Nathan A Webster

Founder & CEO

The Short Bio

Nathan A Webster was born and raised in Vancouver, WA. He honorably served in the United States Marine Corps before starting his educational career at Clark College. While pursuing his associate’s degree, he officially began his entrepreneurial journey serving his Portland-Vancouver metropolitan community. After earning his MBA, his background in management and nonprofits ignited a passion for developing businesses and community leaders. Nathan started his consultancy agency focusing on nonprofits before it evolved into marketing. In the same year, he became a business college adjunct at his alma mater, launching his career as a college professor. In 2016, he became a podcaster focused on social entrepreneurship and evolved it into Let’s Talk Marketing with NDUB Podcast. As the lead marketing consultant, Nathan continues to run his marketing agency, developing marketing strategies, websites, and operational support for small businesses. He has a big heart for his kids, loves the outdoors, and is learning to golf when he’s not networking or working in his company.

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brand strategist

Nathan’s forte is his fun, straight-to-the-point business acumen and ability to create, implement, and execute customized strategic plans. As a social entrepreneur with different roles within the community, he has developed a unique approach to developing a client acquisition process model. 

Key deliverables that led to his success are as follows:

  • created an ideal customer identification process to be a natural conversation
  • for project management, he takes the Six Sigma approach to minimize failures
  • experienced in researching key trends and interpreting data
  • conducted primary research through surveys and interviews
  • repurposed secondary research for key branding initiatives
  • experienced in utilizing analog and digital systems for both marketing and operational purposes

The main goal is to help businesses get UNSTUCK.

Key tangible takeaways for clients:

  • customer journey roadmaps
  • identified the ideal key customer avatar
  • AIDA brand funnel touchpoints

EDUCATION

  • M.B.A. Operations Management || American InterContinental University || 2009
  • B.A. Public Affairs || Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver || 2007
  • A.A. || Clark College || 2004
  • Electronics Technology Certificate || Clark College || 2004

COLLEGE PROFESSOR

  • Warner Pacific University || 2019-Present
  • Washington State University Vancouver || 2021-2023
  • Clackamas Community College || 2019-2020
  • Clark College || 2015-2022

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

  • 1996 - 2001
  • Infantry Corporal
  • Security Forces

Community Involvement

Founding Board Member

OF

The Connected Trust
Founding Board Member

OF

Rooted School Vancouver
Board Member

OF

Workforce SW Washington

A Serial Entrepreneur​ ​

A Serial Entrepreneur

Nathan’s official entrepreneurial journey began in 1999. The business didn’t evolve into his vision, but in 2004, his faith started him on another journey. For 14 years, spanning 2004 to 2018, Nathan birthed Dream Big Community Center.

Under his visionary guidance, over 3,000 students embarked on journeys of self-discovery, empowered by Nathan’s custom-designed curriculum, Dream Big 101, aimed at unearthing their dreams. He authored the self-published Scared to Be Me to ensure all his students had practical examples directly related to his experiences.

Nathan created relationships with small and large businesses, such as Round Table Pizza, Portland Trail Blazers, Rachel’s Challenge, Best Buy, Target, and Barnes & Noble, among others. Harnessing the art of grant writing, sponsorships, fundraisers, and personal appeals, Nathan secured nearly $200k.

His 2nd official business was creating his nonprofit consulting agency in 2015 to help founders start, fundraise, and build their capacity. He quickly transformed it into a marketing agency and became a marketing consultant.

In the same year, Nathan began his journey as an adjunct business professor at Clark College. A year later, he started overseeing the Clark College Entrepreneur Program for students seeking startup help and cultivating ideas.

Marketing Consultant

In 2015, Nathan took his background as a computer science major and his love for studying consumer behavior and combined them. His marketing approach focuses on understanding each business’s unique value proposition and creating sustainable growth strategies that deliver measurable results (e.g., customer journeys, brand funnels, websites, etc.)

Working alongside different types of clients, he has helped expand one client from a farmers’ market presence to a thriving online business, another company with improving their profitability and conversion rates, and partnered with another company to start to achieve steady 200% annual growth since 2020.

His Let’s Talk Marketing w/NDUB podcast has been weekly for 9+ years with weekly downloads achieving the following:

  • audiences across all 7 continents
  • published over 700 recorded podcasts
  • reaching over 40,000 unique downloads
  • interviewed marketing experts in advertising, social media, large agencies, and thought leadership

Nathan created the podcast to make marketing simple for the growing business leader, a burgeoning entrepreneur, and those who believe in creating a marketing strategy through authentic relationships all over the world.

Business Professor

In 2014, Nathan created a Nonprofit 101 class to help his board, donors, and supporters learn more about how to support his organization. A year later, that was the catalyst to begin his journey at Clark College and adjuncting at other colleges.

Nathan taught at the following schools:

  • 2019-Present: Warner Pacific University – Tech in the City (100 level), Intro to Microsoft Office (200 level), Marketing (200 level), Introduction to Web Design (200 level), Marketing for Managers (300 level), Operations Management (400 level); 

  • 2015-22: Clark College – Introduction to Business (100 level) and Introduction to Nonprofit (100 level);

  • 2019-20: Clackamas Community College – Introduction to Business (100 level); and

  • 2021-23: Washington State University of Vancouver – Marketing Research (300 level)

During his tenure at Clark College, he created the Entrepreneur program from a student-led club, Clark Entrepreneurs. In his role, he oversaw the creation of networking events, an open-campus event with Dr. Eric Thomas, pitch competitions, and entrepreneurial field trips. 

Nathan initiated the Clark Pitch Fest for three years, which fostered students’ business dreams through mentorship, funding, and exposure.

background

USMC Veteran

In 1995-2003, Nathan served eight honorable years in the United States Marine Corps. He was one of the first of his peers to advance to the rank of Corporal while serving in the infantry and security forces. He thought his decision would be a long career as a decorated “Devil dog” with lots of memories.  

“Five days after high school graduation, I was on the iconic MCRD San Diego’s yellow footprints. Being a Marine was the foundation to who I am now. It’s hard to say I’d do it again, because there were some hard times- but it made me who I am now.”

College Student Experience

In 2001, he started his college journey. Nathan’s philosophy on education reflects from his childhood demons once doubted his academic ability.  

“I never thought I was smart enough to go to college, so I did everything else but go to college because I didn’t think it was possible for me to earn a college degree. Walking through those doors was the best decision I made. That’s also where the entrepreneur within was born.”

“I thought I was going to O-Dog from Menance to Society.”

Podcast Host

In 2016, Nathan’s started Social Entrepreneur with Nathan A Webster, before it came Let’s Talk Marketing with NDUB. Initially, designed to raise awareness about nonprofits, but it turned into his desire to help small businesses with their marketing strategy. 

My passion is to help others, but help them to build, create, expand, scale, and sustain their hard work within their business. Typically, this results in consulting key leaders with my expertise in marketing and business development. Therefore, my podcast needed to evolve too.

I love seeing how the right marketing plan can make all the difference. In my experience, I haven’t seen any two companies with the same marketing strategies to get the same results. For example, franchise restaurants within the same metropolitan have to deal with multiple and different demography issues within a 10-mile radius.

USMC Veteran

Entrepreneur

College Professor

Podcaster

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