Welcome to Next Level Collective
Creating Lifelong FANS for your business and BRAND.
Welcome to Next Level Thinking.
Creating Lifelong FANS for your business and BRAND.
Welcome to Next Level.
Creating Lifelong FANS for your business and BRAND.
Our Story
The Next Level Thinking Collective, is an agile COLLECTIVE of Big City Brains with Small Town Values, formed over decades of professional and personal collaboration. From working together in boardrooms, to preparing for battle together in sports arenas – the COLLECTIVE is more than a group of accomplished executives and entrepreneurs. We are a dynamic fusion of ambitious, GROWTH-CENTRIC, energetic visionaries, each bringing decades of success in creating, building, partnering, representing, repositioning, and ultimately SELLING businesses, brands, products and services across North America’s diverse Etail, Retail and Corporate landscapes.
Our COLLECTIVE expertise spans the spectrum of commerce:
- Category leaders who’ve shaped industry trends
- Game changers who’ve disrupted markets
- Battle tested nimble and agile subject matter experts
- Channel-agnostic strategists
- SALES & GROWTH centric professionals
Our passion for process – Igniting Conversations, Inspiring Consideration, and Influencing Conversion is at the heart of everything we do! At Next Level Thinking, we’re not consultants; we’re GROWTH STRATEGISTS, creators of strategic playbooks, and stewards of accelerated SALES! Whether it’s launching new or revitalizing existing products or services, our mission remains constant: Elevate Your Business & Brand to the Next Level!
ABOUT THE CO-FOUNDERS
SCOTT STEVENSON:( THE ENERGETIC FOUNDER)
Scott Stevenson is the dynamic founder of The Next Level Collective, a SALES-CENTRIC strategist, omnichannel content and commerce marketer. His career is dedicated to assembling the right COLLECTIVE, unpacking insights, and crafting strategic growth stories and plans to differentiate businesses and brands to accelerate GROWTH, drive SALES and share – in varied markets and channels.
GEORGE TAZBAZ: (THE METHODICAL ANALYST)
George Tazbaz is the seasoned and disciplined business and commercial analyst, a RESULTS-CENTRIC advisor, dedicated to charting the path to profitability, applying methodical planning from insights to in-market to realize GROWTH and commercial success.
COLLECTIVE Approach:
- Assemble the right COLLECTIVE – project team
- Unearth insights through data analytics
- Create your Next Level Playbook – leveraging integrated digital solutions to drive Etail & Retail conversion
- Activate partnerships and relationships
- Deploy immersive product/channel plans to accelerate SALES growth!
Background:
- National brand owner and successful leader for Sales, Content, Sponsorship, Partnership and Full Service Integrated Marketing agencies
- Served as a SALES Channel Strategist, CMO, Content Director, Partnership & Sponsorship Director, and Agency of Record for renowned brands
- Retains extensive B2B, B2C & D2C category experience in: Retail, Etail, CPG, Sports & Entertainment, Lifestyle, Corporate P & I, Real Estate and Professional Services
Core Focus:
Drive B2B, B2C & D2C Data, Demand, and Dollars through insight-based, game-changing playbooks consisting of campaigns and branded content.
Passion:
Helping businesses and brands create a unique point of difference through STORYTELLING to amplify SELLING – online, at home, in-field and in-store.
THE COLLECTIVE (OUR BENCH) The Next Level Thinking Collective is a unique assembly of successful and seasoned professionals with diverse expertise spanning North American Etail and marketplace development, Retail SALES representation, data acquisition and interpretation, strategic planning, ideating, branding, importing, differentiating, design, storytelling, AI and marketing, all collectively aligned to drive SALES revenue and accelerate share growth. Our model leverages and activates an internationally dedicated, market-tested team, supported by a robust collective of subject matter experts to support specific challenges and optimize opportunities.
What Sets Us Apart
- Dedicated Focus: Etail & Retail SALES & SHARE GROWTH!
- Dynamic Network: Robust network of retail buyers, influencers, partnerships
- Diverse Expertise: Corporate wisdom meets entrepreneurial spirit
- Flexible Engagement: Fractional, contractual, profit or equity-share arrangements
- Tailored Sales Playbooks: Unique product strategies per Etail & Retail channel
- Speed To Market: Agile, adept & poised to launch with turnkey SALES programs
- Holistic Approach: More than SALES! Innovative, Integrated, Digitally Led, Results-Driven, Brand, AUDIENCE & Share GROWTH experts!
Our Process
- Conduct: Discovery, Needs, Competitive & Market Assessments
- Determine: Strategic Imperatives & The Requisite Team, Tactics & Tools
- Lead: An Assembled Team Per Product, Per Etail Platform & Retail Channel
- Deliver: Proprietary Solutions & Next Level Playbooks to Drive SALES Growth!
Our Collective
- Entrepreneurs
- C-Suite Executives
- Category Specialists
- Innovators/Inventors
- Manufacturers/Brokers
- Investors
- Tactical Experts
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SUPPORT TEAM
Next Level’s strategic advantage: their TEAM! Since its inception, both the Next Level domestic and international contingents have been a cornerstone and integral part of Next Level’s formula for client success. Comprising a spirited and innovative group of credentialed digital marketers, accomplished growth hackers, and compassionate client-centric, digital, eCom specialists, the united team at Next Level is motivated by delivering exceptional results – each and every campaign – every day! Augmenting the Next Level team, NLT retains in excess of 150 digitally immersed and specialty-focused freelance specialists they have worked with consistently and contractually for the past 20 years. Their passion – driving conversation, consideration and conversion to elevate businesses and brands.
COLLECTIVE YEARS
Delivering Proprietary Solutions to Drive Traffic, SALES & SHARE GROWTH!
MEMBERS OF THE COLLECTIVE
Seasoned C-Suite Executives, Category Specialists & Entrepreneurs
INTEGRATED STRATEGISTS & CREATIVES
Strategists, Storytellers, Designers, Videographers, Photographers
DIGITAL / ECOM SPECIALISTS
Web, Social, Etail & Retail
INTEGRATED SERVICES
To Influence, Inspire & Ignite Clients & Consumers
TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS
Business Analysts, Data Scientists, Full Stack Developers
SENIOR
Leadership, Insights, Strategy, Brand, Marketing, Commerce
GROWTH CHANNELS
B2B, B2C & D2C
CONTINENTAL TEAMS
With One Vision – Growth!
GOAL
Brand, Product Or Service Sales, Share & Loyalty!
How do we differ?
We fuse the science and accuracy of data driven insights with the art of marketing of emotional storytelling to differentiate your proposition, and create and activate game changing ideas.
Our focus?
Elevating your business, brand, year or quarter to the Next Level.
We develop emotionally appealing campaigns, tailored by industry, channel and archetype to impact perception, behaviour and actions, to initiate trial and sustain loyalty. Insights and ideas, centred in mobile/digital, and integrated with social, promotional and experiential.