Trumpets? You Have Trumpets?

How does your company celebrate when you welcome a new player to the team? Do you throw a party? Send a card or flowers? Treat the entire staff to a day at Six Flags? Well, at Ripley Designs, Inc., we roll out the red carpet and sound the trumpets (Yes, we have trumpets.) Today, we welcome a talented player to our creative Ripley Designs, Inc. Team. As the new Director of Business Development, Bethany Thompson is eager to learn more about you and your company.

Bethany found her way to us from the Central Valley of California with a mission to strengthen your marketing strategy and improve your bottom-line through print and web marketing. She can help with marketing content whether in brochures, (e-) newsletters, websites, etc. Or, if you are interested in upgrading your current marketing strategy, Bethany will analyze your current strategies and provide recommendations for improving your position within your targeted audience. She has a rich history of working with both small and large companies to improve their community image as well as spread the word about their products or services. As a member of our team, Bethany looks forward to new challenges and new solutions working for your organization.

Already, Ripley Designs provides search engine optimization, search engine submission, web marketing, web design, web hosting, e-commerce, corporate blogging, e-mail marketing, database development and more! Bethany will be able to enhance our bottom-line by adding more marketing expertise to our services. No matter what your marketing dilemma might be Ripley Designs, Inc. is in position to effectively guide you through the marketing process. We welcome her to our company and we are ready to roll out the red carpet and sound the trumpets to welcome you as a new customer!

More about our new team player:

Bethany graduated from the University of Maryland – College Park in 2005 with a double Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and Logistics, Transportation and Supply Chain Management. Shortly after graduation, she married her favorite Naval Officer and moved to Valdosta, GA where she worked as a Starbucks Shift Supervisor. Upon moving to Corpus Christi, TX (for her husband’s third phase of flight training), Bethany secured the position of Director of Industry Outreach Program at the Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce. In this role, she managed a newly awarded workforce development contract between the Chamber and the local workforce development board. She developed a vital position and built a community program to address industrial and technical workforce shortages in the 12-county Coastal Bend region. Her duties included: project and partnership development/management, business and program consultation, marketing development and issue awareness, research, survey coordination, and analysis, and website structure development and maintenance.

Bethany was born in Bridgeport, CT; however, she was born to a nomadic family and left the northeast after 5 years. Throughout childhood, she lived in Texas, Florida, California, and Georgia – moving to some states twice at different times. Living in a constant state of transition, Bethany learned to be flexible. Along the way, she interacted with many types of people, developing in her an effective, but adaptable management style. Her past experiences dedicate her to building long-lasting partnerships in order to make a difference in organizations and communities.