Who We Are
At Cahoon & Cross, each of our principals and senior managers have worked in advertising, marketing, and public relations for more than 25 years. We work directly with clients, combining what we’ve learned with an in-depth understanding of your business, your market, your audience, and your goals. Together, we’ve helped organizations like yours handle a wide range of marketing challenges – from launching or re-launching a business, product or service to creating integrated campaigns that talk about specific social issues.
When we think marketing, we always think results. That’s why you should think about calling us.
Margaret grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, and graduated from the College of William and Mary. She has worked in advertising, public relations, research, and related industries for over 25 years, starting her career in publishing and printing and moving to the Richmond area to join Brand Edmonds Bolio Advertising as their production manager.
When Margaret returned to the Norfolk area, she headed up broadcast advertising for Sears and Roebuck Norfolk Group Advertising. She then served as vice president/comptroller of Seamark Advertising in Norfolk, where she met Nancy Cross. In 1987, they founded Cahoon & Cross.
Since the beginning of her career, Margaret has developed multi-state advertising and public relations programs for clients in healthcare,
insurance, public transportation, the petroleum industry, banking, retail, financial services, sports marketing, non-profit orgainizations,
communications, and economic development. She also has served on the boards of the Portsmouth Service League, the Hampton Roads Chapter of
the American Lung Association and the Portsmouth/Western Branch Red Cross. Cahoon & Cross
is a member of the Hampton Roads and Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce.
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Nancy grew up in Suffolk, Virginia, and graduated from Greensboro College in North Carolina. She started her career in television, as the community affairs and promotion director for ABC affiliate, WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina. She left television to become the administrator of the Commission on the Status of Women for the City of Greensboro, then joined the Babcock Advertising Agency as a partner.
Returning to Hampton Roads, Nancy became vice president of client services at Seamark Advertising in Norfolk. That’s where she met Margaret Cahoon, with whom she partnered to create Cahoon & Cross in 1987.
In her career, Nancy has managed regional, state and international advertising and public relations programs for clients in economic development, insurance, financial services, retail, healthcare, real estate, automotive and business-to-business. She was honored in 1995 as the recipient of the Athena Award by the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce Chesapeake Division. She is a member of Rotary International and serves on the Board of Chesapeake Alliance and the Chesapeake Advisory Board of Branch Bank & Trust.
Together with Margaret, she was named "Top 25 Business Women of 1998" by the Virginia Business Observer and in 1996 the firm was cited as one of the "Top 25 Hampton Roads Rising Businesses" by the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce.
Cahoon & Cross is a certified woman-owned firm by the Commonwealth of Virginia's Deparment of Minority Business Enterprise.
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Jane began her career 25 years ago as a media planner and buyer for the Polizos Agency in Norfolk. She later served as media director of two other Hampton Roads advertising agencies before joining Cahoon & Cross in 1998.
In addition to her agency experience, Jane was media director for the corporate headquarters of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, where she planned advertising for the corporate office and 2,000 nationwide franchise offices. Her media and promotions planning experience includes major campaigns in public transit, travel and tourism, insurance, health services, banking, grocery and retail. She has planned, placed and managed major media programs across Virginia for the Virginia Departments of Health, Social Services and Medical Assistance Services.
While at Cahoon & Cross, Jane has worked with the Family Health Media Network to gain significant added value to health campaigns including
public service announcements, interviews, Web advertising, mentions, sponsorships, promotions and partnerships. For one Cahoon & Cross
client, Nationwide Insurance, Jane supervises the planning and placement of media advertising for nearly 500 Nationwide agents in Virginia, Maryland,
D.C., and Delaware. She has worked with a wide range of clients, including Popeye's Chicken, the City of Virginia Beach
Travel and Tourism Department, Fine's Men Shops of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina; Standard Sportswear of Pennsylvania and Ohio;
and
Mary Jane Bakery of the Mid-Atlantic.
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