When Adbongo founder, John Bush, was studying advertising at the prestigious advertising institute at Southern Methodist University (SMU), the program won the national ad team competition two years in a row. Through participation in the curriculum, John witnessed the power of the process that traditional ad agencies use to provide services to multi-million dollar clients who can afford the $2,000/hour price tag.  John realized that instead of having students produce materials for fictitious companies, the advertising program should service small businesses working to benefit the community and planet, they’re the ones who really need help. Thus the seed which grew Adbongo was planted.  See Brand Camp 

In 2006, John started Adbongo as an agency that beat to a different drum. Rather than focusing on selling cheeseburgers or SUVs, Adbongo has the dream of growing businesses with products, ideas, or services of benefit to humanity. Over the years, Adbongo evolved from an ad agency to a for-benefit business accelerator.

There is currently an economic bubble growing in the field of accelerators across the globe. They are popping up left and right! But there is an upside to this trend. Accelerators are a type of business incubator that creates 20 times more jobs than public infrastructure projects. However, most accelerators are prone to operate within and serve the tech industry. With a zero waste philosophy, we focus on clients who are based on reuse of resources, which creates 7.5-20 times the amount of jobs than recycling. Adbongo stands out from the crowd.

Our experience and knowledge has been hard won through trial and error. We are seeing the increasing results after years of testing and editing our process. Adbongo is a train headed for the new clean economy, an economy where there are more winners, abundant resources and zero waste.

       Set a Zero Waste Goal and Grow

The Adbongo Difference

We empower companies to make more money while impacting their communities by designing sustainable marketing plans, providing on demand executive teams, business resources and services as needed, based on budget, needs and timeline.

Clients who have benefitted from our platform

City of Austin

Elevate Film Festival

Collection 18 New York

Green Ox Energy

Green Home Residential

Green Grove Group

Accessible Home Design

Green Home Residential

Key Image Media

Coyote Legal

Mogul Wealth Management

American Construction Benefits Group

Eat Green DFW

Synergy Mediation

Mesa Ranch

Latina Broadcasters

Electronic Waste Disposal

Golab Austin

Rock-About Climbing

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Benefits of our platform

• Increase profits
• Increase efficiency
• Mitigate risk
• Reduce liability
• Save money
• Create traffic
• Attract new customers
• Grow exponentially
• Grow faster
• Get a marketing edge
• Collaborate rather than compete
• Create more professional image
• Stay in the race
• Create jobs
• Reduce carbon emissions
• Become sustainable
• Improve employee moral
• Decrease turnover
• Acquire strategic resources and networks
• Save the world

Pitch:

Do you want a more advanced business model that will allow you to grow faster while having a greater impact on the planet and our community? With our blue ocean strategies, we can make your competitors irrelevant. If you have been seeking resources in reactive mode, we can provide you with a proactive, sustainable and cost-effective business development plan.  Not only will we provide you a marketing campaign based on the zero waste marketing edge, but we will also provide a lean team to execute the plan for cost of a average secretary’s monthly salary.

Certified For-Benefit Corporation

To further validate the benefits we offer businesses such as yours as well as society in general, Adbongo became the first for-benefit business accelerator in the world in 2011.  We have unique experience designing lean, clean businesses for the new economy.  Called B corporations, for-benefit entities are a rapidly emerging new sector of the economy.  There are only 759 B corporations in the world, and multiple states have  adopted legislation recognizing B corporations as a new form of business entity. “For-benefit” corporations wed the best of the for-profit economic structure with the non-profit “do-gooder” mission.

Are you ready to see an example of the resources we can muster to help you?    Brand Camp