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Looking Back on 2023

2023 was a year of growth for our firm! Take a look below at some of our favorite memories and accomplishments from this year: Thank you to our clients, team members, and collaborators for your contributions in 2023. We are grateful for everything we accomplished and cannot wait to see what 2024 has in store! Spread the love

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Easter 2023: A Study of Lent

While everyone knows about Easter Sunday, the days leading up to Easter are less widely acknowledged. Christian traditional practices do not start the celebration of Easter on Sunday, but rather forty days prior, beginning with Ash Wednesday. These forty days are known as Lent, and each day has instructions on how to prepare for the coming of Easter, including fasting, ceremonies, sacraments, and more.  You may be asking, why does this matter? While Lent is not believed to be a

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The Evolution of Culture Spark

In September, Culture Spark celebrated seven years of sparking change in company cultures. Founded by Sheryl Lyons in 2015, Culture Spark has grown immensely and we are proud to be a partner in that growth. NextLevel Thinking has been Culture Spark’s strategic marketing firm from the very beginning. At the end of 2022, we determined as a team that it was time to re-evaluate Culture Spark’s positioning and messaging. While the mission and vision remained consistent, the client offerings and

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The Next Twenty Years

The Next 20 Years

It’s certainly a fun exercise to project what the next twenty years at NextLevel Thinking might look like, but a daunting task just the same. Looking back, there is no way we could have predicted what we would look like in 2022. Twenty years ago, the internet was just a blip on the radar for most of us without any understanding of how it would come to change the business world. Now, it is a central reality of how we

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Team Spotlight: Madison & Kelsey

We had the great pleasure of bringing two interns onto our team over the Summer: Madison Duke and Kelsey Barker. Madison and Kelsey worked with several of our clients, and did great work on a variety of projects. We asked them about their time as NextLevel Thinking interns, and this is what they had to say: How would you describe what it is like to work at NextLevel Thinking? Kelsey: “It’s like joining a family where everyone loves marketing just

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Our Intern Approach

  At NextLevel Thinking, our hiring philosophy is really quite simple. We have a deep desire to bless those that come to work with us, and a hope for them to bless us in unexpected ways. With that unique expectation, it’s amazing to see what happens to the individuals involved and for our team as a whole. This idea is really what drives us and our intern program. A number of years ago, we decided to start a summer intern

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5 Ways We Took B&D’s Social Media To The Next Level

By Kristen Dyson When it comes to developing a killer social media strategy, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach. At NextLevel Thinking, we tailor social media strategies around our clients’ unique brand personalities, as well as their customers’ interests. No two clients are alike, and each social channel will look and read a little differently. We began managing B&D Landscape Contractor’s social media channels in December of 2020, after wrapping up the Investigation phase of our Methodology.

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Our Current Era

When we created NextLevel Thinking, we set out to build a virtual firm that combines the disciplines of marketing strategy and creative thinking. After all these years, that has remained our core competency!!! But what is our secret? There is no question in my mind that it is our client experience team. In fact, we’re in our twenty first year and our team is the strongest team that we have ever had. More on that in a minute. What has

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