Austin Alfredson
Marketing strategy · Client leadership · Enablement

I turn complex products into clear stories, useful tools, and measurable growth.

For ten years, I planned media around real audiences and real budgets. Then I moved in-house, learned to make the work myself, and spent a year on the sales floor learning what actually changes a decision.

Based in Sanford, Maine. Working across Southern Maine, Greater Portland, the Seacoast, and with remote teams open to Maine.

Two maintenance hangars under construction for Ascent Aviation in Marana, Arizona
Ascent Aviation, Marana, Arizona
+191%
Conversions, Q3 year over year
−47%
Cost per acquisition
70M
Impressions at 2× industry-average click-through
$4.79M
Customer sales in nine months
Steel hangar frame with a widebody aircraft framed inside it
Complex products
Printed Twin Titans feature spread from Fabric Engineer 2025 on a desk
Editorial storytelling
KENNEBIKE plate mounted on the rear fender of a hotel beach cruiser
Customer experience
Printed capability books and spec sheets on a trade show stand
Sales enablement
How I work

The work lives in three connected parts.

Clarify the value

Find the audience, identify what matters, and turn technical or complicated information into something people can understand.

Audience strategy
Positioning
Technical translation
Message development
Client discovery

Equip the team

Create tools, systems, and materials that help sales, engineering, clients, and internal teams do better work without depending on one person.

Sales enablement
Product education
Templates and toolkits
Content systems
Cross-functional support

Move the audience

Connect the work to campaigns, customer decisions, conversion, and measurable business outcomes.

Integrated campaigns
Customer experience
Media strategy
Conversion
Measurement and optimization
Selected work
Integrated marketing · Technical storytelling · Sales enablement

Turning complex engineering into a marketing and sales engine

Rubb sells highly engineered structures with long sales cycles, technical buyers, and average deal values above $500,000. I built an integrated system around the work: audience strategy, reporting, photography, film, 360° environments, editorial, paid media, trade-show interaction, web content, and tools the sales team could use without waiting on marketing.

My role
U.S. Marketing Manager. Audience and campaign strategy, agency leadership, paid media and reporting, technical translation, feature writing, photography and film, 360° environments, web and landing pages, trade-show tools, sales enablement, templates and brand systems.
What changed
+191% conversions, Q3 year over year · −47% cost per acquisition · Assets deployed across six national trade shows · Average deal value above $500,000
View the Rubb case study
Hangar structure under construction at Ascent AviationStill from the ball point-of-view film at The Fort Pickleball Club3D-printed model of the Three Mile Island structure on a trade show counterPrinted Fabric Engineer feature spread
Media strategy · Client leadership · Performance

Reaching the right audience, then proving it worked

Before making the work myself, I spent ten years deciding where marketing investment should go. Across the Boston Museum of Science, Rapid7, and later Rubb, I planned against real audiences, commercial outcomes, and measurable behavior rather than awareness alone.

Scope
Audience research, integrated media planning, paid search and social, programmatic, connected television, out-of-home, campaign optimization, client leadership, GA4 and Salesforce measurement, budget stewardship.
View the audience strategy case study
Boston Museum of Science
8 yrs
Client relationship
30+
Campaigns
20%
Attendance lift
15%
Online ticket sales
10%
Better cost per lead, YoY
Rapid7 XDR launch
70M
Impressions
Industry-average CTR
1st
Integrated category campaign
Measurement connected through GA4 and Salesforce.
Customer experience · Brand strategy · Client partnership

Turning small guest moments into a stronger regional brand

Across Lafayette Hotels' thirty-property portfolio, I looked beyond the website for the moments that shaped the guest experience. A beach cruiser, a candlelit menu, and a roadside sign became useful expressions of place rather than isolated pieces of design.

My role
Independent strategist and creative partner. Digital and content strategy, client advising, brand application, guest-experience observation, physical touchpoint design, menu design, production specification, vendor and fabrication coordination.
What changed
30-property portfolio · 30% increase in engagement · 95% of reach from new audiences
View the Lafayette case study
KENNEBIKE plate on a hotel beach cruiserHappy Clam signage installed at Wells BeachThe Breakwater Inn menu

More proof, in smaller packages

Printed covers of Fabric Engineer 2025

Feature writing and editorial

Reported, wrote, and photographed three features for Fabric Engineer 2025, including the cover story.

Read the issue ↗
Preview frame of a 360 degree interior walkthrough

Interactive environments

360° walkthroughs and unconventional point-of-view media, built to make unfamiliar spaces understandable to people who will never stand inside them.

See how they were used
Flip-card interaction running on a tablet on the trade show stand

Trade-show interaction

A physical model and a problem-first flip-card experience that gave passing attendees something useful to touch and discuss.

See the stand
Qualification gates
Fit and access scoring
Research repository
Rejection classification
Repeatable operating cadence

Building a career-intelligence workflow

A qualification, research, scoring, and feedback workflow. The value is not the interface. It is the qualification logic, research process, scoring model, and feedback loop underneath it.

At the point of decision

I wanted to learn what conversion feels like from the other side of the table.

After years building campaigns around conversion, I moved to the sales floor and spent a year at the point of decision. I sold $4.79 million in nine months and ranked nineteenth among 1,100 consultants for customer satisfaction.

More importantly, I learned which explanations build confidence, which objections are actually questions, and what only sounds persuasive in a presentation.

That experience now informs how I approach marketing, enablement, customer programs, and client work.

About Austin

Showing up is a strategy, too.

I was eleven the first time I woke before sunrise to run seven miles. At the Ron Burton Training Village, I did that for a decade. The lesson was simple: show up, finish what you start, and leave people better than you found them.

That thread has followed me from Boston media strategy to in-house marketing, hands-on content production, independent client work, and the sales floor. I am at my best when the product is complex, the audience is human, and a team needs someone who can find the clear story, build the useful tool, and prove it worked.

I bring both sides of the work: the audience strategy that determines what should be made and the hands-on ability to make it.

Based in Sanford, Maine, I am pursuing full-time opportunities across Southern Maine, Greater Portland, the Seacoast, and remote teams open to Maine.

Austin Alfredson photographing on site
On site, making the work.
Let's talk

What are you trying to make clearer, easier, or more useful?

I am interested in work where audience understanding, client trust, practical execution, and measurable growth belong in the same job.

Austin Alfredson · Sanford, Maine
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