for new business presentations, advertising campaigns, and direct mail programs to print ads, brochures, packaging, and logos. The supervision and management of vendors and the art direction of photo shoots also go with the territory.
Tony lives in Asheville, with his wife Debra, and their daughter, Sydney. Their decision to move here was based solely on increasing their quality of life, which has worked out beautifully. Tony is a passionate wine collector and writes a column on wine in a local newspaper. He also plays the drums in a classic rock band, called 4 Rounds Left, which appears frequently in West Asheville.
