Best California Business Consulting Firms of 2020

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Being a loving, respectful human being is the most important thing we can beUnfortunately it’s not prioritized in today’s social interactions, media discourses or school curriculum. In our accelerating, desensitized, digitally-driven, winning-is-all world, there’s an epidemic of casual disrespect, bullying, incivility, and rudeness.The Bureau Of Small Projects are helping them to change that with year-round school programs, community engagements, a global online community – and our annual flagship “Everyone Matters Day” which celebrates EVERYONE’S uniqueness as contributing to what makes their city or community vibrant.

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College Interactive has chosen Kanda to help design and develop Ci Web Platform, Android and iPhone applications that allow college and university admission offices to engage and recruit prospective students via their preferred communication platform. By using CI app students can learn more about their education choices and connect one on one with colleges. College and university admission offices can use the College Interactive platform to inform, engage, and recruit prospective students.With the instant access to a database of over 5000 institutions of higher learning, College Interactive revolutionizes the admission marketing and recruitment process by providing an instant personalized marketing channel via mobile devices to colleges and universities to interact with prospective students. The mobile app helps students to simplify college or university search process based on their achievements and interests, to engage with admission offices, to learn about the application process, requirements, and payment options.

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Design and Development of eCommerce Portal for Prescription Glasses company.Client: Replace RX Lenses

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The Broad is a contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the museum offers free general admission and presents an active program of rotating temporary exhibitions and innovative audience engagement. The Broad is home to more than 2,000 works of art in the Broad collection, which is one of the world's most prominent collections of postwar and contemporary art.Urban Insight and The Broad redesigned the visual and user experience to immediately engage visitors with The Broad's world-class collection of postwar and contemporary art. Recognizing that a significant proportion of The Broad's visitors first experience the museum on a mobile device, we optimized the experience for mobile users. A series of workflow tools enable The Broad team to update all aspects of the website to quickly publish news, events, and information about new exhibitions.

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Tribyl’s product is not your typical CRM. It’s a powerful platform that allows sales reps to leverage business intelligence across all parties involved in closing an enterprise deal. But it doesn’t stop there. Tribyl also uses machine learning algorithms to make smart recommendations to the sales reps on what to say, how to say, when to say and who to talk to for more insights. The main challenge for WANDR’s strategy and design team was to enable scalability without sacrificing consistency in the experience.We examine the existing flows for each feature and to gain insight into how they work together to help reps and account executives close deals. Once we started to work on the new modules, we had to conduct a UX Audit of what was in development in order to propose more usability improvements. We started by inventorizing the existing components to see what could be recycled and what needed to be designed from scratch to account for the new functionalities that were going to be created. Once we had a good idea of what we needed, we proceeded to design the new system with a modular approach. In Tribyl’s new system, every single piece of UI can be broken down into its most basic elements like a set of LEGO building blocks. We created a methodology to audit the visual aspects of the front-end code and to keep track of all the inconsistencies. Given the complexity of the product and the sheer number of features and moving parts, Tribyl has been one of our most challenging projects. It pushed us to come up with creative solutions to address usability and cognitive overload issues that we had not faced before and are certainly going to be very useful for the product design and SaaS communities. If you would like to learn more about how we solve enterprise grade design and usability problems, don’t hesitate to reach out.

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TAG Cushman and WakefieldThe Aberg Group (TAG) is San Diego's most dynamic, full-service industrial real state team. No other team provides you with better local market knowledge and more thorough brokerage services.Workshop developed TAG's verbal and visual identity, and a dynamic online presence to set them apart in the West Coast industrial real estate market.BrandingVisual and VerbalIdentityCopywritingArt DirectionPhotographyCustom UI/UX DesignCustom Website DevelopmentCollateral Design

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We created a full brand strategy including front-end site design, photography, and marketing strategy that was tailored for ease of use for their customers while representing the heart of their brand: a beautiful family story of impeccable and timeless design.

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simplehuman is a premier designer and manufacturer of kitchen, bath, and beauty tools based in Torrance, California.A re-imagining of what a virtual home assistant can do. Automatically purchase refills of consumable supplies, control networked appliances... convenience at your fingertips.Swenson He’s close partnership with simplehuman resulted in a beautiful, extremely intuitive user interface and highly rated user experience that is built on cutting edge server technology. Not only is the app increasing simplehuman’s brand awareness and customer loyalty, subscription sales have generated a healthy stream of recurring revenue.

