Keith English a longtime resident of the Gulf Breeze and
Pensacola communities began his career outside the Pensacola area by playing a
few years of minor league baseball for the Cardinals organization during the late
90’s. When a shoulder injury ended
Keith’s baseball career he started his own company marketing telecommunications
products to local businesses in the Pensacola and Gulf Breeze areas.
Keith later had an opportunity to work with a
well-established email marketing firm and before long the owner of that company
had decided that Keith English would be the right one to either take over the
existing company or branch out and allow Keith to run the subsidiary. Keith soon founded a new company called 19
Communications which specialized in online lead generation for financial
service companies. Keith English used
his Southern charm and marketing skills to acquire access to massive databases
of opt-in email address that he would leverage to generate new leads for the
financial services industry while at the same time increasing revenue for the
original database owners. This “Win-Win”
business model helped the company grow to become one of the largest and most
efficient companies of its kind.
Along the way, English changed the name from 19
Communications to LeadRev and was later acquired by London Bay Capital and
merged with Selling Source.
Even though Keith English was still involved with LeadRev in
a consultancy capacity, Keith began to aggressively pursue his hobby of bill
fishing aboard his sport fishing boat the Click Through. Keith spent the next few years traveling
throughout the Atlantic Coast, Florida, The Caribbean, Central and South
America and Mexico in pursuit of marlin and other bill fish species.
Along the way the name Keith English became
synonymous with success in marlin and billfish tournaments throughout the
marlin fishing community. Keith also
became very active in the conservation of bill fish and was named to the board
of the billfish foundation which takes the lead in tagging and tracking
billfish in an effort to learn more about the pelagic species and put measures
in place to protect the sport fish for future generations.
The Keith English entrepreneur bug crept back in and Keith
is now the founder and CEO of a new venture, LocalMed which creates a seamless
directory and appointment management system for dental and medical
offices. A potential patient can now
locate the nearest medical office that serves their particular needs, read reviews
on the physicians and staff and then set their appointment without ever
speaking to any office staff.
The
LocalMed system then sends out reminders to both the patient and office staff
to insure both parties are properly prepared for the appointment. Should the patient need to change or cancel
the appointment, they can do that from any smart phone or internet device and
the system will then offer the vacant appointment to any other patients who
have indicated that they were interested in an earlier appointment and all this
is communicated and confirmed through the use of text messaging and email.
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