Maxwell Ad Ventures · Bureau of Modern Publicity
An advertising house for the discerning proprietor. We render your whole enterprise — your storefront, your name, your standing — so your patrons may see it plain and remember it well.
↑ Tap the crest — we are still striking our mark
Why a Picture
A modern proprietor is not short of channels — he is short of clarity. Our trade is to take the whole of your business and make it visible: drawn, set in motion, and placed before the crowd until the town knows your name.
Your trade, drawn with intention — a face the public can recognise across a crowded street.
Set in motion across the wireless and the boards — your story told the same way, everywhere at once.
Put before the crowd, tirelessly — a clerk who works every hour you sleep, and never tires of your name.
The Departments of the Bureau
Modern work in period dress. Each department is an old name for a new machine.
We place your notices where the crowds gather. Through grassroots community promotion and targeted ad buys, we build your reputation locally and beyond.
In plain terms · Paid advertising & Grassroots PromotionA storefront for the wireless age — luminous, tireless, and open at every hour. The first thing a patron sees, built to be remembered.
In plain terms · Website Design & ServicingYour message, multiplied and dispatched. We create engaging content and manage your public presence, answering the crowd while you sleep.
In plain terms · Social Media Management & Content CreationCalculating machines tend your ledgers, your letters, and your appointments. Join a powerful network of automated systems supporting independent proprietors.
In plain terms · Join An Ecosystem of Local Small Business OwnersSpecimens of the House
Hand a proprietor a picture of his own enterprise and watch him stand a little taller. These are the trades of our peninsula, dressed for the boulevard.
The Syndicate
We are building an interconnected network of local businesses across the peninsula. When one prospers, we all rise.
We are currently vetting and onboarding our founding partners. The Maxwell Ventures Local Business Ecosystem will open its doors shortly.
Provide your details and we will draw up your future.
The Principals
Growing up between the plains of Nebraska and the sprawl of Dallas, Texas, we found a shared, lifelong passion for helping people—starting with free tech classes for seniors. Today, our mission is to build a thriving small business economy in the coastal region of the PNW, bringing more business and jobs to the coast one storefront at a time.
Draws the machine behind the house — the engines, the wireless, the order that lets a small firm act large.
Minds the books and wins the room — the voice of the house, where every campaign turns into custom and coin.
As reported in the society pages
The proprietor scarcely recognised his own little shop once the Maxwell house had drawn it up — and within the fortnight, neither could the town help but notice.
— A Notice of Modern Commerce, vol. IV
Marques Under Consideration
A house is known by its mark. We have not settled ours — so here are the candidates on the drafting table. Choose one and watch it take the lockup above.
Currently flying the house colours: Marque No. VII — The Wordmark
Open the Account
Tell us your trade. We will draw it up, set it in motion, and put it before the crowd.
Bureau of Modern Publicity