Marketing & communications · Chagrin Falls, OH
The Chocolate Dog mark rendered in green and grey glass

Your creative best friend in Chagrin Falls.

High-level marketing expertise, right-sized for you. From campaigns and email to websites and print, we help your Northeast Ohio business connect, grow, and thrive—with a team that's personally invested in your success.

Serving Chagrin Falls, Solon, Chardon, Bainbridge & Greater Cleveland's east side.

The problem

The problem isn't a lack of marketing ideas. It's the lack of time to finish them.

A site that's three years stale. An email list nobody has mailed since spring. A campaign that never made it past a great brainstorming session. It isn't a strategy problem. It's that nobody owns it.

What we do

Full-service marketing for Northeast Ohio businesses

Strategy, design, and delivery, all in one place. Hand over a single project, or let us run the whole works.

Brand Systems & Design

Identity work, brand guidelines, and organized template libraries so every graphic you put out looks like it came from the same company.

Logo & Character Development

Original marks built to work everywhere — a truck door, a business card, a favicon — plus illustrated characters with enough personality to carry a campaign on their own.

Print & Marketing Collateral

Brochures, sell sheets, signage, direct mail. Still works — especially locally — and still needs to match everything else you put out.

Landing Pages Built to Convert

Single-purpose pages for a campaign, an offer, or a launch. Written and designed to do one job, and measured against itself.

Social Auditing

A clear-eyed read on how your social presence is actually performing — what's working, what's inconsistent, and where the easy wins are. Usually the first thing we do together.

Email Marketing

List strategy, template design, copy, and send — plus the part most people skip, which is reading the results and adjusting the next one.

Selected work

A few things we’ve created

A sample of campaigns, sites, and collateral we've built for Northeast Ohio businesses.

Brand & Print

Sell Sheets

Get your story delivered on a double-sided, printed sell sheet.

Collateral

Brochures

Cres Cor wanted their catalog to mimic their end product — so the cover became brushed steel.

Marketing Campaigns

Cross-Channel

We'll help you get your message across multiple platforms.

Landing Pages

Falls Floor Gallery

Local business website and email marketing development.

Landing Pages

Specialized Irrigation

Let us build you a simple but sophisticated site for your small business.

Print Collateral

Product Information and Sales

Need a customer leave-behind or collateral for a trade show? We've got you covered.

Logo Creation

Brand Your Business

A mark that works everywhere — on a truck, a business card, and a favicon.

Character Development

Mascots

Illustrated characters with enough personality to carry a campaign.

Who we help

Right-sized for four kinds of client.

Most of our work is local. The way we engage looks different depending on which of these you are.

Local small businesses

Marketing that actually ships.

Agency-level creative without the agency overhead — campaigns, web, email, and print handled by senior people who pick up the phone. For businesses that need to scale without hiring.

Start here: Free 30-minute consultation
Past clients

We know your brand's DNA.

Better than anyone. Let's evolve the assets you already have to meet your next set of goals — we've refined the way we work considerably since we last teamed up.

Start here: Complimentary Brand Evolution Audit
Internal marketing teams

Your on-call senior partner.

Expert-level support to clear the backlog during peak campaign cycles. No onboarding required, no overhead, and no waiting on a queue that isn't yours.

Start here: Tell us the project everyone's avoiding
Private equity

Turnkey brand integration.

We handle marketing, design, and brand onboarding for new acquisitions — plus quarterly report design that presents your data with the clarity stakeholders expect.

Start here: Brand Diligence Report
About Chocolate Dog

Who we are

No account managers, no layers, and no hand-offs. When you work with us, you deal directly with the senior professionals who are actually doing the work, from the first conversation through the finished campaign.

Jim Brownlow, Partner & Creative Director

Jim Brownlow

Partner & Creative Director

Leads brand identity, web design, and front-end development — the through-line that keeps a client's print, web, and social looking like one company.

Debbie Graham, Partner & Director of Client Services

Debbie Graham

Partner & Director of Client Services

Leverages 30+ years of expertise in project management, print production, and client engagement to deliver strategic solutions that strengthen relationships and drive results.

Where we work

Rooted in Chagrin Falls, working across Greater Cleveland

Direct access to senior talent, without the overhead. We partner with contractors, retailers, and professional services across Cuyahoga, Geauga, and Lake counties, keeping us close enough to meet face-to-face whenever a project calls for it.

Chagrin FallsSolonChardon BainbridgeAuroraHudson BeachwoodPepper PikeMayfield Heights WilloughbyGeauga CountyCleveland's East Side

Let's talk about what's not getting done.

A free consultation — thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell us what's stuck and we'll tell you whether we're the right shop for it.

Or email info@chocolate-dog.com — we answer the same day.