FountainJump provides customer acquisition services in the Affiliate Marketing and Mobile Marketing spaces to help clients grow product engagement and revenue.

Our primary focus is creating predictable revenue streams for our clients at enough scale for it to matter.

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— SERVICES —

Affiliate Marketing

What we offer

New Program Launches

We do all the heavy lifting to get a new program off the ground, including tracking planning, publisher communications, and recruitment.


Program Audit

Is the payout appropriate to achieve the client's goals and result in good performance for publishers? Is tracking working properly? Is there fraud in the program? Is the client paying too much to their affiliate networks?


Program Management

We will run the entire program for you, so you can focus your energies on other parts of your business.

Our methods

Evaluate Program Design

  • Ensure program structure maximizes results
  • Define commission payout to engage affiliates in the program

Recruit Affiliates

  • Encourage affiliate participation via direct messaging
  • Leverage personal relationships with top affiliates & category level research

Run promotions to increase Affiliate Engagement

  • Incent current affiliates to optimize campaigns & drive more volume.
  • Give new affiliates a reason to test our client's offer.

Analyze Program Results

  • Perform data analysis to understand conversion rates, traffic quality, etc?
  • Identify issues needing to be addressed, such as tracking or landing page conversion problems.

Mobile Marketing

What we offer

Tracking Assessment

There are a lot of tracking vendors in the mobile space and it can be confusing. We will lead the process to choose the right tracking vendor for your needs and shepherd the implementation process to ensure a timely, accurate setup.


Media Buying

There are even more media options than tracking options for mobile. We will handle the media buying to drive the results you need.


Optimization & Reporting

We constantly monitor and optimize Mobile Marketing and App Store Optimization efforts to maximize return on investment and provide easily understood reports to ensure transparency.

Our methods

Tracking & Analysis Tool Implementation

  • Identify the right tracking vendor(s) to meet your business needs.
  • Determine what kind of competitive intelligence is needed.
  • Develop tracking plan to maximize results and insights.

App Store Variables Optimized to Maximize Ranking

  • App name
  • Description
  • Keywords
  • Screenshot
  • Ratings / Reviews
  • Promotional Video

Media Options Explained

  • Facebook
  • Incentive Pubs
  • Direct Publisher
  • RTB Firms
  • DSPs / SSPs
  • Ad Networks

— PRINCIPLES —

Act like you own it

We will treat your financial statements as our own. Our job is to drive incremental profit & help you forecast really well. If we accomplish those two things, we'll have a ridiculously good relationship.

Be small, Be different

We have no interest in ever getting big enough to need anything other than A-team players. Our team each has over 20 years of business experience & we have been working in the Digital Marketing space since last century. We act like an in-house channel team, rather than an external vendor. We don't know any other way.

Follow the Golden Rule

We're past the point in our lives where we have to put up with people who just aren't nice. We treat everyone we work with kindness & respect while expecting the same in return.

Have Fun

If you don't have a sense of humor, please don't contact us. We wouldn't get along.

— TEAM —

Rick Grimes

Rick brings over 20 years of experience in the Digital Marketing, Analytics, & Operations fields, having worked in Manufacturing, Advertising, Internet, & Non-profit businesses & consulted with Retailers, Web Publishers, & Credit Card Companies. He has helped companies pick out office space as they were starting up & been the youngest supervisor in a global company of 45,000 employees. In his most recent role as Vice President of Global Direct Marketing at Yahoo!, the team he led drove over $750M in revenue to Yahoo! during his seven years at the company.

Rick has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University & an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University with a concentration in Electronic Commerce.

Jim Jessup

Over the past 20 years, Jim has worked in Internet, Agency/Network & Trade Show production businesses with a focus on Digital Marketing, Professional Services, & Operations. Most recently, he was responsible for Affiliate Channel strategy & management at Yahoo! where his team ran programs for 12 diverse businesses, generating over $200M in revenue over his five year tenure.

Prior to Yahoo!, Jim worked at Commission Junction where he developed & managed their Key Account practice, representing the company's most strategically important client segment. Jim has B.A. in English Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara, but unlike his unemployed classmates, he's done quite well for himself.

— WHY US —

Cross-Channel Leadership

Beyond our existing offerings, we have deep expertise in display advertising, SEM, E-mail Marketing, Analytics, etc. We understand your entire channel mix and can help ensure that activity for each effort is based on performance. Our principals have experience running large, multi-channel Marketing groups, so we are very familiar with the challenges you face every day.

Deep Industry Experience

We have experience managing Affiliate & Mobile Programs for both large and small companies. Prior to FountainJump, our team ran Yahoo!'s $20M (annual spend) Affiliate Marketing program for 6 years, generating over $200M during that time.

Customer Validation

Our client list includes some of the biggest names in the Internet space, such as Linkedin and Skype. They hired us. You should also.

— CONTACT —

206.792.9740

info@fountainjump.com