Jim Toppe – Founder

Jim Toppe is the founder of Toppe Consulting, a digital marketing agency in South Carolina, that works exclusively with solo practitioners and small law firms. He built the company on a simple idea: a small firm should be able to get professional websites, SEO, and public relations without a long-term contract or a budget built for a large firm. He brings 10 years of experience in digital marketing for law firms.

Education and Teaching

Jim Toppe holds a Master of Science in Management from Clemson University and teaches Business Law and Marketing at Greenville Technical College, where students have rated him 5.0/5.0 on Rate My Professors. That mix of academic training and classroom experience shapes how the company approaches each client. Teaching business law keeps him close to the rules that govern advertising and commercial speech, which matter in every piece of lawyer marketing.

His students at Greenville Tech get real examples from active projects. His clients get strategies grounded in tested academic principles. The two roles feed each other.

Business Background

Before starting Toppe Consulting, Jim worked inside marketing agencies. That experience showed him how agency pricing and staffing  work from the inside, and it shaped how Toppe Consulting runs today.

He also built and ran a small business providing floor cleaning services to machine shops across the Upstate region. Walking those floors gave Jim a firsthand look at how small business owners think about budgets, overhead, and growth.

When a solo attorney calls worried about overspending on marketing, Jim understands the concern. He has been the small business owner watching every dollar and deciding where limited resources should go.

Community and Professional Involvement

Jim stays connected to the legal and business communities across the Upstate region. He talks regularly with solo practitioners and small firm attorneys facing the same budget pressures and growth questions he knows firsthand. Those conversations keep his recommendations tied to the conditions small firms actually face.

Jim also serves as publisher and editor of South Carolina Manufacturing, a digital magazine covering the state’s manufacturing sector. Running an editorial operation means making the same calls a newsroom makes every day: what is worth covering, what holds up under scrutiny, and what a reader will actually finish. That perspective shapes every page Toppe Consulting publishes for a client.