About

Brent Sheffler is an economic developer based in Virginia, USA. He specializes in helping economic developers improve their content marketing strategies and online media messaging. His mission is to help individuals and organizations learn about and apply effective digital marketing methods to successfully reach their economic development goals and objectives.

Specialties:

  • Economic development marketing and positioning
  • Strategic message platform development
  • Social media strategies
  • Business attraction
  • Business retention and expansion
  • Earned media messaging

Brent has worked as International Marketing Consultant, as Team Leader of Advanced Manufacturing, as Managing Director of Knowledge Transfer and Strategic Outreach, and as Managing Director of the Corporate Accounts Team with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP). During his service with VEDP, the Commonwealth of Virginia earned the following awards and was recognized as:

  • The #1 Best State for Business four times by Forbes.com,
  • Best State for Business three times by CNBC.com
  • Ranked among the top five best business states by Pollina Corporate Real Estate
  • And twice as the Most Competitive State by Site Selection Magazine.

You can follow Brent on Twitter at @bsheffler