The Professional Bio
Stacey Abler has been in digital marketing since 2003, achieving double-digit returns for all she worked with and for.
She has managed everything from a one-person business to a publicly-traded national retailer with a $50 million budget.
She has an MBA from the University of Georgia, focusing on marketing and entrepreneurship.
Her digital knowledge has come from hands-on learning and rolling up her sleeves. She has been lucky to work alongside some of the best teams at Google and other digitally-minded vendors.
If you want to excite her, show her a report with double-digit growth. As soon as she wakes up, she grabs her laptop to see how everything performed overnight.
She treats your business as if it is her own and will guide you in the right direction toward achieving profitable growth.
Personal Factoid Timeline:
- She married her high school sweetheart, which her son often refers to as “Back in the 1900s…”
- She began learning about digital in 2003 when her boss said, “We have no budget. You can figure out how to build a website on your own.”
- She started her first business in 2004 as part of a deal she made with her husband. “If you go for special operations in the Army, I get to start a business.” He became an Army Ranger; she became an entrepreneur.
- Successfully created multiple streams of income focusing on becoming a support system for military spouses, a service sadly missing at the time.
- Her husband medically retired from the military, and to figure out where to go next, they pulled out a map and said this place is halfway between Athens (UGA) and Dahlonega (NGSCU). And off they went.
- She earned her MBA and walked across the stage at graduation seven months pregnant with their first (and only) son.
- She entered the corporate world alongside most of her classmates because it seemed like the path she was supposed to follow.
- Over the next ten years, she missed being in the world of entrepreneurship and impacting small businesses.
- In 2020, she ventured out independently and began working with multiple smaller companies, including Veteran-owned businesses. Immediately, she knew she had found her sweet spot again.