Austin-Area 2009 INC 500(0) Companies

Austin-based Advertising and Marketing companies making the list is ranked order:

Adlucent – fired me but we’re cool now
Smiley Media 🙂
Apogee Search – Bill Leakes and Gang continue to show steady growth
Red McCombs Media – Do these guys own some dealerships too?
ProfitFuel – Cool name, but hope you don’t burn profits
T3 – Really interesting
Bulldog Solutions – Woof Woof
Mercury Mambo – I’m tired. I’ve got nothing for this one.

Top 50 Inc.500|5000 Companies by Metro Region — Austin-Round Rock, TX

Buy.com Goes with Austin Search Firm Adlucent

Adlucent Helps Retail Giant Buy.com Boost Profits Despite Economy

Adlucent Likes Lingerie

I love posting about Austin companies winning new business:

Andra partners with Austin-based search marketing firm Adlucent to boost online retail sites that peddle lingerie.

Source = DMnews

(I have to admit something. I was going to photoshop-up a picture of Adlucent’s co-founder and President, Michael Griffin, in a racy red teddy, but I decided to save that one…unless I get a bunch of requests.)

Jon Armstrong named CEO of Adlucent

“Veteran marketing and technology executive Jon Armstrong has been named CEO of search marketing company Adlucent LLC.

Austin-based Adlucent helps retailers increase online sales by making them more visible to potential customers via searches. With 857 percent growth in revenue over the previous three years, Adlucent ranked among the fastest growing private companies in the country on the 2008 Inc. 500 list.”

“Armstrong said Adlucent is poised for still more significant growth in the future, as an ever-expanding number of companies look to transfer their marketing budgets from offline to online–where effectiveness can be measured more effectively.”

Source = Austin Business Journal

Adlucent vs. Google – Better Snacks Challenge

I bet you can’t figure out which one of these snack room shots is Adlucent and which one is Google:

Search Keeps Growing

Eyeing Prices as Search Keeps Growing

Good thing I cleaned up

My home office is featured on Home.OfficeSnapshot.com.

And sometimes no walls either

Did I mention the sliding-glass-wall? Today, we’re enjoying the live
music happening down the street.

Saturday’s Snapshot Scene #3

What better way to share your company culture with the world then by posting a ton of random photos on the web? Photo sharing sites sure make it easy for us to over-share don’t they?

BazaarVoice – Guns and UGC -You better leave a good review
LinkedIn – INside linkedIN – They’re all connected

Who’s Watching Who #7

Is Sunday the end or the beginning of the week to you? Either way, today we post a Who’s-Who of folks that have contacted us and/or checked-out the blog and/or called to praise/complain, and/or any combination thereof over the past week. It was a busy week.

Adobe – Software Giant – Worldwide
LinkedIn – Online Networking – Mountain View, CA
MDC Partners – Agency Network – Toronto and New York
Ramholtz Publishing -Lead Generation – New York
WPP Group – Agency Network – Worldwide

Veteran Visitors who came back for more (and more):
Crispin Porter + Bogusky – Ad Agency – Miami and Boulder
GSD&M The Idea City – Ad Agency – Austin, Tx
McGarrah Jessee – Ad Agency – Austin, Tx
Porter Novelli – PR Agency – Worldwide

Been to the blog but don’t see your company on the list? Shoot us an email or post a comment. If you email us, make sure you send it from your company email account so that we know it is the real-deal. Let us know what you think and maybe share a bit of info. The worst that will happen is that you get a free link to your site. Not a bad trade for a bit of good SEO if you ask me.