What we're building

Our own ventures

The best way to know whether marketing works is to have to make it work for yourself, with your own money. So we build our own companies here in Santa Barbara — and two of them are already open to clients.

The portfolio

01 EventVault A media company that uses events and content to grow an audience — then uses that audience to promote events and groups, and to connect sponsors with the people they are trying to reach. Live 02 Caffeine POS A point of sale and inventory management system, in beta with a small group of clients. [PLACEHOLDER — who it is for, and what it does better than the alternatives.] In beta 03 Choose Santa Barbara [PLACEHOLDER — one line: what it is, who it is for] In development 04 LearnLocal Connects in-person learning providers — yoga studios, surf instructors, coaches — with people looking to learn, and makes it easy to get started. Incubating 05 SantaBarbarians [PLACEHOLDER — one line: what it is, who it is for] Incubating 06 FilmDrops [PLACEHOLDER — one line: what it is, who it is for] Incubating 07 BowlSongs [PLACEHOLDER — one line: what it is, who it is for] Incubating 08 DoCheckRepeat The app we run the studio on — every project, every deadline, every client. Built for ourselves first. [PLACEHOLDER — confirm whether this should be public at all.] Internal tool

Why a marketing agency builds its own things

Because it is the same muscle. Every venture here needed a brand, a website, a launch, an audience and a reason to exist — the exact work clients hire us for. Building our own means we are not describing something we read about.

Two of these appeared on a Caffeine Group business card in Atlanta twenty years ago. Some ideas take a while.