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40 years of giant slaying

Help us celebrate four decades of empowering underdogs to do the impossible.

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Our Team

Our story

At DD, we’ve always been helping the underdogs do things they cannot do on their own. Our roots began in the nonprofit world, back in the 80s when faith-based charities needed a lot of help with direct mail to raise much-needed funds to support their missions. Over the next few decades, DD expanded into the higher education space to serve schools with creative and innovative marketing tactics that attracted students and alumni. We moved from being single-channel direct mail providers to multi-channel marketing gurus by the end of the first decade of the 21st century...but something still wasn’t right.

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We realized that the marketing and communications industry was being drastically disrupted, and people were engaging with content in ways that required new thinking, new technology, and an entirely new approach to marketing. The old strategies and tactics weren’t working, even though many “thought leaders” were preaching the opposite.


In 2014, we decided to completely reinvent ourselves and become a full-service agency. We chose to focus exclusively on the education and nonprofit industries, and we invested in using compelling content to attract right-fit audiences, rather than batch-and-blast interruption tactics.

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We knew we were fast. We knew we loved helping schools and nonprofits do more with less. And we knew how to make any complicated mar-tech strategy easy to understand and execute. So we adapted and improved and built a new team of storytellers, smart creatives, and marketing technologists — all of whom were hell-bent on achieving one common mission for every organization we partnered with: to help them slay their giants. That’s why…


We help Davids beat Goliaths.

Our core values

Treat People Like Family

We believe that the roots of great success are great relationships, which is why with DD you get real partners, not a sales pitch. Your challenges are our challenges, and we understand that reality happens and you need partners who treat you like you’re a real human and part of our team.

Be Ridiculously Helpful

We are interested in helping you solve your biggest problems...whether that means teaching you how to do it yourself, or partnering with us to help you get it done together. Either way, “being ridiculously helpful” means you’ll be glad you came to DD for answers, ideas, technology, or services.

Challenge Conventional Thinking

Having served nonprofit and education clients for more than 4 decades, we know how important it is to challenge common conventions and think outside the box in order to stay ahead of the curve. Innovation requires challenging some best practices.

Treasure Transparency

We strive to create transparent conversations in everything we do, and we pride ourselves in being honest and realistic in our strategic recommendations, including what we believe are the right moves for a person or organization. If we don’t believe in it ourselves, we won’t recommend it for you either.

Adapt & Improve

Everyone who engages with our family of brands knows that we thrive on making smart and fast improvements that are informed by data. This is our commitment to prioritizing value over vanity when it comes to our products, services, resources, technologies, and communities.

Make It Fridge-Worthy

Excellence is what we strive for in everything that we create, and we know how to help you do that too. Our goal is to proliferate well-thought-out strategies that produce exceptional content and remarkable results — just like the one-of-a-kind art projects your mom would tape to the fridge because she’s so proud of your work!

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Our Giant Slayers have a unique blend of creative strategy, entrepreneurship, tech-savviness, a little gray hair, and a dash of rebellion. If you’re interested in doing the impossible, let’s defy the odds — together.

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