MARKETING THE MODERN WORLD driving business through relationships

We've built you a marketing system
that leads to explosive growth.

Mark Bloemhard, PhD, MBA, MA

Founder / CEO

You can never have enough opportunities.

KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS

97% of your market has never heard of you. They aren't ignoring you; they just don't know you exist.

That's the gap I close.

For 25 years I've studied what drives buyer's decisions and built a marketing system around those answers. Its focus is on high-ticket, relationship-driven companies where the sale can take months and the key decision makers are hard to reach.

If you're serious about what's next, you don't need an agency that "does creative".

You need a partner whose reputation depends on outcomes... because mine does.

It’s all about the Case Study

The numbers don’t lie

CINCINNATI-BASED TECHNOLOGY COMPANY GROWS 879% IN 11 MONTHS

VNDLY raised $58M and sold for $510M.

Shortly after VNDLY raised $58M in private equity, their investors asked them to rebrand.

Following a national search, Bolder & Co was awarded the work. Months after the new brand launched, VNDLY was acquired by Workday for $510M.

We call it the Bolder Inflection Point. It's the moment a company stops looking like one of several options and starts looking like the one worth buying. When Workday looked at VNDLY, everything they found confirmed the decision. The difference between what VNDLY raised and what they sold for: $452M.

Or 879% growth. In 11 months.

The numbers don’t lie

HEALTHCARE START-UP GROWS 1,647% IN FIRST YEAR

Prescription Bliss takes new brand identity
and scales exponentially.

When Prescription Bliss came to Bolder & Co, they had a sound young company, a working website, and a growing client list. What they didn't have was a name anybody knew.

And in healthcare, nobody buys from a company they've never heard of. Every new customer checks you out before they hand over a prescription. What they find decides.

We didn't reinvent Prescription Bliss. We took what was already there and made it impossible to miss. The year after: 1,647% growth.

The numbers don’t lie

15-YEAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY GROWS
400% IN FIRST YEAR, 250% IN THE SECOND

3C Industries hovered around $2M for 15 years.
The inflection stimulates growth of $8M in the first year and $20M in the next.

With a new generation taking the helm, 3C Industries was at a turning point. Fifteen years of quality construction work had built real trust with everyone who knew them.

That was the problem. Almost nobody knew them. The reputation was deep and narrow, and in a market where every buyer compares three bids, deep and narrow loses to known.

The new identity made 3CI look like the leader it already was. Buyers could finally tell them apart, and a company that sat at $2M for fifteen years did $8M the next year and $20M the year after.

Not all agencies are created equal

WE UNDERSTAND THE PRESSURE

Relationships close your kind of business. And that's exactly the problem.

One person can only hold so many. Your best salesperson works maybe thirty real relationships, and when he's buried in a proposal for two weeks, nobody's building the next one. Nine months later the pipeline is thin and nobody can say why.

So next year's number becomes a guess. Hiring becomes a guess. All of it rides on whose Rolodex hasn't run dry yet.

We build the system that takes the guessing out. Your dream accounts, locked. Relationships built on schedule instead of by accident. A pipeline the company owns, not whoever carries it.

SELECT INVESTORS 
WE’VE HELPED SCALE FOR EXIT

Let our experience be your competitive advantage.

Bolder Cornerstone

Sometimes in order to move forward, we have to take a step back.

In an era of AI-generated everything, relationships are still the number one driver of your business.

Case Studies

Careers

Katelyn Martin
CFO

Your brand is what other people say about you

when you're not in the room. ~ Jeff Bezos

Most of your market is a room you're not in.

We work on those.

WE’D RATHER BE ONE COMPANY’S SHOT OF
WHISKEY THAN EVERYONE’S CUP OF TEA.

We mean that literally. When a client hands us their dream accounts, we lock them. Nobody else in their market gets those companies through us, for the full term.

Because you can't mass produce a relationship. The whole point is being the one company they know. If we built that for you and your competitor at the same time, we'd be building it for neither.

So we're the wrong agency for almost everybody. We work with B2B companies with high tickets, long sales cycles, and a list of dream clients they've never been able to crack.

One shot of whiskey per market. Whoever signs first gets it.

Let’s chat!

Ken Kowalski
Creative Director