Our Story
A Marketing Firm That Builds What It Plans
CICOR Marketing is a full service marketing strategy and communications firm, founded in June 2013 and based in Tampa, Florida, with a second office in Naperville, Illinois.
We help organizations get found, make their position clear, and grow in ways they can measure. The same team that sets the plan builds the site, the tracking and the automation, so strategy and execution never drift apart.
Think of marketing like a navigation system. Many organizations are moving, but they do not have clear signals about where their audience is searching or how it makes decisions. CICOR Marketing reads those signals and builds programs that reach the right audience at the right moment.
Certified And Verified
Our Certifications
CICOR Marketing is a Certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business. Each certification requires a service disabled veteran as the owner; Chris Vargas is that owner.
Partnerships
CICOR Marketing is a Google Partner, a Semrush Certified Agency Partner, a Kinsta Agency Partner and a listed HubSpot Solutions Partner. Those are company partnerships, held because Chris runs the accounts behind them.
Past Performance
Selected Client Work
General scope and client names are shared with permission. Contract values, results and references are available on request.
Leadership
Chris Vargas, MBA, President
Chris Vargas is the founder and President of CICOR Marketing. He is a United States Navy veteran who has worked in marketing and IT since 1997 and founded CICOR Marketing in June 2013.
Chris served in the United States Navy from June 1989 to May 1997, including overseas deployments in Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Provide Comfort. After his service he joined a marketing company in Chicago as an IT Analyst and within 13 months was promoted to IT Manager, then Regional Manager.
In 2000 he became Director of Technical Services for a nationwide insurance company. In 2001 the marketing company recruited him back as Director of IT for all 72 of its offices worldwide. He founded CICOR Marketing in June 2013 and has run it since.
The technical side (how a site is built, how a search engine reads a page) sits next to the business side (what the organization needs to sell, and to whom). Marketing, in his view, is not separate from the business. It reveals the business.
