Meet Allison Lamplugh
Founder & Creative Director at Lamplight Creatives
For more than a decade, Allison Lamplugh has helped businesses grow through strategic marketing, compelling storytelling, and thoughtful brand development.
Throughout her career, she has worked with retail businesses, nonprofits, technology companies, manufacturers, professional service firms, and locally owned businesses, giving her a broad perspective on the challenges organizations face at different stages of growth.
With formal training in journalism and a passion for connecting people through meaningful stories, Allison brings both strategy and creativity to every project she leads.
Areas of Expertise:
Brand strategy | Website content development | Digital marketing | Social media strategy | Logos and visual identity design
About Allison
Born and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, Allison now has the opportunity to serve some of the same communities that shaped her. The journey that brought her to what she does today had twists and turns. She spent 14 years living mostly in sunny California – Los Angeles and the Bay Area – with brief stays in Nashville and Las Vegas.
Living in larger metropolitan communities broadened her perspective and exposed her to different industries, cultures, and ways of thinking, experiences that continue to influence her work and creativity today.
Allison has since traded in Hollywood nights and Malibu beach runs for a slower, simpler life in our corner of this beautiful state. She spends her days in her home office in Philomath, which she dubs the “Lamplight World Headquarters,” and ends them at the barn, where she is a caretaker for a senior horse and a flock of sheep (who demand rubs and snacks, as you would expect of a dog).
Coming back home to be close to her mom and childhood friends has enhanced her life more than she anticipated. When life is good, creativity can flow, and that’s what keeps Allison inspired for new projects.
Founder & Creative Director, Lamplight Creatives (2019–Present)
More than 10 years of marketing experience
Background in content strategy, branding, website development, and digital marketing
Experience serving nonprofits, local businesses, manufacturers, technology companies, and professional service organizations
Why Allison Founded Lamplight Creatives
Allison founded Lamplight Creatives in 2019 to help local small- and mid-sized businesses achieve their marketing and growth goals.
After working as a marketing manager, Allison recognized a need for a “one-stop shop” where local businesses could find all the creative and marketing expertise needed to bring a project to life.
In that previous role, she got the same questions over and over again. She kept meeting with business leaders who were all looking for the same answers: “Where should I go? Who is good? How should I start?”
She also heard the same frustration:
People had to repeat themselves to different representatives while working on a project, and go to multiple places to complete all parts of it.
In the process, such leaders realized that conceptualizing and completing a creative project meant they were managing ANOTHER thing. And most of them couldn’t take on another project on top of their full-time job.
This was Allison’s ah-ha moment.
She saw a void that needed to be filled and wanted to offer a solution to the problem she was hearing. Lamplight Creatives was born.
She built the agency for people who wanted a single place and person to handle all parts of their project. Allison put together a team of marketing professionals, all with specific skill sets she anticipated would come in handy.
Her job became working directly with clients and communicating with creatives or vendors, serving as the project manager. This eliminated the need for clients to go elsewhere, allowing them to focus on running their businesses while Allison and her team worked on their behalf.
Working with Allison
Throughout her career, Allison has helped organizations clarify their messaging, strengthen their brands, and connect with the audiences that matter most to their growth.
Her approach is collaborative. Allison combines what you know about your business with her marketing expertise, and together you’ll build something that fits your business and goals.
She’s also the kind of person who will tell you when something isn’t working, not just what you want to hear. Allison believes that open communication and transparent processes lay a strong foundation for a working relationship because marketing requires consistent attention to trends and patterns, as well as the ability to pivot as needed.
For that reason, it’s always Allison’s goal to serve clients with authenticity, limit industry jargon so everyone understands the work being done, and build long-lasting relationships to continue supporting local business leaders as a partner over the long term.
Through her work at Lamplight Creatives, Allison regularly shares insights and practical guidance because she believes in sharing knowledge to uplift business leaders and help them make more informed marketing decisions.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS
HAVE TO SAY
“I think what elevates your company is that you are local. There are so many on Instagram or elsewhere that promise marketing expertise or website development, but who knows what locale they are from. Your company, being centered in Corvallis, is a game-changer. I felt that connection to the community as we collaborated on my art website! ”
Madeline MacGregor
artist
“I think what elevates your company is that you are local. There are so many on Instagram or elsewhere that promise marketing expertise or website development, but who knows what locale they are from. Your company, being centered in Corvallis, is a game-changer. I felt that connection to the community as we collaborated on my art website!”
Madeline MacGregor
artist
"Thank you for the photo shoot! You and Chris were amazing. I was impressed by your positive attitudes and professionalism. We are looking forward to seeing the pictures and putting them to good use."
Dawn Duerksen
"Thank you for the photo shoot! You and Chris were amazing. I was impressed by your positive attitudes and professionalism. We are looking forward to seeing the pictures and putting them to good use."
Dawn Duerksen
"Allison at Lamplight Creatives is the best in the business and reasonably priced. She is wonderful to work with."
John Faulconer
Ocean Breeze Homes
"Allison at Lamplight Creatives is the best in the business and reasonably priced. She is wonderful to work with."
John Faulconer
Ocean Breeze Homes
“Extremely helpful and professional. Communication was on point throughout the entire process. I would recommend Lamplight Creatives to anyone looking for website building assistance! ”
Courtney Marchesi
“Extremely helpful and professional. Communication was on point throughout the entire process. I would recommend Lamplight Creatives to anyone looking for website building assistance!”
Courtney Marchesi
"We recommend Allison and her team to all nonprofit organizations that depend on a quality website for fundraising, to share with the world their community impact, and engage volunteers and funders. She works with top of the line designers and developers, all of whom share Allison’s work ethics ."
Ricardo
Casa Latinos Unidos
"We recommend Allison and her team to all nonprofit organizations that depend on a quality website for fundraising, to share with the world their community impact, and engage volunteers and funders. She works with top of the line designers and developers, all of whom share Allison’s work ethics."
Ricardo
Casa Latinos Unidos
Topics Allison Writes About
Branding and brand strategy | Website content and messaging | Digital marketing | Social media marketing | Marketing trends | Small business growth