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Your story matters. Tell it the right way using social media marketing.
In many ways, social media is the modern public square. The networking and connection building that used to happen face-to-face, vital for local businesses’ success, is more frequently relegated to online interactions. As a business, it’s essential to understand the role social media plays in comprehensive marketing. With daily usage of social media apps at an all-time high, if you’re missing out on social, you’re missing out on a viable, thriving market. Social media marketing in Baltimore is an invaluable tool at your disposal.
In the attention economy, compelling content is king. Our driving goal is to share your story, communicate your identity as a company, and create an ongoing conversation between you and your audience. Trust is invaluable to longevity as a business, and social media can help build genuine trust with your customer base.
Your story matters, but you want to be efficient when communicating it. It is one of the most cost-effective ways to market your company, as it is tailored to a specific audience already interested in your business.
Our social media strategy is driven by compelling content, thoughtful design, and copy that puts your company’s identity at the forefront.
Collaborate
Social media is a representation of your company shared with the world. For this reason, we take the time and care to get the details right. From creating graphic design elements to crafting a social voice that invites the right audience to your posts, we believe each piece of your social presence should work in tandem with your business goals.
Create
Our social media marketing process includes creative execution and technical attention to detail. In addition, we utilize comprehensive scheduling and planning tools to streamline the process, keeping you ahead of your content calendar with creative pieces that will engage your followers.
Convert
Our social media marketing services are driven to create connections between you and your audience and increase conversions across all platforms. Social media works with your other marketing strategies, making your presence known online.
Social media is most effective when efforts are consistent, frequent, and well-coordinated across platforms. Too many local businesses will put social on the backburner after making a concerted push, resulting in losing their audience’s attention. Social media algorithms curate timelines and dashboards with content users most frequently interact with. If you leave significant gaps between posts, it may be hard to regain attention. Social media relies on sustainable strategies. The Urban Ignite team helps you build them.
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A great social media post comprises several equally essential pieces: a captivating image or video to grab attention, a thoughtful design or branding element to unify your feed, and text that adds flavor, content, and brand voice. We thoughtfully stitch together each piece into excellent posts by tapping into the creativity and expertise of our team. Before you know it, your social media feed will be transformed into one that carves its path within your industry.
A consistent posting schedule separates the haves from have-nots on social media platforms. The algorithm rewards those who post regularly but don’t venture into the territory of post spam. To ensure your posts go out on time and at a consistent pace, we utilize scheduling software that allows you to check post progress, leave comments, and review your upcoming content calendar.
The word social in “social media” isn’t an understatement. The most successful businesses on these platforms understand how to engage with their audience correctly. We employ a multifaceted engagement approach, including contests, stories, polls, and comment responses. Each of these tactics helps build a sense of community and makes your brand more authentic and tangible to your audience.
Create genuine connections with your audience.
Your story matters. Tell it the right way.
In many ways, social media is the modern public square. The networking and connection building that used to happen face-to-face, vital for local businesses’ success, is more frequently relegated to online interactions. As a business, it’s essential to understand the role social media plays in comprehensive marketing. With daily usage of social media apps at an all-time high, if you’re missing out on social, you’re missing out on a viable, thriving market. Social media marketing in Baltimore is an invaluable tool at your disposal.
In the attention economy, compelling content is king. Our driving goal is to share your story, communicate your identity as a company, and create an ongoing conversation between you and your audience. Trust is invaluable to longevity as a business, and social media can help build genuine trust with your customer base.
Your story matters, but you want to be efficient when communicating it. It is one of the most cost-effective ways to market your company, as it is tailored to a specific audience already interested in your business.
Our social media strategy is driven by compelling content, thoughtful design, and copy that puts your company’s identity at the forefront.
Collaborate
Social media is a representation of your company shared with the world. For this reason, we take the time and care to get the details right. From creating graphic design elements to crafting a social voice that invites the right audience to your posts, we believe each piece of your social presence should work in tandem with your business goals.
Create
Our social media marketing process includes creative execution and technical attention to detail. In addition, we utilize comprehensive scheduling and planning tools to streamline the process, keeping you ahead of your content calendar with creative pieces that will engage your followers.
Convert
Our social media marketing services are driven to create connections between you and your audience and increase conversions across all platforms. Social media works with your other marketing strategies, making your presence known online.
