Helen Wurthmann
I am an author, illustrator, and digital marketer currently living in Salem, MA.
My passion for digital marketing was born right out of college when I got a job as a blogger at a small web design firm. Within the year, I was running the company’s content and social media marketing department. I worked with businesses in a wide variety of industries, from healthcare to lawn care, from interior design to software design.
Four years later, I moved to Seattle, where I saw that many small businesses didn’t fit the molds set by large marketing agencies. I set out to create a marketing agency, Wurthmann Digital Marketing, that helped employees realize their potential and helped clients by providing affordable, boutique marketing campaigns. Starting my own digital marketing company gave me the flexibility to help the small businesses I believed in succeed in the virtual space.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, I closed my business and moved to Boston, where I began illustrating and publishing a series of graphic novels called “Sockmonsters” with co-author A.B. Abbott. The resulting independent publishing company, SugaCakes Publishing, now specializes in comics, art, and illustrated poetry. During this time, I also became the Marketing & Communications Manager at Boston University School of Social Work. There, I have had the opportunity to celebrate the important work done by the school’s faculty and staff, as well as inspire and recruit the next generation of social workers.