My name is Dan Evans

Dan Evans serves as the Global Chief Marketing Officer at N2Growth Executive Search Firm in Texas. He specializes in evangelizing the N2Growth brand to support the acquisition and development of high-performing leaders for and on behalf of our clients. Before joining the executive team, Dan served as Director of Social Business Strategy at USAA, a Fortune 100 Financial Services company. During his tenure, he founded the USAA Personal Brand Academy™, an employee advocacy program designed to help employees build their personal brands and authentically showcase their experience across social media channels to attract talent. Most recently, Dan led a team of enterprise consultants who partnered with lines of business to bridge internal and external digital marketing initiatives through research, strategy development, and the deployment of social media capabilities (I.T.) to create shared value for all stakeholders.

Dan is also a 13 year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and started his career as an infantry rifleman and rose through the ranks to become the first-ever Enlisted Marketing Director for the Recruiting Command. He traveled the country, training senior military leaders and private sector advertising executives on his methodologies, empowering Marines to become brand ambassadors, amplifying the Marine Corps story, and enabling recruitment of the next generation of the military.

He is renowned for his creative ability to build sustainable brand equity through digital marketing, including podcasts, live streams, SEO, video, social media, paid search, and exponentially scaling marketing efforts with brand ambassador programs and creative influencer strategies. Dan believes that search firms must evolve with technology and embraces this mantra as the firm’s Global Chief Marketing Officer.

Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dan is an Eagle Scout. He currently resides with his family just outside of San Antonio, Texas. Dan is most proud and passionate about his role as a husband and father of three children. He loves spending quality time with his family, and in his spare time, Dan enjoys woodworking, photography and video, cryptocurrency trading, and experimenting with home automation technology. He is also on the waitlist to buy a Tesla Cybertruck.

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Dan is one of the most talented individuals I have ever had the pleasure of working with. His dedication and passion in enhancing the District’s multiple social media platforms is nothing short of brilliant. Most notable was his ability to develop a training and execution plan that ultimately increased leads and quality by leveraging social media to reach a more diverse population of applicants and linking them up with our sales force.
Jorge Escatell

Recruiting Advertising Officer, USMC

Reinventing Yourself One Day at a Time

It’s been a short time since I transitioned out of the military and began a new career in Corporate America. Since then, I’ve had a minute to reflect back on what I now clearly know was overcoming one of the biggest hurdles of my adult life— reinventing myself.

How Marines Use Social Media for 21st Century Recruiting

Like many, you might have a stigma associated with military recruiters. Ceaseless phone calls, high pressure sales, and four letter words may come to mind when these guys call asking for you or someone you know in attempt to “recruit” them.

I had the opportunity to serve as a Marine Corps recruiter for the last nine years, I supervised recruiters for the majority of that time. Our mission is to contact as many of-age people as possible to determine qualification and interest- then sell them on the opportunities in the Marines… we’d contact people primarily through phone calls and canvassing the local area. As you can imagine, this can make for a long day.

The Rise of Social Media & Mobile Business

The corporate banter about the ROI and risks of using social media as a pure form of advertising is getting old. I’d like to address the cynics and vent some of my frustration with those who wish to continue their romance with traditional advertising. After all, it is almost 2015 and Apple has recently released it’s 6th iPhone.

I’m not talking about those who embrace both advertising AND social media. I’m talking to those of you who are skeptical of social media and feel its unimportant or not worth investing in. However, you likely found this article and are reading it because you saw it via social media, perhaps a friend shared it with you. I rest my case…

Is your Facebook Profile Working for You? The Line Between Privacy & Perception

Facebook is loaded with features that can help you connect with people both personally and professionally. It is arguably the most versatile of all social media websites out there. With all of these advances in technology, you have the ability to cast your personal brand to a much larger audience quickly and with minimal effort. Whether you’re an accountant, firefighter, garbage man, or CEO. You want to ensure your Facebook profile aligns with who and how you want to be perceived.