Our Team
Becomes Yours
Our team becomes an extension of yours from day one. We’re thinkers, tinkerers, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters – we’re honest people, and we appreciate honest design. Great brands mean great business, and our team offers all aspects of creative support to help you achieve and set new goals for your brand. With years of experience in traditional advertising, print, web, social networking and photography, we’re a full service agency. We are your outsourced marketing department. We want to make you look good, because let’s be honest, it makes us look good.
Jill Harms
OWNER/PRESIDENT
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Jill is often asked how she got into marketing…her candid response, “I didn’t, it got into me.” After 20 years in the business, she’s held a number of corporate marketing jobs and positions at Sather’s Candy Company, Schwan’s Food Service, and almost 10 years at the global Pure Fishing headquarters. Leaving the company to pursue a career dream, she founded Blink Marketing, Inc. in 2009 in the Lakes Area and hasn’t looked back. Her expertise is branding and research. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends and of course any social outing or traveling. She is a social butterfly. When she is not with family or friends she is almost always volunteering at a number of organizations around the community including: Arnolds Park Amusement Park, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Okoboji Youth Basketball Association, Okoboji Booster Club and a local Women’s Entrepreneur group. She has traveled to 11 countries including Japan, China, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Canada, Aruba, and Czech Republic to name a few. Her belief: Servant Leadership is at the core of every great company.
Leif Jeppson
Creative Director
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Leif is the mind behind all things design here at Blink Marketing. He graduated from Simpson College in Indianola, IA in 2014 with a major in Graphic Design and a minor in Marketing. Graphic design and photography are his creative outlets. Leif brings great organizational skills, an eye for detail and a progressive vision to our clients. When not exploring creative mediums he loves running, playing with his kids, watching sports, and craft beer.
Blake Haymond
Senior Graphic Designer
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Blake, a California native moved to Iowa in 2020 to marry his wife, a native to Spirit Lake. He graduated in 2013 from LCAD ( Laguna College of Art + Design ) in Laguna Beach, CA. His keen eye for all things design and touch of modern style consistently exceeds client expectations. After he was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer in 2015, he started his own non-profit “Free The Balls”. He has been cancer free for 5+ years. When Blake is not working he is either with his family and friends or on the pickleball court.
Marissa Sill
Social Media Specialist
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Marissa is a Spirit Lake native and graduated from the University of Iowa in 2021 with a major in cinema. She’s excited to bring her eclectic style and video experience to the team that will enhance our clients’ social media. She has a passion for all things creative and you can often find her at the movies, knee-deep in a good book, or taking nature pictures on walks with her dog. Her 80+ plants tend to take up the rest of her time.
Kally Fahnlander
Graphic Designer
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Kally is a northwest Iowa native and recently graduated from Iowa State University with a major in graphic design. She was the 2023 summer intern and is excited to be officially apart of the Blink team. When she isn’t busy working or traveling she likes to spend time with friends and family, playing with her puppy, and attending sporting events to cheer on the Cyclones.
Jake Kimberly-Martinez
Web Developer
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Jake noodles in a long unordered list fun activities and works in the Interweb Services Department. The first 10,000 hours of his marketing and advertising career were spent in the digital realm doing websites, coding e-commerce shopping carts, running business analysis reports, adding motion graphic special effects to make things look cool, custom app development, and IoT technologies to name a few. Sure enough, the second 10,000 hours were spent in the same manner. In the real world, you’ll usually find him, along with his wife and two children, and Sugar the Tri-color Aussie (she’s so sweet) in the sun, checking out the scenery and enjoying being on-the-go.
Koda
Office Greeter
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Koda is a Golden Retriever who loves spending time at the marketing agency where her humans work. She brings boundless energy and enthusiasm to her role as office greeter. Koda loves to brainstorm creative ideas for new campaigns and lends a paw wherever she’s needed. When she’s not busy greeting visitors at the office she loves spending time at the farm, chasing squirrels, and going for long walks.