Anvil

For the second consecutive year, search engine and social media marketing agency, Anvil Media, ranked in Portland Business Journal’s Fastest-Growing Private 100 Companies. At the PBJ Fastest Growing Companies awards reception, Anvil received recognition as the 32nd fastest growing private company in Oregon. Anvil has received previous recognition from Portland Business Journal, including 10th Fastest [...]

Ellington Leather CEO Mike Edwards has an interesting professional journey to say the least. He began his career as a buyer at May Department Stores, working his way up the food chain at Target, CompUSA,  Golfsmith, West Marine and Jo Ann Stores before transitioning into the executive suite at lucy activewear.
As CEO at lucy, he [...]

Having just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, my head is spinning once again. As Gladwell has done in the past with The Tipping Point and Blink, he managed to get me thinking about whole new ways of living and doing business. In that vein, The Outliers successfully argued that we [...]

I recently posted Anvil Media’s annual news release on the Portland Advertising Federation blog, as I didn’t want to bore you with the details on my own blog.  It’s a fairly positive big of reportage with plenty of good news, as we had a good year despite the economy. In a nutshell, Anvil expects 20 [...]