What can Forward Progress do for you?

influencer marketing
digital marketing
social media marketing
websites and landing pages
coaching and training
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Investor Acquisition Marketing

At Forward Progress, we specialize in investor marketing, lead generation, and customer acquisition to help businesses secure the capital they need for growth.

Capital and revenue drive success—and with the right strategy, they fuel each other. That’s why we created The Rapid Launch Plan, a proven framework designed to cut through competitive markets and attract both accredited and non-accredited investors.

As a trusted partner, our team executes compliant investor acquisition campaigns under Reg CF, Reg A+, ILO, and Reg D, ensuring your fundraising efforts reach the right audience.

Our battle-tested strategies help businesses structure compelling offers, refine their market positioning, and implement acquisition strategies that drive sustained growth.

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Generate Leads | Grow Your Network | Build a Thriving Community

At Forward Progress, our Rapid Launch Plan is designed to accelerate your digital marketing success by defining clear objectives, identifying Trusted Agents, and pinpointing the ideal target audience. We create a strategic roadmap that includes content planning, resource allocation, and campaign execution to maximize your reach.

Once your digital marketing strategy is in place, we build and optimize essential assets:

✔ Social media platforms to expand brand awareness

✔ Landing pages to capture leads and drive conversions

✔ Content calendars for consistent engagement

✔ Website optimization & development for seamless user experience

Whether you’re launching a new product, service, or organization—or revitalizing an existing brand—our battle-tested strategies help businesses of all sizes compete in a digital landscape traditionally dominated by big-budget players.

Looking to execute your digital marketing campaign effectively? We provide expert consulting, coaching, and training to ensure success.

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Websites and Landing Pages

Convert Visitors Into Sales, eCommerce, Increase Brand Visibility

Rely on our professional design team to craft the perfect Website or Landing Page to promote your brand. All of our websites are built on a solid CMS (content management system) that not only are built to impress the end users but are also pleasantly easy to manage once handed over to you.

We include many features which our competitors charge as upgrades. Specifically, our standard features include sophisticated contact/lead forms, integration with popular list building systems such as Mail Chimp, SEO-optimized for Google, a powerful suite of plugins, and even integration with major CRM systems such as Salesforce.

Whether you are looking for a simple blog site or an enterprise level ecommerce site, Forward Progress has the package to fit your budget.

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Coaching and Training

Increase Sales, Generate Referrals, Build Culture, Increase Community

Forward Progress coaching uses a proven methodology and platform called Social Jack™ to guide busy leaders in applying their skills to achieve pre-defined business and personal results. Our micro-learning platform has live instruction, over 200 recorded classes, courses and live online coaching support. This proven system uses a unique Social Teaming methodology where the power comes from the students connections within their Social Network, the power of social reach and relationships. Our programs are results driven and the individual produces all of their objectives set at the beginning of each program.

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Who We Are

deandelisle Our Commitment
To provide you and your organization with the best opportunity to be known, be found and be first as a Thought Leader in your network and industry using the most relevant Digital Tools, Social Media and Human Relationships available.

– Dean DeLisle, Founder and CEO

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The Forward Progress Team has a proven track record in helping new or existing businesses use their best content and people to achieve the next level of online business success. For many, success comes in the way of using a campaign to launch a new product or service into their existing market place, and for others it’s penetrating a new market place. When you are ready to take your business online, we are your ideal partner.

Our goal is to help our clients gain greater visibility and credibility in a noisy digital world to get found first, then be known first in their industry.

Our Team

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Joe at Forward Progress
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Paula
Dean DeLisle – Founder / CEO
Andy Angelos
Joe Karns – Director of Technology and Product Innovation
Jackson DeLisle – Production Manager & Coach
Holly DeLisle – Senior Manager in Accounting and HR
Brett Balicki – Social Media and Production
Paula Ngo
Amanda Ponce – Project Management
As Founder and CEO of Forward Progress, Dean leads his core team to provide digital influencer marketing solutions, serving over 2,000 corporate clients for the past 15 years. In 2015 Dean created and released a Social “Team Based” Education platform known as Social Jack™, and they have successfully trained over 100,000 professionals on Social Selling and B2B Influencer Marketing. Their curriculum is used globally by Fortune 500 companies, Associations, Conferences and Universities to instill best practices related to the effective use of social networks. Dean enjoys time with his family, and yes, some of that family time is spent in the dōjō: Dean and his son are both 3rd degree black belts in Tae Kwon Do. He and his family also enjoy supporting community. "It's Kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney
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Joe is a serial entrepreneur leveraging over 12 years of web development and business experience to help clients achieve their goals and build their business.  In joining the Forward Progress team of professional visionaries Joe specializes in web development, online advertising, and search engine marketing.  Joe takes great pride in being a part of an exceptional team helping clients reach their sales and marketing goals.  In his free time Joe enjoys being outdoors, boating, and traveling.  Joe is an avid consumer of technology news and loves the newest gadgets. "Where there's a will, there's a way."
Jackson has been using social media marketing in business for over 6 years. He is a College student who shows great dedication to everything he does. As a third degree black belt and instructor in martial arts, he applies disciplinary skills in all of the work that he does. He has experience with marketing, social media, business development, coaching, teaching as well as speaking in front of audiences.
Holly A. DeLisle is the Senior Manager at Forward Progress in charge of all financial aspects of the company. Holly has been involved in accounting and customer service with two key companies over the last 20 years. She first started her role at Delcom Systems Group Inc. as an owner involved in accounting and customer service, and she managed 22 employees. In 2005 Holly made the move to Forward Progress to head up the accounting and human resource functions. She currently has set up the systems for the company that involves the following: Accounting, Invoicing, Accounts Payable, Benefit Analysis, Recruiting, Human Resoources, and Customer Service. She also coordinates all the key events for the company. She currently is also the PTA President for her sons Middle School in Indiana.
Brett has used social media throughout his life and is excited take it to the next step by using it for business. He studies at DePaul University as a hard-working and determined student. He also loves working with people and learning new things every day. On his free time, Brett can be found at a movie theater, playing tennis, or relaxing at the local coffee shop. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.”
Paula has been called lots of names in her career. Among her favorites...omnipresent, figure-it-outer, creative bootlegger, voice of reason...one might even call it her brand. Her penchant for writing (and debating) began at age 9, when she penned a letter objecting to a misleading newspaper advertisement. Today, she devotes her writing to content marketing, long form text messages, and the occasional haiku. She is based in Chicago, with a satellite office in Essaouira, Morocco. Between the two locations, she leads a global media relations team of two cats and two dogs, who delegate everything back to her. In her free time, Paula enjoys snacking, napping, and listening to music in dimly lit rooms. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Agatha Christie

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