We have never spent much time inside the box. Our incredible success has been based on sound business decisions, strong evidentiary support, a powerful work ethic, and the drive to stay outside the box. We choose the bold approach to stand out amidst the clutter and make markets take notice. Join us to see the light.
We provide in-house marketing and communications services based on a team approach management style. Our business philosophy combines enthusiasm with high professional standards.
We are committed to providing our clients with the highest level of strategic marketing and creative services, both on time and on budget. Our portfolio focuses on the resort, hospitality, travel, tourism, media, entertainment, health, and fitness industries, with an emphasis on residential real estate development projects.
POWER OUTLET.
Forte has developed and managed successful sales teams in the areas of hospitality, broadcast, and entertainment, with a dedicated focus on high-end residential real estate. We understand niche markets and what makes them answer the call to action.
We strike up conversations that transform into lasting relationships. These days, that’s rarefied air execution. We are lead generation junkies. We believe in people first. After all, sales conversion is all about discovering the individual personality. We focus on the “why.” It’s poetry in motion when we make it happen.
PEOPLE POWER.
Identifying with the art form that is the creative process, we understand how it works as a strategic partner of an organization’s overall business model. We do not create for creative sake. We create and design for success. For impact. For the long-term.
We provide our creative and design services in-house, directed by a Lead Designer, who is the cream of the crop. The client benefit is that we control the creative process from concept to application. We perform within budgets and critical time paths, and our creative work product is spot-on.
INSPIRATION POWER.
At Forte, we believe that you should live life through all five of your senses, 100% of the time. We feel that to be happy and successful in your own way, you need to have some guiding principles that you follow along your journey. The following is a collection of ours. They’re simple, resolute, and centered on finding the time to enjoy the little things that make the big difference. Bravo little things.
In partnership with our clients, we utilize the POWER of collaborative strategic planning and creative problem solving to position brands and organizations with a singular focus: to attain desired results and exceed expectations. Our success is based on our clients’ success. We’re Oz behind the curtain.
POWER TO MAGIC.
General Marketing/Communications/Professional
Forte’s Principals have provided professional marketing, communications, sales, and design programs for local, regional, national, and international accounts and projects.
Forte is an effective marketing communications partner with depth rarely found within an organization of our size. Based on industry research, along with client objectives and goals, we combine state-of-the-art creative technologies and an old-fashioned work ethic to develop results-oriented and innovative communications programs.
We pride ourselves on our long-term track record of success with clients and our ongoing relationships with them.
PARTNERSHIP POWER.
Hospitality/Resort/Travel & Tourism
Forte has envisioned and established new paradigms in hospitality, resort, travel, and tourism projects from the corner of Main and Main to far-flung destinations globally.
Wow branding. Targeted positioning. Timeless design. Creative campaigns. Dynamic communications. Innovative programming. Personal outreach.
POWER OF PLANNING.
Real Estate Development/Resort Real Estate
We have always kept a steady focus on providing our services for iconic residential and resort real estate development projects. In fact, over 80% of our historical portfolio has been focused on high-end, amenity-rich, real estate development/resort real estate projects.
Over the past 30 years, the Partners in Forte have served as the marketing, communications, sales, and design support partner for over $4.9 billion in real estate transactions for our clients and their projects worldwide. Our professional services to the development sector also include master planning, conceptual designs, market research, financial inventory management, bulk sales programs, and operational development and implementation.
With involved real estate development experiences, we have come to intimately understand what it takes to work with projects through the conceptual stages, entitlement process, pre-sales campaigns, and development and implementation of ongoing marketing and sales support programs. We understand the industry and how to position projects and the sought-after lifestyle they offer to the narrowcast markets they are attempting to reach.
KNOWLEDGE POWER.
When it comes to philanthropy and giving back, Forte’s leadership group is “all-in.” Community service is not an elective decision at Forte. It’s mandatory. Founder, R.J. Gallagher, Jr. has penned a column for The Aspen Times, entitled "Philantopia." The initiative of the column was to spread the word about those who make a difference and the difference they make. Fortunately, "Philantopia" will never run out of great stories to share about great people.
COMMUNITY POWER.
Forte loves the company it keeps.
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R.J. is the Managing Partner and Founding Partner for Forte. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Forte and its overall performance.
Prior to Forte, R.J. was the Founder and President of Gallagher Sharp West (GSW) in Aspen, Colorado, from 1991 until 2009, when GSW became Forte. GSW was a pioneering organization, implementing successful marketing, communications, sales, and design programs for high-end real estate projects and select clients in the resort, entertainment, hospitality, and travel industries. During that time, GSW provided services for some of the finest projects throughout the United States and Mexico, generating over $5 billion in sales revenues. GSW also provided services within the entertainment, resort, luxury hospitality, and professional sports franchise industries on a global level.
Before GSW, R.J. worked in the broadcast industry as the General Manager of progressive and award-winning radio and television stations, which were eventually sold to a major North American cable company. In addition to his broadcast background, R.J. served as the Vice President of Marketing and Operations for Newfield Enterprises International, a developer and owner of fine hotels, resorts, and residential developments worldwide, including several Ritz-Carlton Hotels in New York, Houston, Washington, D.C., and Aspen. R.J. was also the Founder and a Board Member of a startup commuter airline that served the Aspen market from Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and Denver.
R.J. has served on a variety of Boards, including the Aspen Community Foundation and the Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club. R.J. attended the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Finance. R.J. has been a licensed Colorado Broker Associate since 1987.
In today’s new world order, what matters is what one has done lately. As in right now. We believe that our best efforts and results are yet to come and that there’s only one standard worth pursuing… the highest. The future is bright, but it will not be the future of our past. We are ready when you are.
POWER TO THE MOVEMENT.
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