Bob Graham brings more than three decades of professional writing, editing, marketing and teaching experience to SpearPoint.

He has helped a number of small businesses with their marketing, sales and communications.

Using his POWER Process and through his publishing house, he has helped a number of authors, including:

• Brendan McAdams, author of Sales Craft

• Joseph C. Conroy, author of Decades & Decisions: Financial Planning at Any Age.

Bob has written:

• 55 Soft Skills to Rule the World (2024)

• Writing With POWER: Taking Your Book from Dream to Done (2024)

• Alignable Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for Small Business Success (2023)

• The Renegade Way (2021)

• He also co-authored The 55 Soft Skills That Guide Employee and Organizational Success (2017) and

• The Insider's Guide to Baltimore (1998).

After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication with a focus on Journalism, Bob began his career writing up to 20 articles a week for newspapers.

Later, he freelanced for magazines, wrote several speeches for a governor and other state and local officials, prepared seminars and workshops for business leaders, and crafted numerous marketing messages, from press releases to annual reports.

He also earned a Master's degree in Communications with a focus on Journalism and Public Affairs from The American University in Washington, D.C.

He has taught English, Composition, Journalism, Communications and Marketing classes to high school, undergraduate and graduate students at various schools in the Baltimore, Maryland area, including Towson University, Goucher College and Johns Hopkins University.

He founded Bigger Pie Strategies LLC in 2010, where he provided marketing services, especially website design and development oversight, to more than 80 small businesses, including a company courted by Apple and a company that quadrupled profits without adding staff after Bob took their sales process online.

As a business coach, Bob has helped hundreds of businesses with marketing, leadership and ownership. Among my clients are an insurance brokerage that sold for 12 times its annual revenue, an entrepreneur who started three multi-million dollar businesses in four years and a regional pain management practice with eight locations in the Mid-Atlantic.

He has spoken about soft skills, marketing, sales, communication, leadership and other topics to a wide range of national, regional and local organizations, including the National Hardwood Lumber Association, The Future Business Leaders of America, Towson University, Johns Hopkins University, the Women in Insurance, The Project Management Institute and McCormick & Co.