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Mark Tompkins is the owner of BUZZ Marketing, one of the premier digital marketing companies in Kelowna. Buzz has helped many local businesses thrive, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tompkins also helped create the Trailer Park Boys and Viking board games at High Roller Games.
Prior to starting BUZZ, Tompkins was the community relations co-ordinator at the City of Kelowna, where he managed high profile events such as Wakefest, Center of Gravity and Canada Day celebrations. Tompkins also formed and worked closely with the mayor on Kelowna’s Centennial Celebrations Committee, where he created various legacies for the city, including the apple time capsule outside Orchard Park Shopping Centre.
Being a former JCI member and the past secretary-treasurer of his BNI Referral group, Tompkins thrives on helping businesses and individuals with their social media presence. He believes this is a space where many people lack confidence in themselves and their business, and that people want to hear what they have to say. Tompkins always makes himself available and free of charge to those who are looking for social media help. He believes that being a leader of social media can help impact more people on a much wider scale.
Tompkins personally volunteers his time by being a leader in the community, sitting on various council committees and introducing multiple community gardens, and new on- and off-leash dog parks within Kelowna.
BUZZ Marketing volunteers its time by providing free photography and 3D video tours for local non-profits like Habitat for Humanity, SPCA and the Cancer Society, trying to help with technology in a unique way. On behalf of his dad, who rings the bells every Christmas for the Salvation Army, BUZZ and Tompkins’ BNI Group help raise money for the charity.
Tompkins has his hospitality management diploma and his bachelor of human kinetics degree from UBC Vancouver.
BUZZ Marketing has received more than 110 Google reviews, the most out of any marketing company in the Okanagan.
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