About Bull Moose
Making communities better places to visit, live, and work.
Bull Moose Marketing helps rural destinations connect tourism, economic development, and planning into one practical brand communities can deliver—growing visits, investment, and local pride.
Bull Moose Marketing started in 2017 with a straightforward idea from our founder, Ron Mattocks: when a rural community tells a good story about itself—and delivers on it—good things follow.
Looking at his hometown in Northwest Pennsylvania, Ron saw how practical, well-run marketing could boost the local economy for the people who live and work there. That’s been our focus ever since. We connect tourism, economic development, and planning into one workable brand and put it to work across strategy, marketing, and the web—so the promise matches the experience. The results our clients have seen aren’t flashy claims; they’re real wins for places that deserve them.
Our mission goes beyond one client or campaign. We partner with visitors bureaus, heritage areas, EDOs, planning entities, and the hospitality sector to strengthen entire local economies. From our offices in the historic Crawford County Trust Building in downtown Meadville, we’ve grown a team that knows how to bring stakeholders together, set priorities, and follow through. Today, we’re leveraging that on-the-ground experience to earn national recognition in heritage tourism and economic development—helping rural destinations raise their profile, attract investment, and build the kind of pride that keeps people coming back and sticking around.
People often ask us how we came up with our agency’s name, and we are deeeelighted to tell them because it points straight to what we believe.
In the Progressive Era, Theodore Roosevelt used plain talk and practical action to make life better for everyday people—trust-busting for a “square deal,” conserving what makes America special, and bringing unlikely groups to the same table to get things done. On the 1912 campaign trail, after being shot, he finished his speech anyway and told reporters the next day:
“I feel as strong as a bull moose.”
Theodore Roosevelt
That grit—and that focus on the common good—captures the spirit we bring to rural places: tell the truth about who you are, protect what matters, and keep going until the work is done. Bull Moose Marketing takes that example and applies it to today’s challenges. New tools and technology can feel overwhelming, but like Roosevelt, we use evidence, accountability, and a steady hand to serve people—visitors, residents, businesses, and investors—fairly.
Our job is to unify tourism, economic development, and planning into one workable brand, then deliver it through strategy, marketing, and the web so the promise matches the experience. In short, we aim to give every client a square deal and every community a fighting chance—strong as a bull moose.