{"id":53,"date":"2020-12-02T06:40:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2026-08-09T04:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:32:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Craig Hordlow"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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(resume available here<\/a>)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I began doing SEO in ’98, the year I founded San Francisco based Community Musician (with the grace and support of Craig Newmark of Craigslist.org).<\/p>\n

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In 2004, I co-founded San Francisco marketing agency Red Bricks Media (“RBM”). While still working in my living room, RBM entered a performance marketing competition Adobe Systems held in order to select an agency for all of its digital marketing (~$45 million \/ yr ad spend). RBM won that contest, beating the largest multinational agencies. I grew RBM to 72 employees with offices in SF, NYC, and Hong Kong. I led the strategy for Adobe, Hearst Publishing, SanDisk, Sony Pictures, and many other big brands.<\/p>\n

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I began teaching marketing at AcademyX in 2006, where I started each course by jokingly telling students, “a great marketer is deep enough to have profound insight into human nature, but shallow enough to use it for financial gain<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

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I truly love marketing, but I’m also passionate about the sciences.\u00a0 I studied molecular biology in college, and invest in early stage biotech companies (metabolic and bioelectric elucidations are my thing).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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My other great love is songwriting (and writing poetry). When I was 13, I began studying guitar with a session player in NY who backed great jazz musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald. I was a music minor in college, and studied classical composition privately for four years with Jerry Gerber in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

I’ve been nearing completion of an album – you can <\/span>listen to what we’ve finished so far and read lyrics here<\/a>. We’re about to record vocals (with special guests).<\/span><\/p>\n

The SEO nerd in me feels compelled to share this with you:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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See my Craig Hordlow pinterest<\/a> page and elf boards<\/a> and painting “Craig Hordlow with a Pearl Earring<\/a>“<\/p>\n

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