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  • Your business, articulated. Your impact, magnified

    A national marketing, PR and social media agency focused on real estate + proptech, financial services and cannabis

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  • We speak your industry language—jargon-free

    We tell your story in words, pictures and digital media, using clear, accessible language

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  • Our knowledge runs deep in Real Estate + PropTech, Financial Services and now, Cannabis

    We know the lingo, influencers, trends, regulations and media to shape strong content-rich strategies

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About Us: Business, Articulated

Focused on three industries (real estate + proptech, financial services and cannabis), we are a national marketing, PR and digital content agency that goes “all-in” to help our clients grow and prosper.  A woman-owned business founded in 2011, our name – Akrete – is derived from ‘accretion,’ an accounting term for business growth.  Our goal is always to apply our marketing, communications and digital expertise to help you write your business growth story and make it real.

Our specialization in three industries is narrow, yet our service offerings are broad.  We go deep in industries, then within those sectors, we provide a full range of marketing and communications disciplines.  

We organize our services into three categories as follows: 

  • Public Relations: Full-service content strategy, public relations, media outreach and communications
  • Marketing: Content-rich marketing from collateral to ads, campaigns to conferences
  • Social Media: Content, strategy, community management, campaigns optimized for your industry


Our deep industry knowledge means we have the immediate know-how to make rapid and sustained impact for our clients. We know the terminology, media outlets, social media channels and influencers, applicable regulations and major players. From Day One, we bring ideas and options to the table that enrich your marketing and grow your business.


Real Estate + PropTech: Marketing commercial real estate (CRE), #PropTech and the built environment has never been more electric. Connect creatively using social, video and mobile-friendly campaigns.


Financial Services: Deep roots in the financial services industry help our veteran consultants connect financial institution executives with key dealmakers, investors and specialized audiences.


(NEW) Cannabis: We earned our broad cannabis marketing, public relations, social media and investor communications experience in Massachusetts, and can apply that knowledge throughout North America.

WHAT WE DO: CONTENT MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

We go all in for our clients, combining high-touch service with experienced teams.  We work with companies of all shapes and sizes in our focus industries, from global brands like JLL, to leading family businesses like Skender and Golub & Company, to small businesses and start-ups.  We also partner with other Marketing and PR agencies, particularly when deep industry knowledge is needed to drive growth.


A sampling of our clients includes:

Alliant Credit Union

Bentall Kennedy

Burwood Group

Drawbridge Community Revitalization Foundation

Franklin Partners

FUEL (Property Valuation Software)

Garden Remedies

Golub and & Company

JLL (NYSE: JLL)

JLL Corporate Solutions

JLL Project & Development Services

JLL Industrial

JLL Industries Program (Life Sciences, Healthcare, Higher Education, Government, Others)

JLL Live at DisruptCRE

KeyBank (NYSE: KEY)

KeyBank Real Estate Capital

KeyBanc Capital Markets

Key Private Bank

Kingbird Investment Management

Maverick Commercial Mortgage

New Zealand Trade & Enterprise

Ontario, Canada (Ministry of Economic Development)

Skender (Design, Manufacturing, Construction)

Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) – Chicago Chapter

Wright Heerema Architects


Clients, Delighted:

“It’s not easy to find a great PR partner. We needed a firm that understood our business and could deliver sustained, meaningful results. As a fast-moving company driven by innovation, we also needed an agile strategic communications partner that could act quickly and think strategically. We found everything we needed in Akrete. They blend big-agency expertise with boutique customer service to deliver outstanding outcomes. Akrete earns my highest recommendation.” 

~ Todd Andrlik, Vice President of Marketing, Skender

MORE ABOUT OUR CLIENTS

AWARDS AND SOCIAL IMPACT

Akrete is a woman-owned business ranked as a leading national PR firm.  We have collaborated with our clients on award-winning campaigns and participate regularly in the national dialogue on the future of work and economic empowerment for women and minorities.


Certified WBE 

Akrete is certified as a women’s business enterprise.

Nationally Ranked PR Firm

Akrete is a “Top 20 Financial PR Firm” nationally and “Chicago’s #14 top PR Firm,” as ranked by O’Dwyers.


Forbes Council

Our Founder & CEO Margy Sweeney is a member of the Forbes Agency Council.

Social Impact

Akrete is committed to CSR and to the expansion of opportunity for women and minorities. Learn more in the About Us section of this website.


Award-winning Campaigns

We regularly help our clients submit for awards and are proud when we help achieve recognition for their accomplishments in our industries of focus.  Our work, in collaboration with our clients, has been recognized with an AMCP Hermes Creative Platinum Award; a Content Marketing Award, a Platinum PR award and a JLL Best of Americas Marketing award.

Hermes Creative Awards

Content Marketing Awards

MORE AWARDS + SOCIAL IMPACT

TEAM AKRETE


Margy Sweeney

Founder & CEO


Akrete’s Principal and Founder, Margy has injected creativity into the promotion of complex global businesses for more than 25 years.


Nicole Stenclik

Practice Leader, Commercial Real Estate Finance & Investment


A strategic marketing and communications consultant, Nicole has spent close to a decade working with premier global and national brands to develop, deliver and amplify brand narratives that stand out in a crowded markets, provoke new ways of thinking and inspire action.


Amanda Hargrove

Practice Leader, Commercial Real Estate & Built Environment


Amanda has a passion for helping others articulate their stories. Her experience spans both marketing and communications, including positions at Deloitte and Ogilvy Public Relations, where she served clients in the professional services, technology and financial services industries.


Aleks Walker

Practice Leader, Specialty Content Marketing


Aleks has more than a decade’s experience in every facet of public relations, including content creation, media relations, internal communications, and experiential marketing.


Jennifer Harris

Senior Consultant, Lead Editorial Strategist


A former journalist and public relations firm executive, Jennifer is our ‘lead nerd’ and offers her rigor and scientific perspective as an expert developer and promoter of business thought leadership.


Brian Greenberg

CIO


Our Chief Information Officer, Brian brings the technical perspective both to our work in the technology industry and in our digital marketing work for all our clients.

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