I’m consistently surprised that I am able to continuously find marketing agencies that I’d never heard of before. I always imagine that large companies have large marketing departments, but the truth is that a lot of marketing gets farmed out to agencies. Differentiating between agencies as a job seeker is tough once you get away from the biggest names in the industry. I always like to look at client lists as a quick proxy for agency quality, but then again it continues to surprise me how many agencies there are with awesome client lists. Chicago based TargetCom is one of them. They’ve worked with names like the Atlanta Braves, Hooked on Phonics, Allstate, Audi, and Citi. Marketing is all about growing revenues, so TargetCom does well to describe themselves as “an integrated marketing agency that practices the art and science of generating, executing and measuring great ideas for clients who are serious about growth.”

Make TargetCom Your Target

Unfortunately TargetCom is like many other integrated marketing agencies in that their website is built entirely in Flash. This means that I’m not able to link you to specific sections of the site to learn more about the details of who they are and what they do. If you do browse around on your own you’ll come across case studies for projects with companies like Harley-Davidson, TrueCredit, and Cancer Treatment Centers of America. You’ll also get an inside look at their culture and their people. This is the important stuff that you should really look at when you’re deciding which marketing agencies you want to apply to (or if you want to apply to any), so take some time to browse TargetCom’s website. You won’t find a Jobs page, but you will find a note on their Contact page saying that they’re “always looking for enthusiastic, talented people” along with an invitation to reach out to them at tcomjobs@targetcom.com. Judging from their employees’ LinkedIn profiles, it seems that they do offer a number of potentially entry level positions like Assistant Account Executive, Business Development Associate, and Junior Copywriter.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• TargetCom.com
• TargetCom’s Fact Sheet

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