DANE DOLPH

ME IN 10 SECONDS

I’ve advertised for multiple companies, managed millions in retail sales, and shipped thousands of my own products.I'm an entrepreneur, techie, golfer, and I truly love business.Illinois native, I now live in Colorado.

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MY SMALL BETS

This is my scoreboard where I track the startups I’m launching.

DANE DOLPH

WHAT I'M DOING NOW

Updated October 20th, 2025, from my home in Colorado Springs, where it's officially fall.

freelance advertising

The main thing I spend my time working on is freelance advertising for anyone who needs a one-man marketing team. I have worked with a few brands over the years and recently spend my time on Chefs' Kitchen & Foundry Saunas.

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About Me

DANE DOLPH

This is just one big page where I can write all about myself, without feeling the need for it to be useful.And some day this site will be all that’s left of me, so I might as well write my own mini autobiography.Last updated: 2025-10-25

Time line for context:

• 1999: born in Moline, Illinois
• 2000: first time hitting the keys on a keyboard
• 2003: started playing golf
• 2006: moved to Coal Valley, Illinois
• 2010: started selling duct-tape wallets via Moms Facebook account
• 2012: worked painting fishing lures for Uncles small business.
• 2013: built a desktop computer and dove deep into Photoshop and hacking games
• 2014: sold first product via eBay and made $0.12, it was a three pack of Ferrero Rocher
• 2015: played golf as a varsity freshman
• 2016: started my first “business” in high school, decided I wanted to be a successful entrepreneur
• 2017: moved to Davenport, Iowa
• 2018: graduated high school, eBay became main focus, started college
• 2019: started selling headphones online via ads as Robinpods, moved to Moline, Illinois, reached 10,452 headphones sold, ~$480,000+ in revenue, Ad account banned by Facebook,
• 2020: dropped out of college, moved to Colorado Springs, covid happened
• 2021: hired by Jvapes; fell in love with running a retail shop, promoted to general manager and moved to my own store at the North location
• 2023: left Jvapes at end of the year, got insurance license, hired by Colonial Life as insurance agent; cold-called and did in-person drops
• 2024: left Colonial Life to work at Xfinity in the billing center, left Xfinity to join Walmart managing the jewelry/shoe departments, left Walmart to start Freelance Advertising
• 2025: ...

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FOUNDRY SAUNAS

September 2024 - Current

Foundry Saunas is the West Coast distributor of Voyageur Saunas. They sell top-of-the-line premium saunas that are not barrel or kit models. I was hired to generate high-quality leads and build nurture SMS and email sequences to turn those leads into deals. This also included setting up the CRM and related software systems.

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Results (Last Updated: 10/1/25)
• Total sales: ~$125,000
• Total deals closed: ~5
• Leads generated: 677
• Cost per lead: $24.60
• Total ad spend: $16,654

Chefs' Kitchen

February 2024 - Current

Chefs’ Kitchen is an industrial kitchen that partnered with the owner of We’re Cookin’ Now! to offer ticketed cooking events to locals and their kids in the Colorado Springs area. I was hired to sell event tickets through paid social ads and to remarket to the database with additional SMS and email sequences.

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Results* (Last Updated: 10/1/25)*
• Total ticket sales: ~$105,000
• Tickets sold: 765
• Total ad spend: $10,327

HARVEST TODAY

March 2024 - August 2025

Harvest Today is an indoor vertical farming company developing plastics to revolutionize indoor farming. I was hired to generate leads, build nurture email sequences, and manage HubSpot. Toward the end of the engagement, they signed a new contract, then ceased payment and revoked access to all software, so sales data is not available.

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Results (Last Updated: 8/1/25)
• Leads generated: 3,606+
• Ad spend managed: $10,388
• Average CPL: $2.88

Jvapes

June 2021 - December 2023

Jvapes is a vape and smoke shop based in Colorado Springs. I was hired as a cashier and quickly promoted to general manager of the North location. I grew my team to six, including me, and did $20,000 or more in weekly sales.

RobinPods

March 2019 - September 2019

My pièce de résistance: a headphone brand that replicated Apple AirPods at a better price point and in eight colors. I scaled it with Facebook ads to $480,000+ in revenue at about a 27% margin, selling ~11,000 pairs in six months before the account was banned.

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Results
• Sales generated: 8,839+
• Ad spend managed: $108,934.09
• Link Clicks: 199,673
• Purchases: 8,839

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