Our History
With $1,000 and a roll of stamps, Martin Communications, Inc. was founded in a spare bedroom, working on a second-hand, three-legged kitchen table, and a third-hand computer running DOS.
With a career in advertising spanning four decades, including employment in three ad agencies, Tom Martin established Martin Communications, Inc. in 1993 to provide clients with marketing, advertising, and media strategy/buying services based on a premise of more responsive, more client-focused, and more cost-efficient than competitors.
When the business grew, he moved his office into a 400-square-foot apartment above a hair salon where Barb began her career at Martin Communications, Inc. Together, they shared the one desk, one chair, one computer, and one phone while battling the fumes that wafted up on perm day.
In 2006, they expanded into their third office, thinking they would never outgrow that building. Things quickly changed. In 2009, we ranked 28th among the region’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies as recognized by the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal. In 2013, Martin Communications, Inc. relocated again into our fourth, and current, office building that tripled the office space to accommodate the growing team. To give you some perspective, what was once the conference room table is now our office kitchen table.