Celebrating 30 Years
For three decades, Dunham has been helping businesses grow, adapt, and thrive in a digital world that never stops changing.
How did we ever get to a 30th anniversary at Dunham? It wasn’t that long ago that two guys left successful careers and started a company to help others market themselves. We have re-invented ourselves many times during these years and that hasn’t stopped.
A Story
When we first began our work, we only had John and me in the company. We received a phone call from a very large accounting firm in Hamilton called MacGillivray. The senior partner Mike Collier wanted to talk to us about a website. So, we put on our shirts and ties and down to the Stelco Tower we went and took the lengthy elevator ride to the MacGillivary offices.
We sat in the boardroom with Mike. Having discussed the site to his satisfaction, he said “well now let’s talk about the price”. We trembled a bit. He said, “My daughter tells me that we should get this website for 3 thousand dollars. I said, “that’s fine Mike, we will do it for 3 thousand. He then said, “Well, if it got to 6 thousand it wouldn’t hurt us”. We said that’s great Mike, we’ll do more work and do the site for 6 thousand. He then said, “You know we have three offices and if it cost us 3 thousand each it would be fine”. We then said that we would do a very fine site for him for 9 thousand dollars. We stood and shook hands, and we went to work.
Years later, I talked to an accountant that was his intern at the time. I said to him that I thought that Mike was really trying to put money into our pockets to help us get our business started. He looked at me and said that he knew that that was exactly what Mike was doing.
Honouring Values in Business
Our beginnings were in a very different business environment. Mike was an incredible, honest and helpful man who wanted to help us in any way that he could. Today, it would be rare to find a narrative the same as this. And in all honesty, we had several more of these incredibly generous narratives in our history.
Dunham has reformed itself in many ways over the three decades. We are not the same company that we were. We were, however, born in integrity, honesty, and generosity. We struggle every day to continue those values and to pass them on to our clients.
It’s a different world, as we all know, but at Dunham – like so many others we are keeping our elbows up!
A $300 Thanks!
Words can’t express just how grateful we are for the incredible clients, partners, and communities who’ve been part of our 30-year journey. As a token of our appreciation, we’re giving away three $300 Dunham Digital Gift Card redeemable toward any of our marketing, design, or IT services.
Participating is quick, simple, and only takes about a minute. Just follow us on social media, engage with our giveaway post, or subscribe to our newsletter. You’ll be automatically entered each time you do one of those, and current followers and subscribers will automatically be entered.
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