But first, words.
WordSparrow is a creative studio that helps small companies capture their vision and create a brand worthy of their passion and story.
Wherever you are in your branding and marketing process, we’re ready to jump right in. If you’re just getting started, we can guide you. If you are already well-established, we can create compelling content to help you engage and inspire your fans.
Hello,
Whatever you’re up against, it’s nothing a good cup of coffee and a few carefully-chosen words can’t help you solve.
Let’s talk about your dreams and your challenges! I have an insatiable appetite for big audacious goals, and my passion is seeing yours come to life. I love people and ideas and genius moments and aha breakthroughs. The first to jump behind the spotlight and shine it on you, I’m here to make you memorable, realize how amazing you are, and help you sing your song.
Alexis Carruthers
Founder & Creative Director
Let’s talk.
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Meet a few favorite projects and cool (and, sometimes slightly crazy) moments from the past 5 years…
Wrote a 30-page Business Plan in 24 hours, for a business start up under a deadline to impress a funder.
HOW: Coffee. Google. Tenacity. And, the epic transformation of a whole lot of hastily-compiled notes.
Developed and managed the concept, branding, fundraising, and communications for a *$10M+ multi-year capital campaign, which successfully funded the construction of a 14,000 square foot community center and social enterprise business.
HOW: A new espresso machine. A few sleepless nights. Over 2,000 documents, reports, flyers, grants, proposals, speeches, graphics, appeals, and pretty much anything and everything else you can imagine being written down or designed.
* I was involved with this multi-year project during my tenure as the Communications Director for Step By Step
Secured over $3M in grant funding for nonprofit organizations.
HOW: Coffee. So much coffee. Grants are awesome! Until they’re not. And, then you coffee.
Served on the management team to launch Farm 12 Restaurant & Events that has consistently exceeded initial sales projections. Managed brand development, designed and built website, and directed communications and marketing, including print and digital strategies.
HOW: Divided my time between meetings and my desk. Learned a POS system. Worked with sub-contractors and consultants. Found a team member as committed as me, who could help create content and take really really good pictures of food.
Heard that the President of a manufacturing company exclaimed “THIS is what I wanted!” while he was reviewing my work.
HOW: A follow-up phone call, after a job well done.
Completely re-branded a startup company in 1 week, while I was on vacation in Hawaii, after they walked away from an expensive consulting firm that hadn’t delivered the results they needed.
The company went on to perform 200% better than initial projections, in their first year of operations.
HOW: Worked super efficiently between whale-watching and swimming in the ocean. Made note that Hawaii = ideal creative environment.
Fixed a website and refreshed content pro bono for a local nonprofit.
HOW: A trusting (and slightly desperate) organization gave me the log in and password for their website.
Stretch your wings today.
Let me know what’s on your mind! I’d love to help you fly.