How Bad Do You Want This Boys?
As that calendar rolls over to the month when you will fully own the company you have been focused on for the last decade it should be met with a toast. The years of sacrifice, penny pinching, toilet bowls of (insert your expletive here), the starts and stops all should culminate in a moment of […]
You get my customer. Can you make it work online?
Kevin has always had a way of stumbling into R&A “off the beaten path” projects or things that didn’t align with the core of what we do everyday. So, when R&A client Infinger Furniture, a client since 2003, came to us in 2015 asking if we could build a website that reflected his customer, we […]
Yea he can play with his little social toys
If Dad (see last weeks R&A story) never thought R&A Marketing was going to be a 2nd generation business, there was ZERO PERCENT part of our family that even thought it would be a 50/50 partnership with both members of the second generation. However, sometimes the path and course family business goes heads in directions […]
He’s the cheapest and most passionate option you got
Everyone remembers when they got their first break or their shot to do the one thing they feel they were born to do. Sometimes there is many years of sacrifice and attrition. Other times there is circumstance which leads to that break (or upon reflection it ended up being one). Then there is just the […]
If you can’t see the fashion, then it ain’t worth it
Many today in our network of client, vendor, association and supplier partners have never met my Dad. That speaks volumes to his ability to invest and trust in his sons which will become even more apparent in the coming weeks of this series. So, since many do not know my Dad there is something you […]
So you want to be my ad guy, uh?
The dream of Rick Doran (Dad as we move forward) originally was to be a music teacher. He will let you know about how he was in the all state Ohio band, was a field commander for the marching band and how he made smooth melodies out of the sax. That dream got rerouted when […]
So this is 40 uh? The Introduction
May marks the celebration of 40 years of R&A Marketing. Over the course of this month we will be talking through the seminal moments that lead to the R&A you know today. Today we explore what to expect over the next month of R&A History. I have always wanted to be associated with R&A Marketing. […]