I accompanied my CEO to an introductory exploratory meeting with Rock Candy not knowing what to expect. I left not knowing what had just happened. The meeting was pure fuel powering the incredible brainstorm session that lasted over two hours but feeling like only minutes. Annie was prepared, extremely well versed on all subject matter discussed and truly a breath of fresh air. Candid, real, intuitive, perceptive, passionate and credible. All the rumors are true. Rock Candy is the REAL deal.

My first touchpoint with Rock Candy Media and Annie was beyond what I could have reasonably anticipated. First and foremost, I felt heard and I trusted Annies competence and commitment to delivering results for her clients. Secondly, my impression was that I had found the team with the skill set that I dont have but that I need. I felt that when I hire this team theyll deliver on their promises, educate me, and wow me.

Weve been working with Annie and her team for four months now and are very happy with their work! Every meeting with the team is productive and creative, and makes us feel confident that we chose the right marketing company. We cant wait to see what the future holds for our business.

Wow, most passionate marketing group Ive talked to yet. Very impressed with the initial sales meeting: they went deep into not only our website but our competitors as well, turning up insights right there in that first pitch meeting. Annie, the CEO, is what my mother would call a character, going a million directions at once but all aimed at helping clients hit the mark with customers. Great first impression.

Just WOW! Meeting with Annie yesterday was brilliantly eye-opening. Her team put together an analysis of my competitors for our intro meeting, and they knew more about our competitors than we did! The technology they use is incredible, and its apparent that they WILL make us money. The energy they exude and the excitement for my company was SO energizing. Cant wait to work with Annie and her team!

I have worked with Rock Candy Media for a few months now and am blown away by how great the team is. There is a reason they are the top 50 fastest growing companies in Austin! Annie and the team are some of the most dedicated/talented professionals I have met here in town and I am happy to be associated with them.

So imagine your very best friend and favorite comedian all in one! I had the pleasure of spending 2 hours with these guys and I literally was sad when it was time to go. They are so all so amazing and welcoming! They make you feel like family (but like the family you like, not the long distance relatives you’re forced to see every Christmas)... I def recommend RCM for anyone looking for the BEST marketing!!!

Rock Candy Media is a talented advertising agency and that is evident in how they have advertised themselves. They represent who and what they are with a clear vision and do not disappoint. I had the pleasure of reviewing a competitive analysis that Annie and her team prepared for my new business. It was creative, analytical, fun, scary, inspiring, bold, interesting and very smart. When I saw This ones for the freaks... on their website, I knew I had to contact them. And I am glad I did!

Wow! What a change. I switched my medical practice website to Rock Candy a few months ago. Rock makes you feel like you are their only client, and that the success of your site is all that matters. The team works together efficiently and handles everything in house. I also like the monthly brainstorming meetings where you meet with the entire team.

Annie was extremely helpful and knowledgeable as we start to launch our new family business. She took the time to share some very valuable insight and I look forward to working with her and her team.

Rock Candy Media did a great job in understanding and researching the competitive landscape of our industry. We quickly pinpointed our weak areas and they provided ideas on how to fill those gaps. Their team is knowledgeable and is truly a full-service marketing company with lots to offer.

I had a meeting with Annie to go over the potential for us to work together. I was blow away by her knowledge, drive, and overall confidence. She had a plan already put together and the vision to see it through. Truly a talented group, I look forward to how they can help us grow. Highly recommended.Update: We have been working with them for months now and they have been a massive asset. I cannot imagine working without them! Almost everything they do has been approved on the first round, simply because they speak our language and really do their homework.

What Fun!! I I have a handful of companies, and the most important stuff, the web site, tech, and marketing used to be my favorite stuff. However, as the companies have grown, the lack of time, and several years with truly bad representation, left a bad taste in my mouth for the whole industry. Enter Rock Candy Media. What a Terrific Team! Annie is one cool, crazy, & creative leader, and her team is diverse, dynamic, and driven - just like her! Instead of dread, there is excited anticipation. Instead of waiting to hear back, they are all over it! Feeding you what you need to help them, help you rise to the top. Bad taste the others left is gone now and the ride has only just begun! I can already tell its going to be epic though, because Rock Candy Media - ROCKs Hard!!

Great experience! Will work with your company in ways that other firms simply can not. The experience and knowledge level are unprecedented. Would recommend to anyone looking for a ad agency or marketing firm.Annie gave us a great introductory meeting and can not wait to work with her and her A+ team in the future.

