Chris Do of The Futur sponsors the Hey 2025! Planners

Launch of Hey 2025! Planners in aid of the Samaritans in Fishers of Newtownmountkennedy with Stephen Browne of Glenhaven Foods in Arklow

My logo means a lot to me personally.
Sidenote: it took a long time to design an identity for myself – I’m a tough client to work with!

It's true, networking can have a bit of a bad name from being tarred with the men-in-suits style of high-powered wheeling dealing. Meetings before breakfast, the pressure for referrals, the same pitches week in, week out...

A very useful exercise to assess the consistency across the various branding elements in your business.

Tool or Thief? by Mary Fleming Design

We never have the full picture. So comparing ourselves to others simply doesn't make sense. This is true for our branding journeys as well.

Goals by Mary Fleming Design

Having an accountability buddy can help us get things done and you can also help them achieve their goals, win-win!

Brand cake by Mary Fleming Design

It is easy to think that creating a logo is all you need to do to build a brand.

Shout-out to the wonderful Network Ireland, a non-profit, voluntary organisation, with over 1,000 members and seventeen branches around Ireland.

The Guinness brand and its marketing mix. These two terms are often used interchangeably so it’s no wonder people are confused about the distinction.

"That’s a stupid question!" Ouch!! 😬

The obvious is often not so obvious. By having the courage to ask "stupid questions" we can make progress, improve processes and it's where insights can come from. This is how design thinking works.

We are being fed more and more of what we ‘like’. Algorithms work towards keeping you on social media platforms as long as possible by feeding you even more of the content that you’ve already demonstrated that you like!

In the Significant Object Project

experiment, the full spend was $250. Nothing was done to improve or change any of these items and yet they somehow reached $8,000 in sales!

What is your most vivid memory of the Leaving Cert? Thankfully, it's not as monumentally important as we believed. My GP told me she didn’t even do the Leaving Cert - I don’t know how she escaped!

The Happy Pear in Co Wicklow made their location very inviting, even during Covid, through the use of bright colours, friendly staff, and a consistent brand feeling between the physical location and the product range.

Rainbow along Bray seafront by Mary Fleming Design

Make business more personal!

The hidden cost of remote working

Welcome to the newest, freshest networking kid on the block!

Jean Evans – Networking Architect - launching her brand new business referral network, Ignite Business Network today. Jean is a lot of things but I like to think of her as the big ‘networking nerd’!

You have one wild and precious life (and one personal brand!)