Who we are

History

Group 5 has really never been a group of five. Five creative people made plans to start an advertising agency and call it Group 5. For three of them, helping with the name was the only contribution they made. Bobby Tyler and Sally Cameron pooled their money and talent in 1982 and took the plunge (they decided to keep the name Group 5 because the attorney had already done the paperwork and it would cost more to change the name).

Started in a quaint Gainesville-house-turned-office just off NW 13th St., they bought used furniture from the school board (one of the tables is still with us). Sally was the Account Executive, Bobby the Business Manager, and they hired one other person as the "Art Department". Not even being able to afford phones, Sally would walk to the corner of NW 16th Ave. and NW 13th St., put her money in the pay phone and wait for traffic to stop at the red light to place her client calls. But, what they lacked financially they made up for in creativity! When they finally could afford phones, Bobby was famous for "calling herself" when new clients were in the office that Sally wanted to impress.

Marsha Evans joined Group 5 the following year as the "Art Department" when the original art department had to take a medical leave. It was her last semester in the first Graphic Arts program at Santa Fe Community College, and Bobby and Sally bribed the head of the department to give her a degree even though Marsha was never allowed to go to another class (too busy, you see).

Twenty-six years later we have new furniture, and the used furniture we have we now call "antiques". We have 3.5 Account Executives, one Assistant Account Executive, one Business Manager (much too busy to call herself), one creative director, two media buyers, two Graphic Designers, one Web Designer/Planner and a partridge in a pear tree (not really, although we have given a home to the occasional stray cat). We also have lots of phones, some of the same clients Sally called from the pay phone and own a home-turned-office two houses down from our original location...stop in and see us! (but please call first!)