This is where we tell you how great we are and throw in a bunch of buzzwords like traction, deliverables or strategic synergies with a dash of ROI.

Sheesh, of course you expect ROI, if you weren’t getting a good return on your investment and if we didn’t deliver those “key deliverables” on time and on budget how could we have stayed in business decade after decade?

It’s not that complicated really, it starts with a great partnership and we are blessed to have many great partnerships with our clients and with our vendor team who backstop us every day.  We never take any of those partnerships for granted.  We find ourselves thinking about our client’s businesses or projects as if we own them ourselves.  That makes for some sleepless nights but it also leads to some great ideas.  But soon, we start to find that our clients often treat us as an extension of their own company and that’s the greatest compliment of all!

Great ideas.  We can’t solve our client’s problems or challenges or meet their objectives without great ideas.  They come in many different forms from pure marketing to designing a great print piece that will stand out, or a direct mail campaign that squeezes that extra percent of response, or even an off-the-wall event marketing or direct-to-consumer idea.  I think it’s the ideas that really fuel us and drive us day by day.  Or maybe it’s the extra-strong coffee.  

Respect the client, understand their needs, understand their business, develop great ideas that clearly address their objectives with measurable results, do what you say you will when you say you will and charge fairly.  Most importantly:  have fun along the way -- that’s why we have the jukebox and the bb gun in the art department – our inflatable punching bag sprung a leak (no, it had nothing to do with the bb gun).

There you go, you now have the secret formula.  So pick up the phone and give us a call and if you ask really nicely, we will use some of those fancy marketing words – but usually we save those for our Powerpoints.


Marketing & Design Services Include:

• graphic design • strategic marketing • website development • event marketing

• logo and branding development • media planning and buying • branded merchandise

For more information please contact:

Sean Libin, Vice President Marketingsean.libin@stridemgmt.com