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What kind of work do I do?

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.

Looking for my portfolio?

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

Online Marketing Intro for Small Businesses

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.

Shorts

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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Feb012010

I would like to offer free stuff but I have to pay my mortgage

DateMonday, February 1, 2010 at 01:52AM

I've been getting a string of inquiries from people lately that do not want to pay for marketing consulting. They figure "well I can just go do some research on the internet..." Well then, why don't you? Why do people think that consulting is a service that shouldn't be paid for?

Consulting is difficult for people to grasp because it's not tangible to them. It's not a product that they can touch, feel, and play with. It's ideas, assistance, improvements, and solutions -- none of which have any physical properties or promises. That said, many people who run their businesses every day are great at a few things... maybe it's the books, or their products -- but they have no intellectual equity or concept of it. This is where I come in and where I'm worth the money.

I convert problems into ideas into solutions. That's all. Simple, yet powerful.

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