Kiel Mortgage, a well-known and consistent radio advertiser for many years, has retained Ad Ventures to re-brand the company for a major marketing expansion. The re-branding includes identity development and launching a new website. Owner, Laura Kiel and the folks at Kiel Mortgage are just as down to earth and personable as they sound on the radio! Ad Ventures will bring their company personality to life by giving their website “voice.”

Ad Ventures was ranked #25 on the Puget Sound Business Journal list of top website design companies in the Puget Sound Area. Ad Ventures was also highly ranked in similar lists for Graphic Designers and Web Designers in the Media Inc. 2008 Master Lists edition.

Ad Ventures was one of six Puget Sound area companies selected by Washington Mutual to be showcased in WAMU’s small business advertising campaign. Ads featuring Ad Ventures ran on local radio stations, including KIRO and KOMO, and appeared in the Seattle Times, Seattle PI, Tacoma News Tribune, and Everett Herald. Washington Mutual Bank’s campaign focused on their niche of handling small business banking needs and helping promote the growth of small businesses. What better way to reinforce what they do well than by giving free ad space and air time to select local companies?

Hear WaMu’s radio spot featuring Alex Howard, principal and founder of Ad Ventures Marketing >

Redmond-based Optistor technologies retained Ad Ventures to re-brand their website for a major new marketing push in 2008. Our creative positioned the company as an innovative leader in data storage solutions for enterprise-size firms, where “the IT manager is always the guy with his hair on fire…”, said Ron Studham, Optistor’s CEO. Ad Ventures’ design shows the IT guy what life can be like with a “cooler head.” See it here, www.optistortech.com.

Ad Ventures Marketing announces the launch of Sundquist Home’s new branding, website and advertising campaign. Their new naming - changed from Sundquist Homes to Sundquist Family of Companies - brings together all the “family members” under one roof: Sundquist Homes, Phoenix Development, their residential rental division, commercial leasing division, Porter’s Landing new home community and the latest home community, di Moda - all components of Sundquist Family of Companies.
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About the same time the new di Moda web site went live March 2008, so did the new homes as featured in this modern new home community website. Ad Ventures created a logo design, tagline and visual presence for the di Moda community with nothing more to view than a few home sketches and “dirt” when we first dug into this marketing venture six months ago. The web site innovatively brings to life these colorful homes, appealing to the 25 – 45 buyer with downtown condo taste, but without the pockets that normally afford that taste. The grand opening walk-through was quite the treat. “It is amazing how closely the actual completed homes mirror the home sketches as displayed in the di Moda website design,” said Karen Skeens, Ad Ventures’ web site project manager. View it here, www.dimodamodern.com.

On December 1, 2007, Ad Ventures Marketing announced the launch of a new website, new branding and positioning for Pacific Law Recruiters, a legal and corporate placement company serving the Northwest since 1981. For people who are “upside down” in their jobs looking for more balance in life, the new messaging for Pacific Law Recruiters is designed to motivate job seekers to put themselves “right side up.” The messaging and concept take form in online banner ads and a website, complete with a back-end database of hot jobs listings. See their website at www.pacificlawjobs.com.

This new edgy sales brochure, created by Ad Ventures, is anything but ordinary. It’s a keeper. And It’s sassy like nightclub Cowgirls Inc. Bound together by handmade rawhide covers, the reader is greeted with a cleverly-messaged, visually-wowing 15-page presentation of what makes Cowgirls Inc. the next best thing to hit the Las Vegas strip.

Primary Objective: Expand Seattle-based, highly successful Cowgirls’ Inc. to a prime real estate location in Las Vegas.

Why all the sass? That’s what Cowgirls’ Inc. American Saloon is all about: sexy, sassy wild west fun that’s “half hot biker chick, half sexy cowgirl.” Their unique fun formula appeals to the masses, people of all ages. But the audience intended for this brochure is very defined, highly targeted. So the message was carefully crafted to communicate the mass-appeal entertainment benefits, at the same time communicating specific benefits for serious business investors and real estate landlords. The showcased-sass and high quality of the brochure give good reason for this sales pitch to stand out from the competition.

Founders/owners of Cowgirls Inc. hired Ad Ventures to conceptualize, design and write an innovative sales piece that would not only be taken seriously, but would set them way apart from their competition seeking prime real estate locations in the highly competitive Las Vegas market. Our challenge was in presenting the brand and how it appealed to a broad customer mix, yet writing the sales pitch to appeal to the shirt and tie bean counter. Ad Ventures brought to the table a combination of creativity, along with longtime business savvy helping Northwest businesses strategize and effectively position themselves.

Ad Ventures and Seattle’s Cowgirls’ Inc. have partnered up to create an edgy, visually-appealing, and carefully-crafted sales proposal to help Cowgirls Inc. accomplish their national expansion endeavors. Target audience: Prime-location real estate property owners and property managers.

Cowgirls, Inc., is a sexy nightclub hotspot in Seattle, Washington that fuels sexy cabaret performance with wild west saloon fun.

Ad Ventures teamed up with Whitman Middle School’s PTSA website committee to create a dynamic, well-organized online communications tool for students, teachers, parents and the community. We were told this school wasn’t very photogenic. But see the school’s inner beauty that a camera, desire and a lot of spirit bring out. There’s “wildcat” spirit reflected throughout this 100+ page site, from cool rollovers on the home page to the Spirit Week blurb on the latest news page. See the Whitman website, launched September 2007 >

http://www.seattleschools.org/schools/whitman/