Forum Ipsum / Navigate Creative Works

Forum Ipsum / Navigate Creative Works

Forum Ipsum is a podcast from Navigate Creative Works in Holland, Michigan. We will be discussing business and marketing topics.

Episodes

January 22, 2019 30 mins

Giving back feels good: How Mary Jo McKellar is changing whole communities by connecting people with resources to those who need them most.

See MaryJo Featured on WXMI FOX-17 (Grand Rapids) here

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In this episode, Nick Knapp from Stripe-a-Lot talks about how they got their name and the highs and lows of operating a family-owned business.

Check out their website or call them directly at 1-800-BLACKTOP

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December 25, 2018 41 mins

Enough Caffeine and Enneagram to be Dangerous: Mark Dykema joins us to talk entrepreneurship, big ideas, and his upcoming podcast.

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Find out what your Enneagram Number is here.

 

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Dr. Andrew White from Higher Health Chiropractic in Holland, MI joins us in the studio to talk about his journey as a chiropractic entrepreneur. Curious as to how that works? Want to see where health and business intersect? Give this episode a listen! 

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Artist, Illustrator, Musician and generally sweet dude Joel Tanis joined our podcast to talk about Making Art your Business. He walks us through his journey of becoming an full-time, working artist, and we talk about staying relevant in art, staying true to yourself in your art, and so much more. Get ready for some serious wisdom to be shared.

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November 7, 2018 40 mins

"We knew we had reached the height of our powers when we were doing a show in Wisconsin, and we were able to get the entire crowd to sing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in the voice of the Swedish Chef..." How Dan Haseltine, lead singer from Jars of Clay, decided to start a charity on the other side of the world.  

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This week's podcast is a compilation of a few "scary" stories over the years that we've dealt with and helped our clients through. Rebekah, Alex, Toddie, and Michael each share a short story of how Navigate overcame some frightening situations. 

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This week Mandi Brower of Quality Car Wash joins us to talk about growing a car wash company and creating exceptional customer guest experiences. Quality Car Wash has been a West Michigan family owned and operated company for 5 decades and continues to grow in leaps and bounds.

To learn more about Quality Car Wash visit their website or like them on facebook!

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October 2, 2018 22 mins

Listen in today as frequent podcast guest Jami Winstrom talks about the digital "Mothership," SEM, where we focus on Google's avenues of paid search. Listen back to Episode 31 where Jami goes deeper about SEO.

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September 18, 2018 20 mins

Are you confused about SEO and SEM? Our Digital Marketing Strategist, Jami Winstrom is here to help unravel the mystery! Listen in to our 3rd Digital Marketing installment as we talk through SEO: Search Engine Optimization.

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It's not always easy to take that big idea and break it down into actionable, specific tasks. Alex Tillard, Creative Director at Navigate, helps explain how she works from taking ideas brainstormed a creative or strategic meeting, turning them into tasks, and keeping the project on time.

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August 28, 2018 18 mins

Josh Cowen, our creative Generalist is now an Adobe Ace in Illustrator! He talks about taking the Adobe Ace test, how Illustrator has changed over the past 20 years and ways for those interested to learn it.

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Digital marketing is a means to an end. It’s about more than great marketing. It’s about better business because of great marketing. There is a constant barrage of shiny new things that try to grab your attention. Of course, learn about those new things because they might be the next best thing, but don’t let that take away your focus. Listen in as we talk through some digital best practices.

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What is digital marketing all about? The bottom line: Accountability. It’s not about setting goals or KPIs in your marketing plans (although that’s very important to look at each channel and the metrics associated with them), but rather it’s about digital marketing have alignment with your overall marketing plan and company-wide strategic goals. Are we driving traffic to our website? Are we increasing calls to our business? And ult...

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This week's episode is near and dear to all of our hearts here at Navigate. Own own Sarah "Toddie" Brummels and Heather Laninga first visited The Dominican Republic together in 2005. Soon after, they started Mika's Lunch, which is a non-profit group dedicated to providing malnourished Haitian and Dominican children living in bateys (squatter villages) in the D.R. a hot nutritious meal. In this podcast, they tell sto...

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Mike Flinsky, the creator of the Rod Boss Fishing Arm, talks about how and why he invented this amazing product. Whether you fish or not, you'll enjoy the story of how this business got started. For more info, visit their website.

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July 24, 2018 15 mins

Mycah is one of Navigate's summer interns. She comes to us from Dordt College (soon to be University) where she received a Bachelor's of Business Marketing and is working on her Masters. Instead of pursuing a dream in fashion design, she headed to the far Northwest corner of Iowa, where she discovered her true passion in the odd combination of digital marketing and education. Listen in to hear more of her story and learn th...

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Abby Brummel, one of Navigate's graphic design interns for the summer, sits down with host Rebekah Rhys to talk about what she has learned about rolling with the punches that life throws at you. Spoiler alert: there are lots of fun metaphors.

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Maddie King, one of Navigate's 2018 summer interns, spent her most recent semester studying graphic design in New York City. And as it turns out, Navigate's Director of Operations, Rebekah Rhys, also went through that program while she was at Hope College. In this Forum Ipsum podcast, Maddie talks about her experience in the Big Apple learning to be a "local," learning about design, and dealing with tourists.

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Navigate 2018 summer intern, Courtland Hendershot joins host Rebekah Rhys to compare using a DSLR camera versus an iPhone X for shooting photos and videos.

Apps mentioned in this episode:

Adobe Lightroom Mobile

Whitagram

Procamera

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