Get a Perspective

Does your business or cause need a web presence but you're short on time and money? A blog may be your answer.

A blog is easy to manage and can include pages and information like a website.

For $1,200-$1,500 we'll create your blog and teach you the how-to's. view ckarma blog

C3 = Brand Makeover

Leverage your marketing efforts to connect with customers and increase awareness. Is it time to refresh and face lift your outdated or confusing brand?

C3 Branding creates marketing that gets you to the next level.

clear message
compelling design
cost effective tools

Prices range from $6,000 - $10,000 and includes marketing and design-- strategy, messaging, website, logo, blog, e-newsletter.
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This month, we're talking blogs. Blogs are basically a way to write on the internet and publish your message online. They can be powerful marketing tools and accomplish a lot with little time and money.

Blogs are quick, easy and inexpensive to set up
They build brand awareness like a web site
You can update yourself, add photos, pages and lots more
Search engines like the content in blogs
It can be a "stand alone" or link to and integrate in a website
Blogs can make you look and sound like an authority or subject expert [if the content is right for your audience]

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ckarma marketing has a new blog. about how we look at life differently when we travel. An excerpt is below. There are new pages, marketing resources, and ways you can make a difference.

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Cindy Kerr
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ckarma blog: Get a Perspective

Traveling overseas has messed me up. What time is it? In Nairobi, my friends are ending their day when our morning coffee is firing up. With money -- i've converted to shillings, dollars, euros, pounds, rupees and francs in the last year.

Driving in Denver is a dream compared to Nairobi. It's like off-roading at night with no lights, dodging massive potholes without stopsigns, streetlights, on the WRONG side of the road. OK, there are some signs -- no one pays attention to them. Mix in pedestrians-mostly dark, crossing the street wherever it's possible to squeeze between two cars.

streets of nairobi

The truck spewing thick, black smoke is smack in front of me and a crazy minibus (matatu) is sticking like glue to my behind. Matatus stop anywhere, anytime and pull out slowly onto a busy highway without signaling. I enter the "roundabout" where the only way to get in or out is to go forward while cars are moving about to bash my side. They want into the circle. I'm trying to get out. I follow a SUV hoping he'll shield me. Not fast enough. Reaching for the blinker, instinctively, my left hand turns on the windshield wipers. "Ahhh -- left hand driving!" I'm stuck going around again, getting up the courage to break out of the roundabout. I grip the wheel praying "help me get out of this without being hit."

Denver roads are calm, organized and we drive on the right. I appreciate the generous space between cars and want to thank people for stopping at stopsigns. The streetlights have arrows telling me it's my turn to turn.

Going to the third world can open your mind and drive you crazy. if you've done business overseas, that's another story. Have you sent money to someone through your cell phone lately? Most people do in Kenya.

Our perspective of poverty changes. The poor in USA mostly have clean water, free school for kids, access to electricity, some government help and a roof. A person with no money won't be denied access to emergency care or held hostage until they pay the hospital bill. The poor in Africa have none of these privileges. Governments, often corrupt, help little.

In rural Kenya, this poor community I visited with my friends from
Holistic Community and Imani Initiative were told by the government the children had to walk 8 kms (over 4 miles) to school. The kids couldn't make it on the rugged trails through deep, thick mud. The parents starting building. Funds ran out. It's without a roof, windows, seats or supplies.

"Can you help us finish it so our children can learn?" The teacher of 50 kids had a baby. She's ill."

I can't comprehend the struggles these families go through every day to barely feed, somewhat clothe and educate their children and the orphans most families have taken into a tiny house. Yet they met us with joy and singing.read rest of blog

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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love."-- Rumi