I'm Tom Atkins, founder of Quarry House. I've been involved in sales and marketing since the 1980s.

In 1991, I was one of the founding four of The Whitlock Group. a start-up systems integrator in broadcast and A/V Systems as part of the sales and marketing team that took them from start-up to a $35M/year company. In 1998, I was privelieged to become a partner in charge of Sales and Marketing for TGS, another start-up integration firm focused on High Definition conversions of Television facilities. Over the next five years, while I was VP of sales and marketing, TGS grew at an average of 200% a year each year, eventually being bought by industry giant Ascent Media. Currently, as head of marketing for Diversified Systems, an established leader in the integration industry, I have helped develop  growth from $60M to nearly $80M in his first two years there, despite the moribund economy of 2009-20010. I was was also a partner in The Kingma Agency, a full service creative agency, for a time, and continue as a strategic partner for them today. 

What ties all these companies together? - a history of success in marketing.

Creativity Second, Effectiveness first

Listen to many ad and marketing agencies, and you might think all it takes for a successful marketing campaign is rampant creativity.  And certainly creativity is part of what I and Quarry House do. My' creative credentials include 25 years of marketing, as well as the fact that I am a poet, artist, photographer, writer, and artist. Creativity is a centerpiece of my life and work.

But there is another, more important side to a successful marketing plan - simple effectiveness. There are often a wide variety of techniques and strategies that quietly create sustainable results. This is the kind of marketing we focus on here at Quarry House

What Sets Us Apart

Some of our clients have been ad agencies or marketing departments who needed some of our specialized skills, such as copywriting (I am particularly skilled at translating technology to simple and compelling benefits.) or photography. Other clients are smaller firms who have used Quarry House as  an outsourced marketing department, creating a strategy and implementing it for them, overseeing and producing all their materials as needed. 

Our flexibility is part of what sets us apart. We are comfortable being a small part of a corporate marketing team, or taking the lead and guiding marketing from conception to completion. We can produce small projects a-la-carte, or an entire campaign.

We are flexible in our clientele as well, working equally well with large corporations as startups or ad agencies. We park our ego at the door, and work the way you need us to work. 

A Partnership mentality

At Quarry House, we have a partnership mentality. This means two things for you, one philosophical and one practical.

On the philosophical side, it means that we consider ourselves partners with each of our clients. Your success is our success.  We're not creative guns for hire. We take your success personally, and treat your projects and marketing as if it were our own.

On the practical side, it means you don't pay for what you don't need. At Quarry House, we are allied with a host of specialized creative companies, ranging from small designers to national PR firms. If you are a small startup, you don't pay for a big agency with big agency overhead. But as you grow, you don't outgrow us - we simply pull in the right partners to make sure you have the level of expertise you need, no matter what you want to accomplish. This makes us a cost effective, and powerful, marketing partner.

What we do

Below is a partial list of services offered by Quarry House

• Brand Development

• Copywriting

• Logos (see samples)

• Corporate ID (Stationary, etc)

• Photography (See samples)

• Brochures

• Newsletters and Corporate Communications

• White papers and Trade Articles

• Web Site Development (see samples)

• Special Services for offshore companies in the broadcast and A/V marketplace

• Marketing "Boot Camp" for startup companies or companies who are just starting in marketing.

Contact Us

No matter what size or industry you are in, every project begins with a conversation, and that conversation costs nothing. Contact us by e-mail, or by phone, and let's talk about your needs.