Sprout Marketing serves as a marketing-department for hire to small and medium-sized businesses, providing executive leadership, branding, strategic public relations, interactive marketing, market research, advertising, collateral design, copywriting and other services. The company prides itself on being a flexible, affordable alternative to implementing a full-time, in-house marketing staff. Sprout was founded in 2002 by noted marketing expert Bruce Law, whose 20 years experience include helping build the brands of companies such as Intel and Lever Brothers.