Enlighten is an independent digital marketing agency delivering fully integrated services that drive business value and consumer engagement.
Services
- Digital Strategy & Planning
- Website Design & Development
- Application & Platform Development
- Marketing Intelligence
- Mobile & Emerging Platforms
- Social Marketing
- Digital Advertising & Media
- Digital CRM
- Search Engine Optimization
- Search Engine Marketing
Our teams collaborate across disciplines to provide integrated, compelling solutions that deliver the most value to our customers.
Digital Strategy & Planning
Our strategists offer strategic plans as distinctive as our creative ideas. They constantly mine insights from the unprecedented technological shifts in communication we’re living with today. Insights about the ever-expanding digital opportunities that can help your business to thrive. Insights about understanding your consumers—who they are; when and why they’re online; which web, mobile, or social channel they prefer; and what they’re looking for. Insights about how we can build meaningful online experiences across multiple channels that help your customers quickly find what they’re looking for, resulting in business success for you.
Our digital strategy & planning services include:
Integrated digital marketing strategy | Consumer research, insights & target market analysis | Persona design & customer segmentation | Competitive analysis & industry insights | Brand & content strategy | Return On Investment definition & planning | Ongoing strategic planning & support
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Website Design & Development
Every website has its own story to tell. We believe how that story is told should vary, based on an artful balance between serving the needs of site visitors and your unique business goals. Are site visitors very task-oriented or open to a deeper, more immersive engagement? Do they want to explore for themselves, or would they prefer a more guided experience? How will the site successfully drive lead generation? Build loyal constituency? Serve as a springboard for a broader social campaign? These are just a few of the strategic factors we take into account when developing an online experience that is true to brand, captivating, and effective for all parties. Our collaborative, agile approach is centered on a cross-disciplinary team that pushes for innovation, tempered by a potent blend of hard won design and usability expertise; then made manifest through powerful, groundbreaking engineering know-how.
Our website design & development services include:
Campaign design & creation| Website & experience design | Brand development | Product launches | Interaction & visual design | Information architecture | Usability & heuristic reviews | Video & content production | Corporate & intranet planning
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Application & Platform Development
Our engineers deliver the technical know-how to bring meaningful online experiences to life. We build websites, Facebook apps, iPhone apps, coupon apps, games, product visualizers, banners—in short, whatever application or platform is ideal for your customers and your marketing plan. Whether we’re developing standalone rich internet applications and mobile apps or designing and building large-scale web solutions, we bring a remarkable range of engineering expertise to every project. And along with our deep technical knowledge, you’ll find our talented team is adept at building solutions that not only perform exceptionally, but deliver memorable “pixel perfect” experiences that delight users.
Our digital strategy & planning services include:
Technology assessment & architecture | Custom application development | Product visualization tools | Content management system implementation | Mobile development | Third-party tools & systems integration | Integrated portal development | Quality assurance & deployment
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Marketing Intelligence
Our analysts turn data into marketing intelligence. They know how to capture and analyze the full range of metrics available to reveal insights critical for measuring the impact of marketing programs on your bottom line. From regular site reporting to deep analysis, our team provides accurate, actionable and integrated intelligence that assesses how your digital properties are performing individually and collectively across multiple channels. From websites to banner ads, emails to search engine marketing, Enlighten offers a complete picture of your digital landscape—intelligence that will help you uncover both the poor performers and the hidden gems in your online marketing initiatives.
Our marketing intelligence services include:
KPI definition & tracking | Analytics platform configuration | Dashboard design | Benchmarking, A/B split testing, optimization | Integrated campaign analytics | Web analytics | Integrated campaign reporting
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Mobile & Emerging Platforms
Convergence. It’s time has finally arrived and it’s changing everything. Mobile and other emerging platforms are at the center of it all, creating a fluid, rapidly evolving interactive communication ecosystem where portability, immediacy, and openness trump everything. At Enlighten, we provide the strategic and technical resources to make it easier for you to fully exploit the remarkable opportunities that come with this rapidly expanding landscape. We understand how best to marshal the full range of advantages that come when, for example, you understand something about: a) what key segment your target belongs to; b) what’s most relevant to them; c) where they currently are; and d) that they recently price-checked one of your products on the shelf. (Time to send them a coupon?) The tactical and technical hurdles associated with this kind of consumer engagement can be daunting, yet the rewards of working with a creative partner that knows how to move people on the move towards a deeper relationship with your brand cannot be overestimated.
