The team
Our favorite projects are when we get to collaborate with other experts and do really great work together. These are some of Crabapple Communication's go-to collaborators that we recommend to clients. If you have a project that needs a kick-ass team, these are the people who make it up.
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However, you only get what you need, so we only bring in the right experts when required - they're not part of the overhead.
The strategists
Brand strategy
Vanessa Louis, STAND
Vanessa is an infinitely curious strategist and relentlessly creative problem solver with fifteen years of experience in brand planning and activation strategy.
She prides herself in being a collaborative communicator skilled at connecting people, products, and places to build brands that truly inspire (and drive revenue because let’s be honest, that’s important, too).
She loves helping brands not only find their “Why” but tell their stories in a way that highlights their unique authenticity while also helping people see them in a new light.
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Find out more about Vanessa's approach in our interview with her.
Graphic design & art direction
Gili Wolf, Bigbad Industries
Equal parts designer and artist, Gili brings a unique perspective and carefully crafted style to the brands she creates. She has created branding, identity systems, packaging, print, and social media design for locally-owned businesses large and small – from locally-owned to international brands including Samsung, Dell, Best Buy, Hitachi, and others. She has worked across a range of industries including health and wellness, the wedding industry, performing and fine arts, tech, non-profit, real estate, education, food packaging, restaurants, and more. A Californian in Colorado, Gili lives in Louisville, CO with her husband who she met on a design job for a dating coach. When she’s not glued to her laptop, Gili is working on her art, redecorating her house, or snooping around Denver for the best graffiti alleys and pops of color around the city.
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Find out more about Gili's approach in our interview with her.
Content marketing
Diane Pauley, Gimme Sweet Words
Diane Pauley is a brand and content strategist. She’s written the words for a number of brands and has helped clients gain clarity on what to say in their business.
These days, Diane helps business owners who are struggling to say what they do get a clear message that attracts clients. She believes everything comes down to making branding more personal, marketing more human, and creating content that connects. She’s also created a free resource to get business owners started on their journey of saying what they do here.
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To find out more about how Diane approaches writing, read her guest blog.
The website creators
Website designer & developer
Katy Martin, Tall Poppies Design
Katy Martin is an in-demand digital marketing strategist, designer, and developer and founder of digital marketing and branding agency Tall Poppies Design. With 20+ years of sales, marketing, and design expertise, Katy helps elite coaches, course creators, and online businesses bring their vision to life and sell more with elegant websites and marketing funnels.
Squarespace and Wix websites
Natalie Fehn, Compass and Kaleidoscope
Compass & Kaleidoscope was launched in January of 2018. Since then, Natalie has worked with clients in rally racing, music, real estate, acupuncture, engineering, college admission advising, pediatric care, and florals. She has a passion for utilizing her tried-and-true methods of search engine optimization to help small businesses gain a higher level of exposure online, increase their Google Search rankings and attract more potential customers.
The digital specialists
All-around digital marketing
Ursula Webhofer, Ur Web Marketing
Ursula has vast experience designing full branding and re-branding campaigns, easy-to-navigate websites, and other collateral for small to medium businesses, start-ups and non-profits. Her expertise lies in CPG (consumer product goods), and even FMCG (fast moving consumer goods). She gets a kick out of handling a variety of projects from your social media to newsletters to website design.
Search Engine Optimization
Meg Clarke, Clapping Dog Media
If you can be found by the value you provide clients, then Google will become your biggest and most consistent source of referrals. At Clapping Dog Media we build and implement SEO strategies so that you can be found by Google.
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Meg has worked with a large variety of clients in diverse verticals, like Wealth Management, Mental Health, Fine Arts, Health & Wellness, and Coaches helping them help more people by growing their organic traffic.
Google Search Ads
Erica Younkin, BRANDcrafted Marketing
Erica Younkin is a digital marketing strategist and copywriter who works with clients across a range of industries including finance, real estate, tech, higher education, CPG, health and wellness, entertainment, and media; as well as diverse sectors including B2B, private and public entities, government, and non-profit.
The reputation builders
PR and media relations
Joy Meadows, Meadows PR
Joy brings 20 years of experience to her own public relations and marketing communications practice. She has executed PR campaigns for clients in a variety of industries, from hospitality and food & beverage to green building products and real estate. Joy is known for getting her clients media placements in top, targeted outlets, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, The Denver Post, forbes.com, all the Denver affiliate TV stations, and countless others.