Welcome to The Dove Agency

The heart and expertise behind your back office

At The Dove Agency, we understand that designers often feel pulled in many different directions. While juggling the needs of their clients, vendor relationships, and creating innovative solutions for each of their design projects, they’re simultaneously tasked with overseeing their accounting and bookkeeping as well as engaging in marketing strategies and media opportunities. The logistics required to administer the multi-faceted needs of a growing business in an ever-evolving industry can leave a designer feeling depleted and overwhelmed.

The Dove Agency realizes that designers should be free to do what they love—design. Our firm’s approach removes the pain points that designers frequently experience by taking care of the mounting demands of back-office operations. Whether it’s accounting, bookkeeping, and project operation management, marketing strategy, brand assessments, photography, social media, graphic design, or media relations, our team of talented industry professionals is expertly equipped to take your business to new heights with increased efficiency and proven profitability.

Committed to quality, integrity, and an unparalleled level of service, our boutique-style firm employs turn-key solutions and streamlined systems as we work closely with our diverse portfolio of clients both around the country and internationally, to design and implement strategies tailored to their specific needs and goals. The result: designers are free to spend their time focused on creativity, their clients, and continued artistic excellence.

At The Dove Agency, you design… and we’ll do the rest.

Our History

For company partners and founders Beth Bender and Kenda Lister, the beginning of The Dove Agency began with fate, friendship, and a shared perspective. After spending 20 years managing her own interior design firm, Beth understood the pressures and responsibilities required to manage the details of design work while also overseeing her own bookkeeping and marketing. She enlisted her long-time friend and financial expert, Kenda, to help her with some of her of back-office operations.

The change was instant—Beth’s business profitability escalated and she had more time to focus on design, her true passion. Both women knew that other design professionals experienced the same tensions to balance the elements of creativity and design with the tasks required to run a business.

In 2018, Beth and Kenda launched The Dove Agency to offer these same solutions and expertise to professionals across the interior design industry.

Marketing

Impressive design deserves innovative marketing. The Dove Agency brings clients decades of collective marketing and public relations experience. We understand you want to grow your firm or showroom, and we know just how to do it. Our marketing solutions will equip your firm with specific growth plans, ensuring you reach your target audience with a message that strengthens your brand and drives response. Click on one of our services below to learn more.

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Financial Services

At The Dove Agency, we understand that a key component of managing and scaling your business is the availability of accurate, timely and reliable financial data. This requires dedicated, financially savvy resources that you may not have internally. That’s where The Dove Agency comes in! By leveraging our consistent, proven processes along with our deep knowledge of the design industry and related software tools, we are able to offer a variety of Financial Services aimed to fill the void in your back office operations.

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From the Desk of Our President

RUTH ANN JANSON

PRESIDENT & PRINCIPAL

We have brought together marketing, financial, and consulting services under one roof and offer these services to interior designers and the design community utilizing proven methodologies and protocols executed by a seasoned professional services team. The real beauty of our offerings is that they are customized to solve each of our client’s specific points of pain.

Our team has dozens of years of design and industry-related experience in a variety of areas. This allows us to bring best practices to our clients and set them up to propel their businesses forward. We come alongside our clients and essentially function as a member of their in-house marketing or financial team. Client relationships remain at the heart of all that we do.

We aim to fill the gap that is holding back interior design professionals from enjoying the benefits of a thriving business. Let’s connect and find out how we can help with your unmet marketing or financial services needs.

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