Bold Story Marketing

What Bold Story Marketing does

Bold Story Marketing is a privately held, founder-owned boutique marketing agency headquartered in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2020 by Carrie Horn after a decade as Senior Marketing Director at 5280 Publishing. The firm provides an integrated suite of marketing services to small service-based and consumer-facing businesses as well as nonprofit organizations in the Denver market, with offerings spanning nine categories: fractional CMO services, marketing strategy, content creation and messaging, media buying and paid advertising, public relations, partnerships and collaborations, events and brand activations, visual branding, and website design and refresh. Deliverables are sold as either comprehensive outsourced marketing engagements or à la carte tactical modules under project-based and retainer pricing models.

The firm operates without a proprietary technology platform, relying instead on standard industry tools for social media management, content production, email marketing, SEO, analytics, and website design. Its core deliverable is human-driven strategic marketing execution, with a four-person curated team (founder, marketing and events manager, social media specialist, and brand/web/graphic designer) operating as an embedded extension of each client's team. Distribution is sales-led and relationship-driven: lead generation flows through the company website contact form and direct outreach to the founder, with no public pricing tiers disclosed.

The customer base is highly diversified across verticals — restaurants (ChoLon), dental (Belmar Dentistry), CBD (Blue Sky), construction (Ascent Contracting), arts nonprofits (Museum of Outdoor Arts), charter schools (GALS Denver), hospitality real estate (Zeppelin Development), community banking (Alpine Bank), and pilates (Uncommon Practice Pilates), among others. Geographic focus is the Denver Metro Area, with founder-led media relationships leveraged to deliver measurable PR outcomes — documented case studies cite tens of millions of aggregate media impressions across engagements.

Name

Bold Story Marketing

Legal name

Bold Story Marketing

Website

https://boldstorymarketing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bold Story Marketing is a Denver-based boutique marketing agency founded in 2020 that provides fractional CMO, PR, content, events, branding, and website services to small service businesses and nonprofits in the Denver market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (54181), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418), Graphic Design Services (541430)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Creative & Brand Campaign Development (BPAFAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Creative Concepting & Campaign Development (BPAFAEAD), Content Strategy & Planning (BPAFAIAG)

Keywords

• Boutique marketing agency
• Fractional CMO services
• Public relations services
• Brand strategy consulting
• Event marketing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Marketing Consulting & Strategy Services: Revenue generated through consulting engagements including fractional CMO services, strategic marketing planning, brand discovery workshops, and ongoing marketing strategy development. Delivered as project-based or retainer arrangements.
2. Tactical Marketing Execution: À la carte service delivery including content creation, social media scripting and posting, brand refreshes, public relations, event planning, media buying, and website updates. Sold as individual service modules or bundled packages.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Bold Story Marketing is a full-service boutique marketing agency based in Denver, Colorado that provides integrated marketing services including fractional CMO consulting, strategic marketing planning, public relations, content creation, social media management, media buying, brand activations and events, visual branding, and website design for small service and consumer-facing businesses. The agency delivers both executive-level retained engagements and à la carte tactical services, scaling with client needs rather than operating as a technology platform.

Product overview

Bold Story Marketing is a full-service boutique marketing agency based in Denver, Colorado, providing a comprehensive suite of integrated marketing services for small businesses, service providers, and consumer-facing brands. The company's offerings include Fractional CMO Services, Marketing Strategy, Content Creation & Messaging, Media Buying & Paid Advertising, Public Relations, Partnerships & Collaborations, Events & Brand Activations, Visual Branding, and Website Design & Refresh. Rather than a software product company, Bold Story operates as a service-based agency that delivers marketing support that scales with client needs, from acting as outsourced CMO to offering à la carte services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fractional CMO Services Executive-level marketing leadership providing strategic marketing oversight for growing small businesses, including hands-on execution, team leadership, budget planning, vendor management, and KPI tracking.
• Marketing Strategy
• Content Creation & Messaging
• Media Buying & Paid Advertising
• Public Relations
• Partnerships & Collaborations
• Events & Brand Activations
• Visual Branding
• Website Design & Refresh

Quantifiable outcome

• 7.1 million potential unique monthly readers secured for GALS Denver through PR efforts
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Alex Fuller CreativecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership with Alex Fuller Creative for brand and website design projects. Alex Fuller serves as Bold Story's in-house brand, website, and graphic designer, handling digital experiences for clients such as Belmar Dentistry, Twin Rivers IV + Wellness Lounge, and City Cast. She led the refresh of the Bold Story website itself.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Hunter PR: Independent consumer PR and social media agency providing media relations, influencer marketing, and brand storytelling. Directly comparable boutique PR-services model serving brand and lifestyle clients.
• M Booth: Independent creative PR and communications agency delivering earned media, content, and brand marketing for consumer and lifestyle brands. Comparable integrated PR-plus-content boutique model.
• 5W Public Relations: PR agency providing media relations, digital marketing, influencer, and corporate communications for consumer and lifestyle brands. Overlapping specialty in PR-led brand building for SMB and growth-stage clients.
• Walker Sands: Mid-size PR and integrated marketing agency combining PR, content, brand strategy, and demand generation for growth-stage companies. Comparable full-service boutique model competing for similar mid-market and SMB clients.
• LaunchSquad: Boutique PR and marketing agency working with emerging and growth-stage brands across content, media relations, and brand storytelling. Direct peer to Bold Story in offering integrated PR + content + brand activation services to smaller clients.

Broad incumbents

• Edelman: Global public relations and communications firm with advertising, brand, and content capabilities. Represents the broader incumbent competitive set for PR and integrated marketing services, though typically serving larger enterprise clients.
• Ogilvy PR: Worldwide advertising, PR, and communications agency delivering brand, content, and creative services. Largest-scale reference for full-service integrated agency capabilities competing for brand storytelling budgets.
• Weber Shandwick: Global public relations and integrated marketing network offering media relations, brand strategy, content, and social media services. Provides the broad-incumbent reference point for the SMB boutique model.
• FleishmanHillard: Major global PR and integrated communications agency offering brand storytelling, content, social, and earned media at scale. Comparable overall service mix, though with a different scale and client concentration.

Regional players

• Amelie Company: Denver-based full-service creative agency providing brand strategy, PR, digital, and experiential services for local and regional clients. Direct geographic peer competing in the same Denver SMB and consumer-brand market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/boldstorymarketing
• Facebookfacebook.com/Bold.Story.Marketing
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bold-story-marketing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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