About Us

Cut to the Chase Marketing™ offers small companies a full range of marketing services but not the sticker shock that comes from working with the big advertising agencies.

Nancy Wagner, owner of Cut to the Chase Marketing, started the company in 1998 to provide copywriting services for technical companies as well as service and product businesses. When the small companies she enjoyed working with most asked for design and layout help, she saw a need to provide affordable marketing assistance to sole proprietors and companies with less than 50 employees.

Today, the company solely works with small companies, and has created hundreds of websites and print marketing materials over the past decade. We help our small business clients create effective marketing strategies, materials and websites that make their sales process more effective while getting the most bang out of their marketing buck.

Nancy is a marketing strategist, speaker and writer whose articles have appeared in USAToday, Home Business Journal, Nation’s Business, Emerging Business, The Mortgage Press, Seattle: 150 Years of Progress, and Destination Issaquah among others. Nancy also gives speeches and seminars on a range of marketing topics important to small business owners. She has spoken in front of and trained business owners at the Renton Business Fair, Small Business Administration, Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training, chambers of commerce, business tradeshows, conferences, and other venues. Nancy also taught business writing classes to state government workers in Olympia. Click HERE to learn more about inviting Nancy to speak to your group.

Nancy was a former member of the Board of Directors for Seattle’s Women Business Owners (WBO) and was a marketing chair on the Nellie Cashman Woman Business Owner of the Year Award. She holds a B.S. in Education from Eastern Illinois University. In her spare time, Nancy is a wildlife photographer who thinks of numerous marketing ideas while holding completely still in pursuit of the perfect wildlife photo.