Timothy Ruffner
Marketer · Content Creator · Author & Publisher · Maker
📘 Read Tim's book →Marketer with maker's hands.
Timothy Ruffner LLC sits at an unusual intersection: a marketing and content brain built on two decades of hands-on selling. I started out as owner of Brogans Engraving and Sportswear in Gurnee, IL, then spent nearly 20 years in sales and business development across the 3D printing industry.
Along the way I was part of BigRep's North American team when the company went public, worked for Dynamism — one of the leading 3D printer resellers — leading enterprise sales, and helped grow companies like GPI Prototype, Desktop Metal and Concept Laser — several of them through IPOs and acquisitions. And I've always had my own shop: first engraving and sportswear, now 3D printing, including a DLP resin printer I built myself.
That mix of enterprise sales and shop ownership is how I think about marketing: build content people actually want to watch, then back it up with physical pieces that close the loop in the real world. I'm now a publisher too, with two books out and a third in the works. I wrote my approach down in Print It, Price It, Sell It.
