About
Grand Splash Marketing is a full-service marketing, communications, creative, digital and business consulting agency — founded in 2009, based at Grand Lake, Oklahoma, working with clients nationwide.
Before Grand Splash Marketing existed, Michelle Robertson worked in traditional advertising — printing and radio. She spent her days with local business owners, and she kept hearing a version of the same problem: the internet had changed how customers found them, and there was no one nearby who specialized in helping them navigate it.
In 2009 she started Grand Splash Marketing at her kitchen table in Northeast Oklahoma. The first clients were local: a website here, a listing correction there, a campaign for a business that had never advertised online.
What began as digital help for local businesses grew into a full-service marketing, communications, creative and consulting agency serving businesses and organizations nationally — transit agencies, associations, public-sector organizations, Tribal programs, destinations, and a long list of local businesses we never stopped serving.
The advantage of having seen that entire shift is knowing which changes matter and which are noise. We have adapted through every platform, algorithm and format change since 2009, and we expect to keep doing it.
Ownership
Ownership tells you who we are. The work tells you what we can do — we would rather be judged on both.
Behind the Scenes
Conferences, agency facilities, client locations and campaign shoots — the everyday work behind Grand Splash Marketing since 2009.
How We Work
Clients know what they want. What is harder to see from inside a business is everything the request touches — the website, Google, social, ads, directories, email, booking platforms and everywhere else the information lives.
Leadership
Founder & President
Michelle Robertson founded Grand Splash Marketing in 2009 at her kitchen table in Northeast Oklahoma. She had spent her career in traditional advertising and media — printing and radio — working alongside business owners every day, and she kept hearing the same thing: customers had moved online, and there was no agency nearby specializing in helping them make that transition.
She built Grand Splash Marketing to fill that gap, and grew it into a full-service marketing, communications, creative, digital and consulting agency serving clients nationwide.
Michelle is a marketing and communications consultant whose work spans strategic communications, campaign strategy, public relations, storytelling, digital marketing, business consulting, and public-sector, Tribal and nonprofit outreach. Public transit marketing and communications has become one of her signature areas of work.
Michelle is also an experienced speaker and trainer. She has taught marketing and communications for Chambers of Commerce, Tribal organizations, nonprofits, transit organizations and private businesses — from one-on-one instruction to organizational workshops, conference sessions and national industry panels. She created, developed and teaches the original transit training Turning Your Transit Driver Into an Ambassador for Your Agency, and has participated as a panelist at the National RTAP Conference in a Federal Transit Administration discussion focused on communications in the federal process.
She is a Native entrepreneur and a citizen of the Wyandotte Nation, and a co-founder of The Navigation Firm, Grand Splash Marketing's sister company specializing in transportation, transit and mobility planning.
Areas of work
Team
Founder & President
Michelle Robertson founded Grand Splash Marketing in 2009 at her kitchen table in Northeast Oklahoma. She had spent her career in traditional advertising and media — printing and radio — working alongside business owners every day, and she kept hearing the same thing: customers had moved online, and there was no agency nearby specializing in helping them make that transition.
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Director of Digital Strategy & Client Services
With more than 11 years at Grand Splash Marketing, Jennifer combines digital strategy, client service and organized execution to move projects from concept through completion. Her experience spans websites, digital campaigns, email and SMS marketing, online communications and evolving digital tools and workflows.
Digital Account Specialist
Jordan is an experienced writer with a background in journalism and the entertainment industry. Born and raised in Northeast Oklahoma, he is a Cherokee Nation citizen who studied Dramaturgy at the University of Oklahoma on a playwriting scholarship and Mass Communications at NEO A&M.
He specializes in content writing, blogging, social media brand development, narrative-driven marketing campaigns, and event curation and promotion, and holds a Copywriting Mastery certification from the American Writers & Artists Institute. His background in music, performance, event production and stage management informs how he builds stories and events audiences actually show up for — in 2017 the German publication Mushroom Magazine listed him as the number-one psytrance producer in the United States.
Video Editor & Producer
Jeremy Dickerson is an accomplished video editor, producer, and media professional with more than 20 years of experience creating compelling visual content for organizations across a wide range of industries. Throughout his career, Jeremy has built a strong reputation for combining creative storytelling with the technical expertise required to take a project from concept through final production.
His professional experience spans work with nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and large corporations, giving him a unique ability to understand the communication needs of very different audiences and organizations. Whether producing content designed to educate the public, communicate an organization's mission, promote a program or initiative, document an important story, or strengthen a brand, Jeremy approaches each project with a focus on clarity, quality, and meaningful storytelling.
With decades of hands-on experience in video production and post-production, Jeremy understands that successful video is about much more than simply capturing great footage. It requires identifying the heart of a story, understanding the intended audience, organizing information in a way that keeps viewers engaged, and bringing together visuals, sound, pacing, and messaging to create a finished product that achieves its purpose.
Jeremy earned his Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts from the University of South Carolina, where he developed the educational foundation for what has become a career spanning more than two decades. Today, he brings seasoned experience and a contemporary approach to every production — from initial ideas and storytelling through editing and final delivery.
Awards & Recognition
Campaign recognition belongs to the organizations we produced the work for. Individual recognition belongs to our founder. Company standing is listed separately.
Client campaigns produced by GSM
APTA AdWheel Awards — First Place, Group 4 · 2021
Awarded to Oklahoma Transit Association
Best Comprehensive Campaign to Highlight Transit Needs and Funding. Presented by the American Public Transportation Association to the Oklahoma Transit Association. Grand Splash Marketing produced the campaign and communications work behind the recognized effort.
Michelle Robertson
Oklahoma Magazine 40 Under 40
Statewide recognition of Oklahoma leaders under 40.
Native American 40 Under 40
National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) recognition of Native leaders under 40.
Grand Laker of the Year
Regional recognition for contribution to the Grand Lake community.
American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma — Small Business of the Year
AICCO recognition connected to Michelle Robertson and Grand Splash Marketing's work as a Native-owned Oklahoma business.
Grand Splash Marketing
Native woman-owned marketing & communications agency
Grand Splash Marketing has been Native woman-owned since it was founded in 2009 by Michelle Robertson, a citizen of the Wyandotte Nation.
Seventeen years of continuous practice
Founded in 2009 and still led by its founder, with work that now reaches clients nationwide.
Sister Company
The Navigation Firm is our sister company, specializing in transportation, transit and mobility planning and technical consulting. Grand Splash Marketing handles the marketing, communications and creative side.
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