Are you customers in love with you? We provide research, strategic creativity, name development, design, everything YOUR business needs to be visible to your target audience. We can help you engage with illustration in social media, social media guidance and beyond.

1. love with you?
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2. Branding is more
than just your logo
Just as a business is more than just products, a
logo or identity is just one piece of what
makes an overall brand image.
Successful branding is much bigger and employs a strategic creative
plan of action.
Branding involves understanding things such as, what your
audience really cares about, what their needs are, then blending this
information with goals and objectives. That is the foundation of any
strategy, discovering who customers are and how that relates to
any business.
How are they interacting with their customers? Are they connecting
on more than one level? When customers connect with a business
do they feel comfortable and satisfied?
Your overall image should connect with your customers needs and do
so with an engaging voice. In other words, talk with your customers,
not at your customers. Invite everyone to become a part of the
business family and culture. That is the heart of your brand.
Our goal is to develop a strategy and craft a visual solution placing
your clients at the centre of your business culture. We use specific
strategic, creative methods that will help your clients connect, engage
and create a wonderful relationship with their customers.

3. Less than 5% of the population reads everything.
Everyday people are bombarded with communications from all sides.
To reach your customers we will help you;
• Create a story that engages emotionally, resonating with customers.
• Make places where people gather to learn, to grow and be a part of a business culture.
• Help sell with emotion. Selling is about the emotional connection you have with your audience.
• Clear out the clutter and let your products and culture shine through.
• Help your clients say more with less.
Image is everything.
Image is the stepping stone to your clients engaging with their customers.
What if...
overall image and brand was more appealing?
messages were more clear, concise and inviting?
could really connect visually with their audience?
their customers fell in love with them?

4. Relationships.
All sales transactions are about relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust stems from credibility and
how a business is perceived.
Does the business image project credibility?
What perception does the audience have of that business and products or services?
When credibility and trust are established in the mind of a target audience, the sale will be easier to make, plus you will draw
more people to become emotionally connected to the product offerings.
Our goal is to help your clients develop a unique strategic solution that resonates in the hearts of their customers and makes
them fall in love with you!
We will;
• learn everything about the business, the competitors and the target audience.
• assess the current interactions and communications and explore optimum opportunities.
• help them ask better questions which will achieve better results.
• help you build a stronger relationship with your clients.
• address issues regarding information and presentation of their brand.
• provide you with research, strategic design and creativity that will make your business and clients successful!

5. Winnipeg's Festival of Film and Video Art
(WNDX) asked us to illustrate and design a
poster, postcard, tickets and a program for
their film festival.
The visual solution was a 'clin d'oeil' to
WNDX windex the window cleaner. Playfully
illustrating window cleaners with projectors
helmets suspended and captured like
fragments from film. Our client loved the
concept and the execution on all of their
marketing materials.
You can click festival at a glance and it will
take you to the PDF WNDX event program.

6. Design and development of company name,
logo, tag line and a variety of marketing
materials for new venture in managment
consulting.
It was important to bridge two worlds with
this logo, first nations and the business
world, this was achieved with the design
of a symbol that represents balance while
representing first nations culture.
achieving balance
spirit • emotion • intellect • physical • relations • financial • afterward
tools and guidance to live your best life!

7. Falcon Beach Ranch Re-Branding
Falcon Beach Ranch is nestled near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada. While visiting the ranch you can enjoy guided horseback
trail ride, overnight cowboy cookouts! In the winter fabulous sleigh rides, bonfires and cozy log cabins. We based the logo
design on the traditional trail ride and you could be a cowboy for day, a weekend or even a week.
The new logo shown below speaks to that cowboy or cowgirl trail ride experience. The ranch is a stay and play, with trail ride
camp outs or rustic log cabins on a sprawling ranch. The new logo reinforces the experience!
We designed a complete package to brand the ranch; logo, tagline, brochures, letterhead, business cards, everything worked
around YOUR experience at the ranch, including art direction of photographs, which were shot from the perspective of you
being there.
"Your galloping getaway!" Falcon Beach Ranch.

8. Pizza Hotline located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, came to us to acquire a new packaging and
brand image to make his pizza company thrive in the franchise environment.
We provided a complete visual audit of his marketing materials and packaging. Then we
did an audit of all pizza companies across Canada. Carefully examining competitors,
customers and Pizza Hotline goals and objectives. The information gathered became the
creative fuel for the design of this award winning packaging. See below.
After
Before

9. Clicking on the logo will take you to the Cuckoo's Nest web site.
The Cuckoo's Nest is located in Ottawa, Ontario, an Ontario couple who decided
to take their passion for helping people find the perfect gift, into a bricks and
mortar business.
We designed and developed everything they needed to succeed, from logo,
to tagline to playful and fun stationary, advertising and web site.

