The RISE Team
Meet Your New Marketing Powerhouse.
OUTSOURCING IS SMART
Outsourced marketing solutions offer growing companies access to higher-level staff and faster results than they can typically create in-house.
VALERIE CHRISTENSEN
Founder & C.E.O.
DAVID CHRISTENSEN
C.O.O., Legal Counsel
KIMBERLY STAKER
Project Manager/Editor
CHANTE ENGH
Content Writer
ASHLEY STILSON
Content Writer
MELISSA ROBISON
Creative Director
LAURIE CAMPBELL
Senior Writer
ELENA GILLIS
Content Writer
CATHERINE MICHALK
Content Writer
KAILEE ROBERTSON
Content Writer
The RISE Philosophy
RISE helps you plan and execute a complete, effective, and measurable marketing plan based on deep experience.
A Complete Traditional & Digital Marketing Agency
Higher-level strategy and more experienced execution for less money and in less time.
Growing brands need more customers, not more overhead.
As a company grows, most get to a point where they can afford a mid-level dedicated marketing person. However talented, that one person can’t offer the CMO-level depth and breadth of experience that should steer an emerging brand’s marketing efforts. A less experienced marketing person hired to execute top-down ideas often doesn’t have the foundation to advise, propose, plan, provide data-driven direction, or the credibility to challenge flashy executive distractions. While good staff can implement, that still leaves the direction to a leadership that is strong in their core industry, but may lack the depth of marketing expertise their growing company needs.
With RISE, you have a vast spectrum of experience, resources, tools, and proven specialists at your disposal for less than the cost of a dedicated employee. You enjoy the benefits of large, experienced marketing department, yet you only pay for deliverables, not for time on the clock. We are as—or more—committed to results than any employee. Plus, our proactive style requires less management effort, and we’re easier to fire if we aren’t performing.
And we’re fast.
Too many branding agencies sell theory and “special sauce.” Really, marketing is a disciplined exercise in empathy, communication and execution, and RISE has mastered the process so you can focus on what you do best–delighting your own clients.
STRATEGY, MESSAGING & MANAGEMENT
RISE is headed by Valerie Christensen, a strategic marketer backed by decades of strategic marketing management, franchise marketing experience and world-class marketing production. With over 20 years of experience as an executive advancing both industry leaders and Fortune 500 brands, she specializes in franchising and similar member/owner models where motivation, buy-in, and expanding the network take top priority. Valerie also heads up the online marketing team of hand-picked experts to ensure strict quality control and unity with all aspects of the client’s marketing plan.
See our full array of marketing services.
ONLINE MARKETING
Once branding, messaging and web development is complete, our team of content managers begins the execution of the online marketing strategy, including all types of content across company-owned and third-party sites, social media, and paid search platforms. Our technical team is coordinated by superstar Abby Walker and is continually training in the industry. Our service is built on industry-leading cloud-based systems to help us provide authentic value that will be clear to both human prospects and bot algorithms.
CONTENT & CREATIVE
Our Creative department consists of a small army of skilled copywriters, designers, illustrators and production artists who bring deep experience building brands across a wide array of industries. For core branding work, we collaborate heavily with creative veteran Melissa Robison, founder of 72Design, who offers over a decade of agency and in-house experience serving regional, national, and international brands.
See the creative portfolio.
WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Our technical team offers decades of online technical experience with a rare level of strategic focus. While we specialize in the affordability and functionality the WordPress platform provides, we also offer fully customized sites using Ruby, Java, PHP, etc. Our technical team also provides CRM implementations, custom front and back-end platforms and system integrations. The creative portfolio includes a few of our web projects.
VIDEO PRODUCTION
Video is an essential part of the RISE approach, as it offers maximum engagement to both humans and search engine robots. The RISE video production team works with the creative team to create a full spectrum of live and graphic animation videos for every budget. We also offer a complete optimization package to help you leverage your videos.
See the video portfolio.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
RISE offers a unique PR program where clients only pay for successful media outreach–a true “pay-for-play” solution. Our monthly content programs often include press releases, and when a particularly newsworthy story comes up, the client can elect to push it to the media for pick up through PRWeb, or pay our pitch team to get a placement in local, regional, or national outlets. This resource offers a tremendous asset to members of the RISE client family.
EVENT PRODUCTION
Event Lead Danica Talbot has worked with Valerie on several large-scale franchise owner conferences over the past several years. Danica is an operations prodigy and works closely with the creative team to execute the 400-page, time-tested RISE event roadmap to ensure revenue-driving events. Learn more about Event Production.
The rest of our talented team of creative, production, operational, technical and tactical staff works together to deliver unsurpassed impact, quickly and affordably, so you can RISE.
It’s Time to RISE
Call 844-811-5252 to get started, or click below to schedule a no-obligation consultation.
STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANS | CREATIVE & DESIGN | WEB DEVELOPMENT | SEARCH & SOCIAL OPTIMIZATION | SEM/PPC MANAGEMENT | COMMUNICATIONS
INBOUND LEAD GENERATION & CONTENT MARKETING | VIDEO ANIMATION | SALES AUTOMATION | EMAIL MARKETING | PUBLIC & MEDIA RELATIONS