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Burns Marketing is a tight-knit, passionate team – a group of dreamers, analysts, debaters, and peacemakers – with one common goal: the desire to elevate your business.
For more than 50 years, we’ve been the team that companies of all shapes and sizes count on. Why? Because we find creative strategies that differentiate them. We help them generate and keep momentum as they achieve their goals. And, equally important, we get things done.
Let’s do great work together and have a great time doing it.
Our values. The words we live by.
Creativity alone doesn’t solve business challenges.
That only happens when you combine bold ideas with a strong strategy.
The best relationships make the best work.
Our clients stick with us for years, and it’s not just because we’re so charming.
Great ideas start with a little friction.
Let’s push each other and become slightly uncomfortable – to spark new thinking.
Rules should be broken – purposefully.
Nobody ever changed the world following someone else’s manual.
Everyone at Burns is a fanatic for something.
Strategy. Music. Color theory. Canine friends. Travel. Kickass work.Obligatory data callout
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Our leadership
Don Poole
Creative Director and President
(Not pictured: Don; Pictured: the real boss and Don’s dog, Maci)
Melissa Humbert
SVP, Operations and Account Management
Joellen Sarmast
Director of Brand Strategy
Lizzie VandeSande
Director of Creative Strategy
“Burns brings balanced, useful, and insightful recommendations that have helped us stretch our thinking and get a deeper understanding of our business and what we need to do to win. They are highly responsive, and it is probably the best relationship I’ve ever had with an external advisor and partner.”
Senior Director of Corporate Marketing | IT Services Company