Brainjar Media

Brainjar Media operates out of downtown Gresham, Oregon, with additional reach into the Portland metro area, including Troutdale, Happy Valley, Sandy, and Fairview & Wood Village. Founded in 2003, the agency is a small team that has worked with larger organizations such as Intel, Microsoft, NASCAR, and Pendleton Woolen Mills, alongside smaller local businesses like neighborhood pubs. Its work has been referenced in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and the Portland Tribune. The agency's stated services include SEO, web development, content marketing, and paid advertising, which it describes as four interconnected elements — search, site, story and spend — combined into a strategy proportioned to a client's specific market rather than applied as a single tactic. Its process follows three stages: diagnosing a client's goals and researching what competitors in the industry are doing (keywords they rank for, pages earning links, ads they continue to run); formulating a strategy that blends the relevant service elements; and administering that strategy with monthly reporting in plain language, tied to performance numbers. A case study on a pet food brand, Tiki Pets, cites an 11% increase in month-over-month sales and an 8% increase in organic traffic following work on SEO, content, design, and ads. The agency reports a client retention figure of 96% and describes having delivered more than 140 client projects over its two decades of operation.