Anvil Media

It all starts with a simple idea: movable type, television, Internet and $4 coffee. Everyone has big ideas, but few people are able to capitalize on them. Typically, this is because they lack the confidence, support and initiative to carry. Social media now offers unprecedented opportunities to share and refine ideas, and take them to [...]

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 [...]

For Anvil’s Q1 field trip, we tapped our favorite winter friends, Club DreamLife for a snow day on Mt. Hood.  We packed the cars with employees, food and warm clothes and headed to Timothy Lake, where we met up with the DreamLife crew. As usual, the DreamLife crew gave us the red carpet treatment with [...]

I recently had the pleasure of listening to Lou Tice from The Pacific Institute speak about achieving one’s full potential. The Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) event, held in Seattle, included members from the Vancouver BC, Seattle and Portland chapters. While I’m always impressed with EO presenters at educational events, I was particularly struck by the serendipitous [...]

A few months ago I received an email from a former Intel client contact. He was looking at getting away from his high tech background and do something completely new. That idea became ChineseRiceWine.com, a wholesaler and retailer of Chinese Rice Wine. I sat down with Thurman recently to ask him about his latest venture.
Kent: [...]

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 [...]

Search engine marketing agency Anvil Media Inc. scored big in the 2009 edition of Portland Business Journal’s Book of Lists, appearing on 4 separate lists:
-10th Fastest Growing Private Company (ranked by percentage of growth 2005-2007)
-12th Largest Interactive Agency (ranked by 2007 revenue)
-15th in Corporate Philanthropy (ranked by cash donations for companies under $10 million in [...]

Two years ago, a major player in the world of online business directories, approached me to develop a customized search engine marketing (SEM) service offering for small and local-based companies. Having focused Anvil Media on servicing Fortune 1000 companies, I hadn’t spent much time considering a scalable SEM service model. Over the next week or [...]

I recently visited Detroit, MI to pitch a rather large automaker a bit of Anvil’s search engine marketing magic. Being a Portland-based SEM agency, this was a huge opportunity for us. Despite the economy, we still had a good meeting and I wanted to celebrate on my last night in Motown. I stopped by the [...]

You could say I had a busy week.  I hit a Seattle Mariner’s game Monday evening, watching the M’s reverse a 5 run deficit to beat the Twins 11 to 6. I then hit the road early Tuesday morning to make it to OMS Portland at the Oregon Zoo. On Thursday, the Anvil team spent [...]