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The City of Antioch, located in Northern California, was settled before the Gold Rush. In 2018, they decided it was time to rebrand. So they engaged Evviva.ChallengeOne consequence of the 2008 collapse was that the City of Antioch became closely-associated with a collapse in home values. By 2016, the City had turned several important corners. Unfortunately, this the media didn’t notice. Antioch remained a talking point, but the most common media pick-ups were related to crime, blight, homelessness and low-cost housing. Process
The City we met was divided. It was economically split between “well-off” vs. “getting by," geographically split north vs. south, divided by recency, by perspective, by levels of contentment, and even by time spent in the city itself. As a result of all of these divisions, residents were committed to their City but deeply frustrated with the state of affairs. Importantly, we found a strong, positive theme: opportunity was everywhere, and avaliable to all. This insight led us to a new strapline for the City and as a campaign line to drive awareness about what’s best about Antioch: “Opportunity Lives Here.”  The campaign targeted business and lifestyle targets. With integrated programmatic planning, we launched the new brand across a variety of digital and OOH channels.Results
The campaign was a huge success for Antioch:

• Nearly 24 million total impressions were delivered during the initial campaign cycle.


• 51,000 clicks were generated with a .3% click through rate (CTR). 


• The CTR our ads achieved is six times (6x) the industry average.


• The campaign added 40,000 new visitors to the campaign website (www.antiochisopportunity.com)


• Google Analytics showed a bounce rate of 32% to the site. (This is outstanding.)


• Arrivals results indicate 46,524 physical visits to Antioch from people who were exposed to our ads.

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Our team partnered with fast-growing startup Market Prophit, a big data analytics enterprise delivering trending social media sentiment for investors, with the goal of launching the new service through the world's foremost business and investment media and social influencers. The founder's goal was to earn adoption from the community of socially-savvy investors by leveraging the awareness and credibility resulting from the top business and financial media coverage.
90-DAY RESULTS:

• Earned 19,992,283 digital media impressions


• Secured feature inclusion in over ten Tier 1 media targets, including:


• Wall Street Journal (4x placement wins)


• Fox Business News


• Yahoo Finance


• Barron's and more~


• Ten key journalist & social influencer briefings


• Significant boost in web traffic and platform registrations


• Paved the way for Market Prophit's next success:  the industry's first Smart Beta Index powered by social media, CROWD.

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Metajive is the exclusive partner for Lyft.com and LyftBusiness.com. Metajive works with teams ranging from internal Creative, Engineering, Product Marketing as well as C-Level Leadership in order to manage OKR’s. We are currently in the process of deploying Lyft’s new design system. 
Metajive is making an impact in multiple business lines with Lyft by implementing a variety of company initiatives. From high-level strategy to production and content population, our needs vary from project to project but our dedication to being great partners never waivers. Lyft is a fast growing organization that is achieving radical growth through innovation and differentiation through design. 
The Metajive partnership has allowed multiple departments to free up resources while delivering a higher level experience to its users. With a fast-paced organization, we are proud to be part of a team making great strides in helping them fulfill their mission of helping cities operate more efficiently through transportation. Solutions Provided:UXDesignSEOServer Configurations On-Site Support 
 
 

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This 65-acre new community is one of the largest and most dynamic housing projects in the San Francisco Bay Area and will include retail, housing, and acres of new parkland and marinas. Radiant developed the brand for this community, positioning Brooklyn Basin as a new and contemporary neighborhood that brings the waterfront to life. To support the brand rollout, Radiant also produced a video featuring interview segments describing the project vision and clips showing how this new waterfront community will contribute to Oakland’s future.We also created a video for this project. Click this link to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTHuC9juFR4&feature=youtu.be

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CHALLENGE
Procter & Gamble was preparing to launch a strawberry-flavored line of oral care products and required packaging with a distinct tween-appeal.
 
SOLUTION
We developed a dynamic visual language for use across products, with a juicy, larger-than-life strawberry taking center stage for massive flavor appeal with a distinctly youthful but sophisticated spin.

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Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is known as the service innovator within its peer group of leading airports worldwide. But its channel-driven approach led to a fragmented offering – a situation they asked Edenspiekermann to overhaul within a multi-year digital unification project. Working in a collaborative agile framework with relevant internal stakeholders, we guided teams on how to focus on the true needs of passengers. Informed by extensive user research, persona development and customer journey mapping, we were able to create a platform that proactively tailors the travel experiences to each passenger.

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This is the worlds first treadmill designed for the office and not for the gym.It's fetures include a motor tht is Library Quiet so you don’t disturb your co-workers. It's optimized for Slow Speeds so you can stroll and still effectively focus on work. The overall footprint is compact so it can fit in the same space as your current desk.

