ABOUT DEXTER PEAK COMMUNICATIONS
MARKETING firm SERVING MONTANA, IDAHO AND BEYOND
Dexter Peak Communications specializes in small business marketing, public relations, community outreach, websites, graphic design and social media management. Based in Livingston, Montana, we serve clients in Idaho, Montana, and nationwide. Our clients include small businesses, local government and nonprofit organizations.
Our common-sense approach, professionalism and attention to detail will help you take your small business marketing to the next level. Maximize your exposure and reach with a custom, flexible marketing plan tailored to your company’s budget and needs.
OUR TEAM
MEDIA & MARKETING experts
Dexter Peak Communications was established in 2024 after Justin Post joined his wife’s marketing firm, Taryn Hecker Media. The team at Dexter Peak Communications has more than 40 years combined experience in journalism, public relations, photography and design. We leverage our creativity, experience and broad range of talent and skills to help your businesses grow.
TARYN POST
PRESIDENT
Taryn Hecker Post has nearly 25 years of experience as a public relations and marketing consultant, newspaper reporter and photographer.
Taryn began her journalism career in 1999 as a reporter at The Coeur d’Alene Press as an education reporter, special sections editor, arts and entertainment editor and crime reporter. She worked 7 years as an investigative reporter in The Spokesman-Review’s Idaho bureau covering crime, public safety and civil and criminal court cases in Idaho’s five northern counties.
Taryn became a small business owner in 2008, opening a photography studio in Spirit Lake, Idaho, specializing in portraits, weddings and commercial photography. As a freelance marketing consultant, Taryn led marketing campaigns and performed public relations duties for a variety of clients in nonprofit, public and private sectors.
In 2018, she launched Taryn Hecker Media with the goal of helping small businesses and nonprofits achieve their public outreach and marketing goals. She has worked with a variety of public and private sector clients including businesses, nonprofits and municipalities.
Taryn has worked with a variety of public and private sector clients including FedEx feeder airline Empire Airlines, Empire Unmanned, West Air, Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho, the North Idaho Habitat ReStore, Verdis, Kootenai County, Associated Logging Contractors of Idaho, Bombastic Brewing, NextGen Electric, Panhandle Parks Foundation, the Regional Housing & Growth Issues Partnership (now Housing Solutions Partnership), Post Falls Urban Renewal Agency, Bombastic Brewing, Massage Therapist Erica Curless, Parks Reece Gallery, contemporary artist Virginia Lynn and others.
Taryn is currently working on her first book, a historical biography of her fourth great-grandfather 1800s Army dragoon and explorer Enoch Steen. Her writing has been published in The Spokesman-Review, Coeur d’Alene Press, The Inlander and other publications.
Taryn lives in Montana’s Paradise Valley with her husband, Justin. She enjoys raising chickens, fly-fishing, gardening, genealogy, foraging, cooking, riding motorcycles and travel.
JUSTIN POST
VICE-PRESIDENT
Justin Post joined Taryn Hecker Media in 2022 after working more than 20 years at newspapers in Idaho, Ohio, Indiana, California and Montana. He’s won numerous awards for his reporting, editorial writing, photography and newspaper layout and design.
Justin served for nearly a decade as managing editor of The Livingston Enterprise newspaper in Livingston, Montana, where he oversaw the production of the daily newspaper while assisting with management of other newspapers within the 13-publication Yellowstone Newspaper Group.
His public relations experience also includes working as communications/research director for the Montana Public Service Commission in Helena, where he spearheaded a wide range of tasks such as writing and distributing news releases about matters pertinent to energy, telecom, water, motor-carrier, pipeline and railway-safety policy.
Justin also has experience organizing roundtables and other public meetings, maintaining electronic media and assisting in the preparation of testimony to the state Legislature. He’s also prepared notes, speaking points and conducted research on legislative and regulatory affairs in Montana and beyond.
His work in journalism and public relations has taught him the importance of building sources and translating complicated economic, financial and technical information to reporters and the public.
Justin cut his teeth in journalism more than 20 years ago at the St. Maries Gazette Record in northern Idaho, where he enjoyed hunting and fishing in his spare time. He also worked as a reporter for The Youngstown Vindicator, The Warren Tribune-Chronicle, The Times of Northwest Indiana and The Montana Standard in Butte before joining The Livingston Enterprise as managing editor.
He brings a wide range of experience to Dexter Peak Communications including marketing, public relations, social media management, feature writing, website and graphic design, photography and consulting services.
Justin lives with his wife and two sons in the Paradise Valley near Yellowstone National Park.
INDUSTRIES SERVED
OUR CLIENTS
Dexter Peak Communications (previously Taryn Hecker Media) has worked with a variety of public and private sector clients including FedEx feeder airline Empire Airlines, Empire Unmanned, West Air, Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho, the North Idaho Habitat ReStore, Verdis, Kootenai County, Associated Logging Contractors of Idaho, Bombastic Brewing, NextGen Electric, Panhandle Parks Foundation, the Regional Housing & Growth Issues Partnership (now Housing Solutions Partnership), Post Falls Urban Renewal Agency, Bombastic Brewing, Massage Therapist Erica Curless, Parks Reece Gallery, contemporary artist Virginia Lynn and others. We have provided marketing for craft breweries, logging associations, nonprofit organizations, engineering firms, construction companies, regional airlines, solar power providers, electricians, massage therapists, musicians, artists and more!
