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Euronet Worldwide, Inc. is the world’s largest payment network for prepaid mobile top-up and the second-largest global money transfer company. They also operate one of the largest independent ATM networks in Europe, and guess what? They chose us for an exciting upcoming project celebrating their 25th anniversary. READ MORE →

10 Years Ago

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One of our first official owners’ portraits. Not enough piercings or turtlenecks.

Hey! James, David, and Josh here. We’d like to take you back for a moment to 2009 when this picture was taken.

It was the Great Recession, AKA the best worst time to start a business. None of us were happy with our agency jobs at [REDACTED]. And well, we figured if the ship was sinking, we should at least try and steer the thing.
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Do you even tow, bro? What’s your max tow rating?

Let’s say, just for this example, everyone doesn’t know their max tow rating. Or even their gross combined weight rating. You’d have trouble buying the right hitch! READ MORE →

Meet Account Manager Jace Kaleikau

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A new member joined our crew recently! And by recently, we mean March. And by new member, we mean our new account manager, Jace Kaleikau. Isn’t it about time you met the guy? We think so!

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2018 JLSA Year in Review

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It’s hard to believe 2018 is almost over. It’s even harder to believe our last end-of-the-year recap was in 2014. Where has the time gone? We wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve been up to here at Johnny Lightning Strikes Again: READ MORE →

We’re Walmart famous.

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It’s true. We’re in Walmart. At least a client of ours is, so that probably makes us famous.

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JLSA KCU Logos on Purple Background

We’ve got some exciting news—we recently started a partnership with Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences (KCU for short) to serve as an extension of their marketing and communications team. READ MORE →

Being funny is serious business

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Marketing for Humor Brands - Easy, Tiger and Andrews McMeel Universal Sarah Cooper's 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings - Johnny Lightning Strikes Again

We’ve been hard at work, but how are you supposed to know that if we don’t tell you? There are a couple of projects—funny ones—we’ve been meaning to tell you about for a while now. Today feels like the right day.

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We’re a small business in Kansas City that provides marketing services for businesses of all sizes, particularly on the web. Our primary source of business comes from online search and traffic to our website. Likewise, our primary service is digital marketing, helping other businesses to be found and marketed online. READ MORE →

Meet Designer Sara Blankenship

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Sara – Meow Kapow!

The year was 2012 and designer Sara (Duncan) Blankenship was sending her Behance- and BuzzFeed-famous résumé to Kansas City creative agencies. When we saw it and her work, we were so impressed that we looked up the rules on “dibs” to see if it applied to business. It doesn’t, so we went the traditional route and after a few interviews and a Google search to determine what is supposed to go in an employment agreement, Johnny Lightning Strikes Again had our first employee.

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