ELEVATE YOUR BUSINESS®️

Elevator Pitch

WE STAND OUT AT MAKING OUR CLIENTS STAND OUT

Our strategic marketing agency works exclusively with clients who have truly special products and who realize it takes smart marketing to make their target audience fully appreciate why those products deserve their loyalty.

Our FORMULA

1. Work with smart clients who are good people

2. Give them a killer strategy.

3. Make it come to light with brilliant creativity.

4. Work hard, have fun, celebrate, repeat.

THE ESSENCE OF BRILLIANT BRANDING

Branding isn't about making people think you're the best at what you do.

It's about making people think you're the only one who does what you do.

- Jerry Garcia

OUR FOUNDER/CEO

JOHN POHL, chief elevator operator

John founded 14th Floor Solutions in 2007 following a highly successful four year stint as SVP Global Marketing & Strategic Planning at Hu-Friedy, where he was recruited to bring a new strategic and creative perspective that drove four straight years of record sales and profits.

He developed that perspective during a 25 year career in the consumer products industry, where he served as VP Marketing for Dial Corp (where he helped make Dial Soap the #1 bar soap in America), VP Marketing for Cobra Electronics (which he helped achieve significant profitability after seven years of red ink and become the #1 brand of radar detectors and two-way radios), and Director of Marketing for both Kellogg Company (where he helped make Frosted Flakes and Special K the industry's largest and fastest-growing brands, respectively) and the E. & J. Gallo Winery (where he helped make E&J the fastest-growing distilled spirit in industry history).

John's decision to found 14th Floor Solutions was rooted in his conviction that too many companies--and their agencies--fail to strategically differentiate their products and services from their competition, and then fail to market those products and services in ways that are compelling, concise and memorable.

Since 2007, 14th Floor Solutions has served over 40 amazing clients ranging from startups to multi-billion dollar international corporations.

John, who claims to be the world's most charming and handsome Chief Elevator Operator (as well as the only one), is a proud native of Bemidji, MN. He holds a secondary school degree from Phillips Exeter Academy, a BA in economics from Claremont McKenna College, and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.