For 33 years, PRIME has been about much more than advertising and marketing. It’s been about people, relationships, businesses, communities, and helping others succeed. And that story started with PRIME Founder Mark J. Murray.
It Started with a Vision
Thirty-three years ago, Mark J. Murray founded PRIME Advertising + Design with an entrepreneurial spirit, a passion for marketing, and a belief that great relationships and great ideas could help businesses grow.
What began with Mark’s vision would eventually become a full-service marketing company serving businesses, cities, nonprofits, community organizations, youth associations, and millions of residents.
A few years after starting PRIME, his mother, Marilyn J. Bina, joined the company. Over time, Marilyn became Mark’s longtime business partner and one of the most important people in the PRIME story.
Marilyn J. Bina: An Integral Part of the PRIME Story
For Mark, PRIME became more than a business. It became a family journey.
Mark had the incredible privilege of eventually building the company alongside his mother, best friend, and business partner, Marilyn J. Bina.
Marilyn’s contribution cannot simply be measured by a title or job description. It can be seen in:
- The relationships PRIME has built
- The nonprofit organizations PRIME has supported
- The cities and communities with which we’ve developed lasting partnerships
- The causes and organizations PRIME has helped support
- Marilyn’s genuine care for people
Marilyn has always believed that being successful in business also means being a good community partner. That philosophy became an important part of PRIME’s DNA and will remain part of the company as we move into the future.
Together with generations of dedicated PRIME employees, clients, vendors, and community partners, Mark and Marilyn helped grow PRIME into what it is today.
An Exciting New Chapter
Today, we’re excited to announce that Prime Advertising + Design is moving forward as Prime Marketing + Design under the leadership of Steve Jung, who will serve as CEO of the new company.
Steve, owner of M&G Trailer and Silver Spur Ranch, brings extensive experience building companies, developing people, creating opportunities, and generating sustainable growth.
Because M&G Trailer has been a longtime PRIME client, we’ve had the opportunity to know Steve not only as a business owner, but as a person. He is strong, ethical, compassionate, kind, and deeply committed to people. And he knows how to grow businesses.
PRIME Founder Mark J. Murray will continue to play an important role in the company, bringing his passion, creativity, energy, relationships, strategic thinking, marketing experience, and enthusiasm into this next chapter.
Marilyn’s legacy of relationships, compassion, community involvement, and caring for others will continue to be part of the foundation upon which PRIME builds its future.
The company may be entering a new chapter, but the values that brought us here aren’t changing. They’re becoming the foundation for what’s next.
Your Marketing Department. Your Technology Team. Your Growth Partner.
The next generation of PRIME will be about something bigger than individual marketing services. It’s about strategy.
PRIME can serve as your complete outsourced marketing department or become a seamless extension of your existing marketing team.
Instead of coordinating numerous disconnected vendors, imagine surrounding your organization with one experienced team of:
- Marketing strategists
- Creative professionals
- Branding experts
- Digital specialists
- Website developers
- Content experts
- Search professionals
- AI specialists
- Photographers
- Video professionals
- Marketing technologists
All sitting at the same table. All understanding your business. All working from one strategy. All focused on one thing: helping your business grow.
Our expanding capabilities include:
- Marketing Strategy & Planning
- Branding & Creative
- Digital Marketing
- Website Strategy, Design & Development
- AI and SEO Search Technologies
- Traditional Search & Digital Visibility
- Photography & Video Production
- Content & Communications
- Print & Direct Mail
- Publications
- Community Engagement
- Integrated Marketing Campaigns
Marketing and Technology Are Becoming One
We believe one of the greatest opportunities ahead is occurring at the intersection of marketing and technology.
- Websites have become critical business platforms.
- AI is changing search.
- Customers are changing how they discover companies, evaluate options, and make decisions.
- Video and visual content have become increasingly important.
- Marketing channels are becoming more connected.
Businesses need partners who understand not only how to create great marketing, but how technology can make that marketing more effective.
That’s where we see the next generation of PRIME. We want to help our clients understand what’s changing, determine what matters, develop the right strategy, and bring together the people and technology necessary to execute it.
We want our clients to be found, understood, trusted, and chosen.
Thank You for 33 Years
None of this happens without people.
- To Mark, whose vision, entrepreneurial spirit, passion, and determination started PRIME 33 years ago, this incredible milestone began with an idea and the courage to pursue it.
- To Marilyn, who joined that journey a few years later and whose compassion, relationships, dedication, and love for the communities we serve helped shape the company, thank you.
- To every PRIME employee, past and present, thank you.
- To every client who trusted us, thank you.
- To our vendors, nonprofits, cities, community organizations, youth associations, and strategic partners, thank you.
- To everyone who took Mark’s original vision and helped turn it into 33 extraordinary years of PRIME, thank you.
We’re proud of what we’ve built. But we’re even more excited about what we’re about to build.
Same relationships. Same values. Bigger team. Bigger capabilities. Bigger vision.
Welcome to the next generation of Prime Marketing + Design.
