Where Bold Ideas Meet Smart Strategy

We are a strategy-first, full-service marketing communications agency based in Central and Eastern North Carolina. We have been dedicated to creating better plans, better messages, and delivering better results since 1980. Our mission is to serve our clients by diving deep into their businesses and crafting innovative, award-winning solutions to drive businesses forward.

Our Approach

We believe in thinking BIG and approaching each client relationship with the question: “How might we help?” This philosophy has guided us in partnering with both B2B and B2C companies across various industries, including financial services, manufacturing, education, hospitality, nonprofit, automotive, retail, and consumer packaged goods, to name a few.

Let's Elevate Your Marketing

Ready to tackle the challenges standing between your goals and success? Let’s talk about how our strategy-first approach breaks down barriers and can propel your business forward.

We live to serve and to help our clients serve better.

Leadership Team

Skip Carney

Skip Carney

Founder/CEO

Skip Carney, our founder, CEO, and Chief Sunshine Officer, started the agency as a recording studio which quickly evolved into a full-service agency by asking clients "how might we help?" He has always believed in diving headfirst into a client’s business to look at it from all angles, not just marketing, to ensure the best outcome. Over the years, we have partnered with B2B and B2C companies across a variety of industries: financial, manufacturing, education, hospitality, nonprofit, healthcare, automotive, retail, CPG, and more. He built the agency by thinking BIG, rooted in the belief that "we live to serve." This is how we continue to approach all relationships.

Jessica McKnight

Jessica McKnight

President

Jessica Carney McKnight was born into advertising, starring in several clients' newspaper, radio, and TV commercials as a child. She graduated with a Journalism and Mass Communications degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Go Heels!). Making her home in the Triad, she worked for many years within top agencies in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, NC, across B2B and B2C companies and verticals. In 2018, she joined CarneyCo to lead the family business. Today, Jessica focuses on building strong client relationships, agency operations, new business, and is the shop’s visioneer.