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We present original ideas that create awareness and connect people to brands. And, our services are designed to give you measurable results. Ultimately our goal isn’t to “wow” your target audience with fancy-schmancies; we want to encourage your customer to pick up your product, utilize your service, alter their behavior, or simply throw their arms around your brand and squeeze.
We often handle projects far beyond the scope of what is listed below. From design environments to exhibit systems to organic/grassroots campaigns, we’d love to make your marketing dream our next creative challenge!
We can be terribly clever, but even more efficient and effective once we start to dig in.
Sure you have to break some eggs to make an omelet, but how many and what kind are best? What style of omelet are you looking to whip up? Who is it for and what time is breakfast? We may ask some tough questions, but if you don’t have answers, we’ll find them together. To avoid waste, we’ll take into account all the related ingredients before suggesting solutions.
Design is like strapping a rocket to a great idea.
Our creative team of seasoned designers and writers will consider the objectives, strategic approach and audience before delivering meaningful and impactful creative. From concept to final artwork, you are sure to enjoy seeing your ideas come to life in the form of collateral materials, print ads, direct mail, video, online/digital components and more!
Picture perfect and the best value.
We have amassed an impressive group of strategic print partners to ensure your materials are printed with the greatest efficiency and accuracy. We’ll even do you one better and present aggressive pricing, so you can smile twice as big. With our extensive print experience, we can create a design that is as cost efficient as it is effective.
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night…
just not on Sundays!
Coupled with clever design and quality print, we can supply or process your own database to create a mail file that is the most accurate and postal-cost efficient. Based on the carefully selected audience, we can also help pinpoint an optimal delivery date to ensure your efforts are reaching interested hands at the most opportune time. Solid mail preparation can boost future response rates while lowering production costs and increasing revenue.
Mix and mingle with your customer digitally!
Since Match.com isn’t for consumers and their brands… yet, we suggest utilizing more appropriate forms of digital communication, such as social media or mobile messaging. If you are ready to market in the digital space, either with a stand-alone means of communication (i.e., a website) or an integrated digital component of a campaign (i.e., a web banner), RMK is ready assist you.
Is it working? The numbers don’t lie!
One of the key advantages of direct response marketing is the ability to measure the response and effectiveness of any campaign. With the collected data, we can duplicate or improve future efforts, so you can rest assured your marketing dollars are being spent wisely.
Is it working? The numbers don’t lie!
One of the key advantages of direct response marketing is the ability to measure the response and effectiveness of any campaign. With the collected data, we can duplicate or improve future efforts, so you can rest assured your marketing dollars are being spent wisely.
Now that we know more about your objectives, we can dig a bit deeper. If there are questions that need answering, we will sort out the unknowns, so we can move forward on solid ground.
After working on the client side–some of us longer than we care to mention–RMK was founded in 2002 by a few marketing gurus turned entrepreneurs. Our goal was–and is–to perfect the client/agency relationship through attentive service and results-driven collaboration.
At RMK, we aim to build your brand, spur movement and inspire change through thoughtful and effective action that makes you look good and makes you feel even better about your marketing objectives, results and annual goals.
As we celebrate our 20th year as an agency, RMK looks forward to enjoying partnerships with clients new and “less new” and proving our passion for marketing.
With our fair share of interesting–and often zany–characters running around our Pasadena offices, we have a great time working together and with our beloved clients. Here are some of the key players at RMK that supply equal parts genius and hearty belly laughs.
Ramona has over 30 years of marketing experience with an emphasis in direct response marketing and merchandising. She has developed and executed integrated marketing campaigns for Huntington Hospital, William Lyon Financial, Verizon Wireless, The Automobile Club (AAA), System Pavers, Riverside Dental and Southern California Edison.
Before her move to the agency side of the direct marketing business, Ramona was Director of Direct Marketing at Home Savings of America. Prior to that, she also served as Vice President and Direct Marketing Manager for First Interstate Bank managing integrated marketing campaigns, including pre-approved credit mailings. Ramona’s praises include those of leading marketing consultant James Rosenfield, in Direct Marketing magazine, noting her as a “perfect 10” for her ability to blend psychology, technology, brand identity and database into direct mail.
Hometown: Highland Park, CA
Likes: Her family, movie popcorn, the smell of fresh Gardenias, Pixar films, Bailey’s in her afternoon coffee, getting a good deal, television, chocolate covered almonds, People Magazine and the Los Angeles Lakers.
Words to live by: “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” – “Andrea del Sarto” by Robert Browning, 1855
Kari brings over 15 years of strategic marketing experience with a focus on integrated direct response marketing. As a direct marketing agency Creative Director, Kari has developed and implemented strategic plans–based on audience insights and analytics–through traditional, off-line direct marketing, as well as online channels. Major account work includes the Los Angeles Times, Disney Art Classics, Brand Jordan/Nike, and Southern California Edison. Kari’s past experience on the client side includes Vice President, Direct Marketing Manager at Home Savings of America and Great Western Bank.
Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
Likes: Gaining perspective from his three daughters, learning things completely foreign to him, readily-available hand sanitizer, new destinations, non-fiction, well-presented arguments, having a golf handicap, hot sauce (without Habanero peppers), playoff hockey, and most things Canadian.
Words to live by: “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama
RMK as an organization, as well as its individual members, are proud to provide in-kind and monetary donations to a variety of worthy causes in our community and those close to our hearts.
Whether its sponsoring a participant in an event, helping to organize a fundraiser, shoveling dirt at the site of a new home or simply providing a bit of financial support, the RMK team is dedicated to fulfilling our social responsibility.
We encourage our friends and partners to get involved in their communities and contribute too! If you are interested in finding and contributing to a cause that speaks to you, here are some of the organizations our team enjoys supporting and/or working with:
RMK is delighted to contribute to the hard work of our partners and their brands. Working across a variety of industries and markets, allows our team to stay fresh.
Here are a few of the brands we have had the great pleasure of working with. Please contact us and we will gladly send samples of our work.
Financial and Insurance Services – B2C
Healthcare Services – B2C
Retail Mortgage Lender – B2C
Public Utility – B2C
Networking Solutions – B2B
Urban Shopping and Residential Village – B2C, B2B
Sports Marketing – B2C
Financial Services – B2B
Public Utility – B2C, B2B
Public Utility – B2C
Home Improvement – B2C
Financial Services – B2C
Located in Pasadena’s poppin’ South Lake Avenue Business District, RMK’s newly appointed offices sit at the center of it all at the corner of South Lake Avenue and Cordova Street.
Chipotle Fridays is a long-time RMK tradition, but as you might imagine, deciding where to go for lunch Monday thru Thursday can quickly turn into a big discussion around these parts. South Lake Avenue is heavily lined with eateries (and chic shops to boot), ensuring lunch hour is full of tasty treats. If you are in town, we’d love to take you for a bite in one of our favorite spots.
Passionate marketers, strategic thinkers, design enthusiasts and tech savvy whiz kids are welcome to get in touch with us. We would enjoy meeting you and seeing if you’d make a strong addition to our team. Freelance, part-time and full-time positions are considered. Please direct resumes and digital portfolios to [email protected]
