Our team brings senior-level experience to help organizations build strong, focused marketing foundations. Everything we do is guided by thoughtful strategy, practical execution, and long-term growth.
How Sprout works
We integrate with your leadership team.
We serve as your CMO, VP of Marketing, or Marketing Director. You hire us part-time to fill the gap so you can focus your energy elsewhere. We get your marketing done efficiently, you save the time and headache of hiring a full-time resource, and you avoid the cost of hiring expensive agencies and then struggling to direct them.
Sprout works alongside the CEO, CFO, CTO, and COO. With marketing at the center of executive decisions, strategy, execution, and growth stay aligned, and marketing stays connected to the business.
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Experience built in
Don’t spend decades becoming a marketing expert. Hire people who already have decades of expertise, part-time.
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Right-sized leadership
Buy just the right amount of marketing muscle for your stage of growth, and take marketing off the back burner.
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See the difference
Results should become apparent within about 90 days. Or you can take a different approach. The choice is always yours.
Where Sprout comes from
Trained on Madison Avenue. Built for growing companies.
Bruce Law founded Sprout in 2002 after a career leading marketing for global brands and growing companies. The model he built, senior leadership part-time with specialists to execute, is the one Sprout runs today.
Madison AvenueOgilvy, New YorkBruce starts his career in advertising at Ogilvy.
Global brandsIntel · Lever BrothersDirects marketing for household-name brands.
2002Sprout MarketingFounded to help multiple companies at once, with part-time CMOs.
HealthcareHatfield Medical GroupFrom three locations to nine in 18 months, then a national merger.
Sports technologyArbiterSportsMore than a decade as VP of Marketing, through record growth and acquisitions.
Mid-sized growthLittle Giant LaddersSprout leads marketing for a growing manufacturer.
Pediatric dental & orthodonticsChoice HealthcareNearly 100 brands, run as one marketing machine across four states.
TourismAntelope CanyonA decade as VP of Marketing, with visitors up year over year.
The clearest way to see Sprout is by what it is not.
Sprout is not a traditional ad agency.
Agencies are set up to grow big. To do so, they must attract large clients and work closely with their internal marketing teams. Small companies are less attractive, and often they don’t even have an internal marketing team. But these companies still need great marketing. That’s where Sprout comes in.
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Sprout is not a consultancy.
Consulting organizations tell you how to do something and then leave the doing up to you. At the end of an engagement, you get a binder and a bill. At Sprout, we show you the way and then actually take you where you need to go, with execution built on industry best practices.
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Sprout is not a creative boutique.
Marketing is more than a brand identity, a cool website, or a hip video. Most creative boutiques only focus on those components. They are ingredients in a recipe. At Sprout, we’re the chefs: we prepare it all, from strategy to execution. You enjoy what we make, and you won’t be cleaning up afterward.
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Sprout is not a full-time marketing head.
Good CMOs are hard to find, and expensive. Once you hire one, they hire agencies to get things done, so besides a full-time salary you pay agency fees too. With Sprout you hire only part of a CMO, who works with independent specialists to deliver the tactics. You save on headcount and hard costs.
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We’re a 100-year old company filled with seasoned design and construction engineers. Sprout runs our entire marketing show. Thanks to them, we’re experiencing record sales, larger client projects, and additional business in new US markets.
Steve Halverson, Fourth-generation CEO, Halverson Company
Next step
Get started with Sprout today.
Thirty minutes with a Sprout leader. We ask about your customers and what you have tried, and you leave with a clearer next step either way.