MAGIC: As a munchkin, Mike enjoyed many eureka moments discovering his greatest superpower—a talent to tap into and enlist his insatiable curiosity, insight, imagination and wit to create impactful novel ideas. He honed these storytelling talents and skills throughout his journalism studies at the University of Maryland and the legendary copywriting curriculum at the Creative Circus in Atlanta. Mike says he’ll keep solving marketing challenges ‘til the crevices of Oregon’s next major quake swallow him whole.

PROOF: Drawing from his extensive brand agency, corporate marketing, and freelance experience, Mike has produced original content over countless collaborations with other top talent across entertainment/ event marketing, apparel, design-build, healthcare/wellness, food & beverages, Internet of Things (IoT), SaaS apps, manufacturing, real estate, tourism, NPOs and more. Whether gritty or sophisticated in tone, count on his strategically spot-on and emotionally engaging copy for your B2C or B2B targets across all media channels

FAMOUS FOR: Over the course of his solo work or conceptual collabs with other creatives, Mike’s writing and scripting, nomenclature development, editing and brand positioning expertise have boosted start-ups like Rover.com to power brands such as Samsung, Nike, and SINGER as well as treasured key art assets like Little Shop of Horrors, Portlandia and others over his decades in the biz.

HOW MIKE WORKS LIKE A MOTHER FOR YOU: Mike will help conceive it, name it, script it or blog it out to your target audiences—and meet or beat the toughest deadlines without compromising the quality your brands deserve.

MAGIC: A lifelong aesthete, Gingi spent her childhood drawing horses and running through the woods. With a background as an Illustrator and a German design mentorship Gingi concocts visual messages that pare down to the essentials & present you—your brand, product, service, you name it—in a very compelling way.

PROOF: Gingi’s done this for countless Fortune 500 brands and businesses across a wide range of industries from finance and technologies to food, furniture and fashion. Working in print, web design, packaging, corporate identities, brand positioning and launching global products. She was a founding partner and Creative Director of a boutique NYC brand strategy company before heading West.

FAMOUS FOR: She packed on a whim & moved to London; ended up with an MA in Communication Design from Central St. Martins. You could say she's gotten comfortable with dramatic moves, she did it again when, after a couple of productive decades in branding and design, she heard the trees calling her back and she left NYC for PDX, “to get away from brutal winters, be in nature, and explore new places.”

HOW GINGI WORKS LIKE A MOTHER FOR YOU: Whatever it takes to reach your goal, she’s not afraid to go there.

MAGIC: Peter packs a weird cranium for a marketing writer; he uses both his left and write brain. Why? It takes both sides of the cranial coin to create a whole value proposition. As copywriter and brand strategist he pulls from the right, concocting compelling copy and creative strategies. While the left brain pours over demo/psychographics + other market research, plus understands the exigencies of biz—so those words and strategies remain targeted and effective for real businesses in the real world.

PROOF: Since starting his own agency in the 90’s and running it for 10 years, to 2 decades of collaborative freelance since, Peter has achieved results—working in all media—for a very large number of clients spanning umpteen industries. Tech to financial to lifestyle to architectural/construction to medical to nonprofits to lots of things on wheels. From small local to Fortune 500, national nonprofits, and international tech.

FAMOUS FOR: In the mid 2000s, Peter traded his monitor for a windshield, turning his wanderlust into a six year stint as travel writer/photographer, hopping into his trusty VW Vanagon and heading all over the continent to shoot, blab with locals, conduct local brewery/winery research, and write stories that made other people want to go there.

HOW PETER WORKS LIKE A MOTHER FOR YOU: Peter has the uncanny ability to weave word spells that compel your clients and prospects to want to go where you want them to go. And do that thing you’d like them to do.

MAGIC: Left, meet right. Tom possesses a rare mixture of left brain analytics and right brain creativity.  He likes facts, data, charts and syllogisms. With those at his fingertips, he writes advertising and collateral that is strategically sound and thoroughly original. Analytic, meet creative.

PROOF: For nearly three decades Tom has helped create communications for some of the biggest and best brands in the world, including Wells Fargo, Toyota, Epson, Suzuki and many more.  He’s worked in every medium, from web to TV and won multiple awards for his creative output.

FAMOUS FOR: Sure, he’s biked across the country, plays a decent game of tennis and makes awesome veggie tacos, but no doubt he’s most proud of the two kids he helped raise.

HOW TOM WORKS LIKE A MOTHER FOR YOU:  

Tom is ready to go the distance to raise your brand awareness!

MAGIC: Words have power and Courtney has been drawn to their transformative world-creating ways since she was a kiddo penning bad poetry on the playground. A journal-keeping veteran, avid reader, and former journalist, Courtney is as comfortable whipping up a pithy social media post as she is deep diving into brand creation and development.

PROOF: From being published in Bust Magazine and Dallas Morning News to getting national coverage for her clients in USA Today and Time Magazine, Courtney has an extensive PR background. She now crafts content calendars, creates tailored press lists, and drafts pitches and press releases that elevate our client’s stories.

FAMOUS FOR: An independent copywriter for nearly 20 years, Courtney has worked both in-house and at agencies, mostly European, as she lived in the UK and Belgium for seven years. She started Gent Go-Go Roller Derby, Belgium’s first roller derby team, got a dog, got married, and had a baby before returning stateside.

HOW COURTNEY WORKS LIKE A MOTHER FOR YOU:  Courtney’s superpower is her ability to simplify the complex. She’s passionate about communicating in a real, relatable, accessible style.

MAGIC: You know those folks who balance multiple spinning plates on sticks? While doing a bit of juggling on the side? Nicky does that with our many whirling projects while she juggles all the creatives’ assignments. And when she’s not herding cats to keep your project on track, she’s devising effective digital campaigns.

PROOF: Nicky’s done marketing and PMing for a lot of businesses for, oh, a long time – starting with a string of cool coffee/juice shops, moving up through retail stores, then onto ACE Hardware, where she was Digital Marketing Director for 7 Montana stores. (ACE Hardware is consistently rated #1 in its category in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500®.)

FAMOUS FOR: Character-forming adventures often begin right at home. As the oldest of 5, Nicky grew up as the alpha kid, running her younger sibling pack, making sure they toed the line and made it on time, even becoming adjunct family chauffeur to whisk the sibs to sporting and other events. So stepping into corporate team management and, now, SBD team leadership was a natural for her.

HOW NICKY WORKS LIKE A MOTHER FOR YOU: Nicky was born to plan and manage; your project in good hands.