04 Dec Vision 2 Market, LLC Celebrates 19 Years in Business – The History & Facts
Vision 2 Market, LLC originally started in the print advertising industry. Initial graphic designs for business owners included magazine ads, newspapers, brochures, posters, postcards, business cards, lawn signs, billboards, and logo designs for retail stores on Long Island, New York. The company coordinated traditional, regional TV and radio advertising across Long Island. Then came the digital marketing and advertising era. Here’s the Vision 2 Market, LLC history and facts nineteen years later.
Catherine Flores, Vision 2 Market, LLC Owner and Founder was a manager and supervisor in healthcare with over 10 year’s experience. Her leadership roles included directing and collaborating with over 60 employees to achieve organizational goals. During her management tenure from 1990-2000, she enjoyed working with people and using the computer, so she decided to take HTML coding classes at Suffolk Community College. Catherine enjoyed designing brochures, print ads and using HTML to design websites. She got her first marketing job in 2001 after graduating with a Bachelor of Science. She also received an academic scholarship. In addition, Catherine achieved a specialization in marketing while working full time and graduating Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University in 2000.
Emergence of Vision 2 Market, LLC Starts Social Media
After a successful experience with her senior marketing assistant position supervising another employee, Catherine Flores Marketing Consultation Services began. The company started as a Sole Proprietorship. The Catherine Flores marketing consulting company was started on November 23, 2006, in Huntington, Long Island. Four years later, the brand name Vision 2 Market, LLC was officially formed as a Limited Liability Company into a full-service advertising agency. Digital advertising on social media became popular in 2010-2012 so the company combined Google pay-per-click and leveraged Facebook strategies for small businesses, manufacturers, and large corporations.
Vision 2 Market, LLC Increases Sales for Retailers
Vision 2 Market started as a recession was approaching and social media came on the scene. Enduring a financial crisis and new social media platforms, Catherine Flores formed Vision 2 Market, LLC in 2010. Vision 2 Market is not affiliated with Vision 2 Marketing or any other entity using the name Vision 2 with another business title after it. Catherine Flores is the sole Owner and Founder of Vision 2 Market, LLC. She established the company after working for a Hunter Douglas fabricator on Long Island, New York.
Catherine realized many small retail shops and business owners were unable to budget for a fully staffed print and digital marketing and advertising department. She loved helping family-owned businesses and entrepreneurs reach more customers. Catherine applied creative and innovative marketing and advertising practices to promote products and services on local TV, radio, direct mail and magazine advertisements. Vision 2 Market,LLC KPI’s include helping Hunter Douglas authorized dealers on Long Island and New England become 2 of the 10 top sales producers nationwide. Catherine is known for increasing business for all size companies from 15 to 25% within the first two years. The Vision 2 Market team helps new customers get more clients and achieve business goals on a consistent basis with monthly retainer programs.
Manager, Marketing Assistant To Business Owner
Catherine later left her Senior Marketing position to do a stint at The New Yorker magazine. Her job was Production Manager to cover a maternity leave. Catherine was recruited to coordinate the Fashion Rocks concert at Condé Nast, but she had to respectfully decline due to a sudden but temporary medical issue. Catherine was disappointed she was unable to fulfill the position. She loved the opportunity to work at such a huge think tank. However, she missed working directly with business owners. After her recovery, she followed her heart and started Vision 2 Market,LLC. Ms. Flores carries 30 years of supervisory, management, marketing, and entrepreneurship skills along with her education.
Vast Industry Knowledge
Vision 2 Market,LLC experienced exponential growth starting in 2015 when Catherine was referred by many other customers beyond New York due to her drive, effective marketing communication skills, commitment, and results to successfully grow businesses in many industries:
A business from Connecticut asked Catherine to give a marketing presentation to store owners in the Greater Boston area. Business owners from Massachusetts saw Catherine speaking at a marketing seminar in 2010. She made several great business connections at the seminar and still works with those same clients today. Thanks to many other business owner referrals and solid professional relationships built from marketing seminar events and meetings across Long Island to New England, Vision 2 Market, LLC experienced continued growth and profit.
Marketing & Advertising Beyond Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Catherine immersed herself in many industries to help business owners grow from 2015-2020. Her quest for knowledge about how each company worked fueled the challenge of helping her customers grow through strategic advertising and digital marketing. She learned as much as she could about each business. Then took on the challenge to attract more customers to every business she served. Catherine worked hard to build trust and earned repeat and new business from New York to Boston.
Additionally, Catherine was instrumental in helping Designs by Peggy achieve two Designer of the Year (DOTY) awards in 2019. She assisted with designing a stunning portfolio and copywriting for an interior designers work affiliated with the national DOTY Long Island Interior Design Society Chapter. Her staff of marketing assistants are also credited for making the company look good. Vision 2 Market, LLC was turned to for branding, logos, digital advertising, marketing, presentations, award submissions, search engine optimization, graphics, website designs and development including social media strategies by small to large companies. Client goals are congruent with the Vision 2 Market, LLC mission whether it’s increasing sales or achieving award-winning status for a specific industry.
Then came Covid in 2020. Many factories, manufacturing plants, and mom and pop shops shut down leaving Vision 2 Market with less cash flow for at the start of 2021. It was a critical time for many business owners. It turned around quickly at Vision 2 Market with the Covid reopening sparking new ways to communicate. A demand for social distancing signs, Covid website updates, QR codes, and new graphic designs catapulted company sales. Catherine and staff adapted and helped clients successfully endure the Covid reopening transition. After the pandemic, Vision 2 Market, LLC experienced record sales.
New Yorkers, New Englanders, & Floridians Network
Vision 2 Market, LLC opened a home office location in Sebring, Florida in July 2021. “It was a natural progression for the company to follow”, Catherine said. We were not sure how Covid would turn out. “I was initially prepared to seek and purchase a more cost-effective location outside of the Northeast to operate from with potential.” Sebring, Florida was the right place at the perfect time and centrally located to many business connections, friends, and family I already had on the East and West Coast of Florida.” Sebring, Florida was featured on HGTV’s Home Town Takeover in 2024/2025 introducing more business opportunities for Vision 2 Market, LLC.
The company credits loyal employees and the incredible support of customer referrals, family, and friends for their success. Customers, friends, family, and vendors still recommend and support Vision 2 Market ‘til this day. The company embraces new technologies like artificial intelligence to help companies implement the latest and most innovative strategies to reach new customers. Vision 2 Market, LLC celebrated 19 years in business as of November 23, 2025.
Given the current exponential business growth of Sebring and Tampa, Florida, Vision 2 Market, LLC now offers marketing and digital advertising services in Highlands and Hillsborough County, Florida while maintaining clients in New York & Boston where she has original roots. Everyone at Vision 2 Market looks forward to expanding the advertising agency. The team is excited to meet new entrepreneurs, see retired past customers, old friends and family living in Highlands & Hillsborough, County and surrounding areas of Florida. Happy holidays from the Vision 2 Market, LLC advertising team!
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