Mark Smith
Strategic eMarketing is a leading digital marketing and advertising agency that operates from Portland, Oregon, and boasts of both local (western US) and global clients.
We specialize in delivering marketing solutions which incorporate traditional marketing strategies, demand generation, local SEO and social media marketing into one package.
Our suite of highly customized services can be just what the doctor ordered to significantly boost your company’s online visibility and fast-track revenue generation through heightened lead conversions.
At the same time, Strategic eMarketing leverages top-notch social media marketing and branding strategies to help its clients achieve their various business objectives. To this end, we have made it a point to have in our pay a team of seasoned, skilled, dedicated, and highly motivated online marketing professionals.
These brilliant specialists have only one aim in mind, and that is to comprehensively meet the distinctive marketing and advertising needs and preferences of each single customer. Whatever the exact reasons that prompt you to settle for our digital marketing solutions, all your concerns are ours too from the get-go.
Whether this equates solidifying your business’ online presence, boosting your brand awareness, thought leadership, or even driving more traffic to your website through organic search rankings.
Tell us about yourself?
Watching my father work hard with his body and die young convinced me to use my mind to make a living. I have always been a poet and storyteller. I love connecting people with narratives and helping them achieve their outcome.
If you could go back in time a year or two, what piece of advice would you give yourself?
get focused on 10 year trends and write a book. go deep into 1 vertical, don’t try to be a generalist. Buy Tesla stock… 🙂
What problem does your business solve?
We take the technical challenges of marketing off the plate of the CMO or CEO. Use our experience to avoid the threats and bring opportunities.
What is the inspiration behind your business?
My inspiration is nature. The tide rises and falls, the seasons start, wax and wane. These structures in our lives produce the needs we have in business. As a marketer I am looking to find people in the “new moon” of a buying cycle and present the opportunity with a compelling narrative.
What is your magic sauce?
Bringing Enterprise level solutions, thinking and technology to mid market and SMBs. We are on trend for enterprise, but titrating these solutions to match the business case of the clients who engage us.
What is the plan for the next 5 years? What do you want to achieve?
To bring 250 manufacturing companies into the Digital First culture to engage the GenZ cohort. I am publishing a book in may called Authenticity-
Marketing to Generation Z
Develop a Digital First Enterprise, Train your CEO to be an Influencer, Leverage your Customers and Staff as Advocates before your Competition does
What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced so far?
Continuing to embrace the massive number of saas tools made for marketing and sales.
How do people get involved/buy into your vision?
I am looking for manufacturers that are behind the digital curve in ecommerce and digital marketing.