Social media is most effective when efforts are consistent, frequent, and well-coordinated across platforms. Too many local businesses will put social on the backburner after making a concerted push, resulting in losing their audience’s attention. Social media algorithms curate timelines and dashboards with content users most frequently interact with. If you leave significant gaps between posts, it may be hard to regain attention. Social media relies on sustainable strategies. The Urban Ignite team helps you build them.
A great social media post comprises several equally essential pieces: a captivating image or video to grab attention, a thoughtful design or branding element to unify your feed, and text that adds flavor, content, and brand voice. We thoughtfully stitch together each piece into excellent posts by tapping into the creativity and expertise of our team. Before you know it, your social media feed will be transformed into one that carves its path within your industry.
A consistent posting schedule separates the haves from have-nots on social media platforms. The algorithm rewards those who post regularly but don’t venture into the territory of post spam. To ensure your posts go out on time and at a consistent pace, we utilize scheduling software that allows you to check post progress, leave comments, and review your upcoming content calendar.
Social media ads are an effective marketing strategy that can leverage a modest budget to great impact. We’re able to target relevant audiences and then retarget them with even more-cost effective ads to help increase the chance of conversion.
The word social in “social media” isn’t an understatement. The most successful businesses on these platforms understand how to engage with their audience correctly. We employ a multifaceted engagement approach, including contests, stories, polls, and comment responses. Each of these tactics helps build a sense of community and makes your brand more authentic and tangible to your audience.
As a Design Specialist for Urban Ignite, Anna Hughes works to create stronger visual aesthetics for client brands via web design and development, social media template design, print collateral, and a variety of other design-centric projects. Her goal is to craft successful, direct, and on-brand design materials to help companies better communicate their mission and purpose. Anna brings thorough experience in print-based projects, giving her a tangible understanding of typography and layout design. Anna works to clearly and creatively communicate a client’s message.
Anna earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Messiah University. She is a huge fan of hiking, running, kayaking, and anything that involves plants and the autumn season.
Brady Stafford works as a Copywriting Specialist for Urban Ignite, helping clients shape their narrative, tell their story, and expand their portfolio of SEO-driven written content. His copywriting appears on website and landing pages, blog posts, social media posts, and email campaigns. Brady utilizes SEO practices to drive traffic while still creating informative, narratively compelling content across different mediums.
Brady received a BA in History with a minor in Journalism from the University of West Virginia. Several of his historical essays were published by the University. Outside of work, Brady is an avid musician who fills much of his time listening to or playing music. He is also a travel aficionado who enjoys rock climbing and mountaineering (which are different!). Having completed all of his targeted summits on the East Coast, he hopes to conquer Mt. Rainier in Washington and Mt. Denali in Alaska in the future.
Emily works as a media specialist for Urban Ignite, focusing on videography in production, pre-production, and editing. She uses her skills as a storyteller to visually communicate the stories of our clients and their work, using creativity, problem-solving, and technical knowledge to guide her projects. She graduated from Goucher College with degrees in both Communications and Philosophy, with her philosophical studies amplifying critical analysis and writing skills as well as a love for questioning and research. What she loves most about her career as a videographer is the opportunity to learn a variety of niche knowledge about the different subject matters of her videos.
Outside of work, Emily enjoys painting psychedelic geometric artwork, watching action films, reading science fiction, and learning about history, places, and trivia on Wikipedia. She has a bearded dragon named Franco and sometimes they eat kale together. She plays the piano once a year.
Steven Quinones works as a Media Specialist at Urban Ignite, balancing pre-production, media shoots, and post-production work. Steven often works directly with clients for on-site shoots, and is an expert at setting the scene and guiding participants through the process. His goal is to help you feel comfortable in front of the camera, and his guidance can help make even your shyest team member feel like a star. Steven previously worked in a professional photography studio for four years and spent years in a sales position as well. His freelance work has included music videos, wedding videography, and more.
Steven has traveled and lived across the country, being born and raised in Nevada before making his way to Maryland. He embraces the experience of meeting new people, and connecting with artists in the places he visits. He is a huge fan of stand-up comedy, with Theo Von and Mark Normand among his current favorites. Steven will be the first to tell you that Mexican food is the best of all foods.
As Director of Media, Elijah’s goal is to cultivate an environment of collaboration through media production, driving storytelling for clients through excellent photo and video content. They have worked freelance as a cinematographer and editor, whose previous clients include the Chemistry Department and Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology, and Biophysics Doctoral Program at Johns Hopkins. She also works as an adjunct professor at UMBC for photo and video classes. Elijah received her Masters of Fine Art from the Intermedia + Digital Art Program at UMBC, and her Bachelors of Fine Art in Digital Media from Youngstown State University.
