<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-108" alt="ABout" src="http://alstonmarketing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ABout.png" width="683" height="209" />As cliché as it sounds, we love our jobs and our team members. We trust and respect each other as individuals, creative thinkers and strategists. We are committed to offering our client’s our knowledge and creative thinking to solve their marketing needs. The best part of what we do every day isn’t the work. It is the time we spend as a team; resolving issues and creating integrated marketing solutions.</p>

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<span style="color: #d52338;"><strong>To us AM+G is home. You bet there is no place like it.</strong></span>

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<h1 style="text-align: left;"><strong>Meet the Owner</strong></h1>
<a href="http://alstonmarketing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/MZ6_3008-HighRes-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-61" alt="MZ6_3008-HighRes-1" src="http://alstonmarketing.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/MZ6_3008-HighRes-1-200x300.jpg" width="213" height="319" /></a>A leader in the marketing industry; Karen Maria Alston has proven to be one of many top innovative and visionary thinkers in the business. Karen began her career working for Fortune 100 companies such as JP Morgan Chase, MBNA America Bank (now Bank of America) and America Online. While climbing the corporate ladder, she developed her skills working alongside the best marketing executives in the industry.
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Born as a 3rd generation entrepreneur with the desire to contribute to the industry, Karen developed and launched her own boutique marketing communications firm. In 2002, Alston Marketing Group now d/b/a, AM+G Marketing Communications was established.

In the midst of AM+G’s development and growth, Karen wanted her AM+G clients to be nurtured within three tiers: 1) profitability with an emphasis on return on investment, 2) branding and 3) positioning of products. With AM+G’s inception, Karen has experienced 10 years of success. She has accumulated an extensive list of clients including: National Wildlife Federation, LISC, National Trust for Historic Preservation, DC Government, Prince Georges County Government, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, DCTV, DC Public Schools, Baltimore County, Capital Bikeshare, Capital Area Food Bank, The DuPont Hotel and many others.

In November 2008, she saw an opportunity to expand her brand by purchasing the advertising firm, Edge Advertising, of Washington DC. Amid the inclusion of this advertising firm, Karen wanted to focus on small, local business in the Washington DC metropolitan area and Tampa, Florida.

Karen’s career includes leadership roles and affiliations with many prominent organizations. Due to her extensive experience and stellar reputation, she was recruited to serve on many community-based boards including the Prince Georges County Technology Incubator and the Edgewood/Brookland Community Collaborative. She also works with industry organizations like the AMADC (American Marketing Association – DC Chapter) where she currently serves as Vice President of Finance and has been re-elected to the Board of Directors for six consecutive years in a row.

Karen is also the former publisher/founder of Urban Lifestyle Report which is an online urban B2B research publication focusing on the lifestyle of the urban consumer. Because of her illustrious profession and business acumen, she has been featured in several publications such as the Baltimore Sun, Black Enterprise, The Washington Business Journal, Black MBA, Essence Magazine, Washington Examiner, DC Modern Luxury and the Baltimore Daily Record. She is also a sought after speaker for many marketing industry conferences on a range of topics such as digital media, traditional marketing, government marketing and diversity.

Karen Maria Alston received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from Howard University and an Executive Education Certificate in Branding and Design from Harvard University.

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