Meeting with Annie and her team was an enlightening experience. I walked away with a much deeper understanding as to where my business currently stands in the market and why. The time and effort put into the presentation and go-forward strategy was very apparent and much appreciated!

Annie is personable, passionate and really thinks outside of the box. Our meeting felt more like a brainstorming session than a stiff, typical first time marketing meeting where you hear the same thing that the team before said. She really took what we wanted and churned out ideas that would set us apart. We loved our experience and look forward to our future with Annie and her team!

I reached out to Rock Candy Media for some guidance and was BLOWN AWAY by how much they offered me before I was even a client of theirs. Annie was incredibly gracious with her time and provided guidance to me as a small business owner. She connected me with others in the community that could help along the way. To say she went above and beyond is an understatement. I look forward to future opportunities to grow my relationship with RCM.

Rock Candy Media is one of the best investments we have made in our business thus far. They are highly organized and innovative. Their out of the box ideas has helped us differentiate ourselves from our competitors. We would recommend this company to everyone that has a business!

Modern day marketing geniuses! Everyone here is amazing to work with and each a master at their craft! I feel more cared for and apart of every decision than any other agency weve used in the last 30 years. If youre on the fence about using Rock Candy, dont hesitate. They truly have a marketing midas touch!

Annie has this glow around her. She is a refreshingly insightful, ingenious, creative leader who is REAL af. She provides a full experience and insane value to everything she does. You can immediately tell that you’re in the presence of someone and something very unique and special. There’s a reason RCM is at the top of the game right now and that she’s nominated for CEO of the year.

Hiring RCM was the best decision I’ve ever made. This team is badass! They are worth every penny. I feel like I have my life back and that they have my back. It’s incredible to have the support that they provide. Thanks, team! I adore you!

They will build you an awesome looking website that will convert sales. The team there has a unique chemistry where they will openly debate each other in front of you as they find the best campaign for your product.It is always a pleasure to have the monthly sales meeting with them.

When it comes to getting your name and product into the hands of potential partners, RCM knows how to make it happen. Brilliant, edgy, out-of the-box, and on purpose... Rock Candy Media dials things up a notch in the great big world of marketing. If youre serious about taking your company to the next level, this crews got your back. We are so glad they are in our corner. Annie, Sam, Kyle, Scott: you are amazing!

I am a super happy client! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE their work. If you are looking for a team to turn your creative marketing around look no further because you found them!

We walked out of our first meeting with Rock Candy Media with looks of sheer excitement our faces and a lack of words for what just happened. We covered a ton of ground in just an hour, from presentations of her teams preliminary research to a conversation about goals. Their take-no-prisoners, all-or-nothing attitude might scare some more conservative clients away, but those who are looking for REAL results will know they are absolutely in the right place! Thanks so much Annie!

Annie Liao Jones has built something really special here. Great marketing/branding agency with a lot of personality.

I had a great intro meeting with Annie--I shared some info on our company and industry and provided her with a few of our leading competitors. She took it from there and prepared a slide deck that highlighted the pros and cons of both our web content along with that of our competitors. She also shared a lot of specific insight on how best to brand our name and position ourselves against the competition. Our company is bootstrapping with limited funding, and Annie--a true entrepreneur at heart--understands that; these intro meetings are absolutely zero pressure, but rest assured that if and when we do raise capital, there will be a line item in our budget for RCM.

I met with Annie for our intro meeting and she blew me away! Her energy and confidence in my product were what won me over. Im excited to begin with RCM and cant wait to see their work!

Rock Candy Media pushes the envelope with their out of the box way of thinking. They bring brands to life with their big personalities, talent, and brilliance. They are the anti-template. They solve problems in a unique and creative way. Small company with BIG ideas.

These guys are brilliant. They just really know how to strategize like few marketing companies do. Theres plenty of people you can hire to do basic marketing, but Rock Candy Media is amazingly crafty. They know how to cut through all the BS and make the most of your marketing dollars.

Ive talked to lots of marketing companies but RCM was a very different experience. They do their research before meeting with you and are prepared with a plan of action when you walk in. I felt like Annie read my mind. The strategic analysis that took me years to formulated was recited to me without any information provided. If your looking for a typical boring marketing company, dont call these guys. If your looking for an outside the box, bold, forward thinking marketing firm, give them a call. You might have to wait a month to get a meeting but its well worth it.

