Vanessa Marttinen is the founder of American Marketeur, a national independent full-service marketing firm based in Wilmington. Ms. Marttinen has 26 years of marketing and business development experience across the United States and in Hong Kong and South Korea. She has created successful marketing plans for almost every size and type of business and practice. She operates on the principle that whether you are a sole proprietor or a Fortune 100 company, marketing will positively impact revenue or profitability through proper planning. She structured her corporate business model to be different from the typical ad agency. American Marketeur does not and will never take mark ups on media purchases to allow completely unbiased guidance to clients. American Marketeur also has an enormous network of graphic designers, digital programmers and industry experts for each client to get the best resource. With this business model her marketing firm can build successful marketing plans for any type or size of business or practice. Ms. Marttinen moved here from the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999. She and her husband Jon have a young son. They enjoy supporting several local non-profit organizations and are self-proclaimed foodies who cook often. They ran a marathon to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma society and still enjoy running together (although not as often as they should). Vanessa also enjoys Bikram Yoga which finally made it to Wilmington a couple of years ago.