About Us

Ted Bauer is Owner and Founder of BauerWerks Marketing Solutions.

BauerWerks provides businesses with a wide range of Marketing Design Services and specializes in creating and designing custom websites based on the Joomla platform which gives you the ability to edit your own website,edit text, post photograghs, pdf documents or even videos without having to purchase additional software or pay for extensive software training sessions. We can also help you with optimizing your new website for high visibility search engine rankings so customers can find you faster and more often than your competition.

In addition BauerWerks is able to offer a wide variety of other Marketing Solution Services:

Currently, Ted is working on a new book project on Strategic Sales Management.

Previous to founding BauerWerks Marketing Solutions, starting in mid 2005 until February of 2009 Ted Bauer was Vice President of Marketing and Business development for Dane Technologies Inc. and Levo USA, based in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, a major equipment manufacturer supplying the retail, healthcare, personal mobility and ergologistics (industrial material handling) industries worldwide.

Ted created new websites for both companies:
www.danetechnologies.com           and             www.levousa.com
                                 
Both ranked on page one of Google for their prospective keyword search phrases.

Ted's responsibilities at Dane Technologies, Inc. and Levo USA included but were not limited to:

From January 2004 to mid 2005 Ted was Director of Business Development, Marketing and Sales at Supervalu's Design Services Group (now named Supervalu Store Design Services - www.designservicesgroup.com ). DSG was one of the world's only true "full service" food market outfitter, recognized as one of the world's expert firms in food market design, a leading provider of over $125 million dollars of store equipment to the industry each year. They offered a comprehensive set of store building and support services ranging from architectural, engineering, interior and brand design, fixture planning, project management, plus energy and maintenance consulting.

While at Supervalu's Design Services Group Ted was also Editor in Chief of the "Experts" newsletter that was distributed to over 5000 of their target audience.

It was here where Ted founded the "NextStore" project, designed to be the ultimate performance retail supercenter, based on his experience and worldwide knowledge. This was formed around Ted's travels around the world and many years of research and the resulting "Innovations of the Year" presentations from his years at McCue Corporation combined with his newly acquired "best practices" and new building concepts from the world's most experienced experts in store design, architecture, engineering, refrigeration, interior design, energy efficiency and retail equipment.

From 1991 to December of 2004 Ted held a variety of positions with multiple responsibilities at McCue Corporation ( www.mccuecorp.com ).

McCue Corporation is a world leader in protective and decorative high impact bumper systems, floor railing systems, innovative child-centric shopping carts and shopping cart management systems designed for the retail industry.

As McCue Corporation grew, Ted served as Regional Sales Director, Vice President-Technical Coach, Director of Global Accounts and Director of National Accounts. He also opened the first divisional office for McCue in Saint Paul, Minnesota and managed the Minnesota Midwest office sales team, the fastest growing division of the company while under Ted's direction.

Sales increased at a record breaking pace, and McCue was ranked in INC Magazine's top 500 fastest growing privately held companies in the United States for two consecutive years.

While at McCue, Ted's responsibilities took him to many places around the world; nearly every state in the United States - coast to coast, across Canada, Mexico, The United Kingdom, Scotland, Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Brazil in South America.

Ted's travels brought him to meetings with national, international retailers and manufacturers around the world, working closely with the executive staffs designing solutions, researching and documenting his study of what they were doing to attract and keep new and existing customers. All of Ted's observations, along with many others were combined into a master presentation of retail innovations each year which Ted would personally present to high level management and ownership groups in meetings and conferences across the country as a guest or keynote speaker.

This experience and knowledge helped form the basis for the "NextStore" project that Ted founded years later.

Ted's earlier career was focused on commercial refrigeration and HVAC sales engineering, energy and maintenance.

As Zone Sales Manager for Friedrich Refrigeration, Ted drove sales in his Midwest territory from zero to over six million dollars in two years.

As corporate Refrigeration / HVAC Store operations manager for Red Owl Grocery and Snyder Drug Stores who, together, formed the 15th largest retailer in the United States at the time, with 4200 outlets and 26,000 employees in 39 states, Ted managed the "Refrigeration / HVAC & Energy Management Systems" store operations for all corporate and franchise stores. This position included supervision and dispatch of five corporate field service engineers for all emergency service within the Minneapolis / Saint Paul, MN metro area. Ted created, developed, organized and directed a highly successful preventive maintenance program for all corporate Red Owl Stores in the five -state Upper midwest area reducing emergency repair costs by 90% saving the company over one million dollars within the first year of implementation.