Our values

People are pushed by drives but pulled by values.

Viktor Frankl

The Will To Meaning

Truth

Everything we do requires a commitment to truth.
We are data-driven marketers and data is truth.
If something isn’t working, we tell the client.
If we make a mistake, we own it.
If we disagree, we say so.

If we don’t know the answer, we admit it readily...and then figure it out!
Truth is the first and most important step to solving any problem.
Truth is the foundational value of our company.

Responsibility

By being proactive we influence the world in a way that only responsible people can.
Responsibility requires us to constantly look for opportunities to go further.
We don’t try to get out of work, we lean into it.

We are constantly asking ourselves:
How do we help each other?
How do we give more?
How do we do more?

Heart

We care. We care about our clients.
We care about our teammates.
We care about the world around us.
People rely on us to do what’s best for them.
Helping people grow their business is a sacred trust.
The only way to honor that trust is to treat their businesses as our own.

The team behind the scenes

We are a group of hard-core problem solving, custom code hacking, status-quo bucking, out-of the-box thinking, genius digital gangsters breaking out the creative solutions with a vengeance and the passion of a thousand suns (covered in Tabasco sauce)…

Kasim Aslam

Digital Ninja

Patience Hurlburt-Lawton

Director of Content

Project manager

Content Writer

Account Manager

Controller

Account manager

Content Writer

Social Media Manager

Content Writer

Front End Web Dev. & Designer

Stephen Hutson

Special Initiatives

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Kasim Aslam

Digital Ninja

Kasim Aslam is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Solutions 8. Kasim’s background is in custom application architecture and development with over ten years of experience in software engineering. He has built custom web and software applications for organizations in a myriad of sectors such as:

The banking industry including the largest privately owned bank in the United States
The healthcare industry including the oldest TPA in the Country
The non-profit industry having acted as a consultant for a branch of The Gate’s Foundation

Kasim has been a technology spokesperson for Intel and has worked on a contract basis for the United States Army. He has been published across multiple networks including CRM Magazine, Search Engine Journal, Social Media Today, Emergent Path and Explore B2B. Kasim has lectured on the topics of Search Engine Optimization, Marketing Automation and Digital Marketing and has served as a guest speaker alongside Mavenlink CEO Ray Grainger on project management for small businesses. He presently serves on the board of two non-profit organizations:

Arts Interface, an organization dedicated to bringing arts education to children in developing nations.
Boys Hope Girls Hope, an organization whose mission is to help academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential by providing value-centered, family-like homes, opportunities and education through college.

Kasim is on the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Advisory Council as well as the Public Policy Advisory Council. He enjoys traveling with his wife, reading, playing basketball (he isn’t any good) and writing thinly veiled, narcissistic lists of his feeble accomplishments.

Patience Hurlburt-Lawton

Director of Content

Patience is Solution 8’s resident writer and lover of all things creative. After graduating from Champlain College with a bachelor’s degree in professional writing, Patience worked as a project manager and copywriter while simultaneously hiking her way across the country. She embraces any challenge with an adventurous outlook and loves the learning process of working with diverse projects.

Aside from content writing, Patience is a dedicated singer/songwriter from Vermont who can often be found with her guitar in hand. Currently residing in Flagstaff, Arizona, she is happiest when she is outside, active, traveling, with her family, or with animals—especially her trusty German shepherd mutt, Jackson.

John Moran

Project Manager

Born and raised in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. In 2005, John was VP of The Selmor Group, LLC. This company specialized in generating repeat and referral business primarily in the private Automotive sector. Mr. Moran’s contributing role was in B2B sales and training & implementation of industry best practices for small to medium communication centers which provide the main service to his clients. In 2008, After great success with The Selmor Group, John became VP of Selmor On Demand, INC. Selmor On Demand, was a next generation automotive sales & consulting company utilizing E-Mail Marketing, Direct Mail Events, PURL’s, Staffed Events and saturation marketing. A few of Mr. Moran’s clients included Ford, BMW, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and MINI. The contributing factor to this success, came from the continued growth and development of hundreds of scripts utilizing key words and phrases that motivate consumers to take action to generate appointments and commitments.

In 2012, Mr. Moran created his own company which developed a mobile interactive video Platform. This new and exiting application provides an interactive mobile video marketing tool that communicated relevant and personalized videos from small to medium business owners directly to their customers mobile phone. The TYV Group App not only helped to generate new, repeat and referral business for their clients, but also helped solve the miscommunication that arise in many sales transactions. As Managing Member, Mr. Moran brings great talents in IP development, user interface and client relations.

Kirsten

Content Writer

Kirsten is a Solutions 8 content writer living in Beacon, New York, a “little Brooklyn in the mountains” about 60 miles north of Manhattan. Since 2014, she has produced and edited content for more than 15 health and lifestyle publications. She also published a craft book in May 2014, an accomplishment that she refers to as her “book baby.” And while her specialties lie within DIY, food, and wellness, Kirsten is always open to new writing challenges.

Thanks to her educational background in nutrition, she has a soft spot for transforming technical information (like the mechanisms of dietary fiber) into readable content (like how bananas are good for you). When she’s not writing in her quaint studio apartment, you can find her breaking a sweat at spin class, wandering local shops, and exploring the Hudson Valley.

Jan Whitson

Controller

From the first time I met with Kasim and John, I knew that I had found my personal “niche market” and I am so delighted to be a cog in the Solutions 8 wheel. I was born and raised in Indiana, attended Indiana State University and Indiana University, and met and married the love of my life. Although I majored in English and Speech, I fell into accounting very early in my working years and it has become something I really enjoy. We moved to Arizona 20 years ago and my husband Doug and I owned our own small business and convinced our wonderful son, Shawn, to join us in our endeavor.

