The person behind FMG
Reid establishes the strategy and remains directly involved in the work, giving clients one accountable partner from the decision through the execution.
Start of FMG’s longest featured partnership
Featured relationships expanded beyond the initial assignment
Strategic leadership remains in the work
The Focus Map
Most companies are already doing worthwhile work. The opportunity is to connect it, prioritize it, and make its value visible.
Use this to ask: How connected is our current marketing activity to the business?
Activity exists, but the work competes for attention and value is difficult to see.
Select a marketing function to see how its role changes.
It describes the company, but does little to help customers decide or help teams do their work.
The growth model explorer
A trade-facing business, direct-commerce platform, and specialized B2B company may use many of the same marketing capabilities. Their priorities, customer journeys, and measures of success should still reflect how each business creates value.
Use this to ask: What should a connected marketing system do for our particular business model?
Visibility creates value when it advances samples, specifications, showroom activity, or channel relationships.
How marketing creates value for this business model.
Trade-facing position
Role-specific pathways
Sample + specification experience
Sales + distributor enablement
Explore one model or compare several. The discipline can be consistent; the priorities, journey, and scorecard should reflect the business.
The operating loop
Evaluate
Inventory the business context, audience needs, existing strengths, underused assets, and points of disconnection.
Not a one-time exercise. A repeatable way to keep decisions, execution, and learning connected.
Websites as tools
Not every useful website action is a lead. The right experience can educate a customer, equip a sales team, support a partner, or make part of the business easier to navigate.
Choose the job
Resource hubs · education · specifications · FAQs
Selected partnerships
Each relationship began with social media management. The scope expanded as FMG earned a clearer view of the business and helped make marketing more useful to it.
Today, Reid—under the umbrella of FMG—serves as Director of Growth Marketing and Strategic Partnerships, an uncommon level of involvement built through years of trust and execution.
Reid now contributes to growth planning and strategic partnership development while continuing to direct the company’s marketing efforts.
Strategy, content, website development, and search now work together as part of a more modern and deliberate marketing function.
The reworked website, search priorities, and content now give sales a stronger source of information and a clearer system for using marketing.
FMG refocused Mason-Lite’s marketing around becoming a useful, consistent resource for architects, dealers, representatives, and specification audiences—not simply promoting products. A growing library of website resources now carries the company’s expertise into the market more consistently through email and social distribution.
The architect resource hub and relaunched AIA webinar series are visible parts of a broader resource system supporting the dealer and representative network—with the webinar also helping open a Canadian distribution conversation.
Evidence in practice
Open the live example ↗Visitors can filter fireplace directions, save up to three examples, add project context, and copy a concise summary to share with the Clay Structures team.
The experience creates better customer input before the first detailed conversation and gives sales a clearer, more useful starting point.
The founder-led model
Reid’s perspective was shaped as much inside operating organizations as inside marketing.
After nearly a decade in national political consulting, he returned to his family’s fifth-generation farming operation in southwest Oklahoma. Helping the farm better capture and communicate the value of work it was already doing—including achieving regenerative certification—reinforced a belief that now guides FMG: established companies often possess more value, expertise, and credibility than their marketing systems recognize or leverage.
Reid and his wife, Sarah, are raising their two daughters between Fort Worth and the family farm in southwest Oklahoma. That connection keeps his work grounded in both North Texas business communities and the rural, agricultural, and industrial markets many FMG clients serve.
His continued industry leadership, including service on Cotton Incorporated’s Executive Committee and as PAC Chair for the National Cotton Council, keeps that perspective grounded in governance, competing priorities, and real organizational decisions.
FMG is where those experiences converge: strategy connected to ownership, active involvement, and accountable execution.
Translate leadership goals, audience needs, and commercial realities into a focused marketing agenda.
Connect marketing with sales, customers, partners, internal operations, and the company’s larger direction.
Direct and build the highest-value work, coordinating specialized support when the assignment requires it.
Keep useful signals, organizational learning, and the next set of priorities connected over time.
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