Readers of The News Tribune voted Cascade Digital Marketing the Gold winner for Best Marketing Agency and Best Web Design in the 2026 Best of Pierce County awards.
It’s our second year in a row taking Gold for Marketing Agency. In Web Design, we moved up from Silver last year to Gold this year.
Thank you to every client, friend and neighbor who voted. There were 214 other categories asking for your attention, and you still found ours.
How Best of Pierce County Works
Best of Pierce County is The News Tribune’s yearly readers’ poll. People who live here nominate local businesses, then vote for them. No panel of judges picks the winners.
2026 was the program’s third year, and it grew fast. More than 5,300 businesses, organizations and people competed across 215 categories. Voters cast more than 272,000 votes, 77% more than in 2025. The winners are listed on BestofPierceCounty.com and in the printed Best of Pierce County magazine.
What the Web Design Award Recognizes
We build every website by hand, for one business at a time. We don’t start from a purchased template or a page builder. Each site has to load fast, read clearly on a phone, and give visitors an obvious next step, whether that’s calling, booking a consultation or asking for a quote.
We also structure every page so Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT can tell exactly what the business does and who it serves. More people now ask an AI tool for a recommendation instead of scrolling through search results, and we want our clients’ names in those answers.
Two examples from our work:
- Melvin & Torrone, a Tacoma family law and criminal defense firm, changed its name this year. We built its new website from scratch and moved years of its legal guides to the new domain, so the firm kept the search visibility it had spent years earning.
- Father Nature Landscapes relaunched this year on a site we built from scratch. We moved it off a slow WordPress page-builder theme, and the firm kept its search rankings through the move.
What the Marketing Agency Award Recognizes
Every engagement starts with research into the client’s market, competitors and customers, before we spend any of their money. With AI tools, we deliver in about three days the kind of competitive analysis most agencies need three weeks to produce.
We also grade our work on booked appointments, signed clients and revenue, not on clicks. Here’s what that looks like for three clients:
- 100+ new appointments a month for a Tacoma family law firm
- 7,000+ organic search clicks a month for The Law Firm of Christopher Dumm
- A 10x return on every ad dollar for Father Nature Landscapes
Results from individual client engagements. Yours depend on your market, competition and scope.
What’s Next
We still take on only three to five new clients a quarter, so the person who plans your marketing is the person who runs it. If you run a professional services firm and want marketing you can measure in booked work, let’s talk.
FAQ
How are Best of Pierce County winners chosen?
By community vote. Pierce County residents nominate and vote for local businesses in each category, and The News Tribune publishes the Gold, Silver and Bronze winners. The 2026 program counted more than 272,000 votes across 215 categories.
Has Cascade won Best of Pierce County before?
Yes. In 2025, Cascade won Gold for Best Marketing Agency and Silver for Best Web Design (read the 2025 announcement). In 2026, it won Gold in both categories.
Does Cascade only work with Pierce County businesses?
No. Cascade is based in Tacoma and works with professional service firms across the country, including law firms, accountants, architects and builders.
