WE’RE ENTREPRENEURS TOO
Many agencies are full of those with marketing degrees but little real-life business experience.
We’re a little different. We started in the military but landed in entrepreneurship. Unlike other marketers, we know what it's like to run both online and brick-and-mortar businesses.
Since 2007, we’ve helped entrepreneurs look like pros, setting up marketing assets that continue to bring in clients, and teaching business owners how to take on their own marketing in-house with ease and success.
Over the years we’ve worked with clients from all over the world and from a variety of industries from preschools to real estate agents, coaches to HVAC, dentists to museums. We’ve done it all. We’ve set things up. We’ve helped them do it themselves.
And they all had one thing in common: they needed someone they could trust to help them with their marketing. And we are blessed to be trusted by so many business owners to design, help, and guide them to success with their business.
Whether you want to be completely hands-off on a project, want us to set it up for you, or you want to figure out how to do it yourself, we’re here to help you.
Design and Marketing: lakesharkmedia.com
Digital Marketing Courses: toriemathis.com
ABOUT TORIE
Torie has 20 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and small business owners. She has built brands from the ground up and rescued forgotten ones by injecting them with new life. She is the founder and Creative Director of Lake Shark Media. She is also a best-selling author, marketing coach, and creator of multiple online courses available on toriemathis.com
She loves boosting business’ bottom line through strategic marketing and design and teaching entrepreneurs the fundamentals of marketing their business in a way that makes them feel empowered and in control.
She is a US Army veteran, has a BFA in Advertising from the prestigious Academy of Art in San Francisco, and is the host of Smart AF and founder of Smart AF magazine. She has spoken about marketing on stages across the world - teaching SMART Marketing strategies. But most importantly, she is an entrepreneur and small business owner.
She and her husband run the Digital Marketing Agency Lake Shark Media, the Miles Through Time Automotive Museum and Vintage Garage Antiques. Their experience comes from working with thousands of business owners and from their own small businesses.
When she is not designing at her laptop or coaching her clients you can find her painting, at the gym training, or competing in Olympic Weightlifting.
After the Army, I hustled in corporate America and worked at small businesses, including my dad's business. I worked my way up to assistant publisher at a Real Estate Magazine - it was a dream come true.
But after the Real Estate crash, I very quickly became a small business owner myself.
I had an Advertising degree, yet I had NO IDEA how to market my business. I wasted time, and money, and made more mistakes than I am proud of, but I finally figured it out.
I grew my agency enough that I was able to bring my husband on full-time. I created the SMART Marketing method and began speaking internationally about SMART Marketing.
Then my husband started Miles Through Time Automotive Museum with one car and we used SMART Marketing to grow it to over 100 cars. We started Automotive Museum Guide and Vintage Garage Antiques and it worked there too.
I’d love to work with you on getting SMART with your marketing.
Full-service marketing: lakesharkmedia.com
Marketing Training: toriemathis.com
