About SoftStartUSA

At SoftStartUSA, our mission is to empower you with the knowledge to make smart buying decisions about innovative Soft Starters. We're dedicated to making your life easier and your experiences more enjoyable, whether at home or in the great outdoors.

We understand the challenges that both home and outdoor enthusiasts face and offer solutions to make their activities smoother. Our Soft Starters are designed for reliable performance and ease of use.

Our team of experts researches, reviews, and publishes in-depth video product reviews on the latest Soft Starters. We provide clear and easy-to-understand content from industry engineers and product experts, giving you the "how it works" information you need. Whether you prefer written articles, videos, or audio content, we've got you covered.

We're passionate about delivering reliable information and reviews you can trust and share. Our Soft Starters help you enjoy your home and outdoor experiences with confidence and ease. Join us on our journey to make living smarter and more enjoyable for everyone!

The Editor and Co-Founder – Doug Curtis:

Doug Curtis is the co-founder of SoftStartUSA. He developed SoftStartUSA because of his 10 years as VP of Marketing for the largest worldwide brand in the marine and RV industries.

Beginning in 2007, he launched the first of over 200 new products internationally, achieving 17 industry innovation & best product awards for four global brands. He knows the marketplace. As a product launch and lead generating solution marketer for B2B & B2C brands, he designs and manages digital marketing, content marketing,
advertising, and video services.

In fact, over the last several years Doug has:

• Invested and tested over $6,000,000 on marketing campaigns
• Generated tens of millions of dollars from products sales
• Sent well over a million permission-based emails
• Produced 811 weekly half-hour infomercials
• Created over 4,000 TV direct response spots & 200 videos

Doug is also a highly respected strategist, speaker, and consultant whose work has grown 6 international global brands’ businesses in over 100 different countries.

No Great American Novel Here

Seeking to write a great American novel, Doug’s life became a wonderful adventure story. Imagine journeying by bus, Land Rover, train, sailboat, powerboat, and single-engine plane from Guadalajara to Machu Picchu to Nairobi to Kealakekua.

Backpacking, tent camping, and van camping through 67 US state and national parks, and scaring himself by canoeing in an early October blizzard in the Grand Tetons. Kayaking 86 miles through the Sea of Cortez with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), and naively cross-country skiing into a herd of wild Buffalo in Wyoming.

Then realizing, after all those experiences that burning the candle at both ends and having bizarre conversations with many peculiar storytellers at more than 1,000 campfires failed to produce the next great American novel!

Like many dreamy adventurers, he planned to sail from Hawaii to Polynesia, but he hasn’t made it yet. Instead, he moved from Kona to Ft. Lauderdale to sail a 46’ Nova Scotia schooner from Bermuda to St. Barts. He survived a few scary winter storms at sea, but he’s thankful for encountering mostly sunny skies and smooth sailing.

After owning a few boats, Doug realized he needed a better boat, so he had to go back to work to earn a bucket of money. That path led to his wonderful wife and two kids, so it was clearly the right decision.

As Doug’s career journey progressed, he worked as a filmmaker, TV producer and direct-response TV marketer producing over 800 half-hour TV shows and thousands of commercials. He stretched his limited patience at advertising agencies, business start-ups and corporate consulting.

One of his consulting clients was Dometic Corporation, and he was invited to join this international consumer-products company. As the VP of Marketing, Doug enjoyed designing new product-launch strategies to engage RV and marine buyers and successfully earning the company 17 innovation and best product awards, year over year revenue increases and eventually taking the company public.

Doug is delighted that the internet has become the new TV. Several like-minded entrepreneurs encouraged him to leverage his RV knowledge and experience to publish and produce stories for NetworkRV.com. Making Smart Buyers Smarter is SoftStartUSA mission.

People who love the outdoor lifestyle continuously encounter challenges and search for answers to their problems. NetworkRV’s mission addresses these issues and provides great new product information and reviews to share with consumers, dealers and other bloggers.

In the coming year, Doug’s next outdoor adventure will be discovering new secret places for quiet thinking and extreme ocean kayak sailing.
In the meantime, he enjoys making new professional relationships, so contact him if you want to chat or discuss a project.

Managing Partner, Co-Editor & Co-Founder – Brian Gibson:

Brian consults, writes, publishes and teaches Marketing and Business Development to business and marketing executives in various industries through consulting, private seminars and public seminars.

He typically travels around 60,000 miles a year and he is in constant demand as a Consultant, Marketing Coach, Author and Speaker. He has a unique combination of simple, straightforward, high-impact techniques, that makes his material profitable, fresh, and easy to apply.

Brian’s Credits:

• He wrote the best selling book, “No Marketing Excuses”
• He wrote the national best-selling seminar and book, “Doing Business on the Internet”
• He wrote the best selling conference and book, “Creative Marketing”
• He wrote the popular seminar and book, “E-Commerce Essentials”
• He wrote the popular seminar and book, “How to Write a Successful E-Commerce Business Plan”
• He has toured and worked in over 96 countries, 13 cruise ships and 45 States from Alaska to Florida and Maine to Southern California
• He has appeared on Television in: London, Bangkok, Rio, & Caracas.
• Originally from England. Lives in Florida, USA.

A Partial List  Of Organizations That Have Benefited From Brian’s Expertise: DUPONT, EMBASSY SUITES, EPA, FBI, FEDEX, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, BF GOODRICH, GTE, HALLMARK CARDS, HARRAH’S RESORT & CASINO, HARRIS SEMICONDUCTOR, HITACHI, IBM, IRS, KELLY TEMPORARY SERVICES, KROGER, LENS CRAFTERS, LEVI STRAUSS, LIBERTY MUTUAL, LOCKHEED, MARRIOTT, MARTIN MARIETTA, MCI, MCCORMACK, MONSANTO CHEMICAL, NASA, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, NCR, NESTLE FOODS, PROCTOR & GAMBLE, PRUDENTIAL, JC PENNEY, QUAKER OATS, ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINE, RYDER TRUCK RENTAL, SANTELLI, STATE FARM, STENNIS SPACE CENTER, SUN BANK, TEXACO, TRAMMEL CROW, TREASURY DEPT, UNITED STATES CUSTOMS, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, UNIVERSITY OF OHIO, UPS LEASING, USPS, USA TODAY, WESTINGHOUSE, XEROX CORPORATION