AdVentures Branding Agency
- Brand Strategy & Messaging
- Web Design + Build
- Content Writing
Concept
Inbound Marketing Seattle
Interior page
Interior page
Serivices provided
- Concept Development
- UI & UX
- Brand Messaging
- Brand Strategy
- Content Strategy
- Content Writing
- Illustration Sketches
- Website Build
- Industry Research
Something to Yelp About
Serivices provided
- Everything including:
- UI & UX
- Brand Messaging
- Brand Strategy
- Brand Identity
- Content Strategy
- Content Writing
- All Article Writing
- Website Build
Enrichment Center for Children, Women & Families
Project:New custom-designed website for The Enrichment Center for Women, Children and Families
Business Services Website & Messaging
My Role
Brand Strategist
UI / UX Designer
Infographic Prototype Designer
Projects
Identity Package
Responsive Website
Tradeshow Collateral
“What you do invigorates. All of a sudden you reach out with an idea, and I’m invigorated by what I see. Wow, these infographics are really cool. You show that you understand design and visual graphics in today’s market, just like you have done so far with our identity, positioning, messaging, and sales strategy.”
Patty Anderson
CEO / Manager, Performance Building Solutions, LLC
Custom-designed infographics simplify complex sales message.
The CEO of this start-up said her most difficult challenge was communicating to investors and customers how her company’s software works. The solution: Infographics in a modern website and tradeshow signs that simplify the sales message.
Pathways Website
During my discovery session, the client casually mentioned her love for trees. Was she excited to see that we ran with the tree, customizing a tree illustration to symbolize getting to the root of a patient's back pain. I developed the slogans and messaging and was creative director and art director on this rebrand, website redesign project.
Karen Skeens
Freelance Designer & Copywriter
Leaves,
a new key brand element
Services I Provided
- Brand strategy & positioning
- Copywriting and messaging
- Site wireframing & content organization
- Creative and art direction of website redesign
- Client service
Restaurant Media Kit / Sales Pitch
What the client said:
"That's the best d*mn marketing piece I've ever seen."
The target audience for this clever 15-page iron-branded rawhide media kit was just one person: The Las Vegas MGM Grand Hotel’s Food & Beverage Manager, our client. Cowgirls’ objective was to land the highly-coveted meeting with this MGM manager, and pitch the Cowgirl club’s unique “fun formula” in MGM space. Starting with a blank piece of paper and nothing more than an existing logo, my partner and I came up with the overall concept, then I planned and wrote the copy on all 15 pages. Media kit objective accomplished. Meeting won. The MGM manager’s comments about the media kit: “That’s the best damn marketing piece I’ve ever seen.”
Catchy Page Headlines
The goal of this sales piece was to land the highly coveted meeting with the decision maker at the Las Vegas MGM to pitch Seattle-based Cowgirls Saloon as an ideal tenant on the Las Vegas main strip.
So, the opening headline on page 1 was written to assumptively announce “Cowgirls ARE coming to Las Vegas.”
Cowgirls’ three partners did not make a single edit to the copy I wrote for on any of the pages, as they captured their objectives and brand’s “sexy” and “sassy” voice. (I wrote 11 out of 12 pages, editing the 12th page of owner-provided bios.)
Page 2. Overview
Objective/request clearly stated to MGM Hotel target audience: “WANTED: Las Vegas Local for Cowgirls’ Brand of Fun.”
Benefits of partnering are briefly listed in a creative Cowgirls’ “brand of fun” way.
On page 3, this headline overviews how Cowgirls’ innovative marketing ROPES ‘EM IN to bring in the crowds and entice them to spend their money.
A lot of traffic at Cowgirls Saloon adds up to bigger profits for MGM Hotels if MGM chooses to lease their high-valued main strip space to Cowgirls.
Page 4. The “Fire up the fun” headline on this page summarizes what Cowgirls is all about. Fire hot, saucy, sassy, sexy fun. Cowgirl’s “fun formula” differentiates them from their competitors.
Page 5 headline: “Meet the Cowgirls” and here’s a little intro about them. Gotta dedicate an entire page about the Cowgirls since this is the inspiration behind Cowgirl’s Saloon’s name.