Outside of work, Elijah spends time on her own bodies of artistic work, focusing on the act/actions of surveillance, as well as notions of memory, nostalgia, longing, and personal identity. They enjoy, as many do, video games, films, tv shows, but also engage in several hobbies focusing around dilapidated and obsolete technologies, like utilizing VHS camcorders, 8mm/16mm found films, and post-apocalyptic costume making.
As Urban Ignite’s Director of Design, Tarah Maxsell is your visual design expert. Her work touches nearly every creative process at our firm, from logo and branding design to web layouts, social media templates, and everything in between. Her process is one of intentionally seeking out beautiful solutions to all of your design challenges. Tarah’s work has been recognized by Out Of Home Today (OOH Today) for excellence in outdoor advertising.
Tarah received a BFA in Fine Arts with a focus on Graphic Design from Messiah University. Tarah enjoys anything she can do outside, as well as ceramics and interior design. You’ll most often find her with her husband Nick and their Goldendoodle Wesely.
As the Director of Web Content, Christian Fuller helps execute your digital marketing strategy through compelling websites, engrossing written content, and an intricate knowledge of best SEO practices. Christian oversees all web design and written content creation projects, helping ensure the final product delivered to you is spectacular.
Christian believes that content writing is essential to building the narrative of a business. He puts the work in to help your brand find its tone and voice so you can speak the language of your audience. Copy should always grab attention, and communicate something valuable. He helps you find the perfect sweet spot.
His web design experience allows him to guide our web team efficiently through the process, accounting for elements like the flow of content, website interactivity, and mobile optimization. Christian believes a strong website is an invaluable marketing tool and helps clients execute their creative vision.
Christian brings 5+ years of copywriting, web design, and SEO experience to the table. He earned his BA in English from the University of Maryland. Outside of work, he is a frequent traveler and camping enthusiast, creative writer, and super fan of anything horror or punk music-related.
Leigh Engelke is our coordinator-in-chief as the Operations Director, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently. She is the primary point of contact for clients, addressing their day-to-day needs and communicating new project details to internal staff. Leigh ensures nothing slips through the cracks, and that content output is consistent. She is also responsible for internal procedures at Urban Ignite, helping everyone stay on track and adhere to company policy.
Leigh believes that clear, transparent communication is the key ingredient in a successful business relationship. She wants every client to have clarity on the progress of projects, and be able to communicate any concerns as they arise. Leigh is here to take care of our clients, and she’s excellent at it. Fostering a healthy working environment where employees are free to communicate their feelings is also essential to Leigh as Operations Director.
Professionally, Leigh brings experience working with the Maryland Department of Social Services, where organizational efficiency was crucial. Her decade-plus experience in the food service industry gives her excellent personability, knowledge of task management, and the ability to keep up with the fast-paced needs of clients.
Leigh earned a BS in Psychology from Goucher College. When she’s not managing operations for Urban Ignite, you can find her hiking, painting, crocheting, practicing yoga, or just hanging out with her cat and best buddy, Rex.
Jordan Fuller is the Founder and Creative Director of Urban Ignite. He works with clients and the team to help drive the creative vision of each project.
Content creation has always been at the core of Jordan’s identity, starting with home movie production at the age of 6 and video editing at 14 for his YouTube channel. He took an optimistic approach, teaching himself web design in case the YouTube channel found success. While that project never achieved virality, it gave Jordan the tools to lay the foundation on which Urban Ignite would be built.
Urban Ignite began with clients in the construction and home remodeling industry and grew as a trusted digital marketing firm despite its small team. In the early days, Jordan saw the adverse effects overworking can have on a team’s creative output. As such, the workplace model was readjusted to focus on efficiency and work-life balance. This model includes industry-competitive pay while maintaining a 30-hour work week.
Jordan is a creative repository for clients, helping them dream bigger regarding content and marketing strategies.
In his free time, Jordan enjoys a good concert, nature walks, video games, meditation, or exploring local events across Baltimore. He also loves collaborating with others to make art, whether it’s at work or for personal projects. In addition, he hosts local “house shows,” which have showcased local musicians at the Urban Ignite office space for eight years.
