Kim Green and Bill Sholar
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To make a long story short, when web firm competitors Kim Green and Bill Sholar met it was a business match. Twenty years later, together they run Short Story Marketing.
Short Story Marketing is an all-encompassing marketing firm that creates effective websites, logos, and marketing materials for solopreneurs, small businesses and non-profits.
“We’ve done creative services for anything from food trucks to dog boarding facilities, from real estate to government offices, political campaigns, and a national charity for children who lost parents in war,” Green said. “That speaks to the breadth of how marketing can apply to just about everybody.”
Sholar started working with the internet long before it was called the internet. He has operated college computer centers, was a marketing and sales manager for Steve Jobs’ NeXT computer company, managed an IT team at a major oil company in the Middle East and owned a business intermediary firm.
Green graduated from the Art Institute of Dallas and later won the printing industry’s best of class award for her design work. She began her career working for the family business, which morphed into a graphic design business and then morphed into the design side of Short Story Marketing.
Green currently lives and works in Tillamook County, while Sholar resides in Virginia. Despite being on two separate coasts, the duo operates seamlessly as they began working virtually before that was even a “thing.”
After relocating to Oregon from Texas, Green became actively involved in the community.
“I joined the Tillamook Area Chamber of
Commerce immediately, from previous experience local chambers work well for small businesses and networking to get familiar with other local entrepreneurs,” she said.
