South Bend, Indiana

Nice to meet you.

Let’s get to know each other better. Here’s a bit about our agency and what we believe in.

Bend is a small group of tenured designers, developers and performance marketers with over 15 years of experience.

Tyler Thompson

Owner | Digital Marketing & SEO

Tyler is a driven, insightful organic search specialist with 9 years of experience ideating organic and paid marketing strategies, leading internal teams to success, and driving measurable growth for clients just like you. He also serves as Head of Marketing for Smart Church Solutions.

Intentionally small.

We keep our project load low so we can provide highly skilled and thoughtful services to all our clients. Not everyone is a good fit for us, and in order to fully say yes to all our clients, we’re okay with saying no to new business. You can have confidence that if we say yes to you, you’ll get our full devotion to your project.

Do it with excellence.

We affirm the thought that excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. There are thousands of marketing agencies you could work with — we believe what separates us is our standard of excellence. Our team is only made up of the most skilled marketers, designers, and developers.

Clear is kind.

It is important to us that our clients know what we’re up to. We don’t like secrets and we don’t like surprises. We pride ourselves on providing our clients with detailed reports. If you’re an SEO client, you’ll get a report every month with where things stand with your account. If we’re building a website, you’ll get a weekly update on where things stand.

Everything with integrity.

It’s vitally important to us to do things the right way. Faith is important to us and it drives how we operate this business. If we mess up, we own it. If we help you succeed, we celebrate that and keep working hard to achieve the next success.

We build purposeful marketing strategies for mission-driven businesses by delivering excellence, creativity, and service that glorifies God.

Elite marketing from the heart of South Bend.

Bend Marketing was founded by two people at the top of their craft—an elite designer and a performance-driven marketing strategist with a shared belief: great marketing is about attention. Eyeballs. Impressions. Influence. And getting them isn’t luck—it’s strategy.

We started in South Bend, Indiana, where we built our reputations designing for national brands, nonprofits, city governments, and purpose-driven organizations. The name Bend is a nod to our roots—but it’s also a philosophy. Good marketing bends perception, bends behavior, and bends the attention of your audience toward your brand. That’s what we do.

Over the years, we’ve become a trusted partner for organizations that want clear communication, clean design, measurable performance, and support they can actually count on. Our work combines technical excellence with genuine care. That’s why clients stick around.

As with all great stories, the team has evolved. One of our original founders eventually moved on, and the agency grew in new directions. Today, we’re a small but elite crew—built around shared values, proven systems, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. We work fast, communicate clearly, and believe our work should glorify God, whether or not it’s ever said out loud.

If you’re looking for a marketing partner that blends strategy, service, and soul—welcome to Bend.

Let’s build something that bends the curve.

Some nice things people have to say...

There’s nothing we love more than seeing our clients succeed. In return, we often get great feedback! Here’s what a few of our clients had to say about working with us…

I needed a way to grow my local pressure cleaning business. After the site was launched, Bend started driving traffic from Google and Facebook. I’m now booking 3 weeks out and hired a full-time employee!

Dan Crawford

Co-owner of Keep It Clean Pressure Washing

For me, communication is key. The team at Bend not only responded to every question but turned around solutions with professional courtesy and expert speed that ensured our project stayed on time, on budget and – most importantly – achieved our desired outcomes.

Eric Clayton

Senior Communications Manager
Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States

As a contractor, precision and attention to detail are super important to me. I loved working with Bend because they share those same values and created an awesome website for my company that helps me grow my business.

Jeff Weldy

Owner of Advanced Renovation and Construction

Working with Bend is efficient, effective, and always a positive experience. Our organization values beauty and simplicity, and our website works that way even though our needs were complex. Feedback from users is incredibly positive across the board, including our team.

Lynn Peisker

Project Manager, South Bend City Church

Working with Bend Marketing was a great experience. They delivered a site that met all of our needs and helped us better connect with our audience. The collaboration was seamless, and we always felt like we were in good hands. We'd absolutely recommend them and look forward to working with them again in the future.

Kaitlynn Naeser

Senior Marketing Coordinator

Bend executed our vision for our website to the fullest extent! Communication and attention to detail were excellent as well! Would highly recommend!

Chris Mullet

Executive Pastor

When it was time to update my WordPress website with Elementor page builder, Bend Marketing was my go-to team for designing and setting up my site correctly. They leveraged our existing brand to enhance the design style, creating a website that not only feels highly customized but is also very user-friendly for updates. Their team was patient and responsive to my detailed feedback, and I'm extremely pleased with the final website!

Lauren Atherton

Owner

We had an amazing experience. Bend is a class act.

Brandon Child

COO

Bend was introduced to us our fractional CFO and we couldn't be happier! They've been very easy to work with, creative, responsive and above all skilled! They helped us revamp our website (B2B SAAS) to tell a very tight story, with a clean value prop and objective handling. We are excited to see how they will help us improve conversion on multiple steps in the sales funnel through the website.

Rohit Shenoy

CEO

10/10 The Bend Marketing Team was fantastic to work with throughout the entire process. I cannot recommend them enough and will certainly use them for future projects. You won't be disappointed with their service. We already referred them one client who was incredibly pleased with their work as well.

Andrew Gauthier

President

The service provided by Tyler has been amazing. Tyler built our website and generates leads to grow our business. We have continued to grow in our area and keep our name in front of our customers. We recommend Bend Marketing for all you website and marketing needs!!