Hi, I'm Daniel Doan.

What's my story? Well, I'm an award-winning growth marketing consultant and digital strategist with over half a decade of experience building brands, growing communities, and spearheading marketing strategy for hundreds of venture-backed startups, creatives, and companies worldwide.

I've been described as being one of the top marketers in the entertainment software industry, probably because over the past half-decade I've been busy working on hundreds of growth marketing campaigns including sales funnel creation, segmented email drip campaigns, conversion rate optimization, messenger bots, marketing automation, and so much more for hundreds of developers, founders, and companies worldwide.

As Co-Founder & CMO of Black Shell Media, I worked alongside my talented 10-person team to handle marketing, growth, and publishing operations for dozens of development studios, all of which has fortunately led to a multitude of workshops and seminars on marketing. As of Q3 2018, we've shipped more than 2.1 million copies of games on Steam, and have given talks at TEDx, Google, SXSW, TwitchCon, and numerous industry events on growth marketing and game design.

Product-wise, I've developed and designed several massively commercially successful video games for the PC platform. These include the world's first fully ASCII RPG on Steam, SanctuaryRPG, a roguelike adventure game called Overture, a frenetic dungeon-crawling adventure titled Dungeon Souls, and many other award-winning titles.

My creations have been played by hundreds of thousands of players, received worldwide critical acclaim, and have even attracted the attention of industry figureheads such as Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari (more famously known as Steve Jobs’ former boss), and multi-billionaire game industry tycoon Markus "Notch" Persson of Minecraft fame, who personally contributed to SanctuaryRPG's production and holds executive producer credits.

This success in the interactive entertainment industry pushed me to further expand my boundaries, and I found myself working as a marketing executive for some of the fastest-growing companies on the planet—helping Fortune 500's, high-growth startups, and world-class digital agencies get more out of their marketing efforts. Over the years, I've been blessed with the opportunity to work with fantastic companies in the tech industry including Microsoft, Intel, Alienware, Discord, and more.

And in that same amount of time, I've also grown my combined social media network to over 725,000 followers, and made it a habit to fuel my quirky side: I try to read a book a week on growth marketing, game design, software development, or behavioral psychology, because I firmly believe that constantly learning is the only way to help others more effectively. There's always room for improvement.

That explains why I've also authored a handful of popular game development books of my own on Amazon which have been read by thousands of people including Indie Game Marketing Secrets and The Game Development Mindset.

My life's mission is to help founders, developers, and companies grow in the fastest way possible using cutting-edge digital marketing techniques, growth tactics, and software most people don't have a clue about.

Over the years, I'm humbled to say that I've gotten a chance to advise and consult with executives, directors, and creatives who had previously led teams at mega-brands such as Riot Games, Valve Corporation, Sony Entertainment, and Disney.

The crazy part? I never thought any of this would even be remotely possible.

You see, the start of my career in digital marketing was almost a complete fluke. I was laid off from my near-minimum wage IT job after graduating from college with a degree in Psychology (that I thought was useless at the time).

Ended up struggling pretty hard trying to get my indie game development studio off the ground... bumming it at my mom's apartment and living off of food stamps while eating expired TV dinners from the dollar store. It was pretty sad.

But one day, something changed.

I made a startling realization halfway through development: I needed to focus on marketing if I ever expected any remote chance of success. So, I put software engineering on pause, and pivoted.

I began to study marketing—reading dozens of marketing books, and thousands of marketing articles.

Then, I started to execute...

It was horrible at first (I didn't really know what I was doing for the longest time), but eventually I started to get the hang of things, and found myself building a modest audience on the internet.

Taking the time to build this tribe paid off in a huge way, and eventually led me deep into the world of eCommerce marketing, where I managed to ship over half a million copies of my first video game, SanctuaryRPG, on the Steam platform.

This completely blew me away.

Armed with my newly discovered passion for digital marketing, I decided to put my all into it.

For years, I devoted almost every waking hour to mastering the craft, and I put myself on a personal mission to help as many other developers as I could with their marketing efforts as well.

This changed everything.

Helping hundreds of people eventually led to so many out-of-this-world opportunities, including a career in the video games industry shipping millions of games, a smattering of speaking engagements, a TEDx talk, and so much more.

So, what does this mean for you? Well...

You might be looking for a growth marketing consultant like me if…

• You need specialized marketing expertise that you currently don't possess.

• You desire the "manpower" to deal with the high volume of marketing work.

• You want to take a break from doing marketing (you just don't want to do the work).

• You have better use for your time than trying to promoting your business (I’ll do it for you).

If any of the above sounds like an eerily accurate description of where your business is currently at…

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