About Us
Our team’s passion, drive, and experience helps our clients grow their businesses and propel them to greater success, with tailor-made, innovative marketing strategies and services.
We select the most effective strategies that bring the highest return on investment for your business.
We believe:
- that business can and should be used to make the world a better place
- in the “triple bottom line”: equal importance on people, profit, and the planet
- that our success will come as a natural result of helping our clients to be successful
- that for-profit businesses and non-profits can partner together to create positive change for our community . To that end, we often work with non-profits for promotions and events.
Gary has been on the cutting edge of the marketing and web development fields for over 20 years. After growing up in Peoria, and graduating from Richwoods High School and Bradley University, he became a founding partner of a groundbreaking interactive marketing agency in San Diego in 1997. His agency grew to a team of eight people. There, he built a reputation for providing his clients with cost-effective marketing strategies that produce undeniable results. This included designing, developing, and launching one of the first online pharmacies in the United States.
Since moving back to the Peoria area in 2009, Gary now leads Chatham Marketing in assisting small to medium-sized businesses achieve measurable success.
With a background and education in both marketing and psychology, Gary is an expert in knowing which strategies will attract and retain the best customers for our clients. By placing himself in the shoes of your customers, and by drawing on his knowledge base and years of experience, he effectively communicates your vision to your target market. Gary brings the vision, strategies, and passion that will mean results for you.
Beyond his passion for marketing, Gary loves playing in local bands, enhancing personal growth, and building community connections. He says, ”My greatest motivation and satisfaction come from seeing our clients’ businesses grow, while making a positive impact on the community.”
“Gary Chatham was my supervisor and mentor during the early days of the Internet.
“He was a visionary, opening one of the very first digital agencies in San Diego, and was also a visionary with helping clients get better results. He taught me well, and I have gone on to an amazing career because of it.
“I later hired Gary and Chatham Marketing for SEO projects for my own company, SD Interactive, and for our clients, including: SEO, Inc., Jacuzzi, Sony Pictures, Passages Malibu, and others.”
Ronald Marc Weber, Senior Director, Web & SEO at Actian
With over 20 years’ experience in web design and development, as well as print design, Michele is Chatham Marketing’s Creative Director. Michele’s interest in art started as a toddler when she fell in love with finger painting, and then progressed to making mud sculptures with her parents’ new cookware set. After taking a few graphic design classes in high school, her passion for design grew into college classes, and led to a career in graphic design. Over the years, Michele’s expert eye for visual appeal and her finely tuned technical skills have brought countless businesses’ web sites to the “next level.”
She’s a gifted designer who clearly knows how to showcase a business’s web content for maximum customer appeal. She is also adept at web programming. Her specialties include: Art Direction, Branding, CSS, and PHP integration.
Michele is always thinking of new ideas, enjoys a healthy lifestyle, and working out.
