Heather Jagels — Digital Marketing & Brand Strategy

Most consultants give you a strategy.
Heather gives you the whole picture.

Because she's lived in every part of it — national television, the boardroom, the mat, and the streets of East Tennessee. What she builds for your business is grounded in two decades of doing the real work.

Former VP · HGTV & DIY Network Digital Marketing Strategist East Tennessee · Since 2017

She didn't just study marketing.
She ran it — at the highest level.

Heather Jagels spent fifteen years at Scripps Networks Interactive, rising to Vice President of Creative Services for HGTV and DIY Network — two of America's most-watched cable networks. She led the creative teams behind launch campaigns for Property Brothers, Rehab Addict, and The Vanilla Ice Project. She earned Promax/BDA Awards, a WICT Rising Star Award, and a Chairman's Award for the work her teams produced.

Then she came home to the Smoky Mountains. She opened Mountain Zen Yoga Studio, built a boutique marketing consultancy, and launched Lantern Society — a civic journalism publication covering East Tennessee. She didn't trade one career for another. She brought everything she knew into every room she walked into.

She holds a Master's degree in Business from the University of Tennessee and is a 200-hour ERYT yoga instructor with ongoing training at Asheville Yoga Center. The throughline across all of it: intention. Strategic, human, and deeply rooted in place.

2004 – 2013 Scripps Networks Interactive — HGTV & DIY Network Rose from strategy coordinator to VP of Creative Services. Led campaigns for Property Brothers, Rehab Addict, The Vanilla Ice Project, and HGTV Star. Promax/BDA Award winner. WICT Rising Star 2010. Chairman's Award recipient.
2017 Returned to East Tennessee — began teaching yoga Started Mountain Zen Yoga Studio, a mobile yoga practice serving the Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and Sevierville area. Formally opened in 2018.
Present Boutique Digital Marketing Consultancy Full-service digital marketing partner to a carefully selected roster of regional and national clients. Every client receives a dedicated, proprietary AI content tool built and maintained exclusively for their brand.

Every client gets their own AI.
Built by Heather. Reviewed by Heather. Every single time.

Most agencies use the same tools for every client. Heather doesn't. Every client on her roster receives a dedicated, proprietary AI content tool — built from scratch, trained exclusively on their brand voice, their audience data, their content history, and their competitive landscape. It is updated continuously. It belongs to no one else.

But the tool is infrastructure, not the final word. Every piece of content — every caption, every post, every response — is read, edited, and approved by Heather before it ever touches a platform. No automated posting. No unreviewed output. The AI handles volume and consistency. Heather handles truth, tone, and authenticity. Nothing goes live without a human making the final call.

That's not a limitation of the technology. That's the whole philosophy.

Proprietary Methodology

One brand. One tool. One human who reads every word.

Every client AI is built from zero — trained on that client's voice, audience, competitive set, and content performance history. No two clients share a tool. No tool is reused. And no output from any tool goes live without Heather sitting with it, editing it, and deciding it's ready. The AI generates. Heather publishes. Every time.

"The goal isn't more posts. It's content specific enough that when someone reads it, they believe a sharp human noticed something — not that a machine generated it."

Five industries. One standard.

Heather's current client roster spans roofing, luxury beauty, tourism, and the bridal industry — regional businesses and national platforms alike. Each one receives the same level of strategic depth, execution rigor, and dedicated AI infrastructure.

95.7% Google Ads optimization score — rated Excellent
+49% Click growth on only +29% additional spend
25K+ Organic views in 30 days — 51% non-followers, zero ad spend
171+ Consecutive weeks of uninterrupted posting — Aurora Bridal
Roofing & Contracting Pinpoint Roofing LLC Knoxville, Tennessee

Family-owned residential and commercial roofing contractor. Heather serves as their entire marketing department — no internal marketing staff. Full-service management across Google Ads, Google Business Profile, Instagram, and Facebook.

Google Ads optimization score: 95.7% — rated Excellent +49% monthly clicks on only +29% additional ad spend 4.9 stars · 118 Google reviews · 686 monthly profile interactions Dedicated proprietary AI content tool — exclusively theirs
Luxury Beauty Belleza Salon & Spa Knoxville, Tennessee

32-year-old luxury salon with two Knoxville locations. Before Heather, their feed was before-and-after imagery with no content strategy. She developed the audience insight and posting strategy that helped Belleza understand what their clients actually wanted to hear — shifting from results-only content to process-driven storytelling that builds trust and drives bookings.

25,348 total views in 30 days — zero paid spend 51% of reach from non-followers — active organic discovery Single Mother's Day reel: 7,800 views, majority non-followers Dedicated proprietary AI content tool — exclusively theirs
Tourism & Food Tennessee Jed's Craft Sandwiches Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Scratch-made sandwich shop on the Parkway in one of the most competitive tourist corridors in the Southeast. Heather manages everything from content strategy to customer communications to Squarespace website maintenance.

Ranked #4 of 149 restaurants in Gatlinburg on Tripadvisor 3,000+ reviews across platforms · 4.8-star Google rating Voted Best Sandwiches in Gatlinburg Dedicated proprietary AI content tool — exclusively theirs
Bridal Industry BridalBoutiques.us & Aurora Bridal National Platform + Melbourne, Florida

BridalBoutiques.us is a national discovery platform representing 700+ independent bridal boutiques across the US and Canada. Heather serves as content strategist and consultant — producing editorial social content for the platform and directly managing Aurora Bridal, its flagship account in Melbourne, Florida.

171+ consecutive weeks of uninterrupted Instagram posting — Aurora Bridal 700+ boutiques represented across the national platform SAIO-optimized for AI search discovery by city and state Dedicated proprietary AI content tool — exclusively theirs

Full-service or fractional.
Always strategic.

Heather works with a small, carefully selected roster of clients. She does not take on accounts she cannot serve at the highest level. Every engagement is built around your specific business goals — not a package.

Google Ads Management Performance Max campaigns, budget optimization, monthly reporting, and strategic guidance. Rated Excellent — 95.7% optimization score across active accounts.
Social Media Strategy & Content Full content calendar management across Instagram and Facebook. Caption writing, reel strategy, hashtag architecture, alt text, and posting cadence — built for organic reach.
Google Business Profile Post scheduling, photo strategy, review response, listing optimization, and monthly performance tracking. Your GBP is often your first impression — it should be managed like one.
Brand Voice Development Built from the ground up for clients who don't yet have one — or rebuilt for clients whose current voice no longer reflects who they are. Story-driven, audience-specific, never templated.
Website Copywriting & Management Squarespace copy, page optimization, menu and content updates, and ongoing maintenance. Your website should work as hard as everything else does.
Proprietary AI Content Infrastructure Every client receives a dedicated AI tool — built from scratch, trained exclusively on their brand, and updated continuously. No shared tools. No automated posting. Every output is reviewed, edited, and approved by Heather before it goes anywhere near a platform.

Ready to work with someone who has done the real work?

Heather takes on a limited number of new clients each year. If you're serious about your brand, reach out directly.

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