Marketing Agency & Fractional CMO Studio · Portland, OR

Marketing run by people who've actually run marketing.

Founded by a former VP of Marketing and CMO who built and led in-house teams before going independent — so you get someone who owns the whole system, not a vendor who owns one slice of it. Retainers for companies that need a marketing department. Single projects for companies that need one thing done properly.

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Marketing leadership

Strategy, priorities and a plan you can actually staff.

Email & CRM systems

Lists, flows and reporting that compound month over month.

Brand, web & content

Identity, site and the words that make both worth visiting.

Photo & video

Original production, shot in-house rather than licensed.

How we can work together

Two ways in, and no wrong door.

Ongoing retainer

Marketing Systems

For companies that need a marketing department without hiring one. I set the strategy, build the machinery, and run it alongside your team until it runs without me.

Fractional CMO Email & CRM Social SEO & GEO Analytics

Retainer Details

One-off project

Creative & Launch

For companies that need one thing done well. A defined scope, a fixed price, and a finished asset you own outright — built by the same person who has to make it perform.

Web design Brand identity Photography Video Launch campaigns

Project Details

The process

Diagnose first. Then build.

Step 01

Diagnose

A short audit of what's working, what's leaking, and what was never set up in the first place.

Step 02

Prioritize

One page: the three moves that matter this quarter, in order, with what each one costs.

Step 03

Build

Systems, campaigns and creative — shipped and measured, not deliberated for a quarter.

Step 04

Hand over

You keep the documentation, the dashboards, and a team that can run it without me.

Who you'd be working with

An operator, not an account manager.

I spent my career inside marketing departments — retail, apparel, outdoor and homebuilding — carrying the number rather than presenting to the person who carried it. That means I've already made most of the mistakes on someone else's budget.

Tope Creative is deliberately small, and the client list is kept deliberately short — only a handful of engagements at a time. You work with me directly, from the first call through to the handoff: no layers, no pitch team, no junior doing the actual work.

Meet the Founder

Tope Creative — portrait or on-set photo

“Most small companies don't have a marketing problem. They have five half-built systems and nobody whose job it is to finish them.”

Background

Former VP of Marketing & CMO

Next step

Let's build your growth engine.

Tell me what you're trying to grow and what's in the way. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so on the first call.

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