Marketing Maven's Move to Wichita Featured in the Wichita Business Journal
- Rachel Rains
- Jun 23
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 28
Marketing Maven Consulting was honored to be featured by the Wichita Business Journal following our recent move to Wichita, Kansas. As we approach our 10th anniversary this fall, recognition like this is an exciting milestone for our growing brand management and design firm. You can preview the story below or click through to read the full article on the Wichita Business Journal website.
'More opportunity': Marketing Maven relocates from Great Bend to Wichita to pursue larger clients
Story by Eduardo Castillo, Reporter with the Wichita Business Journal
Kansas native Rachel Rains has relocated her Marketing Maven marketing and public relations firm from Great Bend to Wichita in a move to grow her portfolio of mid- and large-sized companies.
Rains spent nearly 10 years doing communications work in the nonprofit and healthcare sectors before starting Marketing Maven in 2016. The firm operated out of a Great Bend office and relocated to Groover Labs in Wichita in May.
Nearly 10 years later, she's built up her team of 10 and impressive roster of clients. Her team is fully remote, with eight employees based in Wichita.
"I wanted to be closer to my team and also an airport, because we work with clients all over the country," Rains told the Business Journal. "Some of my largest clients are in other states, even as far as New York. It was prohibitive not living close to an airport where I could travel when I need to."
Marketing Maven provides brand management, graphic design, video production, photography, and marketing strategy for businesses across multiple industries, including agriculture, manufacturing, automotive, real estate, and healthcare.
"From a revenue perspective, most of what we do is actually being a marketing department for companies that either don't have one or need additional support," Rains said. "Most of our clients we work with year-round."
Rains said doing business in Great Bend was successful because of the close-knit business community and strong word-of-mouth referrals, but Wichita offers additional opportunities for the firm's continued growth.
"It's easy to get referrals in western Kansas because when you do well for one person, they're very generous about spreading the word," Rains said. "We thrive the best working with clients who have 50 to 200 employees, so with the size of a company that can do that in western Kansas, you've narrowed the list quite a bit. Wichita presents a lot more opportunity and a lot more resources."
Rains also noted Wichita's thriving creative community and looks forward to networking with other professionals through Groover Labs, 1 Million Cups, and other local events.
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About Marketing Maven
Marketing Maven Consulting is more than just a design firm. And we aren't your typical big-city agency with inflated pricing and foosball tables in the lobby. We're a hard-working, resourceful team of creatives with a passion for helping our clients achieve their long-term goals. Our primary focus is on being an outsourced, year-round marketing department for companies across the Midwest, a service we call Brand Management. And for clients who just need help stepping up their branding, we also tackle one-time projects with transparent pricing. With team members in multiple locations across Kansas and clients from a variety of industries in several states, we're adaptable and set up to work remotely with companies virtually anywhere in the United States. Learn more at www.hireamaven.com or follow Marketing Maven on social media.
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