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patrick galvin's biography

  • Patrick GalvinCo-Founder & Chief Galvanizer of Galvin Communications, a growing word of mouth marketing and public relations firm in Portland, Oregon.
  • Accomplished speaker and President of the National Speakers Association – Oregon Chapter who has spoken to hundreds of audiences throughout the United States and Canada.
  • Obtained over $3 million worth of favorable coverage for clients in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, Inc., Sunset, Outside, HGTV, The Travel Channel, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and more.
  • Carried out successful PR and buzz marketing campaigns for more than 75 consumer product companies and professional service firms in California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and China – as a result, repeat and referred customers account for more than 75% of client work.
  • Created the popular “Buzz Builder Blog: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Word of Mouth Marketing” for which he writes regularly.
  • Utilized fluency in Spanish and Portuguese to build a profitable sales network in Latin America for a filtration company.
  • Past president and membership chair of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization, an association of business owners under age 40 whose companies sell more than $1 million per year.
  • Quadrupled sales of a business and home office furniture store in three years as company president.
  • Published marketing articles in leading newspapers, magazines and trade publications in the United States, Canada and Singapore.
  • Hosted a talk radio show on an NPR affiliate.
  • MBA in International Marketing from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) and BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University (cum laude).

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President, Oregon Chapter