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To keep our services affordable yet results oriented, Door 12 Creative keeps a small office and a highly efficient project management system. We employ only a handful of key full-time employees and supplement our talent needs from a large pool of specialized freelancers and partner companies we've assembled over 5 years and countless talent searches. The team that manages and oversees everything—our core team—has experience, training and talent in the broad areas of graphic design, illustration, copywriting, website design, advertising, marketing research, and strategy development.
With 10 years of large agency experience, Nathan has had the opportunity to art direct everything from logos, websites and advertising to direct mail and email marketing, to everything in between. While working at Agency.com he was responsible for directing online advertising for Sprint.com. At Digitas he was responsible for leading the visual re-design of Xerox's global website, as well as email marketing for Charles Schwab.

Working for McCann Erickson he headed up countless projects for Microsoft. And at Rauxa Direct he was the leading designer behind highly successful national direct mail campaigns developed for DIRECTV and Wells Fargo. Nathan's limitless creativity, strategic thinking and strong design capabilities offer our clients results that always exceed.

Spare Moments Activity: Drawing
With a degree in business management and a minor in marketing, Maya has been developing business and marketing strategies for over 11 years. From business consulting and market research, to marketing plans and sales strategies, Maya's work has generated phenomenal results. At Vail Resorts, her creative strategies increased sales, email newsletter enrolments, and membership enrollment in the company's customer loyalty program.

At Cymbic her brand and messaging strategies helped launched over 20 high tech start ups. And at Door 12 Creative, Maya's strategies have successfully launched new companies, doubled—tripled—and even quadrupled gross sales for our clients, cut client operational costs and expenses, automated customer support systems, reached new customers, secured venture capital funding, generated national and international press and media coverage and ensured that every client enjoys remarkable success no matter how large or small the project and budget may be.

Spare Moments Activity: Spa Lounging
Darina holds a Degree in Graphic Design from the Art Institute in Los Angeles. She specializes in designing print advertising, newsletters, online banner ads, brochures and corporate branding. In addition to design, Darina is an accomplished writer and public relations director responsible for generating countless press releases and magazine editorials for many of Door 12 Creative's clients.

Having completed projects for clients such as The City of Santa Monica, Krieger Specialty Products, Laneo, Sleep Easy and IMSI, Darina's experience and dedication ensure clients receive effective solutions to various marketing needs.

Spare Moments Activity: Horseback Riding
Reece graduated from Colorado State University in 1995 with a BA in English Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in Sociology. She is a John Caples award-winning copywriter with over 10 years experience working for some of the biggest names in the business. Starbucks, Microsoft, HP, Kodak, Charles Schwab, eBay, Verizon and DIRECTV are just some of the client's she's worked with at agencies like McCann Erickson and Rauxa Direct.

She specializes in direct mail and online channels but has written copy for virtually every type of collateral, including radio, magazine, newsletters, telesales scripts, and instructional manuals.

Spare Moments Activity: Fiction Writer
Nolan Waak holds an Associates Degree in Visual Communications from Southeast Community College in Nebraska. Specializing in designing web pages, email marketing, direct mail and online advertisements, Nolan has completed projects for clients like IMSI, Krieger, Laneo, OfficeWork Software and Hobby Town.

His creativity and dedication to completing projects on short notice helped launched his freelance career and ultimately led him to become a permanent part of the Door 12 Creative team.

Spare Moments Activity: Go-Kart Racing
Russell has been a writer for over 8 years and has written and edited copy for websites, brochures, press releases, articles, essays, keyword search optimization, direct mail, tag lines and more. His past employers include Young and Rubicam, where he wrote direct mail and web marketing copy for Microsoft, and The Seattle Times—a Pulitzer Prize winning daily newspaper, where Russell was responsible for creating, editing, and proofreading a wide range of marketing and advertising materials.

His extensive experience and exceptional writing talents bring a wealth of creative solutions to our client's writing and messaging projects.

Spare Moments Activity: Collage Art
Michael holds a BS in Journalism from the University of Nebraska, and a BS in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Boston. Working as a professional graphic designer for over 14 years now, Michael's work and dedication has been instrumental to the success of companies like Citizen Trust, Signaling Technology and Franchise Solutions.

His expertise lies in the development of business names, logos and brand identities, business stationery, brochures, catalogs, direct mail and even copy writing.

Spare Moments Activity: Sleight of Hand
Boo holds a Certificate of Achievement from the Nathan Waak Dog Obedience Institute. She has won over numerous hearts for her ability to extort dog treats with a single glance and wag of her stubby tail. Boo's official duties at Door 12 Creative pertain to informing the staff of the arrival of the UPS, FedEx and USPS couriers. Boo is also responsible for informing the staff when it's time for lunch and when it's time to go home.

At 3 lbs and barely 10 inches tall, her ability to ease stress and induce laughter, has been instrumental to nurturing the energy that enables our staff to be creative.

Spare Moments Activity: Sleeping in the sun
Infoscaler Technologies is Door 12 Creative's technical partner for projects that require web programming, application development, website maintenance, e-commerce integration, database architecting and more. For more than 8 years, Infoscaler's creative savvy, technical expertise and business acumen has been utilized by Fortune 500 companies such as McKesson, Sony, Covance, Visto, Appolo Direct, Cisco and more. Infoscaler's exceptional knowledge and attention to detail ensure that our client's technical projects are properly architected, completed on time, on budget and error free.

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Manning Search Marketing is Door 12 Creative's partner for projects that require search engine marketing. Located in Newfoundland Canada, Manning Marketing is able to offer a wide range of affordable and extremely effective services including keyword analysis, meta tag writing, web copy editing for optimization of your keywords, link building, pay per click strategizing, results tracking, monthly updating, consulting and planning. With 7 years of experiencing in the field, Manning Search Marketing has been around since search engines first became a tool for internet marketing. Their strategies have brought much success to Door 12 Creative clients and offer the highest return on investment of any search engine marketing team.

www.manningmarketing.com