Page 6 on “Meet our Customers.” Gotta have a headline and page about Cowgirl’s target audience. It’s who the Cowgirls cater to. And it’s who spends money, and would pay profits and Cowgirls’ rent for Las Vegas MGM space.
Page 7. How exactly do the customers at Cowgirls have fun?
They “saddle up to the bar” and them some.
Page 8. “Regulators” headline says it all.
The Cowgirls-branded “regulator” name for their security staff keeps customers in line outside and inside.
Page 9. Now that you’ve met the Cowgirls and the customers, it’s important to meet the partners who founded and run Cowgirls’ Saloon. This sales piece, not only sells the Cowgirls’ “fun formula” and promotional recipe for success, but it sells the business savvy of the partners.
Page 10, 11 and 12. Just straightforward talk. (You can download the full kit PDF below.)
Random Kit Pages
Assignment
The kick-off meeting for the “brochure” project started with Cowgirls’ three partners, my partner and a blank piece of paper with my pen in hand. After an extensive Discovery session, simply put, our instructions were to…
1) Create a creative brochure that integrated the funky look and feel of the restaurant decor.
2) Visit the saloon at midnight when it was busiest.
3) Communicate sass and sex appeal in the piece.
4) Make it persuasively sell the target audience (Success!)
Assignment Solution
A hand-tied iron-branded rawhide leather cover and back to hold the pages became THE literal winning solution, not just with our client, but the Las Vegas MGM Hotel target audience. The writing and design was done in the comfort of our office. The rawhide prep and iron branding took place on the cement floor of a cold garage... (Kudos to my former partner, Alex Howard with coming up with the hand-made leather kit idea.)
Alex Howard, my partner, came up with the rawhide leather idea, did the how-to research, the shopping, the prepping, and the laborious work of putting together by hand ten media kits, each one with a cover and a back.
The client loved our unique solution so much, they placed another order to use in pitches for other markets.
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A hand-tied iron-branded rawhide leather cover and back to hold the pages became THE literal winning solution, not just with our client, but the Las Vegas MGM Hotel target audience. The writing and design was done in the comfort of our office. The rawhide prep and iron branding took place on the cement floor of a cold garage… (Kudos to my former partner, Alex Howard with coming up with the hand-made leather kit idea.)
Assignment Solution
A hand-tied iron-branded rawhide leather cover and back is the attention getter for this unique media kit. The rawhide prep and iron branding took place on the cement floor of a cold garage. The writing and design was done in the comfort of our office.
A team of three worked on this project: The managing partner handled the rawhide leather prep, and the graphic designer and I, the copywriter, worked together on the interior pages.
The client loved our unique solution so much, they placed another order to use in pitches for other markets.
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Security Stuff
My Project Services
- Brand Strategy
- Content Strategy
- Copywriting
- Art Direction
- Layout Design
- Photo Research
- Collaboration with agency and graphic designer
Karen Skeens
Karen Skeens is a freelance creative director and web designer with 20 years agency and media experience from Phoenix and Seattle.
New Home Community Websites
One parent website + nine microsites for new home communities
The primary objectives of this assignment were to create a highly functional online virtual tour for prospective home buyers, but more importantly, provide an easy marketing tool for real estate agents to use and easily update. The end results dramatically exceeded expectations and were very successful. All properties were sold over a relatively very short time period.
Taglines and Slogans
MAIN SLOGAN
“There’s LIVEability Here”
This is the tagline and primary theme that is integrated throughout all 10 websites, all under one umbrella. It is defined on the home page, the about page, and on each individual community home page.
COMMUNITY-UNIQUE SLOGAN
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“There’s LIVEability at Cedar Downs”
“There’s LIVEability at Trailside”
Each of nine Freestone new home communities featured the slogan, “There’s LIVEability at….”
Here’s a “lIVEability” at Cedar Downs branded with the color, green. Each community was branded with a unique color.
TAGLINE FOR PARENT WEBSITE
Random Website Pages
My Project Services
I oversaw planning the marketing strategy, brand strategy, and content strategy for Freestone Companies’ rebrand, new parent website and nine individually-branded new home communities. The services I personally provided include:
- Website Visual Strategy
- User Experience & Navigation Planning
- Marketing Strategy
- Brand Strategy
- Content Strategy & Copywriting
- Brand & Competitive Positioning
- Real Estate Agent Coordination
- Photo Research
- Creative Direction