08/24/2026
They didn’t wait for a fading business to die… they used its revenue, profit, and best people to build what came next.
Tomorrow (Tuesday the 25th) at 2:20 PM EST, I’m sitting down with Marc Hawk , former CEO of RevLocal, for a live interview inside the Expert Edge Profit, Time, Impact Mastermind.
Marc’s path wasn’t a straight line. Notre Dame accounting grad. Big firm. Banking. Then in 2004 his brother pulled him into Copper.net, a dial-up ISP that grew to nearly 70,000 clients nationwide out of Mount Vernon, Ohio, competing against the early giants of the internet. As dial-up began fading, they kept it running while using its revenue, profit, and key leaders to launch a scrappy startup on the side.
RevLocal, launched in fall 2010 as a local SEO company. It grew into a full-service digital marketing agency serving clients nationwide, a nearly $60 million company, with a successful acquisition, two years ago this month.
I know this story from the inside as RevLocal was a coaching client of mine, when the offer came, I came in-house back in March 2012. Marc was my leader for years and to this day, remains a dear friend.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord” (Colossians 3:23). Marc has lived that verse through banking, dial-up internet, and building a company most people never thought would scale past Ohio.
Here’s some of what you’ll walk away with tomorrow:
Accelerate Profits: How they used a fading dial-up business to fund and staff RevLocal from day one, so it launched with revenue and leadership already behind it instead of starting from zero.
Reclaim Time: How they ran two businesses at once, one declining and one a startup, without either one collapsing, and what that discipline looked like day to day.
Amplify Impact: Why Marc, as the leader who drove results and ran the executive team, built a nearly $60M company around growing people first, and how helping his team become the best version of themselves ended up being the actual engine behind everything else.
You may not get another shot to hear this story live.
DM “MASTERMIND” and I’ll send you the livestream link before we go on at 2:20 EST tomorrow.