The Little Italy Association of San Diego is a 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation that was established in 1996 to oversee and expedite the revitalization and beautification of the Little Italy neighborhood in Downtown San Diego. The Association represents the property owners, residents, and businesses of Little Italy.

Scaling a little-known kids mountain biking company through digital advertising.

Trailcraft makes amazing, premium kids mountain bikes, but they had little brand awareness in the space. Our goal was to use advertising to feature their products more heavily through YouTube, Display, Social Media, Search, and Shopping Advertising.

The client wanted to work with top portrait photographers for their new phone campaign. This was to position themselves as the top camera phone in the industry. They had very particular requirements on the chosen photographer so finding the right person was the first challenge. The second was managing the high profile talent and the client to achieve an outcome with the content that both parties were happy with. The timeline was extremely tight, particularly for such a high profile photographer with a busy schedule. Their target was to get high PR attention.

The budget included 3 other smaller but well known photographers who also created content around the same theme. We also had a gifting portion of the campaign where I sent the phones to small semi-professional photographers to create their own portraits. This was all to create buzz in the photography industry. This all had to be done beginning to end in about a month which is very tight.

Soma was launching their proprietary Vitamin C infused shower filter designed to restore hair and skin health and wanting to build their brand awareness while driving ecommerce sales. This was not only a new product but also a new product category with limited consumers understanding or recognition.