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Goal: to create social media profiles with a highly engaged, targeted audience/ fanbase.
Solution: Something About Marketing created an Instagram page for FEBC RM, and posted high quality content with amazing storytelling copy. After utilizing the best marketing strategies, we were able to grow the account to over 10k followers in just under 6 weeks! 
Not to mention the engagement rate was very high, and the posts were well received by the target audience. It's safe to say that we created a powerful Instagram with a high attention rate, (the main purpose of social) with their very niche audience. 
"They changed our entire social media strategy... We went from zero to over 10,000 niche followers on our Instagram in a short six weeks thanks to the team at Something About Marketing!"
- Victor, Director of Operations at FEBC RM

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Challenge. Disrupt an oatmeal aisle that has been dominated by Quaker Oatmeal for over 100 years
Solution. Umpqua Oats has the product to compete against the mushy instant oatmeal competition. With whole rolled oats, real ingredients and none of those added fillers Quaker uses to save costs, Umpqua Oats is exactly what Millennials are looking for. Hitting the oatmeal aisle with bright white and a bold use of black and bright colors instantly attracts attention in a sea of beige. An image with appetite appeal is easy to execute because their product is REAL.Nothing shows the Umpqua difference more than image and video so we art directed a series of videos to be used online and in social media. Connecting consumers to the history of Umpqua Oats and co-founders, Sheri and Mandy, shows consumers that Umpqua is not just a real product, but also made by real people.Check out Umpqua Oats' brand videos:https://vimeo.com/215722432https://vimeo.com/215723532

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When the El Segundo Police Department realized they needed help finding great recruits, they turned to Ignited to get the word out.
https://www.facebook.com/elsegundopd/videos/425684071572023/ 
We jumped at the opportunity to let people know about our great city and its incredible Police Department. We used print ads, out-of-home advertising, social media and videos to engage potential candidates. The $25K lateral signing bonus helped too!

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The project was implemented for one of the Canadian oil and gas companies. The implemented business process implies recognition of the charts which are generated by two or three pens driven by sensors attached to gas pipes. These pens plot traces on a rotating paper disk. As a result, the disc has the values of different parameters such as gas pressure, water, temperature. The next step is to convert this chart into a readable format.
This conversion process used to be performed manually by our customer’s employees. They had to manually delineate the contours of each trace using the mouse and then create the table with the values of the trace. Obviously, the whole process was very time-consuming and painful for the employee since he had no room for mistake.
Challenges: The main challenge we faced was how we actually should recognize the chart itself and all the traces it contains. The traces on the chart could hardly be seen or overlap each other. These kinds of issues were the most challenging for us since we had to recognize each trace separately and form the table with the values of each parameter.
Solutions: To solve the problems which were described above, we did step-by-step work. To be more specific, we implemented the following things:

1. Implementation of recognizing the empty chart template without any traces;


2. Then recognizing the traces on the chart;


3. Then recognizing the colors of each trace since the traces can be red, black, blue, etc. It depends on the pen’s color;


4. Defining where the trace starts and where it ends;


5. Calculation of the average value of the trace.

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Proton therapy has many advantages. It effectively targets cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissue and organs. But the experience isn't particularly easy on stressed patients. That's why when ProNova decided to design a more accessible version of the equipment, they came to us to help design the patient and technician experience.
We designed the overall experience including system aesthetics, general room layout, and information architecture of treatment interfaces, with the goals of increasing efficiency, accuracy and throughput.To begin, our team interviewed patients and technicians, observed treatment at several centers, and were trained on an existing proton therapy system. This culminated in a procedure workflow that identified improvement opportunities. The team continuously refined the workflow throughout the development process. To test our ideas, we brought technicians into a life-sized treatment suite prototype, going through scenarios for several types of  procedures using interface concepts on computer and paper. 

For patient comfort, we designed a more intimate treatment room that features a partially obscured nozzle that lessens the sense of the equipment's scale. Every piece of equipment that a technician or patient sees or touches has a modern, simple cover. The ceiling awning is strategically placed so a patient can watch a projected video during treatment to help the time pass.  
For technicians, we designed an elegant control pendant, console and single-action snout clamp. Digitally, we defined the workflow for each type of patient treatment and created the information architecture for the five touchpoints used during the procedure. Working with ProNova’s software team, we designed the process and the accompanying screens. We created the user-friendly, information-rich visual design of all digital interfaces. This includes the treatment room projections that communicate procedure status to increase technician efficiency. 

