Tugboat Group

Specialties

Docked in Vancouver, we live in an integrated environment of strategic marketing and planning, brand and identity development, creative design, packaging, interactive and web development, e-​commerce, SEO, advertising, and whatever else isn’t bolted down.

Plus, we’re swell people

History

Established in 1998.

Tugboat has been developing winning strategies, striking identities and influential communications tools that empower small businesses to advance their brands and increase revenues — efficiently, unmistakably and sustainably, for 15 years.

The integrated strategies we conceive and the methods we employ vary in degree, scope and application, but this simple notion drives what we do, how we do it and whom we do it for.

With a name like Tugboat references to the robust vessels are to be expected. We see many similarities between our company and our namesake. Our work is focused on our clients, not ourselves. We are agile and swift, capable of brute force or a delicate touch as we pull you out to open water or edge you into port.

However you measure the success of your enterprise, Tugboat can help you get there.

Welcome aboard.

Meet the Business Owner

Steve G.

Business Owner

Those kids that insist on taking anything and everything apart to figure out how it works? Steve was one of those kids. Except Steve always managed to put it back together. And it always worked better.

Not much has changed. The now 17-​year communications and marketing professional continues to rummage beneath the surface of every new challenge, no matter the size. Establish the goal. Define the value proposition. Craft the strategy. Create and measure. Steve provides the discipline and the glue that keeps the multifaceted Tugboat steady on course and undisputed in front of, alongside, or behind the causes it stands for.

At the helm, Steve excels in the architecture of achievable, multidisciplinary marketing and communications endeavours. His capacity to devise unique and integrated tactics for multi-​pronged campaigns has manifested in the success of hundreds of ventures, promotions and projects. Over the years, Steve has relished the opportunity to work with such highly-​recognizable