Our mobile & emerging platform services include:
Mobile app & tablet development | SMS campaign | Location-based programs | Mobile advertising | Mobile web optimization
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Digital Advertising & Media
In the digital realm, the lines between media placement and creative concept are constantly being blurred. Whereas traditional approaches allowed that creative could be developed independently of placement, Enlighten recognized a long time back that media strategy and creative development created in tandem can produce better optimized results. Working closely with our creative teams, our media planners and buyers have collectively planned and placed over $200 million in online advertising inventory. And while we have tools that enable us to look back at rate history for guidance, we believe the best recipe for success is an understanding of your objectives, coupled with strong negotiation skills. Our philosophy: The best buyers are also planners.
Our digital advertising & media services include:
Campaign concepting, creative, and development | Media planning and placement | Affiliate marketing | Rich media advertising | Campaign management, reporting and optimization
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Digital CRM
Our digital CRM strategists help you to cultivate lasting relationships with new and existing customers by identifying opportunities to engage them in compelling programs or offer them targeted, meaningful content. Couponing, contests, product giveaways, insight-driven offers, thought leadership articles, exclusive webinars—the substance, format, and delivery channel all depends on what your customers consider valuable (insights our strategists provide based on market and consumer research and smart aggregation and use of the data consumers share with us every day) and the ideal place to connect with them. Along with years of experience designing and developing all kinds of incentives, our team understands how to thoughtfully distribute those incentives across multiple channels to engage current and prospective customers, deepen customer satisfaction, and drive towards brand loyalty and advocacy.
Our digital CRM services include:
Campaign creation & activation | Competitive analysis | Target audience analysis | Display ad development | Campaign reporting & optimization | Custom content | Mobile media
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Search Engine Optimization
Search listings in top positions alone will not maintain long-term organic search visibility if your site experience is less than optimal. For this reason, our SEO strategists place as much emphasis on whether keywords are appropriate for target consumers as they do on whether a site is intuitively structured and architected. Our focus on search usability differentiates Enlighten from pure-play search firms that lack the expertise of our seasoned information architects, content strategists, designers and engineers. From ensuring your site is built with search engine-friendly formats to helping you deliver content that truly has value for consumers, our integrated SEO strategy and content optimization approach results in an expanded—and lasting—organic search presence for your site.
Our search engine optimization services include:
SEO competitive analysis | Benchmark ranks reports | Search user profiles | Key performance indicator recommendations | Keyword research & strategy | Search engine copywriting and keyword placement | Search-engine friendly design recommendations | Ranks reporting | Performance reporting | Competitive monitoring | Ongoing optimizing insights and enhancements
Search Engine Marketing
Through keyword research, development, optimization, and ad targeting techniques, our SEM analysts ensure your ads are tied to the most relevant and effective combinations of search terms. Along with keyword management, we provide paid search creative copywriting (essential to ensuring qualified clicks and conversions), targeting (the means by which we distribute your ads online), and bid management (the means by which we leverage your paid search budget). These tactics allow us to create, manage, and maintain effective paid search advertising campaigns.
Our search engine marketing services include:
SEM keyword research & strategy | Campaign setup | Ad copy development | Placement strategy | Geo-targeting strategy | Mobile strategy | Pay Per Click management | Campaign landing page development | A/B & multivariate testing | Campaign reporting & dashboards | Ongoing optimization and management
Leadership
Meet our leadership team: seasoned, talented, passionate, big thinkers, and exceedingly likeable.
Steve Glauberman Founder and CEO
Tom Beck President
JT Anderson VP, Executive Creative Director
Satish Kolluri VP, Engineering
Peter Spender VP, Account Services
Denise Evers Director, Project Management
Courtney Nowicki Director, Digital Media
Brad Brief Director, Social Marketing
Steve Glauberman
Steve founded Enlighten in 1983 with a vision of how technology could be coupled with imaginative content and incisive marketing to improve the way businesses communicate. Since then, he has focused on the strategic development of interactive solutions that deliver efficient yet engaging user experiences–solutions that reflect his own uncommon blend of technical and aesthetic sophistication. Over the years, Steve has successfully guided the strategic direction of numerous Fortune 1000 firms and smaller emerging companies in the ever-evolving digital arena. A board member of SoDA (Society of Digital Agencies), Steve holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
Tom Beck
With over a decade of experience managing digital marketing and large-scale consulting engagements, Tom brings a seasoned perspective to his role as President. He directs every facet of Enlighten’s growth strategy and plays an active role in expanding our reputation as one of the nation’s leading digital agencies. In this capacity, he directs Enlighten’s day-to-day operations with a focus on driving innovation and portfolio growth. On the client side, Tom oversees major accounts, advising clients on how market dynamics, consumer trends, and digital media continue to shape their businesses. Tom holds a BA in English from Indiana University.
