Richard Hazlett is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and paid ads expert with three decades of experience spanning the traditional agency world and the digital marketing frontier.
Before founding Fast Forward Marketing LLC in 2010, Richard spent 14 years in the ad agency world working with a wide range of businesses from real estate development to Fortune 500 companies. That foundation in brand management, strategic planning, advertising production, and direct response gave him a perspective most digital marketers never develop — the creativity and discipline of traditional advertising combined with the agility of the online world.
In 2007, Richard and his wife Natasha began building their first online business working nights and weekends while holding full-time positions in their professional careers. What started as a strong desire to build something of their own became the foundation for multiple seven-figure revenue milestones and a body of work that has quietly shaped the online marketing industry in ways most people don’t realize.
Among the highlights:
Natasha and Richard architected the Challenge Funnel strategy that became one of the most widely adopted marketing frameworks in the digital marketing world. Natasha wrote the chapter on Challenge Funnels in Russell Brunson’s bestselling book DotCom Secrets and was invited to speak on the subject at Funnel Hacking Live. In his introduction the day Natasha spoke, Russell Brunson stated:
“So because Natasha gave me that one idea… that one funnel… the last 6 weeks in ClickFunnels we had more growth per week — because of the One Funnel Away Challenge — than we have had in the last 2 years.”
You can hear it from Russell himself below…
In 2017, Fast Forward Marketing launched Unstoppable Influence, a brand dedicated to empowering women — anchored by Natasha’s bestselling book of the same name and a platform that has changed thousands of lives.
Richard and Natasha have earned two ClickFunnels Two Comma Club Awards for two separate marketing funnels, generated over 100,000 leads online, and helped clients ranging from solo entrepreneurs to established professional practices build and scale their businesses. Among their most notable client results — helping nutrition coach Cristy Code Red Nickel go from $30,000 a year to over $10 million in online revenue.
Hear Cristy tell her story in her own words:
Richard is also the co-founder of Our Gathering Table, a women’s friendship community led by Natasha that grew organically to thousands of members across multiple states and internationally before becoming Gathering Table Ministries, a registered nonprofit based in Franklin, TN and serving more than 3,000 women in Middle Tennessee. Richard serves on its board.
Richard and Natasha both grew up in Memphis and live in Franklin, TN. They are the proud parents of three young children — a daughter and twin boys.