About Us

Marketing Associates was founded by Jay Jennings and Alan Tarr in 2001 to give small and mid-size businesses access to experienced, creative marketing talent at a price most can afford.

By combining the skills of Marketing, Advertising, Sales, and Public Relations, and veterans, Marketing Associates is able to handle the needs of most companies.  Marketing Associates maintains strategic relationships with Graphics Designers, Web Developers,  IT Specialists, Printers and others.  This "on-call" staffing allows us to keep our quality high and our costs reasonable.

We specialize in the needs of companies from $200,000 to $50 Million in sales. Rather than working for months and months, most of our projects are created in just 4-8 weeks.

Unlike mega-marketers like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Dell and GM, entrepreneurial businesses cannot afford to just create an "image" or "brand recognition". You need to produce traffic, leads, sales, and revenue from your marketing campaigns. Marketing Associates measures results in dollars - not "awareness."

After all, if we can't help our clients bring more dollars to the bottom line - we'll be out of business.

Is Your Marketing and Advertising Not Producing as Expected?

Marketing Associates has created an Unbelievably Simple Marketing System that helps small businesses compete more effectively and make more money.

This method, called Intelligent Creativity, is grounded in proven fundamentals that have been bringing businesses success for decades.

The 7 Deadly Sins of MarketingOur job, as marketing advisors, is to teach this method to business owners and marketing departments and help them implement it.

We help companies in numerous ways, one-on-one, through workshops and seminars, and with Alan Tarr’s book The Seven Deadly Sins of Marketing and How to Avoid Them.

Creating ads, brochures and websites without a well-designed strategic plan is like throwing your money down the marketing rat hole

Many small businesses are guilty of rushing pell-mell into marketing before they have crafted an effective marketing strategy, a compelling message, and ways to educate and motivate potential buyers.


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