Back on July 2, 2007, Lisa Braziel and I launched our blog for Ignite Social Media and set out to figure out what a social media agency was, what it did and who it was going to do it for. We realized quickly that neither of us could program, as we kept repeatedly breaking the blog, leaving us to call on friends to bail us out. That's why we didn't look for or accept clients until October of that year, after we had Gene Smith on board. Finally, a guy who could make a web page do just about anything.
Now, three years later, it's a bit remarkable the changes. We've got 32 employees, including highly technical SEO experts, amazing designers, gifted copywriters, a brilliant development team, slightly crazy number crunching analytics types, a deeply immersed engagement team and wickedly organized account managers. We've got an office with 7 people in Detroit. Our Seattle office opens on Monday.


