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Design Geek and Creative Creature
Jermaine Young // Creative Creature // Community Crafter // Mindful Mentor

 

 

About Me

What you may already know is that I create awesome designs for small businesses, influencers, authors, and public speakers. What you may not know is that I also write content, help companies set up basic structure, and can put together a super yummy taco.

Most people know me online as the “funny business guy”. I do my best to let my personality shine through the stale business veneer that almost all the other online types use as a tactic to earn your trust. Because I know you see right through that I created this site to showcase the real me, flaws and all, so you know I’m human.

Here you’ll find:

  • links to my latest projects
  • sketchy works in progress
  • ideas that are floating around in my head
  • and most importantly a way to get in touch with me

Now it’s your turn. You now know something about me, tell me something about you.

Tell Me About Yourself

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Skills

 

  • Social Media Marketing 95%
  • Adobe Photoshop 90%
  • Print Design 85%
  • WordPress 70%
  • Brand Development 60%
  • SEO / AdWords 40%

Activities

 

Creativity

Geek Factor

Photography

Story Telling

Daddy Duties

Roller Skating

Founder / Lead Consultant

Jermaine Creates is a full service Visual Communication service which caters exclusively to SMB (Small to Medium Sized Businesses), Personal Brands, and Organizations. Jermaine Creates provides graphic design, print design, and multimedia production products.

Jermaine Creates | December 2016 – Today

Online Marketing Director

The Juice FM 107.3 WJUC is an urban broadcast radio station located in Swanton Ohio, serving the Toledo / Swanton Area with contemporary mix of hip hop, RnB, and classic Soul, and RnB music. The Juice FM 107.3 is owned by Welch Communications a local broadcast company founded by WJUC owner Charles Welch. The station serves a diverse listener base of all ethnicity and cultures spanning from age 18 – 48.

As Online Marketing Director I was responsible for producing regular content for daily programming, contests, and promotions as well as managing the consistent online presence of the brand and its celebrity guests and on air personalities.

During my time with this company I achieved many notable milestones including:

  1. Accumulative audience growth of 10k fans across 10 social media platforms
  2. Development and launch of 4 major in-house promotions generating on average 100 new fans per execution
  3. Development and launch of in-house structured email communication system
  4. Created brand consistency across all properties including the aquisition of infringing properties

The Juice 107.3 WJUC, Welch Communications Inc. | September 2014 – March 2015

Director of Marketing and Social Media

The Greater Toledo Urban League (GTUL) is a civil rights, social service organization with it’s mission being “to improve the social and economic conditions of each person in the community, particularly African-Americans, other minorities and those that are disadvantaged”. The GTUL is affiliated with the National Urban League, which was founded in 1910. For more information visit our website or follow us on facebook (www.facebook.com/greatertoledourbanleague) or twitter (www.twitter.com/gtul)

As the Director of Marketing and Social Media my duties included managing, developing, and maintaining the brand and public image of the Greater Toledo Urban League online via the web site and other internet media which includes producing and monitoring branded print material, managing the web properties (i.e. facebook page, blog, and web site), and building a rapport with the local news media outlets.

During my time with this company I achieved many notable milestones including:

  1. Established a brand standard for the organization and enforcing the standard across multiple mediums
  2. Developed and designed a complete visual campaign for a local event servicing 5k local patrons and more than 10k national and international businesses and individuals.
  3. Developed and designed an online presence for the organization including an email campaign and social media components.

The Greater Toledo Urban League | November 2007 – July 2011

"The 43 Best Books and Twitter Accounts to Inspire Your Social Media Sharing"

What companies or individuals inspire you and exemplify the power of sharing?

Buffer | May 2015

Adel De Meyer | Snapchat – The Perfect Platform for Personal Branding

Snapchat is the perfect platform for personal branding because you can BE who you are, SHOW who you are and CONNECT to others like you to build, grow, and maintain a community of supporters who all understand and value what you represent and what you do. (read the full article)

Adel De Meyer | June 2016

Testimonial 1

“Jermaine is knowledgeable, friendly, and professional. As an IT specialist he finds a way to stay two steps ahead of his contemporaries. As graphic designer he’s able to take any business to the next level of professionalism.”

– Imani Lateef

Testimonial 2

“Jermaine was the Executive Editor when I worked at Glass City Connect from 2009 to 2010. We worked together on a daily basis.

During that time, Jermaine proved to be incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. He always had an efficient strategy lined up to make our work go smoothly and was excellent in communicating his ideas to the rest of the team. Jermaine exhibited strong interpersonal skills and a unique capacity for empathy. These qualities most notably translated in his ability to motivate a team to care about its project and be invested in the project’s success.

I heartily recommend Jermaine and would be only too happy to work with him again.”

Toni J Lynch-Bradish

Testimonial 3

“It is with great pleasure that I write this recommendation for Jermaine. We worked together at the S.E.T.T. Institute. He impressed me, as well as other staff, with his professional work ethic, and unique ability to create, choreograph, and direct, award winning presentations for SETT’s peer educator performers. Jermaine was also a valuable asset to SETT’s School of Urban Life (SOUL) Program taught in the Toledo Public Schools. As the program coordinator of SOUL, I witnessed on several occasions, Jermaine captivate a classroom with his style of teaching. Many times to the point where students did not want to leave at the end of the period. Truly an accomplishment when working with 7th and 8th graders!! A brilliant young talent, Jermaine will be a valuable addition to any team or project, he is a part of.”

Therin Short II


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Contact Me

 

emailme@jermaineyoung.com

(419) 740-0810

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