Jon Jones hails from beautiful Bend, Oregon, and has enjoyed calling Central Oregon home for over 20 years. He is the owner and founder of Upper Left Digital Media, a modern digital marketing company specifically created to assist businesses throughout Central Oregon and beyond, leveraging proven online strategies to create lead generation and help reach their revenue goals.
He is also an Influencer in the food & beverage space on social media as; The Bend Foodie, and runs the largest food community in Central Oregon; Bend Foodies.
Why Is After Hours Networking Important to Jon?
When Catherine Emert extended the invite to become a part of the After Hours team, I was thrilled. As a more introverted temperament, I’ve never felt comfortable in new social settings, especially traditional business-networking settings where you have to aggressively sell yourself and your product. For me, and many others like me, we felt left out, and just fell through the cracks in these scenarios.
After Hours is people-forward, and helps take the heavy lifting off of members by helping to promote their businesses prominently at the events, and through the website, and social media. I have experienced many meaningful connections at our meet-ups, and generated a number of leads as well.