Question: What do Fantasy Football, a VoIP Service provider, a Live Mobile Phone TV company, a Prominent University, the NFL and a Major Canadian Telecommunications company all have in common?

Answer: Their Digital Marketing Team: JHG

Tonight, JHG is hosting our Summer Bash for friends and clients of the agency in our new location. On July 1, we will be celebrating 4 years since Jayne Hancock and I decided to start a new marketing and consulting agency.

Wow – how time flies and how things can change!

Back when we first embarked on this journey, both Jayne and I came from pretty high-profile backgrounds: Jayne had a successful career at DIRECTV and I had a wonderful run in radio. For our next chapter, we knew that we wanted to build a company that had all of the qualities that we loved about our previous jobs and none of the qualities that we didn’t like. We wanted to build an agency that asks the right questions, that has the best and the brightest people, that learns every day and that no matter what – always does the right thing. Does the right thing for our clients, our staff and our community.

We know we haven’t been successful in all we’ve set out to do. We would both readily admit that we’ve made some mistakes and miscalculations along the way, but that’s what it takes to learn and grow. Most importantly, from the beginning, we’ve made those decisions with the information we had at hand and with the belief that it was the right thing at the time.

What we’ve done right however, is recruit an amazing and dedicated team of people. We’ve said this before to our staff, but of all the things in this business that Jayne and I feel good about, they are the entity that makes us the most proud by far. They’re smart, dedicated, passionate and teach both of us every day. Hopefully, we are able to impart some knowledge to them along the way as well.

We’ve also been blessed to have the opportunity to work with some of the best clients, some great brands and some brilliant people. For clients to entrust us to help them succeed is heady business. But it is something that none of us take lightly. Again, we aren’t perfect, but I can tell you that with us, you get smart people who really, truly care.

For those of you who are entrepreneurs, you know of what I am about to speak. This is the hardest we’ve have ever worked in our lives. (And that says something for a farm girl from the Midwest and girl from Phoenix who worked and played softball to make it through undergrad and grad school). Owning this business has been, at the same time, exhilarating, exciting, scary, frustrating and downright crazy! But, we wouldn’t have it any other way. Thanks to our amazing group of co-workers, thanks to our clients for the trust they put in us and thanks to our friends for all of the support and encouragement the past four years! So for tonight – it’s party time!