DEMMING BASS

 

Named one of Georgia's Top 100 Most Notable Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Top 40 under 40 most influential leaders, New Marketing Makeover Founder and National Google Speaker Demming Bass is an accomplished and proven business and nonprofit leader who has been nationally recognized for his extensive branding and marketing communications, public policy, leadership development, and business development successes.

 

In addition to starting and running three successful businesses himself, his diverse career includes more than 20 years of in-depth experience in management at one of the nation's top SaaS (Software As A Service) companies - Constant Contact - as their Southeastern U.S. Regional Development Director and as a chamber executive at four of the nation’s top chambers of commerce/economic development organizations (Cary and Raleigh in the Research Triangle of NC, and Gwinnett and Cobb Counties in Metro Atlanta, GA). Demming also serves as Senior Counsel for POWER 10, one of the nation's leading capital fundraising campaign management firms, and was one of Donald Miller's first StoryBrand Certified Marketing Guides from 2017 - 2020.

 

Because of his expertise in marketing and small business coaching, Google contacted him in 2017 to become one of their first official national speakers and trainers for their Grow With Google Program.

 

Adding to the awards and honors above, Demming has garnered numerous local, statewide, and national honors and awards in recent years including:​

 

• Google's "Most Interesting Trainer in the World"

• Constant Contact's Regional Development Director of the Year in North America

• Georgia Trend Magazine’s “Top 40 Under 40” most influential leaders in Georgia

• Cobb Life Magazine’s “Top 20 under 40” most influential leaders in Cobb County

• Recipient of the National “Best of Show Award for Communications Excellence” – the top chamber communications award in the nation – two national “Grand Awards” and 40+ national Awards for Communications Excellence from the national chamber association, ACCE

 

Demming has been a regular presenter at regional and national conferences including the American Chamber of Commerce Executives National Convention and the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Conferences for Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and the Carolinas. His articles and columns have also been featured in The Business Journals nationwide as well as for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Raleigh News and Observer, and Triangle Business Journal.

 

Demming has served in a leadership capacity at state and national levels, including as the former National Communications Division Chairman and National Awards for Communication Excellence Chairman for the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE), Board of Regents for the US Chamber’s Institute for Organizational Management at the University of Georgia, Chairman of the United Way of Cobb County’s 2012 Campaign, and Board Member for the Cherokee-Cobb Joint Economic Development Authority.

 

He graduated cum laude from North Carolina State University with a BA in Communication and was named the NC State Alumni Association’s Outstanding Alumni in the field of Communication and Public Relations.

 

He is a 2000 IOM graduate from the US Chamber’s Institute for Organizational Management at the College of Charleston.