I am tremendously impressed by Annie Jones, and Rock Candy Media - theyre creative and comprehensive. This company is poised to do great things for their clients - I rate a strong buy!Benny RoweThe Homeowners Advisor

Walking into our meeting with Annie we honestly didnt know what to expect. Blown away would be putting it mildly. She got us. Her and her team put together a presentation that not just answered our questions but answered the questions we didnt know needed to be answered. RCM is definitely a weed whacker to the weeds weve found ourselves in. Thanks!

Absolutely loved our into meeting the Annie and the Rock Candy Media team! They understand where we are trying to go as a company and had a slew of brilliant ideas that were both refreshing and different. We are looking forward to working with RCM and taking our company to the next level.

After meeting Annie and her team We were 100% confident that RCM would get us to where we need to be. Annie is smart, confident, dedicated, and an expert in her field. When she says, “I hire-smarter than me” she is correct. Her team is professional, organized, focused, and each are experts at what they do. We definitely made the right decision partnering up with RCM.

Annie is an absolute pleasure to meet with. Her energy an enthusiasm are contagious. We were very impressed by her thoroughness and attention to detail. We look forward to seeing more of Rock Candy Media.

Working with Rock Candy Media has been like a breath of fresh air. The team is communicative and creative. They never go over budget and hit the make with their design and copy.

We have worked with RCM for almost 7 years now and they have been a huge part of our success and growth. Annie and her team have a great creative direction and continue to come up with unique concepts that have made us a leader in Austin and beyond.

Annie and the Rock Candy Media team did a tremendous amount of work prior to our initial meeting and really came prepared to talk about insights and strategy. I appreciated the information and the personalized approach they took to an initial consultative meeting.

When searching for innovative and strategic thinkers, Rock Candy Media is the first Agency that comes to mind. Never bothering with the traditional, the guerrilla campaigns they are putting out are contemporary, inventive, and always well executed. The Anti Template is not just words to them, its the way they do marketing.

I had a wonderful intro meeting with Annie. It was such a great experience. After talking to her and going over all the amazing things RCM could do for my business I left the meeting knowing my business was in great hands and thats what is important. They made me feel confident that they could make a big difference in my business and even though its a very small business that didnt seem to matter. Very few people have impressed me and blown me away as much as Annie and Rock Candy Media have. I highly recommend them to everyone.

Geniuses at work/play. Come into their world with an open mind, and leave with a new lease on marketing your product/brand. Refreshing ideas from a refreshing crew.

Awesome intro meeting today with Annie! Very straight to the point, great ideas to reach todays market. No templates here!

Annie and her team are rockstars who bring outstanding talent to the table! When they presented data that gave them better insight on who our competitors were, I knew this team was the real deal. Down to earth, easy going and all around marketing gurus. Consdier it a privlage to have them partner with you.

Whats really cool about Annie & the RCM team, besides the obvious raw enthusiasm, is the outside-the-box approach to the vision. I feel like RCM really gets it and thats freaking awesome!

Had a great initial meeting with Annie. RCM takes a practical approach to branding and marketing and I appreciated her combination of logic, common sense and art in working up a proposal for my venture. She was prepared with data for our meeting and I walked away confident that RCM will be the right partner for us moving forward.

We retained RCM to provide us a comprehensive PR strategy. Scott Mise, the web developer, has been terrific to work with throughout this process. He’s knowledgeable, responsive and patient. I completely value his hard work and dedication in helping us - especially since he has the difficult task of debugging all the legacy glitches and poor coding from our prior developer.

Super lucky to have found RCM! They helped me set up a Facebook Page and go from zero to over 3,000 likes in a matter of weeks, drive tons of traffic to our site, and generate an insane amount of interest in my business. What I like most is how responsive the team is and how creative they all are, making them very effective in creating solutions to new challenges.

Re: the intro meetingI had a wonderful meeting with Annie today when visiting RCM for the first time. I came prepared with a list of questions - all of which were answered before I had the opportunity to ask! It is very apparent RCM did their homework, and even from 1 meeting I can sense the passion and energy behind this companys success.

I wanted to thank you for a productive kick off meeting today.Talking with the TBC team this evening, everyone one was impressed by the RCM team and the questions that were being asked. Everyone was quite pleased to have RCM on board and are looking forward to the direction such a savvy group can take us, as well as distinguish us from the herd (albeit how small).

Awesome initial meeting with Annie!! Great energy!! Did her homework on my brand!! Addressed various scenarios for working with her team!

Annie provides great job, amazing personality and honest person, you can count on her.

Great meeting with Annie...I do a lot of business in NY and LA...RCM is of the same caliber of quality right here in Austin!

Annie and her team are amazing out of the box thinkers. RCM is ClearBlade’s secret weapon against the posers!

