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We're a small senior team in Jacksonville, FL. When your marketing department of one to four has more work than hands, we take on the work your team can't get to.

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The gap

When the plan is bigger than the team, who does the work?

Maybe the campaign has a launch date and your designer is booked for a month. Maybe the new site needs design, content and SEO at once, and there are two of you. The plan got approved. The hours to build it never showed up.

That's the work we take on. You keep your team and your direction, and we bring senior people for the parts that keep slipping.

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Scott Sumner, co-founder of Sumner Digital
Scott Sumner co-founder
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Meet Sumner Digital

Jeane Sumner, CEO and creative director of Sumner Digital, smiling
Jeane Sumner CEO and creative director

Sumner Digital is a boutique marketing agency that works beside your in-house team. We take the creative, design, web and strategy work your people can't get to, and your team keeps running the show.

We've been Sumner Digital since 2011, with roots that go back to 2002 under earlier names. Three of us work here full time, so you deal directly with the people doing the work. We're based in Jacksonville, FL, and our clients are spread across the United States and Canada.

2011
the year Sumner Digital opened in Florida
2002
where our roots start, under earlier names
5
retainer clients right now
1 to 4
people on the marketing teams we work beside
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What we do

One retainer, built around your gaps

Every retainer starts with what your team already covers. We find what's missing and build around that. One blended rate covers all of it.

Tell us your gaps
  1. Marketing strategyThe plan for the quarter or the campaign, sized to the people and hours you really have.
  2. Creative direction and designCampaign concepts, brand work and design, led by a creative director with agency years behind her.
  3. Web design and developmentNew sites and landing pages on WordPress, with design, content and SEO handled by one team.
  4. Digital strategyWhere your budget should go online this year, and what you can stop paying for.
  5. SEO and AI searchGetting found in Google and in AI answer engines like ChatGPT. We run it on Findability OS, our own method and tools.
  6. Google AdsPaid search run by a specialist, on the retainers that call for it.
  7. Website managementHosting, updates, security and fixes, handled by Website HQ, our sister company for WordPress care.

We don't take on standalone social media management (we refer that out) or one-off graphic design projects.

When to call

Four moments we're built for

The usual reasons a marketing director gets in touch.

  1. A campaign on a tight timeline

    The launch date is fixed and your team is already full. We take the creative and the build.

  2. A new website

    It needs design, content and SEO at the same time. One team does all three, and nothing waits on a handoff.

  3. Quarterly planning

    The strategy looks right on paper and too little of it ships. We help size the plan to your team, then build part of it.

  4. No room for another hire

    You need senior help, and another full-time salary isn't in the budget.

In a client's words

What it's like to hand it off

Here's how one chief marketing officer describes working with us.

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"The Sumner Digital team keeps our website up-to-date with the latest compliance in our industry. I don't need to worry about the back-end tech, they have it covered."
Angie Coleman · Chief Marketing Officer