About Sprout

What is Sprout?

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.
Mid-sized growthLittle Giant LaddersSprout leads marketing for a growing manufacturer.
Startup → IPOControl4Sprout helps launch Control4, which goes on to go public.
Today400+ companies1,200+ products launched and $1B+ in added revenue.
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Understanding Sprout

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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How Sprout sees the trade-off, from two decades of working alongside each of these.

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.

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