Oct 30

Did you know that iStrategyLabs has a sister marketing company that we work with closely on youth marketing campaigns?

You probably don’t, so it’s our pleasure to introduce you to Youth Marketing Connection. We’ve been tackling client’s problems together since day 1 of iStrategyLabs; they were our first client and we now have one of their Principles working side by side with us in our new lab in Dupont Circle, while the rest of their team resides in sunny Boston, MA. This is the 3rd client that’s turned into a partner (we really like our clients and they really like us)!

So here are some important things to know about Youth Marketing and iStrategyLabs collaboration:

1) Youth Marketing recently hired iStrategyLabs give them a shiny new brand as they’ve existed under a different one for 15 years and they needed a better way to reflect their dominant position as the leader in the youth marketing space. In less than 30 days we:

  • Renamed them to “Youth Marketing Connection”
  • Developed a sweet tag line - “Engaging. Authentic. Relevant.”
  • Developed full brand identity and style guide including all the copy necessary for marketing materials
  • Secured a great URL (youthmarketing.com), built them a new website (more props to Scott on this!)
  • Provided a initial SEO/SMO implementation
  • Took them from #7 in Google search for their most important keyword to #2 within a month
  • Provided a social media marketing strategy

2) Youth Marketing executes experiential marketing programs focused on the 14-24 year old youth culture domestically and internationally (if you’ve ever seen my updates about being in Cancun, Acapulco, the Bahamas, Florida, Tahoa etc. it’s because I was working with these guys on something fun).

3) For quick reference Youth Marketing Connection provides the follow 4 core services - and iStrategyLabs juices this stuff up with smart digital strategy:

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Oct 23

Perhaps this is long over due, but iStrategyLabs is 14 months old now and we’ve never codified our philosophy before, nor have we introduced a “formal capabilities deck” as a part of how we market ourselves to clients.

We’ve been fortunate enough to grow from a one man shop to a 15+ per team of talented technologists, strategist and creatives purely through organic growth. I think it’s important for the team and the community around us to understand how we think and what exactly it is that we do, because there are so many ways that iStrategyLabs now, and in the future, will be an asset to those around us.

For your viewing pleasure our “Philosophy and Methods for Solving Clients’ Problems” is embed below and you can download the PDF here:

I’d love to hear your feedback on this. What do you think?

Oct 14

logowhitebg.gifToday iStrategyLabs becomes the proud father of Apps for Democracy!

You can download the full press release here.

The District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), in collaboration with iStrategyLabs, today announced the launch of the Apps for Democracy - “An Innovation Contest” for visualizing DC’s public data. The intention of this competition is to reward technology developers with cash prizes and public recognition for creating applications that are useful for the DC government and the citizens, visitors and businesses of Washington, DC.

The contest will serve as a catalyst to visualize OCTO’s data so it will be useful to the citizens of DC, improving their quality of life; foster innovation in the DC technology community resulting in startup formation and growth; solve the technology challenges of OCTO through more cost effective open collaboration; and work towards a new model for government/private sector cross collaboration that can be utilized repeatedly to solve OCTO’s challenges and serve as an example for other municipalities.

Apps for Democracy will feature 60 cash prizes from $2000 to $100 dollars for a total of $20,000 in prizes.

Developers and designers will compete by creating web applications, widgets, Google Maps-mashups (and other maps-mashups), iPhone apps, Facebook apps, and other digital utilities that visualize OCTO’s Data Catalog, which provides real-time data from multiple agencies to citizens - a catalyst ensuring agencies operate as more responsive, better performing organizations.

Who: This contest is open to everyone.
What: Submission guidelines, meet-up notifications and awards structure can be found at Apps for Democracy. Submission must be released as open source code.
When: The contest starts 10/13 and ends at 11:59pm on 11/12. The awards ceremony will take place on 11/13. A kick-off happy hour will be hosted on 10/16 and 4 open innovation labs will hosted each weekend leading up to the deadline enabling participants to find collaborators and to work onsite among their fellow technologists. A full Google Calendar can be found here. The official social media tag is #APPS08.

A full social media strategy is in place and you can engage your community here:

  1. Facebook Group
  2. Facebook Event for the Kickoff Happy Hour @ Local 16 in DC
  3. http://twitter.com/apps08
  4. http://apps08.ning.com
  5. http://www.flickr.com/groups/apps08/
  6. Grab the Widget!
  7. And more…

Grab creative assets for articles/posts here.

Media Contact: Peter Corbett, 202-683-9980, peter@istrategylabs.com

Huge props to Scott McCaughey for leading design/dev on this! More about him in iStrategists section.

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