Shoshanna Szuch, Owner and Creative Director of Charleston Marketing, sells Business.

Charleston Marketing, a bilingual marketing company started by Shoshanna Szuch in 2002, has been purchased by Brad and Beth Young of Beaufort, South Carolina. The transaction will be completed on April 16, 2008.

In 2002 Shoshanna Szuch picked up her desktop publishing, sales and marketing skills and combined her passion for the Spanish language and people, and called it Professional Outsource Group. To her it was a no-brainer, professional services that are provided as an outsourcing solution for companies that could not afford a full time person with these skills. After 6 months of meeting business owners and networking, she found that most people were puzzled by the name of her business.

In an effort to make it easier for prospective clients to understand what she did for a living, she thought about businesses that made it big with a name that told a story. Her first thought was Boston Market, which started in Boston as a take-out restaurant and is now a national chain. From that thought, she quickly thought of Charleston Marketing – makes sense, marketing for Charleston businesses. Of course her web savvy mind went immediately to perform a search for Charlestonmarketing.com. Not only was it available, she also found that marketingcharleston.com was also available. Say no more, she thought.

For four years Shoshanna enjoyed meeting and serving business owners of small start-ups. Her networking skills, compassion and thriving nature to solve business problems helped her grow Charleston Marketing. Over the years she provided freelance and employment opportunities to the creative-types and website programmers.

As time progressed, she met other successful marketing minds and valued their wealth of knowledge—so much so that she wanted to work with somebody whose talents would complement her own, and who could benefit from her years of business experience. Fortunately, one of the marketing minds that she greatly admired, Kent Bosworth of The Bosworth Group, offered her an opportunity to work with his company. Around the same time, Shoshanna met Brad Young and one day asked if he’d be interested in owning Charleston Marketing. There was no way she could operate her business with a fulltime job. Without too much hesitation Brad and his wife Beth agreed to purchase the business. With a one year transition period, the transfer of ownership will be completed on April 16, 2008.