Silicon Valley Bay Area Marketing Resources Directory

Need a Marketing Contractor or Consultant? Here's a list of resources that help Silicon Valley Companies. Sponsored by the 280 Group LLC.

At the 280 Group we provide Consultants, Contractors, Training and Coaching in the areas of Marketing, Product Marketing, and Product Management for companies in the Bay Area. Oftentimes clients have potential needs that aren't our specialty, and they ask us about resources that do work outside of our areas of expertise. To help out our clients and others we've put together the following list of independent marketing consultants, contractors and other resources that help companies in Silicon Valley and the San Jose area. Note: this list is provided as a courtesy only - no endorsement by the 280 group is intended.

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Websites, Graphic Design, User Interfaces         Branding
PR                                                                                    Trade Show Management
Project Management                                                  Market Research
Naming                                                                           Multimedia & Video Production
Photography                                                                 Telemarketing
Technical Consultants                                               Human Resources
Advertising Firms                                                        Coaching 
Other Resources                                                         Law Firms
Demos                                                                            Marketing Operations
Pricing                                                                            Management Consulting
Technical Documentation                                         Team Building Retreats
Order Processing & Fulfillment

Graphic Design, Websites & User Interface

• Willie Honig Graphic Design
  Silicon Valley designer Willie Honig's Online Graphic Design & Web Design Portfolio.
  
  
• elf design San Mateo, CA
  Logo, graphic and website designs - offering Custom Marketing Packages for small businesses and Corporate Identity System Design for total marketing design solutions.
  
  
• Blue Macaroon Design Brisbane, CA
  Visual and interactive tools to help clients achieve their marketing goals.
  
  
• Designworks San Jose, CA
  Designworks is a visual communications DIGITAL, PRINT and IDENTITY design firm serving clients large to small, high-tech to no-tech, throughout the U.S. and the world
  
  
• Appareo Interactive Los Gatos, CA
  Appareo Interactive develops highly customized web sites focused on increasing ROI through lead generation and reducing recurring costs through customized content management tools.
  
  
• Express Your Site Sunnyvale, CA
  Expressyoursite designs and develops high-quality, professional websites that are custom-tailored to the needs of your business or organization.
  

• Steelhead Studios San Jose, CA
  Elegant, simple and affordable designs on paper as well as websites.
  
  
• Envision ID Mountain View, CA
  Providing business, marketing and design services that fill critical gaps in your startup organization.
  
  
• Dubberly Design Office San Francisco, CA
  Interface design, site audits, visual design, site and information architecture, usability testing and brand development.
  
  
  
  
  

Branding

• Fearless Branding San Francisco, CA
  Authentic brands that build your bottom line.
  
  
• www.skycastlemedia.com
  A full service San Francisco area marketing and advertising firm that helps companies build meaningful brands.
  
  
  

Advertising Firms

• DMNA Palo Alto, CA
  Full service advertising and marketing communications.
  

PR

• Outcast Communications San Francisco, CA
  Strategic communications in a changing world.
  
  
• Krause & Taylor San Jose, CA
  Krause Taylor Associates integrates the unparalleled experience of a seasoned, professional team with a network of connections that runs the gamut of business and technology influencers, to deliver concrete results that support your marketing, sales and corporate initiatives.
  
  
• BigMouth Communications San Francisco, CA
  A PR boutique that produces results.
  
  

Trade Show Management

• Bahous Communications San Francisco, CA
  Trade show management and event planning.
  
  
• Lisa Rice, Event Management  Portola Valley, CA
  Trade show management, event planning, product launches and project management.
  
  

Project Management

Market Research

• Baccus Research San Francisco, CA
  Full service qualitative research firm.
  
  
• The Ryon Group San Jose, CA
  Product/Services development and market research consultancy.
  

Naming

• Brighter Naming Mountain View, CA
  Full-service international naming agency based in Silicon Valley providing company, product or service names.
  
  
• Master McNeil Berkeley, CA
  Naming and brand architecture services.
  

