Challenge: Bradsby Group, a large Denver-area recruiting firm, needed to drive more traffic to its website and generate more awareness of the firm's exectuive search and recruiting services. Solution: Lumen Marketing developed a keyword and content marketing strategy targeting two distinct audiences: hiring managers/human resources professionals, and job candidates (mid-level management to executives). Work [...]

Challenge: Create a new piece of thought leadership to explain the concept of yield management. Position ACTIVE Network as an expert on the topic, and its ACTIVE Yield software as the best solution. Solution: Wrote a white paper called Yield Management: Smart Strategies for Gaining Wallet Share. In this white paper, explained the origins of yield management [...]

Challenge: Develop a new corporate website to reflect TrackVia's narrowed business focus around workflow management. Given a one-month deadline for completion of the new website. Solution: Led and managed the development of a brand new website, using a non-traditional approach to launch it: • Launched new website in 45 days, reducing costs by $50K via [...]

Challenge: Create awareness around spreadsheets' error-prone nature, lack of security and user permissions, as well as lack of mobile, on-the-go functionality. Solution: Conducted original research among over 1,000 business professionals regarding how they use spreadsheets to do their work. Used the survey data in an easy-to-read and visually engaging report called Spreadsheets: Work Like [...]

Challenge: Help TalentWave, the leader in independent contractor compliance and engagement solutions, capitalize on the rapidly growing trend of the flexible workforce. Create a high-value piece of content that HR and procurement professionals can download following a webinar on the same topic. Solution: Created a prescriptive how-to guide called The Flexible Workforce Strategic Planning Guide: 9 [...]

Challenge: To promote its low-code application platform, TrackVia decided to captialize on analyst firm, Gartner's, 2011 prediction that 25 percent of business applications would be built by Citizen Developers. Solution: Worked closely with a third-party public relations firm to conduct primary research intended to show how Citizen Developers will disrupt the corporate landscape, and how being [...]

Challenge: Present ordinary Excel spreadsheets as having their place in business, while pointing out their weaknesses, including a lack of data integrity, weak security features, and limited reporting and workflow features. Solution: Wrote an e-book called 6 Reasons to Ditch Your Spreadsheets... and Make the Move to a DIY Application. Showed a side-by-side comparison of spreadsheets vs. [...]

Challenge: Create a unique marketing campaign to promote ACTIVE Network at the 2012 IAAPA Attractions Expo. Solution: Created a multi-part campaign targeted to professionals in the attractions industry (amusement parks, water parks, zoos, aquariums, museums and cultural attractions). The integrated marketing campaign featured a game board theme that we titled PLAY TO WIN, and included: [...]

Challenge: Create a new piece of marketing content that discusses how business projects can fall into a state a of analysis paralysis, and position online application platforms as a viable solution. Solution: Wrote a white paper titled Analysis Paralysis: How to prevent data from crippling your business. Presented online application platforms as being less prone [...]

Challenge: Re-purpose an existing piece of thought leadership as an in-booth display at a technology conference. Solution: Used graphics from the TrackVia white paper, The Citizen Developer: The next generation worker, and created a 24" x 36" infographic. The infographic was laminated, mounted on foam core and displayed on an easel in the company's exhibitor [...]