Special to the Daily Record
Renaissance Creative Services will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year as an award winning, growing real estate marketing and brand development firm.
Company president and co-creative director, Tim Hamby, along with partners and co-creative directors, Matthew Britt and architect, Ed Bondi, head Renaissance Creative Services. The firm has two offices inside the Perimeter Park office complex near the intersection of Southside Boulevard and J. Turner Butler Boulevard.
Renaissance specializes in residential, commercial and resort real estate marketing, offering a broad range of services including comprehensive advertising and public relations services, marketing and media planning, brand development, graphic design, web-development, architectural and interior design services, and signage programs.
“The expansion is due to steady growth in business and staff. We were simply out of space and more room in additional offices just across the street made the most sense,” said Hamby
Renaissance Creative Services surpassed its 2004, seven-award performance by winning honors in an unprecedented 11 categories at the Florida Home Builders Association Excel Awards during the 2005 Southeast Building Conference. The annual awards reward real estate marketing excellence for projects, developers and builders throughout the state.
More kudos came in April, when Renaissance Creative Services was honored with nine prestigious Laurel Awards for outstanding real estate marketing by the Northeast Florida Builders Association’s Sales and Marketing Council.
“We’ve always done well with the awards and always expect our work to do well in competition, but I can’t say we weren’t surprised at the dramatic level of success we enjoyed at this year’s Excels and Laurels,” said Hamby. “It is a tremendous validation of our team’s creative talents, and a nod to our clients, as well, all deserve recognition.”
Renaissance Creative Services was recently named Jacksonville’s sixth fastest growing private company in the Jacksonville Business Journal’s 2005 “Fast 50” competition, the company reported. The honor marked the third time in the past four years that Renaissance had been named to the list and it’s been a steady rise. The firm was ranked No. 10 in 2004 and No. 25 in 2002.
“Our business philosophy is pretty simple. We focus on the work. We provide great creative, consistently — regardless of obstacles,” said Hamby. “We consider every job a valuable new opportunity to demonstrate our abilities and expand our reputation.”
Hamby said Renaissance Creative Services is fortunate to work with some outstanding professionals who recognize the value of high-quality marketing. Clients understand both the direct impact that targeted, effective marketing has on lead and sales generation, as well as the greater message it sends to potential customers about their companies’ overall concern for quality on an organizational level.
Additionally, Hamby credits the firm’s tremendously experienced and talented team, matched with their client’s equally talented and driven marketing personnel and management that guide the marketing process.
In terms of growth, Renaissance Creative Services is grateful for all the agency has experienced to this point, and will continue to embrace what comes naturally by way of referral, just like they always have.
Britt pointed out that the company’s growth was primarily a byproduct of its own success, as opposed to a concerted effort to grow.
“We’re particularly proud of the fact that our growth has been directly related to leaving our clients satisfied. We’ve done very little in the way of self-promotion over the years, relying almost exclusively on repeat and referral business. There are no salespeople or anyone assigned to new business development; only very talented creative and experienced service professionals,” he said.
Bondi added that the company’s real estate marketing niche and broad experience within that field had also played a key role.
“It was always our vision to occupy this highly-specialized niche and to be the very best we could at it,” said Bondi. “As it worked out, real estate has become one of the hottest and enduring market sectors over the past several years. The southeast, and North Florida in particular, has become one of the most active regions for development and people in the industry know we are a name they can trust”.