We recently sold the business, and I am grateful for the experience, but happy to have the opportunity to use my accounting experience with a new and very special team – go Solutions 8! I love to cook and we enjoy hiking, attending our local star gazing club and reading. Kasim’s book is next on my reading list.

Ivan Bunin

account manager

Ivan Bunin is Solution’s 8 Personal Assistant who covers small things which impact the great results. His broad set of skills gained during his work in design and marketing studios, e-commerce businesses and personal assistant role give him the ability to find a Solution to almost any ongoing questions.

Karla Socci Somers

Content Writer

Writer, graphic designer, and dog-lover, Karla Socci Somers is a native New Yorker who traded in her downhill skis for flip-flops when she relocated to Atlanta in 2003. Since then, she has survived the 100-year flood, the “Snow-pocalypse” – the worst ice storm ever to hit the South, and most recently, the biggest hurricane on record. Before moving to Georgia, Karla lived in one of the top five snowiest cities on the planet, where 125 inches of snow was “just an average” winter.

Karla enjoys writing about everything from relationships to home improvement to holistic healthcare. She loves creating logos for new businesses and marketing their products and services through writing and design.

When she’s not writing, you can find Karla peddling jars of Socci Sauce: her family’s secret recipe, homemade Italian pasta sauce. Because nobody should have to eat store-bought sauce.

Pamela Sapio

Content Writer

A Yankee by birth and a southerner by fate, Pamela dreams of one day owning a tiny home in the Pacific Northwest—or, more realistically, a tiny-ish home big enough for her two boxer mixes, Loki and Renly. A writer, editor, poet, children’s book author and dreamer of dreams, she has a B.A. in English and has been writing professionally for nearly two decades. When she’s not writing you can find Pamela hiking with her pups, traveling, snowboarding, reading and, let’s be honest—shopping at Target or PetSmart. Her ultimate goal is to visit all 59 national parks in the United States.

Stephen Hutson

Special Initiatives

Stephen is known around the office as the design guy.

This stems from an obsession with high quality and intentional design, which he believes has the power change the world and does so on a regular basis. He’s unofficially the fastest person to complete all 9 Digital Marketer Certifications, and when he’s not using that knowledge to create killer funnels for Solutions 8 clients, he’s critiquing websites, listening to podcasts, drinking coffee, and reading “7 Critical Principles of Digital Marketing” #shamelessplug

The creative arts found Stephen early in life. He was musically trained throughout childhood and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Percussion Performance from ASU. He’s performed as a soloist for thousands of people and frequently performs with groups, shows, and recording artists. This musical training directly strengthens his digital marketing ability, enabling him to recognize patterns quickly and function highly under pressure. His ability to see the bigger picture and design a system that fits together makes him invaluable to his clients, and incredibly annoying to his co-workers, even if it’s just because he can’t stop talking about it. He brings critical thinking, cohesive design, and light-hearted gifs to every project he works on.

Hobbies Percussion/music performance, web design, yoga, coffee, binge-watching America’s Got Talent on Youtube.

Danish Ashrafi

Front End Web Dev. & Designer

Danish is a Front End Web Developer & Graphic Designer. His previous work experiences have enabled him to gain a broad and diverse understanding of the mindset and skills needed to succeed as a Front-end developer and graphic designer.

These skills, combined with his ability to adapt to a wide variety of circumstances and to manage many responsibilities while nurturing necessary lines of communication with others, He has over five years of experience designing & developing websites for various agencies. His credentials compliment the fact that he’s very well versed in different sectors of design and development websites.

Natalie McCatty

Social Media Manager

Natalie McCatty is Solutions 8’s Director of Content, ghost writer, language lover, and grammar fiend. She has enjoyed being a part of the Sol 8 team since its early days and has since learned a lot about what it takes to write content that is loved by the search engines and internet users alike. She has contributed to numerous top-ranked blogs, including Search Engine Journal, Entrepreneur.com, KillerStartups, SiteProNews, and HomeAdvisor. Prior to coming to Sol 8, Natalie was the brand manager and marketing coordinator at Colorado State University, where she enjoyed her role as “logo cop” (despite never receiving an official badge, though she requested one many times). Besides leading Sol 8’s content initiative, Natalie enjoys crafting, gardening, impromptu dance parties with her husband and 2-year old son, and writing about herself in the third person.

Elisabeth Wachter

ACCOUNT MANAGER

Elisabeth is Digital Marketing Enthusiast and loves helping clients to bring their products in front of the right audience at the right time. After graduating with an M.A. in Sociology and Slavistics and working in the i-gaming industry, she kept constantly educating herself and found her true passion in digital marketing.

She thinks that the best part about online marketing is the ability to learn and study on your own from home, and focus on the parts which fit your field of interest and to be able to actually test them in real life projects.

As Account Manager, she works hard to keep our Solutions 8 clients happy, which means a typical day might involve any number of account-related tasks to ensure our clients’ needs are met—from creating custom email marketing strategies and building consumer avatars to more technical projects like connecting lead magnets with email sequences, verifying domains, creating pop-ups, and building landing pages.

Her passion in marketing is the opportunity to learn from connecting sales strategies with real-world business tactics.

Our values

Truth

Responsibility

Heart

The team behind the scenes

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Our values

Truth

Responsibility

Heart

The team behind the scenes

Kasim Aslam

Digital Ninja

Patience Hurlburt-Lawton

Director of Content

John Moran

Project Manager

Kirsten

Content Writer

Jan Whitson

Controller

Ivan Bunin

account manager

Karla Socci Somers

Content Writer

Pamela Sapio

Content Writer

Stephen Hutson

Special Initiatives

Danish Ashrafi

Front End Web Dev. & Designer

Natalie McCatty

Social Media Manager

Elisabeth Wachter

ACCOUNT MANAGER

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