Adam Gogolski is a Senior Account Executive and Internet Marketing Strategist
Official Bio:
A start-to-finish marketer with years of client-side experience, Adam brings to Brand Cool a truly integrated approach to marketing. Throughout his career Adam has cultivated a keen sense for what works when developing large, multi-faceted marketing campaigns, what’s needed to reach key objectives, and how to achieve alignment between disparate business silos. His skills as a marketer span content development, direct marketing, market research, analytics, brand strategy, customer management, and interface design.
Having worked as an Internet Marketing Manager for a large corporate learning provider, Adam has developed numerous large-scale online marketing initiatives, earning the 2009 Rochester AMA Marketer of the Year award. Through every campaign, his focus on generating leads via integrated marketing speaks to his grasp of how to leverage evolving technologies toward core business objectives.
Adam provides clients with a holistic perspective on their marketing projects, sharing his expertise in the areas of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and online marketing strategy. Over the years he has provided web marketing strategy for companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, and CompTIA, and brings versatility to every engagement.
A published fiction author, Adam holds a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Rochester, and as an undergraduate studied Irish mythology at University College Cork, Ireland. He and his wife volunteered in the Peace Corps as a couple, stationed on one of the most remote islands in the Philippines. They now live in the Rochester NY area with their two daughters.
Unofficial Bio:
Why did you choose this career?
I like writing and interacting with people. I’m also good with organizational details, and enjoy a glass of wine. So it seemed like a good fit. I can’t say I chose it though, because that would mean I had a plan, rather than making the most of whatever the universe served up.
What’s your favorite food?
What’s Jessica cooking tonight? That. (she knows my favorites better than I do)
What’s your favorite song?
Tough one. “Imagine” by John Lennon, “Going to California” by Led Zeppelin, “All Right for Now” by Tom Petty (my go-to lullaby for the girls). I tend to have as much love for albums as singles… The albums that have had the biggest influence on me are: Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes, Olias of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson (yes, more Yes), Disintegration by the Cure, Abbey Road, So Far by Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Europe 72 by the Grateful Dead, Kid A by Radiohead, Houses of the Holy by Zeppelin, and All Things Must Pass by George Harrison.
What’s your favorite movie?
I Heart Huckabees! It raises the perennial question: How am I not myself? Oh Brother Where Art Thou? is another favorite.
What’s your favorite book?
I read The Lord of the Rings when I was 12, and nothing has come close to it ever since. Reading it at that young, vulnerable age permanently re-wired my brain to think in fantasy terms. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joe Campbell comes to mind next. The Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, and The Great Divorce by CS Lewis were also very formative for me. Later influences include Ulysses by Joyce, and Being and Time by Heidegger.
What’s your favorite recreational activity?
Writing unofficial bios about myself. Wheeeeee! This is fun!
I also enjoy “hunting” deer and other “wild” animals using a slingshot and gumballs. Stay away from my peonies!
You think the world would be a better place if:
How am I not myself? Who am I?
It would surprise people to know that:
I’m a community-voted “Hall of Fame” Dungeon Master (or “DM” if you’re cool. Cool meaning you play Dungeons & Dragons and know the lingo. Then again… if you know D&D lingo, you’re probably the opposite of cool, like me!) on the largest play-by-post Dungeons & Dragons website in the world. I also write role-playing adventure modules for Explosive Runes magazine.