Your complete marketing package:
brand, logo, website, one-sheet, and more

Patrice Rhoades-Baum, Branding & Website Expert
Branding for Small Businesses and Copywriting for Websites and One-Sheets

Where do you begin if you need a brand, website, or one-sheet? Call Patrice Rhoades-Baum. If you own a business, a clear brand will let your expertise shine. And your strategic website – your most powerful marketing and sales tool – will help you achieve your business goals.

As a marketing consultant and copywriter, Patrice works with entrepreneurs and small businesses to:

• Create your brand
• Clarify your business objectives and services
• Write copy for your website and one-sheet brochure
• Facilitate the creation of your logo, website, and one-sheet

Backed by 30 years of strategic marketing expertise, Patrice’s experience includes 25 years of high-tech corporate marketing. She has strategized, written, and managed dozens of websites, including 2 Hewlett-Packard websites with $250,000 budgets. In addition, she has managed big-budget advertising campaigns, direct-mail programs, and $100,000 tradeshow events. Plus, she has written and edited myriad brochures, articles, newsletters, ezines, press releases, and technical white papers. One of her articles, a technical case study, was published by Fortune magazine. Patrice teams with small businesses, national organizations, and corporations. Many of her clients are successful entrepreneurs, including professional speakers, authors, business consultants, and sales coaches.

If you’re ready to start your branding and website adventure, contact Patrice now to schedule your free 30-minute discussion.

Speaking of adventures, Patrice and her husband Michael are on a grand adventure of exploring the West. They live in the foothills of Pikes Peak and drink in Colorado’s deep-blue skies, golden aspens, and vibrant wildflowers as they hike the Rockies or discover what’s around the next bend on their road trips. Michael is a full-time artist. Visit www.MichaelBaum.com to view his paintings, purchase paintings and prints, and read more about their adventures in his online journal.

Karen Saunders
Art Direction and Design

Karen Saunders has been a graphic designer since earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1982. She established MacGraphics Services in 1990. Karen specializes in designing logos, one-sheets, book covers, book interiors, and all manner of marketing materials.

Her eye-catching designs have played in the success of 35 award-winning and several best-selling books including the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize for the best self-published book in America.

Karen’s expert brand of design advice has been featured in numerous print and online publications. Plus, she has presented nationally on logo design, book covers, graphic design, and production – including presenting a session on visual branding at Mark Victor Hansen’s Mega Marketing Magic conference. Karen is author of the award-winning Turn Eye Appeal to Buy Appeal: How to easily transform your marketing pieces into dazzling, persuasive sales tools!

Lauren Klopfenstein
Website Design/Development, Graphic Design

With 30 years in the design and printing industry, Lauren Klopfenstein has owned and managed Lauren Graphics, Inc., for over 20 years. Today, Lauren Graphics is a customer-service-oriented team specializing in website creation. This team of designers and developers offers extremely high-quality designs as well as programming for all website development requirements.

True to their roots, Lauren Graphics also offers high-quality design for marketing and business collateral including logos, brochures, one-sheets, annual reports, publications, advertising, and more.

Susan Larson
Copywriting

For 25 years, Susan Larson has helped clients hone their marketing messages. For the past 10 years, she has focused primarily on Internet marketing, including writing websites. While an account manager for an online marketing company, she worked with several Hewlett-Packard divisions to forge their online marketing strategies, develop messaging, write website copy, and drive traffic to their websites.

Today, Susan teams with large corporations as well as small businesses and non-profit organizations. She sees websites as leveling the playing field for smaller companies and non-profits, because this marketing vehicle does not require a large budget and can provide significant return on investment. Nothing excites her more than helping small business owners and entrepreneurs clarify their key messages, then creating compelling website content to convey those messages.

Susan holds a B.A. in journalism. She worked as a reporter before turning her focus to marketing communications for corporations, non-profit organizations, and small businesses.

Barbara McNichol
Editing of Nonfiction Manuscripts

Add power to your pen with the skill and insight of this highly experienced editor. Backed by decades of editing expertise, Barbara specializes in editing nonfiction books in a variety of areas. The creator of Word Trippers, Barbara brings artistry, persuasion, and consistency to every client project.

Her trophy shelf displays 200+ books, including:

• Robert Shemin: How Come that Idiot’s Rich and I’m Not?, #3 on the New York Times bestseller list
• Sourena Vasseghi: Love Your Life and It Will Love You Back, recipient of the 2008 Indie award for the Best Business Book
• Laura Stack, MBA, CSP: Leave the Office Earlier: Do More in Less Time and Feel Great About It and Find More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel Great About It
• Eric Chester, CSP, CPAE: Getting Them to Give A Damn
• Douglas B. Gehrman: Leadership for Life: Your Guide to Becoming a Transformational Leader