Author: Pam Noble

You'll like Pam. She's got a bright, bubbly personality and chats up everyone she encounters as if they’re already old friends. She's very creative and resourceful, and she has a knack for seeing the world from a completely new perspective. She's also bold and confident, unafraid of the risk of failure. This attitude has helped her fearlessly do big things that most people wouldn't even dream of trying. Pam has been an artist for as long as she can remember, and has been obsessed with marketing for almost as long. When she was 5, she fell in love with works of art by Picasso, Miro, and Kandinsky. In high school, she read non-fiction psychology books for fun but then used this knowledge to win sales awards for 4H fundraisers. She began college at age 17, where she studied graphic design with the plan to work in the art department of an advertising agency. When she recognized that the world was on the cusp of making a rapid transition to digital, yet her university insisted that computers were a fad, she dropped out. Around that time, a very large retail corporation from Arkansas opened a store on the edge of her tiny hometown. One locally owned business closed, then another, then several more followed suit. She knew that savvy marketing could have saved all the mom & pop businesses that went belly up, and was shocked to learn that these business owners had limited marketing skills. She had always assumed small business owners had strong marketing skills, but after witnessing what happened in her hometown she felt it was her mission to help other small businesses market themselves so they could thrive despite the competition. While working a "day job" over the next 20-some years, Pam constantly had a creative side hustle where she provided both traditional and digital design and marketing services to organizations in Minnesota and Oregon. She learned earning marketing through stacks of books, and a lot of trial and error. In her mid-40s she made a bold move, quitting her day job and enrolling full time at Portland State University with a double major in Marketing and in Advertising Management. In a little over 3 years, she earned a BS in Marketing and a BS in Advertising Management. After graduating in early 2020, just as the pandemic hit, she founded Noble Creative Marketing to give local small businesses the assistance and tools needed to compete more fairly with large corporate competitors. When she's not living, sleeping, and breathing marketing, you can find her having lunch at a Portland food pod, looking for interesting treasures on the beach, exploring the Pacific Northwest with her husband and daughters, or enjoying the bird feeders in her flower garden. Coffee is her drink of choice.