Portage Media Solutions is an interactive agency that helps businesses build their brand names in the new media environment by helping them utilize things like web sites, blogs and podcasts. Business has been going well for the four years it has made its home in downtown Detroit, say business partners Jeremiah Staes and Eric Drader.
Revenues have basically doubled each year since the company was founded. It now has enough work to keep the two founders and four contractors busy. If business continues to go well, Staes sees the company adding two or three employees within the next 12 to 18 months.
It plans to do this by reaching out to more small and medium businesses that don't fully comprehend the power of new media, especially the Internet.
"There are a lot of businesses that don't understand how important online can be to opening up new markets," Staes says.
Source: Jeremiah Staes, Portage Media Solutions
Writer: Jon Zemke