They say necessity is the mother of invention, and that is, in many ways,
the story of the Davies Murphy Group.

When we started the agency in 1998 (then known as SparkSource, Inc.) it was
the direct result of not being able to find the kind of agency we were
looking for as clients. We were looking for an agency that didn't bring in
senior VPs to pitch us, only to swap in the junior associates when it came
time to actually staff the account. We were looking for an agency that
would quote us a fair price and then send us invoices for that amount,
instead of including an extra 30% in mark-ups, overruns, and hidden charges.
We were looking for an agency that would work side-by-side with us to do
whatever it took to be successful, rather than explaining why things
couldn't be done or why whatever needed to be done fell outside the scope of
the engagement. After more than a decade of looking for that agency, we
concluded it didn't exist, and thus the Davies Murphy Group was born.

Since 1998, we have enjoyed double-digit growth every year in all facets of
our business - revenue, profitability, number of clients, and number of
employees. But it has been controlled growth, deliberately gated by an
explicit decision to put quality of service ahead of business expansion. We
have no desire to be the largest or the fastest growing agency. Instead, we
prefer to be known, as we are, for providing the highest quality service and
the most consistently impactful results.

This obsession with quality of results and service has put the Davies Murphy
Group in a unique position. The agency boasts the best client retention
record of any agency in the United States, having lost exactly one client to
another agency since its founding in 1998. Further, our clients have taken
up our cause and served as our sole channel of business development.
Literally 100% of our clients have come into the agency as word-of-mouth
referrals from other clients. We have never cold-called a prospect and we
have never done any proactive business development.

Today, we are 36 people, focused on public relations, marketing
communications, product marketing, and business strategy. Our clients range
from early-stage venture-backed start-ups to multibillion-dollar
international conglomerates, and span the globe from South Africa, Norway,
the U.K., and Japan, to California, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Virginia.