Brief Biography of Tyler Rice

Tyler Rice is the founder and CEO of Animas Marketing, located in Durango, Colorado. Born in Cumming, Georgia, he began building a reputation in online marketing after graduating from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Before graduating with a major in marketing and a minor in business, he began building Animas Marketing while still attending school. After a few years, Animas Marketing became one of the most recognized names in the marketing space in Southwest Colorado.

He has spent the past 10+ years studying SEO and business strategies where he has become an industry leader in writing content that is engaging and can reach the highest ranks on search engines. He has written for popular publications including entrepreneur.com and thriveglobal.com, as well as many others.

You can reach him through LinkedIn or by email at [email protected]. 

Brief Biography of Sean Moriarty

Sean Moriarty is the Co-Owner and Creative Director of Animas Marketing LLC. He utilizes over 20 years of experience in creative writing, graphic design, photography, audio and video production to create meaningful and engaging content for his clients across countless platforms. Clients rely on Sean to develop, solidify, or reshape their brand voices to grow and communicate effectively with their audiences.

His skills have proven beneficial to several different business types from Restaurants, Hospitals, and Furniture Retailers to Re-election Campaigns and Podcasts. While Sean can help any business, regardless of category, he specializes in Food, Beverage, and Hospitality Marketing. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Colorado Restaurant Association – Durango Chapter, and works with 6 restaurants in his local area.

Expertise

social media marketing, copywriting, graphic design, email marketing, video & audio production

Brief Biography of Marianne Hoover

We will never forget unfolding a map on the kitchen table of our Frisco home and pointing to the towns we dreamed of living in. We stared at a large swath of the West, imagining what life might be like in Taos, Bozeman and everywhere between. Our eyes landed in Durango, and we remembered driving through the town years earlier.

Hiking, climbing, skiing, biking, hunting, fishing and camping- these activities had become crucial to our physical and spiritual health. In addition to continuing to live our passions, we desired things that our then home in Summit County couldn’t give us. Things like an affordable cost of living, open roads, and a solid middle-class community were features we hoped to find in our new home. Durango gave us those things, and so much more.

We live in a place with four true seasons. We wake up every morning with stunning mountains and beautiful desert landscapes a short drive away, and the luxury of having to decide which one we want to play in that day. We have met neighbors who have become great friends. A lack of big box retail stores and chain restaurants allows us to be surrounded by unique eateries and specialty retail stores. Our ski days are spent without the stressors that come with larger resorts, and they end over drinks with friends at Dante’s.

This town has given us three businesses, two dogs and an eleven-year-old son. One of those businesses is Durango Magazine. Put simply, it is our biannual love letter to Durango. Its pages feature the people, places, businesses and stories that have caused us to fall in love with this place.

Subscribe to Durango Magazine and learn more about how we came to love this community, and all of the things that make it so special. We hope to see you out on a trail, next to us on a lift or across from us at a table soon.