A Virginia agency founded when television spots and print ruled the brief is still here - now buying clicks, building sites and flying drones. Its best lesson is not nostalgia. It is knowing which parts of the old craft to keep.
The Virginia Beach agency built its reputation on a simple idea: a post is only useful if it leads somewhere. Sometimes that somewhere is a DM. Sometimes it is the freezer aisle at Lowes Foods.
Two brothers started Domes in 1980 selling satellite dishes the size of a kiddie pool. Forty-five years later the family is still wiring Coastal Virginia's living rooms - just with a lot fewer visible wires.
STIHL built its American business around machines that can be serviced, dealers who know their customers and a Virginia factory that makes more than many buyers realize. Its next test is carrying that old-school advantage into the battery era.