Enjoy free food and a cash bar at Caponata’s Ristorante in downtown Wheaton on Wednesday May 28 and get tips and ideas on how to maximize your marketing. LeVern Danley of Lad4 Creations, Matt Ferguson of Matt Ferguson Photography, and Rick Tampier of The Sign Authority and myself will be showcasing our companies. Matt Ferguson will even be taking marketing portraits for a greatly reduced fee ($95). Download the flyer (PDF) with all the details, but mark your calendars now.

We are excited to launch the all new Laso Careers to the word wide web. If you know of someone that needs to hire someone in technology or someone looking for a better job, send them to Laurie Swanson.

Spire2 helped Choices Worldwide refine its corporate identity. Choices Worldwide founder wanted a more polished image to represent her growing speaking engagement business. By being smart about the design of the news system, we were able to create a more sophisticated image with spending a lot of money.

Spire2 was chosen to transform the chamber’s web presence after a long multi-month proposal process and being one of three finalists to present before the Chamber. Aligning the site to meet the strategic goals of the chamber board is our top priority. Visually and organizationally the site needs help, but more importantly is making sure that the new site will support the chamber’s strategic goals and further strengthen and grow a great organization. You can see the “before” right now! Look for exciting changes to come in about 3 months!

There is a new voice at Spire2. Welcome intern Andrea Norstrom. She is a junior at Wheaton College, and interested in pursing a career in design. Andrea is going to help establish an ongoing intern program. Please make her feel welcome.

Spire2 helped Russian Ministries think through a new strategy for russian-ministry.org. They are developing a reputation of being a great source of information about evangelical Christian work in the former Soviet Union. The site uses blog technology allowing them to better manage content over time. In addition this technology will greatly aid natural search engine optimization. Check out the results.

Spire2 developed an online communication strategy for DuPage PADS and helped them redevelop a site that encourages visitors to engage with the issue of homelessness. To reduce development costs PADS provided and loaded their own content and will have the ability to manage the site going forward with Adobe Contribute software. Join the DuPage PADS Action League and support this great organization.

Paper House of Wheaton is now online. Creating a web site is a proven strategy to help drive traffic to retail stores. We developed three strategies to help achieve that goal and make Paper House the home town choice for cards and gifts. Check out their new online home and stop in to get gifts that says Wheaton.

DuPage PADS selected Spire2 to help them develop an electronic communication strategy that includes redeveloping their web site and helping them launch an email marketing program.

Spire2 was engaged to redevelop The Laso Corporations web site. This is the first in a series of projects for Laso to help them strengthen their positioning and better communicate their core offerings.