JT Anderson
James Todd ("JT") Anderson brings to his role of VP Executive Creative Director a wealth of experience in creative leadership, brand marketing, and website development. As head of Enlighten's User Experience Group, which encompasses Creative, Design, and Information Architecture, JT applies his top-tier client experience with digital production, online advertising, and copywriting to carry on Enlighten's legacy of integrated campaign development. JT previously had leadership positions at Leo Burnett/Publicis shops that include Arc Worldwide, iLeo, and chemistry. He has worked with such clients as McDonald's, Hallmark, Diageo, BlackBerry, P&G, Kellogg's, and Cadillac, and he received his BA in Film and Marketing from Columbia College in Chicago.
Satish Kolluri
Satish is responsible for leading Enlighten's technical direction and strategy, including the development and delivery of all technology services. A 15-year industry veteran, Satish has led large teams in implementing technical projects for Global 2000 companies. He is an expert in application design and development, well-versed with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Customer Relationship Management, and Content Management Systems (CMS), and brings vast industry experience in the financial, health, energy, manufacturing and automotive verticals. Prior to joining Enlighten, Satish was a Managing Consultant with Headstrong, an International consultancy firm.
Peter Spender
Pete began his advertising career in 1991, and since then has been a driving force behind the development of brand positioning and communications for clients as diverse as Chiquita, MotrinIB, Pennzoil, Quaker State, U.S. Cellular, Six Flags, and The Detroit Zoo. He brings to Enlighten a facility for translating positioning and marketing insight into compelling marketing strategies that deliver against strategic goals. An advocate of analytical rigor, Pete also knows that numbers are only part of the bigger picture; to discover the most effective solutions an account team must combine carefully gathered data with insights about the consumer, brand or marketplace, and then translate that knowledge into actionable digital plans. Experienced in both traditional and digital media, Pete received his BA in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
Denise Evers
Denise has over 20 years of experience in project management across multiple industries, with over eight years in the interactive field. Proactive, detail-oriented, and adept at managing large teams in multi-process efforts with multiple vendors, she has coordinated and facilitated some of Enlighten's most complex and demanding engagements, including the launch of the award-winning Hunter Douglas website. Prior to joining Enlighten, she was Director of an ERP practice for a consulting firm, coordinating and facilitating the management of sales, project, and staff on projects throughout the Midwest. As a consultant, she managed several multi-million dollar ERP implementations and directed a major social services initiative for the City of New York's HR Division. Denise received her BA in Accounting Information Systems from Eastern Michigan University.
Courtney Nowicki
Courtney directs the development and execution of all digital media programs, including display media, mobile marketing, production integration, and online video. With over a decade of experience in advertising—nine of those years in the digital field—Courtney is adept at finding placements that reflect a brand's personality while strategically targeting its consumer base and generating further brand awareness. Before arriving at Enlighten, she worked at J Walter Thompson and Doner, with clients such as Ford Division, Lazy-boy, and Furniture Galleries. At Enlighten, she has planned digital programs for John Frieda Hair Care, Bioré Skincare, and Curél Skincare. Courtney graduated from Hillsdale College with a BA in Business Administration.
Brad Brief
Brad brings considerable experience to his role as Director of Social Marketing, having coordinated social marketing, digital, and branding efforts at agencies such as Leo Burnett, Doner, JWT, and Wunderman on accounts as diverse as Pepsi, Ford, Verizon, GM, Procter & Gamble, the Detroit Pistons, and Cadillac. At Enlighten, Brad is responsible for developing customized social marketing strategies and fully integrated campaign solutions. He identifies avenues for Enlighten's clients to optimize their engagement in the increasingly popular and ever-evolving social media landscape. Beyond leading the Social Marketing efforts for Enlighten, Brad has also applied his passion for writing to his work as a novelist and screenwriter. Brad received his BA in Marketing from Michigan State University.
