A Marketing Team Built for Economic Development.
Strategy and execution for economic development organizations with more marketing priorities than internal capacity. We can own the day to day function or extend the team you already have.
We've done a lot of marketing work. Our ongoing engagement with one economic development organization is the work we've loved most, and now we want to do more of it with organizations like yours.
More Marketing Priorities Than People to Move Them Forward.
Economic development teams carry more marketing than their internal staff can keep up with. That's where we help.
We can own the function or extend the team you already have.
The kind of community economic development marketing is built for.
Own the Function, or Extend the Team You Already Have.
Need a Marketing Team? We Can Be Yours.
For smaller EDCs, we run the day to day marketing function.
- One team plans it, writes it, designs it and launches it
- No internal department or stack of freelancers to manage
Already Have a Marketing Team? We Help Them Do More.
Plug us in for a campaign, a channel, or just extra hands.
- Ads, social, creative, content and lead generation
- More done without more overhead
The Marketing Work an EDC Needs, in One Place.
Business Attraction
Campaigns, targeting, ads and creative that put your community in front of businesses and site selectors.
Workforce Development
Reach employers, workers, students and partners about your workforce programs.
Community Engagement
Explain projects and initiatives to the people who live and work in your community.
Social Media
Strategy, content, graphics, posting and day to day management, end to end.
Advertising & Lead Generation
Google, Meta and digital campaigns built around your priorities, with measurement.
Content & Creative
Concepts, copywriting, design, presentations and the everyday creative an EDC needs.
Websites & Digital
Strategy, messaging, landing and campaign pages, with dev support when needed.
Board & Organizational Support
Plans, reports and presentations that help leadership show the work.
Learned by Doing the Work.
We've done marketing work across a range of organizations, but our ongoing engagement with one economic development organization is where we fell in love with this work. Working across its changing priorities gave us a practical understanding of the planning, production, approvals and follow through it takes to keep marketing moving.
This is the work we want to do more of. We're bringing that experience to other EDCs that need a capable partner.
Development Corporation of Snyder.
Our flagship partnership, and the engagement we've loved most. Ongoing marketing work across business attraction, community communication and reporting. Each case study below is a real chapter of that engagement, written up in full so you can read exactly what we did and what came of it.
"JumpStart is part of our team, not an outside vendor. From business attraction to workforce and community communications, they carry the marketing so our small staff can focus on everything else. We reach more people, communicate more clearly, and move faster than we ever could on our own."
Barbara Leatherwood, Executive Director, Development Corporation of Snyder. See the full story and every number behind it in their own Annual Report.
More Marketing Capability Without Building a Whole Department.
A real marketing operation takes strategy, writing, design, ads, social, web, analytics and project management. Hiring all of it internally isn't realistic for most EDCs.
You get the people without the overhead, and we manage the moving parts so your Executive Director doesn't have to.
A Simple Plan.
No big agency process. Three steps from first conversation to work moving.
Tell us what is on your plate.
We learn the priorities, audiences, constraints and workload.
Define the right level of support.
We agree on scope, owners, cadence and measurement.
Move the work forward.
We plan, create, launch and report, with you informed.
More Marketing to Do Than People to Do It?
That's exactly where we help.
No big agency pitch. Tell us what you're working on, and we'll see if we're a good fit.