20
YEARS
Web * Broadcast * Print * Email
Strategize * Write * Design * Manage * Analyze
Intergovernmental & Communications Dir.Cascade Water Alliance
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"Karen creates beautiful visuals that tell your story better than any words."
Interium Executive DirectorEnrichment Center for Women, Children, Families
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"We are overwhelmed with gratitude for the incredible website that Karen Skeens has designed for our non-profit organization. Karen has excellent creative insight and interpretation, advanced technical skills that she easily translates into laymen terms. Her communication and organizational skills enabled the project to be completed in a timely manner. Her patience in working with a small organization with limited staff was tremendous. I highly recommend Karen, for her excellent project management, design and technical skills."
PhD, MBA, Interim Executive DirectorNAMI Southern Arizona
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I am delighted to provide a recommendation for Karen Skeens related to her creative web design and UX skills, and her ability to effectively convey a brand’s message through visual strategy.
I recruited Karen to provide a website audit and then create a new responsive 60+ page website for NAMI Southern AZ, a non-profit organization that provides educational resources for individuals living with mental illness and their families. On an accelerated schedule, Karen personally handled all aspects of the web redesign – including navigation planning, custom design concept, web development, content organization and content editing. She beautifully integrated messaging..."
Assistant Executive DirectorArizona Sustainability Alliance
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"Karen worked with me in a volunteer consultant role as Communications Director at Arizona Sustainability Alliance. She has a talent for coaching her communication team members and aligning their skill sets and interests to positions to improve productivity and morale. She quickly identified pain points, provided insight, then translated modern solutions into easy, understandable action steps."
Morning Show Host Fisher Broadcasting
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"Karen worked as a regional account manager at a Seattle radio station when I was morning host. I helped Karen brainstorm ideas for clients and would accompany her on client meetings and lunches. She showed a lot of great initiative and creativity, writing copy for live testimonial spots that I read on the air. I highly recommend Karen for marketing and copywriting positions."
Web Developer Nordstrom
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"Karen is a creative genius with a gift in attending to the details. Her stellar ability to articulate ideas, and communicate them clearly, created a backdrop where expectations were clearly understood."
OfficerU.S. Bank
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Karen is a talented creative copywriter, both short and long form. Karen often sends me some of her work in advance to obtain my feedback and I find her work polished and forceful, well researched and she has a superior grasp of the English language. I highly recommend her."
President & CFO MSBI Lending (dba Kiel Mortgage)
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"Karen and her team at Ad Ventures truly guided our company to a new level. The finished product was amazing and the company’s service was second to none. The end result was a product that is the envy of our industry.
Managing Partner Ad Ventures Marketing
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We couldn’t be more delighted with the end result our agency's new website which Karen designed and programmed. Karen brought a really hard-to-find blend of great ideas plus technical acumen to our project.
Her strengths are not only in concept development and design creativity, but also the in crucial implementation of WordPress development - all in one package. We found her work ethic and attention to detail second to none.
No question, she’s the real deal.
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Strategize & Plan
Identify customers, their needs, and how best to meet those needs.
Write & Design
Develop creative concepts, then write and design ads.
Schedule & Manage
Plan and book the media buy through various media, such as online, newspapers, magazines, posters, television, and radio. Then monitor.
Analyze
Use automated systems for timely and efficient reporting.
