A Growing Business

Several months ago, we were approached by a potential client (recommended to us by another client, but that’s another story…) seeking assistance in launching and presenting her new business. Jen Kirkpatrick had decided to tap into her passion and years of experience in gardening and horticulture, an entrepreneurial drive, and a love of working with people, and create Green Thumb Gardening Coach – offering gardening and landscaping assistance, education, direction and motivation to others.

Tilling, Planting and Fertilizing

Jen had a great business idea and great skills and knowledge with which to work, but she was looking for a (literal) ground-up approach to get her business started and promoted. We worked with her to come up with a logo and overall branding and image style that reflected her business, and provided our custom photography services to visually capture Jen, her business and her passion.

From there we created her initial marketing pieces to allow her to approach potential clients, including a custom, easily-updated dynamic website, business cards and magnetic vehicle signage.

Finally, we helped Jen “fertilize” her marketing and promotional growth efforts by implementing an initial social media marketing strategy (including blogging, Twitter and an RSS feed) to help her publicize and grow her business.

Growth and Propagation

Properly prepared, planted and nurtured, Jen’s business has really started to grow. Her vehicle signage gets her name, number and message in front of hundreds (if not thousands) of potential customers each day. Through incidental contacts and networking during her normal daily activities, she’s promoting her business via word-of-mouth and with distribution of her business cards, and her website continues to enjoy increasing traffic. Most recently, one of our primary online sources for Web tools and technology selected GreenThumbGardeningCoach.com as one of their feature Showcase websites, putting Jen and her business in front of thousands of additional sets of eyes.

Congratulations, Jen! You’re off and running, and we’re thrilled and honored to be your partner in the process.

Sean Ory, owner/founder of Bridge Fitness, was referred to us by one of our wonderful clients from the Chicago area. Sean just recently relocated from there to Arizona and was looking for some visual marketing help for his in-home personal training business. We went to work to help create a look that reflected Sean’s business image and message – strong, effective and sporty, but also warm and friendly. The result was a logo, business cards and web site that, we’re proud to say, blew him away.

We think Sean is one of the nicest people we’ve met. And, he really knows his stuff. If you’ve ever considered hiring a personal trainer – or even if you haven’t, you’ll definitely want to check him out.

For many of our clients, Visage Creative is a regular part of their creative team. MC Companies, a management and investment company handling multi-family properties,  is one of those clients. Since 2006, we’ve worked closely with Kim, MC’s Director of Marketing & Public Relations, to help supply her company and their many communities with a variety of smart, effective and attractive visual marketing aids. From business cards to mouse pads to ads and invitations, Kim has called on us just as she would have called on an in-house marketing/media/collateral department.  For businesses like MC Companies, expenses are managed and reduced by not having to incur all of the carrying costs of a full-time marketing team, and for us, we have the efficiencies of working with an established client with established practices… truly a win-win situation!

Read what our client Kim has to say about working with us.

Property Info Folder Inserts

Mouse pad, t-shirt and journal

Door hanger and visit card

Grand Opening ad and invitation

Juanderful Work Enterprises hails from Austin, Texas and this client came to us for help in getting his new business up and running. Hard work, honesty, integrity and quality is the name of the game for them and they wanted their marketing materials to help get that message across. So we created a logo that “certified” them as the four-star business they are – and along with the logo came business cards, letterhead, a splash web page, truck magnets, and yard signs. We loved helping get this business off to a “Juanderful” start!

client: Ford Howsmon, LLC
need: a logo and business identity package for this new company
result: a smart-looking logo, business card, brochure and web design

the client: Method 1 I.T., computer wellness experts

the need: new branding that would work with existing logo and tagline, with a feel that is modern without being cold.

the result: a contemporary look with a friendly feel, including images that underscore the freedom of leaving your I.T. worries behind and getting on with life; we applied this look to a sleek business card, a uniquely sized brochure, several eye-catching laptop covers, and their web site appearance (Method 1 took care of the site function).

the client: Patrick Ritchie, Success Road Map Press founder and author of The Credit Road Map
the need: a business image for a new publishing company and coordinating branding for its signature Road Map series; a logo and cover art for the first book in the series – The Credit Road Map.
the result: for Success Road Map Press, a simple, elegant logo, business card and web site; a color scheme and visuals that connect the Press to its products; for The Credit Road Map a logo that seamlessly merges the credit and navigational metaphors and is used throughout the book’s marketing, a cover with a clean look that sets it apart from the rest of the overly-busy business section, as well as a web site, DVD cover and marketing poster.