Best Version Media LLC
Brookfield
Industry: Print media
Founded: 2007
Projected 2017 revenue: Not disclosed
The best advice Dave Durand, president of Brookfield-based Best Version Media, has ever received is: “The key to success is doing what you don’t feel like doing.”
Best Version Media has certainly done that, maintaining a 380 percent growth rate for the past three years. Founded in 2007, the company started with five metropolitan Milwaukee publications and today has nearly 500 community-based publications, located in all 50 states and in Canada.
In 2016 alone, the company added 203 magazines and increased readership levels by more than 1.5 million.
Best Version Media has continued to develop and implement new programs to enhance efficiency and productivity within its current markets, but also continues to invest heavily in research and development that will enhance product offerings to existing clients.
While onboarding at the pace of growth has been a challenge for the company, it still plans to continue to add new markets and products in the coming years.
Where is the opportunity?
“Domestically. We have international plans, but the domestic growth is tremendous. We also see growth with existing clients (advertisers) by offering new opportunities for them to reach local markets.”
