About Our Business

Open Door Media was founded in 2015 with the goal to help businesses grow. At first this was through helping them get better results from their marketing, but quickly changed to more. Many businesses are missing elements in their strategic planning and sales team to get the biggest return on their marketing, so we now offer a suite of services to help businesses wherever they are in their journey.

Curious about what it is that we do? Check out our portfolio of past campaigns here.

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Founder

Ben Bowen - CEO & Founder

Ben is the Open Door Media CEO but will act as your business's fractional CMO.

Ben has 20 years of experience building businesses in multiple sectors. After a successful start to his career with Xerox Canada, Ben quickly ventured into entrepreneurship.

His first venture, Seaway Document Solutions Inc, which he purchased in 2002, grew 11x by the time it was acquired in 2013. He then co-founded a startup software company where he acted as CEO servicing the global shared workspace industry. After another successful exit, Ben started consulting for Canadian-based SaS firms. His main focus was developing the go-to-market strategy for recently funded companies.

Since 2016, Ben has continued consulting alongside his latest venture at Open Door Media which is a full-stack marketing and consulting firm focused on revenue growth strategies. His most rewarding time at work is spent working alongside entrepreneurs trying to grow their market share for the product or services they offer.

Outside of work, Ben’s passion is his family. Being a Dad is the best title he has ever achieved. He loves to stay active, get outside, read everything he can and cheer for his favourite sports teams (Leafs & Dolphins).

Kelsy Flewitt - Marketing Director

Once signed on with Open Door Media Kelsy will be your main point of contact. She will ensure campaigns are organized and executed successfully and on budget.

Kelsy has worked managing digital projects for the past 15 years since graduating with distinction from the Integrated Marketing Communications program at St. Lawrence College in 2007.

Being able to help businesses create a digital presence that matches their values and goals is her favourite part of working at Open Door Media.

Outside of work, odds are good you’ll find Kelsy horseback riding or pampering her cat and dog.

Ashley Gregory - Marketing Manager

Ashley oversees all campaigns and ensures digital marketing best practices are implemented, and that all ad campaigns are up to date with industry trends & changes.

Ashley has worked internationally in traditional and digital marketing for over 5 years, after graduating with a degree in Business & Marketing Management from the University of Staffordshire in the UK.

Her favorite part of her role here at Open Door Media is creating content that not only drives results but also resonates with your customers to create relationships, not just impressions.

Outside of work, you will find Ashley hanging out with her two Great Pyrenees dogs near Lake Simcoe, at a country music show, or binge watching Gilmore Girls (again).

Brock Walker - Graphic & Web Designer

Brock will be your go-to person for everything creative. From a new logo to YouTube ads and everything in between - he will use his design knowledge and best practices to help foster unique and cohesive branding across all elements of your business.

After graduating from the Interactive Media Design program at Algonquin College, he has worked in various different media related roles including video production, commercial print design, motion graphics, and web development for the past 5 years.

Brock has grown up being surrounded by small business’ and loves that he now has the ability at Open Door Media to utilize his broad range of skills in design to help them grow and directly see the results they are looking for.

Outside of work, Brock plays competitive fighting games and runs a YouTube channel dedicated to helping new players learn and develop their skills. He also loves music, and given the chance, could talk about his favourite bands for hours at a time.

Ben Bowen

CEO & Founder

Ben is the Open Door Media CEO but will act as your business's fractional CMO. Ben has 20 years of experience building businesses in multiple sectors. After a successful start to his career with Xerox Canada, Ben quickly ventured into entrepreneurship. His first venture, Seaway Document Solutions Inc, which he purchased in 2002, grew 11x by the time it was acquired in 2013. He then co-founded a startup software company where he acted as CEO servicing the global shared workspace industry. After another successful exit, Ben started consulting for Canadian-based SaS firms. His main focus was developing the go-to-market strategy for recently funded companies. Since 2016, Ben has continued consulting alongside his latest venture at Open Door Media which is a full-stack marketing and consulting firm focused on revenue growth strategies. His most rewarding time at work is spent working alongside entrepreneurs trying to grow their market share for the product or services they offer. Outside of work, Ben’s passion is his family. Being a Dad is the best title he has ever achieved. He loves to stay active, get outside, read everything he can and cheer for his favourite sports teams (Leafs & Dolphins).

Empathize

We'll start by in-depth discovery sessions & research period to understand what works for your product or service, and how to convince your audience to choose you.

Define

From there, we look at where your business' online presence is at, where it needs improvement, and what marketing strategies could help you grow.

Ideate

We handle every aspect of planning and creative ideation - so all you need to worry about is pleasing the prospects we send your way by turning them into customers!

Prototype

We execute original creative projects in house, based on thoroughly researched and targeted strategies.

Launch

We use data and results from the campaign, and apply it to our future marketing efforts.

Our Process

The 90 Day Plan is the core of our process. Every 90 days we research, create, launch, manage, and report on custom campaigns for each of our clients. We run the 90 Day Plans continuously to ensure there is no gap in service and that your messaging stays relevant and fresh.