Alacritus wanted to sell its brand-new VTL technology into a market dominated by established giants and a long history of tape backup. They came to Hellbent to make their message stand up and sing.

After acquiring many smaller companies, backup giant Legato had to figure out how to integrate the new company's product messaging and marketing materials into a consistent, Legato-based whole. They asked Hellbent to make that happen.

When Pamela's Products wanted to move into major national grocery chains like Safeway, she came to Hellbent to re-design her packaging. The company is now maintaining a 11 percent CAGR in an industry whose average growth hovers around 3 percent.

From late 2000 to early 2003 (when Hellbent did all of the marketing for Oslo-based Trolltech AS), the Dow lost 34 percent, the NASDAQ lost 73 percent, and the Bay Area lost 300,000 jobs. Trolltech's staff doubled, and their sales doubled twice. Were we entirely responsible? Of course not. But we think their success was no coincidence.