Crawford helped a regional bank sell checking accounts with sea otters, rebuilt trust around a zinc plant, and made a county name into a verb. The method begins where founder Marion Crawford began: in a newsroom, looking for the fact people will repeat.
Before it could tell other companies who they were, a Greenville agency had to make the same uncomfortable choice itself: stop selling everything it could do and name the thing it did best.
JDPR began in a Greenville home in 1991. Thirty-five years later, its most revealing work is measured not in adjectives but in appointments, clips, impressions, enrollments and sales goals.
Free mentor teams, small-group workshops and carefully matched investor meetings are NextGEN’s answer to founder isolation. In Greenville, the work of building a startup community happens one useful introduction at a time.