Multimedia & Video Production

• Product Clips San Jose, CA
  Delivering expert and professional product demonstration and support internet videos
  
  
• MerlinMedia San Jose, CA
  Premier producer of new media communications solutions
  
  
• 2nd Story Media San Jose, CA
  An Emmy-winning producer of digital media, 2nd Story Media provides strategic marketing media to leading technology companies in the semiconductor / IDM and life science markets.
  
  
  

Photography

• Carmichael Visual La Selva Beach, CA
  Web, black and white, color, video and print.
  
  

Telemarketing

Technical Consultants

• D3 Solutions San Francisco, CA
  Helping businesses build cost-effective, database-driven websites, that allow for scalability & growth
  
  
• Cascade Technology Group Union City, CA
  Java programming and prototype development.
  
  
• Kern Computing Mountain View, CA
  Helping companies develop killer new mobile applications.
  
  
  

Human Resources

Coaching

• Career Company -Los Gatos, CA
  Patti Wilson, Career Coach & Counselor
  

Law Firms

• Silicon Valley Business & Corporate Law San Jose, CA
  Law Offices of Thomas Gross provides corporate, business, securities, M&A, contract law services at reasonable rates.
  
  

Demos

• Second Derivative Belmont, CA
  Helping software organizations create compelling and impactful demos that increase the probability of success in their sales and marketing efforts.
  

Marketing Operations

• Marketing Operations Partners Santa Clara, CA
  Marketing Operations Partners is focused on changing the M.O. of marketing by leveraging process, technology, guidance and metrics to enable CMOs to run marketing like a fully accountable business.

Other Resources

• Goto-Silicon-Valley.com - The premier directory of Silicon Valley & San Francisco Bay Area resources.
  
  
• Pacifica Group - Specializing in driving revenue growth for technology firms.
  
  
• Link Silicon Valley  Saratoga, CA
  The fastest way to connect to people, companies and capital of Silicon Valley.

• SoftwarePricing.Com
  A resource for organizations and individuals involved with the pricing of software products. The site is a compilation of publicly available information on pricing along with pricing perspectives and insights developed by MarketShare, Inc., a consulting firm that helps technology companies realize greater returns from the products and services they sell, as well as from the professionals who represent them.
  

Management Consulting

• Fountain Blue
  FountainBlue organizes events to provide networking and educational opportunities for Silicon Valley executives and entrepreneurs in high technology and life sciences. FountainBlue also provides executive coaching and business strategy and marketing consulting services for Silicon Valley executives.
  

Technical Documentation

• Oak Hill Corporation
  Oak Hill is a full-service content development agency. We provide any and every service you need to create technical documentation, marketing collateral, and training materials.

Team Building Retreats

• KLR Consulting
  KLR Consulting helps turn your company's retreat into an advance.

Order Processing & Fulfillment

• Rush Order, Inc.
  Flexible Order Processing, Web Development and Fulfillment Solutions.
  

Resources

BLOGS/ARTICLES
  White Papers
  PM 2.0 Newsletter
  Product Management 2.0
  Cool Products Blog
  Marketing Strategy
  Opinions

OTHER
  SV Marketing Directory
  Seth Godin Bull Market
  Product Mgmt Assn's
  PM Job Description
  Companies to Watch
  PM Software Comparison
  PM Webinars

BOOKS
  Book Reviews
  Product Mgmt Book
  Product Marketing Books
  Best Marketing Books

FREE TOOLS
  MRD Samples
  Feature Priority Matrix
  Dev Program Roadmap
  Bug & Feature Database
  AdWords ROI Calculator
  Competitive Matrix
  Launch Marketing Budget
  Adwords Strategies

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The 280 Group is a Marketing and Product Management Consulting firm in the Silicon Valley Bay Area. If you need an acting VP/Director, or interim Product Manager or Marketing Manager, the 280 Group can provide you with hand-picked, high-quality talent. For assistance with product launches, writing MRDs (market requirements documents), customer research, developing sales tools, competitive analysis, positioning, pricing or other Marketing or Product Management tasks contact the 280 Group for a free quote and proposal.