Brand strategist and senior marketing leader inspiring growth and belonging through data-driven marketing, creative leadership, and community-centered campaigns.

Let’s make your next big idea a place where anyone can belong, anywhere.

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Cover Letter

With a career spanning travel, hospitality, startups, and consumer tech, I have built and led high-performing marketing teams at the intersection of brand storytelling, business strategy, and digital transformation.

From launching beloved local hospitality brands and boutique hotels to optimizing dynamic sales funnels for multi-family apartment rental properties, my work delivers measurable growth and community connection. I specialize in designing integrated, data-driven campaigns that turn customer insights into scalable experiences. From promoting destinations, transforming restaurant launches, and creating cross-channel campaigns that encourage community, engagement, and purchases.

My leadership is grounded in collaboration, creativity, and a relentless focus on outcomes that build loyalty and drive business forward, honed through 13 years in the travel, hospitality, and lifestyle industries.​

  • "Wow! Thank you so much Bonnie! We have noticed an uptake in client inquiries so it feels like things are working smoother! Thank you so much!"

  • "We had to turn our ad spend down after the first month while we hire to fulfill the new inquiries coming in!"

  • When I started working with Bonnie, rather than running Google ads internally, my practice immediately saw the impact - we were able to see a 2x return on spend, not to mention the peace of mind, being able to focus on serving my team and my clients.

  • "Our favorite parts of working with Bonnie is the culture of responsiveness, lightheartedness, flexibility, joyful fun interactions, and healthy pushback"t Item

  • "Bonnie has been and is a godsend for us. We are a new company in an industry that needs advisement and guidance. We have received creative and responsive service in regards to our website, our branding, and our social media. Pollinate Marketing has been working with us to achieve our ongoing goals and keeps us focused on the tasks at hand to create the best digital marketing possible."

From Leads to Leases:

Casa Mundi’s ROI Turnaround

  • Casa Mundi set out to increase occupancy and optimize marketing costs at a critical juncture: new developments brought over 1,000 competing units within a two-mile radius, causing lead volume to decline and urgency to rise. Through a blend of stakeholder interviews, CRM audits, competitive research, and persona development, the team established a data-driven strategy to reverse the trend and reclaim visibility in a crowded market.​

    • Built comprehensive tracking to connect cost with results, allowing true channel-level ROI measurement—a foundational step confirmed in high-performing real estate projects.​

    • Redirected ad spend away from underperforming platforms, saving over $15K annually—a common and justifiable outcome when shifting from generalist listing platforms to curated, high-ROI paid media.​

    • Optimized website for conversion, increasing the rate substantially from 2.2% to 3.74%—well above average multifamily website benchmarks (typically 2–3%).​

    • Tracking every stage, from inquiry to lease, with granular attribution—critical for identifying leakage and maximizing conversion efficiency

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Case Studies

Community of Courage:

Creative Campaign to keep a small business open during COVID-19

  • Blue Star Group, known for their standout Colorado Springs restaurants, partnered with me at the height of pandemic shutdowns to address a steep revenue drop and support staff sustainability. The main objective: creatively raise funds to keep operations running and reinforce community bonds during a period marked by uncertainty and complete business disruption. This led to the creation of the “Courage Card” a sub-brand campaign inviting community investment and rewarding supporters with tangible, ongoing perks.​

    • Sales Generated: $16,800–$17,000 in profit attributed to the Courage Card.​

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Work Samples

Party, Play, Perform:

Delivering Results Through Experiential Branding

  • The objective was to launch a vibrant pop up bar experience that addressed a clear local market gap: a fun, outdoor destination centered on social energy and approachable cocktails. Unlike many existing Colorado Springs venues focused on craft and exclusivity, Colorful Colorado positioned itself with playful branding and a “good old fashioned fun” ethos to meet young adults’ demand for an affordable, lively experience. Insights from customer interviews and polls clearly showed a hunger for less formality and more party atmosphere, data the client gathered via their parent company’s text database guided this direction.

    • The pop up opened at 100% capacity for both the VIP night and Grand opening, with robust local engagement and new media/potential partnership opportunities.

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Brand Strategy Document
Marketing Plan
Sales & Customer Service Brand Voice Training

Approach & Tools

My strategic approach emphasizes clarity of vision, integrated planning, and cross-functional collaboration from ideation through execution. Every initiative starts with deep stakeholder alignment, mapping business objectives and customer insights into actionable plans and scalable creative. I guide teams to iterate quickly, synthesize feedback, and stay focused on measurable outcomes, balancing creativity with a data-driven mindset.

Advanced Toolset:

  • Keynote: Craft executive presentations, strategy briefs, and client pitches, translating complex ideas into compelling visual stories for leadership and cross-disciplinary teams (used for campaign launch briefs and major stakeholder updates).

  • Figma: Drive design sprints, build visual assets, and collaborate in real-time with creative, product, and marketing partners (central to campaign design, branding updates, and digital experience prototyping).

  • Analytics Platforms: (Google Analytics, Meta Business Suite, Hotjar, etc.) Monitor campaign performance, optimize funnels, and report ROI, enabling targeted strategy adjustments and clear impact tracking.

  • Project Management: (Asana, Slack, etc.) Streamline team communication, track briefs, deadlines, and feedback for smooth coordination across agencies and in-house teams.

By blending leading-edge tools with a collaborative, iterative process, I deliver marketing solutions that inspire engagement, drive results, and elevate brand experiences.