
About Pickup
Pickup was founded in late 2019 out of frustration and curiosity of what 'could be'. We were somewhat sick of the pitfalls in the traditional agency world. We were also excited about the idea of a different way to deliver services. We loved the idea of a 'fractional' model for ourselves and for our clients.
Our idea was to hack the traditional model where agencies build themselves to service a couple of large 'whale' clients, and then struggle with jobs outside their expertise or interest to keep cashflow moving when those whales slow down or stop moving. Part of our Day 1 ethos was to stay small, move fast, and work on projects that excite us.
We recognized and loved the idea of filling in the gaps that many organizations have around Branding, Marketing, Innovation, Sales and Product building. Specifically, the types of organizations that might have some of these parts in house, but need the other gaps filled. Or maybe their existing team members are just too focused on other organization needs, so getting to the new stuff (i.e. often the transformational and innovative stuff) was proving to be difficult or even impossible.
That's where Pickup comes in.
What's With The Name?
We often get asked about our name. We decided to call ourselves Pickup Studios following in the spirit of bucking the traditional agency model (along with the big overhead) - we loved the idea of working on projects like we were in a 'Pickup Session' - aka, a jam session among musicians for a night, or a soccer or basketball game, etc. We assemble the right pieces - aka, 'the team' for a project and GO!
These pieces include: Discovery, Strategy, Design (graphic, brand, UX/UI), Photography, Animation, Copywriting, Full stack development, AI automation and agents, and more.
Things we excel at:
- Discovering new opportunities and unlocking value
- HubSpot implementation
- Building and Launching new or 'new to you' products and services in a fast, agile way to better understand product market fit
- Strategic, holistic thinking
- Small and Medium sized business marketing
- Managing dev teams in an agile way to build great digital products

Interested in learning more??

Jim Smith
CEO / President

Mike Peterson
Chief Technology Officer

Jillian Sanders
CMO / Marketing Lead