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Tooshlights is the first and only restroom traffic management system that will increase traffic flow and efficiency in public restrooms by letting the guest know “where to go”.
When a stall is occupied, the smart latch is activated, the indicator light on the ceiling above the stall turns red. When the guest leaves the stall and opens the smart latch, the light turns green.
The smart latches communicate wirelessly with the indicator lights, which in turn are linked as a network to a wireless hub. The hub stores the usage frequency of each stall and communicates the information to the facility’s computer system. This information allows efficient scheduling of servicing, supplies and cleaning, by predicting service intervals based on usage. The system can also show if a stall goes down.
Occupancy information can also potentially be fed to an app, that can show a guest in a large venue which restroom has more open stalls.
Tooshlights came to M Industrial Design as a start up with just two employees and a simple working prototype. Our brief was to redesign and reengineer the Tooshlights to meet some tough design goals. The appearance design had to be beautiful enough to inspire architects to specify it, the housing had to accommodate electronics, switch and battery and be no wider than 1” to accommodate variable site conditions. It had to be rugged enough to withstand the public restroom environment.
M Industrial Design handled the design and engineering of the product, including the oversight of the electronics design of the smart latch, indicator and Hub.
MID also fabricated the first working prototypes, produced all production documentation and inspected and approved first article production parts.
Tooshlights has now been installed in several major airports and sports stadiums across the US and is well on its way to success.
 
 

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Client: Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, Keith Tralins, CEO Stan Lee’s LA Comic ConLocation:  Los Angeles, CA"True Believer!:  The VR Experience (Teaser)"
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZK01dSsFSg
Stan Lee’s L.A. Comic Con (formerly Comikaze Expo) celebrates the most exciting developments in “geek” pop culture: comics, video games, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. The convention is attended by 90,000+ fans annually, but Lee and his team knew that many more across the globe were not able to attend and didn’t want them to miss out entirely. Recognizing the transportive power of VR, Stan and his team - a community of early adopters well-versed in VR - asked VPM to create a virtual experience of the convention. The video embedded above is a teaser of the larger, multi-part experience VPM constructed. It was used to create archival pieces so fans could get a taste of the convention experience and also to build a series of immersive advertisements.

 

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My Clean MovesThe main objective of the Pine-Sol’s #MyCleanMoves contest campaign was to tap into consumers’ need for fun cleaning sessions and use music to engage and rally them into sharing their dance moves.We launched a UGC Instagram contest that strengthened the link between cleaning and music, asking people to submit a photo of themselves cleaning while dancing for a chance to win a cash prize, Pandora subscriptions and Bluetooth speakers. 
This content plan centered around engagement and personalization with a focus on both General Market and Multicultural audiences.http://www.theaxisagency.com/pine-sol-my-clean-moves.html

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• Magento development


• eCommerce consulting


• Digital marketing management including paid search and paid social

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A global media company has engaged Zinnov to enable organization-wide automation to drive business growth and to create efficiencies.The client wanted Zinnov to create and enable charter for enterprise-wide robotic automation adoption within the organization.Engagement details: RPA Strategy Formulationa) Compete research on Robotic Automation adoptionb) Portfolio Assessment and Process Prioritizationc) COE StrategyExecution strategy:a) Organization Alignment and Roll Outb) COE Setup and Program Managementc) Vendor AdvisoryOutcomes:a) Top 3 processes in 5 functional areas based on compete researchb) COE charter and roadmapc) Ecosystem alliance recommendationsd) Roadmap for skilling and talent acquisition

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If you own a website of any kind, you know how important traffic is.
You can’t survive without it.
Why?
Because, poor traffic = poor conversions.
And, poor conversions = low revenue = little or no profit!!
You certainly don’t want that, do you?
Traffic is the lifeline of every website. And I know you’d go to any lengths to increase it.
Many people will advise you to publish more content regularly. However, this can be misleading, and it’s also not the only effective solution.
I’ve come across websites that are loaded with content but don’t get much traffic. And I’ve also seen some that produce great content once in a while, but have a steady flow of traffic.
So don’t just focus on content. There are other ingenious, effective, and surefire ways to boost your traffic. I grew my website traffic 80% in just 6 months of using them.
Here’s how.
Objective
I have always been interested in the visual interpretation of content. Being a marketer, I’ve always felt that it attracts more traction and offers convenience to the readers. It was then that Gifographics came into being.
Also, the social presence wasn’t strong. I had only a few hundred followers on social media. No wonder why my website wasn’t getting much traffic. :/
Challenges I Was Facing

• A Year-Old Domain- 2016 Scenario


• Very Few Visitors


• Few Backlinks


• Skeletal Social Media Presence


• A Small Budget

• Competitor Analysis


• Content Strategy


• Email Marketing


• Guest Blogging


• Influencer Outreach


• Features on Reputable Sites