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Creative services. This includes online and offline Marketing Communication solutions, including concept through design of print and web campaigns, social media and relationship marketing consulting and integration. There is no job too small or basic. Here's the full scoop.

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• Web design & communications
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• Branding (Logos, identity)

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Know you need some kind of marketing or communications plan but have no idea where to start? I help small businesses start with a plan and follow through on action. It can start as simple as a brand identity (need business cards?) or an ad campaign, evolving to your web presence and an online "culture creation" strategy. Solving problems through design, communications, and community integration. This is what I do.  Email me through the contact form or call me (541) 490-9621 for a consultation.

Got Schooled

Washington State University - BA in Communications
Art Institute of Seattle - Graphic Design
School of Visual Arts Seattle - Advertising Art Direction


Quick Tips

Email marketing is good if you have something worth reading. Don't push your products and your services. Open up a discussion about something of value.  For example, instead of pushing your landscaping business, include a Q&A section or offer information on how to compost leaves in the Fall or when to transplant perennials in your area. Offer value and gain trust with your customer by showing them you're not just pushing products. Then they will look forward to reading your emails versus just clicking the delete button as soon as it comes to their inbox.

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Cure for Cancer or will it ever be???

John Kanzius Foundation has brought some innovation to the cancer-curing research world with Radio Waves. That's right, non-invasive targeted radiofrequency cancer treatment destroys cancer cells without the debilitating side effects. Let's hope the FDA doesn't find out. It might actually work and then no one will ever know about it.

 

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Tuesday
06Jan2009

In celebration of the Inauguration.... The election of Barack Obama: A shining pillar of social marketing success.

I'm pretty excited about Barack becoming our new president. But never in a million years would I believe it would happen like it did. Whether you are a fan of Obama or not, one thing is very clear.... The Obama campaign was one of the most brilliant executions of social media and grass-roots marketing efforts in history. Period.

It was everything that ad agencies and social marketing firms dream to achieve with a client times ten. The Obama "Change" campaign will serve as the poster child for future marketing campaigns. Everything about it worked seamlessly, but without forcefullness and annoyance. This was a campaign won from the ground up.  Furthermore, the campaign's social media communications will continue to serve as community and global think tank, policy support team, and public opinion resources. Here are the fundamentals that made it, and will continue to make it, successful.

It is viral.

It is organic.

It is consistent.

It is transparent.

Gotta go eat lunch. Will elaborate later...

 

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