Annie is a force of nature. She amazed me with her energy, knowledge and creativity. So glad she is working on our side.

Okay, so true story, I was expecting my shower curtain to be like a desaturated blue instead of pistachio green (I got the Maia) but to quote the meme, I aint even mad.I grew up in a shower curtain + liner home, so I was sort of weird about just using the one instead, but this is SO much prettier than the liners that, lets be real, were as hard to clean as they were easy to gunk up. Besides that, Im actually really in love with they idea of a limited edition shower curtain. Once these are done, theyre DONE, and it really thrills me that only a few people will have this same one, not because Im an elitist, but because I HATE walking into someones house and seeing something of mine in there.Anyway, minus 1 star for the web color not being true on this one, thats kind of a big deal, but otherwise, As across the board.---EDIT: Okay, now that theyre out of the shower curtain business, I HAVE to give it up to the T-shirts, and the bad-assness of the agency in general. How many companies in this strata even HAVE merch you actually want?

Fast reply! Great attitude! Eager to help!

After speaking with several other agencies, RCM gave us the freshest look at our rebranding and messaging needs. I left the intro meeting considering alternative business opportunities and other business models when all I originally came in for was how to resonate with our clients. I must say, Im quite intrigued by what the team at RCM can do.

After any and every meeting that I have had with the RCM team, I walk away fired up at the opportunity to work with pure, unadulterated marketing and brand brilliance. Annie and her team GET IT - every time - and bring out-of-the-box genius to every project that I have brought before them. I hesitate to describe what RCM can do as marketing or social or brand or any one thing like that, because truly what they bring to the table goes much much further than a single dimension or subject area. Rock Candy Media is a special group of amazing individuals brought together by a dynamic, brilliant leader in Annie Liao Jones.RCM, keep doing what you do!

I love RCM!!!! Everyone is extremely knowledgeable and intelligent. I have worked with other companies before and frankly I always left disappointed and lighter in the pocket, with no business earned from their work. I started off knowing of RCM several years ago, we did some break-fix computer repairs for them and noticed then that they were different. When we released our previous advertising agency it was literally a matter of a couple days and I was officially an RCM client. Out of the box thinking, brilliant in positioning my company as I feel it should be positioned and bottom line pushing me to realize there are huge possibilities that I have been looking past in every way, including advertising, branding and well, EVERYTHING!!! I was stuck on a different path in my way of thinking and from day 1 that has changed in so many amazing ways. I will be a client for life so if any of my competitors are reading this, dream on, you cant get in. Seats taken. LOL

As the owner of Dyezz Surveillance, I can say my experience with Rock Candy Media, has been great. (Annie Jones) is always punctual, pleasant, and on board, she listens to what the clients needs are. I would highly recommend Rock Candy Media to others.Dyezz Surveillance and Security, Inc.John Dyess (CEO)

Since working with RCM they have exceeded my expectations related to the creatives and messaging they have created for our paid social efforts. They have done a truly amazing job thus far! The enthusiasm and creativity the RCM team presents is absolutely contagious and I look forward to a lasting relationship with RCM!

I sent an email out to three agencies I believed would get me. It was long, created a sense of the possibility I would be challenging to work with, and was point blank about my market. I wrote it to scare a marketing agency, because the easily scared are not who I want to work with.Annie responded in less than 18 hours. Not only unafraid, but excited for the challenge. And it works because we both have the same philosophy about marketing: if it doesnt make you a little uncomfortable, it is no different than anyone elses marketing, so your results are going to suck. I am an innovator, marketing to a no-BS target market, I have to have someone screaming from the mountains with me that feels the same way.Annie et al are crazy, creative, exciting, full of life, and while they may make a stodgy technocrat nervous, they get results. If you are afraid of that feeling you get when leaning back in your chair where you are jjjuuuuuuussst about to fall over, but dont, you wont understand or appreciate what RCM can do for you. That thrill is what drives clients to your door and is where RCM will keep you hanging.

Love what you guys are doing! You kicked some ass in 2016!

Insightful meeting full of new perspectives and creative solutions!

So I call this company to get some details on social media services nobody answer me so I left a message, They call me back after three or four hours and then The lady who answered the phone sound like she in the middle of the partyI didnt get her name, she didnt really know what I what she didnt ask me anythingBut you did mention is 30 hours minimum $4200 a monthAnd then she asked me if this is something doable before she continue to speak with meI was speechless, you build very good company but then you put the moron to answer the phone thats change everything

Not impressed. Not even slightly.

Great marketing group!