WORK WITH ME

Helping Visitors, Businesses & Brands Connect with Brown County

I’m a Brown County local, business owner, Airbnb host, travel blogger, and CVB board member. I’ve experienced this place from every angle: as a visitor, a resident, a host, a marketer, and a small business owner navigating the same challenges my clients face.

That means when I work with you, I’m not guessing. I know how visitors plan trips here, how locals discover and recommend businesses, and how online visibility connects to real bookings and foot traffic.

There are three ways we can work together:

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Planning Your Trip to Brown County

For visitors, groups & trip planners

Brown County is one of those places that looks simple until you actually start planning. Then the options multiply fast.

I help you cut through it with recommendations that actually fit your group, your dates, and what you’re here for.

Plan Your Trip

Partnerships & Local Collaborations

For Brown County businesses & brands

Tanglewood Hideaway readers are actively planning trips, comparing options, and looking for things to do year-round. Reach them through trusted, editorial-style content that keeps working long after it goes live.

Explore Options

Visibility & Strategy Consulting

For small businesses & tourism organizations

Most small businesses know they need to show up better online. The harder question is where to actually focus. I help you understand how people are finding you right now and where your real opportunities are before you spend more time or money pointed in the wrong direction.

Learn About Consulting
Selfie of a smiling hiker near a wooden signpost marking the junction of the Tecumseh Trail and Low Gap Trail in a leaf-covered forest.
Parents and kids laughing as a giant Jenga tower tumbles during an outdoor game in downtown Nashville Indiana. The falling wooden blocks capture a fun family friendly moment.
Outdoor amphitheater at Hard Truth Distilling Co with guests seated at picnic tables surrounded by flowers and string lights in Brown County Indiana. Live music and distillery events are popular evening things to do in Brown County Indiana.

Why Work With Me

I’m not coming at this as an outside marketer trying to apply a generic strategy to Brown County. Instead, I approach this work from multiple angles: local resident, business owner, Airbnb host, tourism advocate, and content creator.

I’ve spent years living, working, hosting, and building businesses here. I’m a Brown County local, owner of the Brown County Barn Burner, creator of Tanglewood Hideaway, and a member of the Brown County Convention & Visitors Bureau board.

Between the Barn Burner, local partnerships, community involvement, and Tanglewood Hideaway, I’ve helped hundreds of visitors experience Brown County while also working alongside local businesses trying to grow sustainably. I’ve also hosted local SEO and visibility workshops for Brown County businesses focused on practical, real-world improvements.

Everything I’ve learned about SEO, online visibility, customer experience, email marketing, and destination content has come from real-world application: building businesses, hosting guests, testing what actually works, and investing heavily in learning the strategy behind it. I’m not interested in marketing that sounds impressive but does not help real people.

What makes me different is that I understand all sides of the equation:

  • How visitors actually plan trips
  • How locals discover and recommend businesses
  • How small businesses operate in seasonal tourism economies
  • And how online visibility connects to real-world customer behavior

Whether I’m helping someone plan a trip, promoting a local business, or reviewing a company’s online visibility, the goal is the same: make it easier for the right people to find what they’re looking for and have a better experience when they do.

Real-World Experience

  • Designed, built, and now manage the Brown County Barn Burner, a large-scale Airbnb and event property that opened in 2020
    • Hosted hundreds of groups and thousands of guests since opening in 2020
    • Maintained consistent 5-star guest experiences across lodging platforms
  • Built Tanglewood Hideaway through organic content, SEO, email marketing, and local partnerships
    • ~8,000 monthly readers
    • 1,500+ email subscribers with an email open rate consistently above 50% or higher, well above industry average
    • Audience includes visitors actively planning trips, repeat travelers, and Brown County locals
  • Hosted local workshops focused on practical SEO and visibility strategy for dozens of small-town businesses
  • Member of the Brown County Convention & Visitors Bureau Board and the Brown County Area Plan Commission

Resources I have to help you

Setup Your Google Business Profile Workbook

A step-by-step workbook tailored specifically for small-town small businesses to help them set up and optimize their Google Business Profile.

Grab the Workbook ($47)
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Not sure where to start?

Tell me a little about what you’re working on and I’ll help you figure out the best fit. 

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