About Our Team

Big Rush Marketing was founded by Clayton Clark and Jonathon Becker. They had previously been working with franchises all over the U.S. & Canada that frequently shared digital marketing as a pain point. After hearing countless business owners share frustrations about working with agencies that didn’t understand both advertising at a local level and advertising at a massive scale, Clayton & Jon launched Big Rush Marketing. The goal of Big Rush is to give businesses the best possible return on investment by building custom data analysis for each client and fostering an entire team that has verified expertise in managing digital advertising. You can read more about our expertise and accolades below.

Our Founders

Clayton Clark

Co-Founder, V.P. of Business Development & Partnerships

After graduating from Murray State University with honors while also competing as an NCAA DI tennis player, Clayton started his professional career as a television reporter working at KXMC in North Dakota and then KMPH in California. His work as a reporter earned him Emmy nominations as well as one viral video.

In 2014, Clayton and his wife welcomed their first child, which led to a desire to work a more family-friendly schedule. His work on the digital side of television helped transition him to working in digital advertising. By 2017, Clayton became one of the first certified advertising experts in the United States, putting Big Rush Marketing on the radar for many businesses struggling to succeed in the highly competitive and ever-changing digital landscape.

Clayton later made Big Rush one of the first agencies in the world to be an expert-certified Meta advertising agency, and in 2023, he collaborated with Meta’s corporate team on improving one of the expert-level Meta advertising exams. Now instead of taking the tests, he helps write them.

On top of his work in Meta advertising, Clayton is Google Partner Certified and was recently named one of the Top St. Lousians To Know To Succeed in Business for the 2nd time (2019 & 2023).

Jonathon Becker

Co-Founder, V.P. of Franchise Advertising

Jon is a graduate of Valparaiso University and immediately entered the digital marketing industry after college. His first work covered organic social marketing when businesses were first able to reach customers organically on social media.

Jon later explored his creativity by managing graphic design work along with his copywriting and social marketing tasks.

As the world of digital marketing transitioned to a greater focus on paid advertising, Jon began growing his skills in the paid media side of platforms.

Jon is now a Meta Certified advertising expert who has helped franchises all over the country find advertising solutions that can help businesses grow in foot traffic and online sales. His combination of digital marketing knowledge and incredible capabilities with spreadsheets have allowed him to create systems within Big Rush that can immediately diagnose advertising and business challenges as well as take great advertising results and scale them quickly.

Outside of the office, you can find Jon as a regular chicken wing consumer and Chicken Wing Blogger.

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