10. Coghlan's rebrand mission.
This 40 year institution for camping accessories wanted a creative face-lift. We
were only allowed to work on marketing materials. The logo remained the same.
Over the course of three years we designed catalogues that embraced a fresh,
clean, progressive outdoor look and feel. Each year we made the catalogue easy
to use for buyers. The buyers loved receiving the new catalogues each year.
The business cards were the most fun to create as each employee business
card featured a product that the employee liked. This made the cards great
conversation pieces and we had staff involved in making choices.
We also designed their initial web site which they used for six years. In 2010
Coghlan's decided to hire an inhouse creative designer.
It was great fun working with them, giving them a new direction for their future!

11. Benita is a coach who inspires
the fire within each of the people
she works with.
BENITA
STAFFORD
SMITH
INSPIRE THE FIRE WITHIN!
Click on logo above, it will direct you to her web site.
Coach Benita asked us to create
a full compliment of marketing
materials to help her connect
with international clients.
We created logo, tagline, wrote
the content and designed her
website as well.

12. Hemp Oil Canada Inc
Hemp Oil Canada contacted us to develop a new
logo, a tagline and a product brochure.
We used research with a carefully crafted series
of questions to help understand their goals and
objectives, then we spoke candidly with some
of their existing customers. This combination
of information became the fuel that fired their
creative result.

13. One on One Athletic Camps, owned by Jay Gamey, a twenty something University student who
started a summer basketball camp for youth ages eight to 19. Jay came to Cats in the Bag design
to make his business shine. Jay wanted a logo, a tag line, business cards, letterhead, award
certificate, brochure and a variety of other materials to help him succeed.
Jay's future included expanding to a variety of different sport camps. We recommended that jay
use "athletic camps" to leave his business open for expansion into other sports in the coming
years. The logo we designed for One on One Athletic Camps, demonstrates reaching for the stars.
The tagline "shoot for excellence" is positive and motivating.
shoot for excellence
We always provide extensive research before designing, through the research on this project we
discovered his target audience loved positive messages and posters. This inspired us to create a
dynamic poster brochure, designed to excite children, inform schools and provide parents with the
information they needed. The poster brochure is 23" x 35" and folds down to fit into a #10 envelope,
sit in a brochure rack, or could be easily pinned on the way of a gymnasium.
Jay had a 133% increase in kids who registered with his camp from the previous year.

14. What my Coffee says to me an Experiment with Social Media
It all started January 1st, with the idea of creating an illustration a day for 2012. The goal to create
366 illustrations by December 31st. Over the course of those 366 days of creating these playful and
daily illustrations, we discovered you can interact more effectively in social media using custom
illustrations.
Imagine a series of custom illustrations with positive messages, each are easily tweetable, postable,
shareable and pinable. To your delight you discover your custom illustrations receive more retweets
and good followers. We discovered exactly that.
What my Coffee says to me – daily, illustrated feeds are more successful than random contact in social
media. This type of creativity opens the dialogue, generates trust and communication. That equals
sales. As with anything in business, consistency counts, you must do this on a daily basis
in order to achieve success.
We can create a custom series for your business. The first step
to understand your business, your goals, objectives including
your social media objectives. The second step, blend your
demographic with daily research to create playful, positive,
daily illustrated messages for use in social media. We love the
research part, as this is the fuel that drives the creative process.
The goal is to make YOUR customers fall in love with your
business, while attracting a stronger social media following
and better interaction.
We can brew up an illustrated series that will have your
customers loving, sharing and interacting profitably with
your business!
Contact Jennifer R. Cook at jrcook@catsinthebag.com today!

15. Sample illustration from my daily, illustrated series
What my #Coffee says to me. You can view over 460
caffeinated illustrations on Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/catsmeo/boards/

16. What my #Tea says to me is a daily, illustrated
series. The image to the right is an"illustraTEAve
review for social media created for Vintage
TeaWorks. View all of the illustrations
on Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/catsmeo/boards/

17. Creative custom
illustrations to promote
your services products,
or business to your
customers. See Pinterest
for more creativity:
http://pinterest.com/catsmeo/

20. Strategic design consultancy - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
www.catsinthebag.com
We make your business become catnip to your customers.