The Thrive Marketing Story
As an Employee, I was an Entrepreneur. I worked for businesses, both large and small, public and private, and treated them like they were my own business, whether I was in sales or marketing.
The inspiration for Thrive Marketing came from two of those companies. Both organization were private, self-funded, founded in 1997 by two partners, and experienced rapid growth.
The first company was an education firm where I served as the sole Marketing Manager. When I started, the company only had only 4 employees and less than $200,000 in revenue. They had a 5-page website, black and white Word documents for brochures, and an 800#. In the following years, as their annual revenue soared, I hired 4 more marketing staff members. I turned their brochure into a 200-page catalog and wrote all of the copy. We began PR efforts and landed publications in The Business Journal, Wall Street Journal and other well-known publications. We also grew our website to 5,000 static and dynamic pages and ranked #1 on Google for most of their popular keyword phrases. At the end of five years, we were billing $11 million a year and ranked #67 in the INC. 500.
After 5 years, I wanted a new challenge, so I accepted a position as Director of Marketing at another company that started in 1997. It was much like the former company, except this one had grown 20 times larger -- to $200 million in revenue. I started a new product line, a joint venture between my employer and a $7 billion public company. It was a brand new product -- one that had never been tried before. Working closely with the company's President and a small staff, the new product was tested in 3 markets. After the first 6 months, the product generated $10 million in revenue and just three months later, $15 million.
Shortly thereafter, in 2004, I was approached by three companies wanting marketing services, so I decided to pursue my dream of becoming an entrepreneur. I started Thrive Marketing with the vision of helping other entrepreneurs position themselves to thrive. Thrive's clients have something in common with my former employers - our clients are entrepreneurial, progressive, and want to grow quickly. They have a dream. They want to grow. They want to thrive. And we help them.
In 2006, my husband, best friend, and born entreprenuer, Jared Turley, joined Thrive Marketing. He is a tremendous asset to our team, and leads our web development and email marketing projects. I still can't get over what a brilliant guy he is.
Our clients have direct access with us, the owners
In larger creative agencies, the person who has the most contact with you is usually an account manager, an entry-level position, one who has less experience. Meanwhile, the ones with the most and best experience are in the “hands-off” positions of staff management.
At Thrive Marketing, the persons who have the most contact with you are the Principals. We're thinkers and doers. All members of our staff are former senior level marketing executives (they all have at least 10 years of experience in their areas of expertise) who have chosen to take their experience and remain in “hands-on” activity. More about Thrive Marketing.