Read What Clients Say

Successful Launch in Record Time

“If you are looking for professional marketing advice in the gardening world, Evergreen Marketing should be first stop on your list. Their investment in understanding our business, prompt return of deliverables, dedicated service and follow-up helped Colorblends successfully launch a new business service in record time. Val regularly updates us with new ideas, and is our go-to person on marketing initiatives.”

“Serious Added Value”

"There is no doubt in my mind that you bring serious value to the equation.  I knew there were serious discounts to be had...but not that serious!  Thank you!"

“One of the Best Investments We Made”

"Reviewing our smart moves of 2005 finds Evergreen Marketing at the top of our list. Your critique of our hard copy nursery catalog was "right on". We received unsolicited compliments on the new catalog and sales were up over the previous year. Return per dollar spent was one of the best investments we made.  Thank you."

“You’re a Gem!”

“We think you’re a gem. You have made part of this difficult transition seamless even when I called you about matters beyond advertising. Of course, I'd be glad to talk you up to anyone who wants to know more!”

“I Wish I Met You Years Ago”

“For two years before I found you, I did all my own media buying. I spent a ton of money buying useless, expensive ads in publications that weren't a good match for my company and products. I was paying full rates, and pretty much trying out every new publication when a salesman would call me, thinking maybe it would be the key to getting a lot of sales.

I was a real media-buying genius, as you can probably tell. I spent so much money in 2001 that I am embarrassed to say specifics, other than that it completely wrecked my net income and PERSONAL income for the year, even with growing gross sales.

At that point, I was considering not advertising at all anymore. And strangely, that's almost exactly what you suggested when I hired you. We immediately dropped all the publications where I had blindly purchased ads and stopped advertising completely, except for just two publications, with two brand new coded, measurable ads that you designed for me.

Next, we actually ended up getting rid of one of those two publications after we measured the results! You found me a different publication that I didn't even know about. It was not only much cheaper than the other one that we cancelled, but also actually brought in measurable sales and made a profit.

Now it is 2005, and I am advertising in more than two publications again. But my overall advertising expenses are still lower than they were in 2001. My gross sales are three times higher than in 2001, and net income is in good shape too.

I wish I had met you back in 2000!”

Patient Guidance and Money Savings

“We are very pleased with our relationship with Evergreen Marketing, especially your patient guidance for our first-ever display advertising in major garden magazines. We have appreciated your well-researched targets that are appropriate for our products, your ideas on how we can better use the internet, and your communications and gentle reminders to ensure that we meet deadlines. Your ability to negotiate fees and placement has saved us money and time.”

Delivery Exceeds Expectations

"Evergreen Marketing was able to deliver more than I expected. They brainstormed the initial ideas with us, made great suggestions and then delivered them in a tight timeline. But it didn't stop there with their payment....they followed through and offered suggestions throughout the whole project."

Profitable From the Beginning

“Evergreen Marketing did a great job with our PR campaign for the Tudor Shed. The response from the newspapers was higher than we had expected, due in large part to their knowledge of the industry and steady follow-up. The cost of the campaign was very reasonable, especially considering Val's experience. Val's attention in combination with the cost created a campaign that was profitable within the first month, after the first feature. And we still continue to benefit from the campaign.”

Insightful and Knowledgeable

“Val Gosset is an extremely thoughtful and insightful person, whose knowledge of the lawn and garden industry is a great asset for anyone working with Evergreen Marketing.”

Invaluable Experience

"We hired Evergreen Marketing to write ad copy for a new direct marketing piece we were creating to inform schools and institutions of our turn-key greenhouse project services. Their prior experience marketing to the gardening industry was invaluable in creating ad copy that was concise but at the same time painted a textually rich image of IGC's abilities to potential customers.

The end result was a great brochure which has been a valuable tool for growing sales in an important market segment. I am confident Evergreen Marketing can help other businesses like they have assisted our company.”

Successful Negotiating

"Val is a professional with a broad background and experience. She's been successful at negotiating good discounts with advertisers and is always ready and willing to help no matter what the job.”

Direct Response Pro

“It was a pleasure to work with Evergreen Marketing on the development and testing of direct response advertising for our niche garden products. The professionalism and engagement in our project were excellent. I'd recommend Val and her team to anyone looking for assistance in direct response.”

Significantly Increased Profits

“Evergreen Marketing has been Breath Appeal's internet agency since 2002. We chose Evergreen Marketing because they exhibited an excellent understanding of direct response advertising and how it could be applied to internet marketing. Toward this end, Evergreen Marketing has designed an outstanding web page and implemented a web marketing program that tracks and measures sales results. This program enables us to accurately analyze return on our internet advertising investment.

Evergreen Marketing's internet marketing program has significantly increased revenue and profits for our company. Valerie Gosset provides excellent account service and is most reliable in negotiating internet advertising rates and providing a monthly report of our internet advertising cost and sales return. It is a pleasure doing business with her.”

Extraordinary Results

“Val Gosset has an extraordinary ability to communicate your message and to get extraordinary results.”