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SmartBug Media Hires Award-Winning Marketing Strategist Dan Quirk

September 25, 2018

SmartBug Media today announced the addition of Dan Quirk as Marketing Strategist. In this role, Dan will work with clients to build efficient marketing engines that exceed revenue goals.

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5 Ways Marketers Can Successfully Leverage FOMO Amongst Millennials

September 7, 2018

Jen Lux, Marketing Strategist for SmartBug Media, recently wrote an article for AdWeek; discussing how successful marketing is simply about understanding human behavior.

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SmartBug Media Hires Award-Winning Advertising and Marketing Executive Damon Yerian as VP of Creative

August 28, 2018

SmartBug Media today announced the addition of Damon Yerian as Vice President of Creative. In this role, Yerian will lead the in-house creative team; working to yield award-winning work while driving leads for the sales teams.

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SmartBug Media Certified as a Great Workplace for Second Year

August 27, 2018

SmartBug Media today announced that the agency was certified as a great workplace by the independent analysts at Great Place to Work®.

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SmartBug Media Named in Inc. Magazine's 37th Annual List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies--the Inc. 5000

August 16, 2018

Today, SmartBug Media announced that Inc. magazine has revealed that SmartBug Media is #1995 on its 37th annual Inc. 5000 list, with a three-year revenue growth of 224 percent. This is the second consecutive year that SmartBug Media has been in the Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.

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SmartBug Media Named a Q2 North American Impact Award Winner by HubSpot for Client Results and Graphic Design

August 9, 2018

SmartBug Media today announced that HubSpot has recognized the agency as the North American Q2 Impact Award winner of the Inbound Growth Story Award and the Graphic Design Award.

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SmartBug Media Named Among Best Companies in Los Angeles and Best CEOs in Los Angeles by Comparably

August 7, 2018

SmartBug Media today announced that Comparably has recognized it as a Best Company in Los Angeles and that Founder and CEO Ryan Malone has been named one of the Best CEOs in Los Angeles.

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Looking at Your Competition is a Waste of Time

July 2, 2018

Ryan Malone, Founder & CEO for SmartBug Media, discusses why all managing should be driven from metrics, he talks about the value of online and offline content marketing strategies and why looking at your competition is a waste of time with Hack the Entrepreneur podcast.

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SmartBug Media Hires David Haar and Caleb Malik as Sales Executives to Meet Agency's Increasing Growth Strategy

June 25, 2018

SmartBug Media today announced the addition of David Haar and Caleb Malik as Sales Executives to the growing SmartBug Media sales team.

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SmartBug CEO Ryan Malone Appointed Industry Fellow at UCI's Paul Merage School of Business Center for Digital Transformation

June 19, 2018

SmartBug Media announced that its founder and CEO, Ryan Malone, has been appointed an Industry Fellow at the University of California, Irvine's (UCI) Center for Digital Transformation within The Paul Merage School of Business.

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