
Creative Marketing Speaker & Educator
Brent Herrig speaks on how modern brands actually grow visibility and revenue at the intersection of visual craft, local search, and AI-assisted systems.
His sessions are grounded in real commercial work. Restaurant shoots. Local business marketing. Global brand campaigns. Ongoing experimentation with AI ranking, AEO, and geographic visibility.
From university guest lectures to local business groups and monthly teaching inside AI-focused communities, Brent helps audiences understand how visuals, search, and systems connect in the real world.
No theory loops. No surface-level tactics. Just usable frameworks.

Keynote Topics & Workshops
Local Visibility Systems for Restaurants & Small Businesses
How local SEO, GEO signals, and AEO actually work together today.
This session focuses on:
How Google Business Profiles, local pages, and entity signals work as a system
The role of visuals in local ranking and conversion
How AI-powered search changes what “ranking” really means
What restaurants and service businesses should prioritize now

Commercial Photography That Drives Action
How restaurant and hospitality visuals support search, conversion, and brand trust.
This session focuses on:
What makes food, cocktail, and interior photography work commercially
How photography impacts local SEO, listings, and click-through behavior
Planning shoots that support menus, websites, Google profiles, and social
Avoiding one-off visuals that do not scale

Visual Systems for Scale
How to plan and capture visual assets so one shoot supports many channels, platforms, and markets.
This session focuses on:
Asset planning before the shoot, not after
Building visual libraries that scale across web, social, paid media, and local listings
Structuring content so teams stop reshooting the same things
Hybrid Creative Workflows
How to integrate AI into commercial creative workflows without losing quality or brand integrity.
This session focuses on:
Craft-first thinking with AI used as an extension, not a replacement
AI-assisted previsualization and concept alignment
Still-to-variation and still-to-motion workflows
Where AI adds speed and where it does not belong
Additional Sessions Available
Shorter talks and focused workshops tailored to specific audiences:
Google Business Profile strategy and optimization
AEO and AI visibility fundamentals for modern search
Lighting foundations for commercial food and hospitality photography
Content planning for small teams with limited time and budget
Often delivered to universities, BNI-style business groups, and in-house teams.
Trusted Educational Partner
Universities, communities, and business groups. Guest lectures, workshops, and ongoing monthly sessions across academic, professional, and small business environments.


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Brent works with universities, hospitality groups, creative teams, and business communities to deliver sessions that match the room and the real problems being solved.
Every engagement is tailored. No recycled decks. No generic advice.
Recommended Resource (Affiliate)
Learn to Rank with AI
Strategic insights into modern search and AI visibility.
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