Blink Marketing started in a home office, with an idea and an identified opportunity.  Currently located in the Iowa Great Lakes area, Jill Harms identified that there was a need for a full service marketing agency in Northwest Iowa.  So, after spending 10 years working for global giant, Pure Fishing, in 2009 she left to pursue her dream of starting up a marketing agency.  Working in marketing, for Pure Fishing and several other large companies, she gained a unique perspective on the marketing agency world.  "I'd worked with some of the best agencies and some of the worst," said Harms.  "So, it gave me the opportunity to understand what it was really going to take, to become a top notch agency.  And, because we live in an area where there are lots of artists, it gave me opportunity to pick good talent."  In addition, Harms has traveled abroad to 11 countries during her corporate marketing career, giving her a unique global perspective to marketing, that most other small marketing firms don't have.  Harms has worked on some well-known brands such as Red Baron Pizza, Tony's Pizza, Schwan's Foods, Sather's Candy, Berkley, Abu Garcia, Fenwick, Coleman, Shakespeare, Penn, and others.  Since then, Blink Marketing has blossomed into an "edgy and downtown boutique looking", lower level office of East Oaks Mall in Lake Okoboji, Iowa. A casual and fun environment is a big part of fostering those creative ideas. People always ask, "How did you get into this business" and I always say "This business got into me."  It has expanded to three employees:  Harms:  President & Chief Strategist, Brock Bringle:  Creative Director and Mad Scientist, and Tracy Zimmerman:  Marketing Manager & Social Stalker.  

When not working in our offices, you’ll find us sleeping, being mothers, occasionally exercising, eating food (sometimes too much), and volunteering, but not all at the same time and not always with each other (because that would be weird). But really, some of our other activities include: church volunteer, YMCA volleyball and soccer coach, Okoboji Youth BB coaches Director, Okoboji SCIAC committee, Religious Ed Instructor, American Cancer Society Relay for Life Team Captain, Pearson Lakes Art Center play assistant, HAPI (Historic Arnolds Park) Board of Directors, St. Joseph's Finance Council, Softball Coach, YMCA supporter, Pheasants Forever sponsor, PLAC supporter, CASA (Child advocates for ), Trails Fundraiser supporter, Youth Arts Festival supporter and other things that we just do because....after all, it only takes one person to make a difference, imagine what we could do if everyone felt the same way?