We Can Fill the Gaps You Need
to Reboot Your Revenue.

MISSION

We’re Here to Help You Succeed in Uncertain Times.

A task force with backbone. Our experts have range for days, from finance to creative to marketing — we bring the A Team to your current business needs. Client expectations have shifted & the demand is real. We offer the outside braintrust & skills to help you create some serious impact.

WHY US?

This Ain't Our
1st Rodeo.

We have the experience to give you the insight & execution you need to succeed. Our experts are not only business owners — we've worked with everything from Fortune 50 to startup brands.

MEET THE TEAM

Our Experts

Our team of savvy business owners & founders have unified to help companies like yours get out of ‘stuck’ or 'overwhelmed' — to reset, & thrive..

TRADEMARK LAW x STRATEGY

Nik
Sallie

Nik has over 18 years experience in marketing and branding, having worked for Virgin records as a marketing rep in Dallas Fort Worth to support artists like Janet Jackson and Lenny Kravitz.

She has over a decade experience in law specializing in intellectual property, specifically trademarks. Nik has also worked at Facebook for almost a decade, first in Intellectual Property Operations and now in sales in the Global Business Group, advising Fortune 500 healthcare companies on their advertising strategy.  On average she manages and generates 8 figures per quarter in advertising revenue.

Additionally, she owns NikSallie.com, a trademark Law Firm supporting six figure women entrepreneurs in building and protecting their businesses so they can manifest their purpose into profits. Nik is also a Master Reiki Healer and was named a 2020 Woman to Watch by Austin Woman Magazine. Connect with Nik on social media @NikSallie

EXPERIENTIAL MARKETING

Jane Claire
Hervey

Jane Hervey is a communications strategist and creative producer based in Austin, Texas. She’s the founder of group work, a boutique studio that helps creative start-ups, arts and entertainment organizations and nonprofits curate compelling experiences, tell stories and create truthful brands online and off. Over the last few years, she has launched a nonprofit, developed festival identities, produced conferences, managed tours, directed photo shoots, created social media personalities and so much more.

She specializes in designing communications strategies and producing events (online and offline) for arts and entertainment organizations, nonprofits and start-ups invested in culture and social good.

Over the years, Jane has worked with a range of people and places—from small businesses and individual artists to projects with Bumble, The Line Hotel, The University of Texas at Austin and Red Bull. In 2015, she founded her own 501c3 nonprofit, bbatx (bossbabes.org), to nurture resources and cultural spaces for women and LGBTQ creatives, community leaders and small business owners in Texas.

Outside of work, she is also involved in different creative communities as a producer and recording artist. Jane likes to lend my time to governmental and NGO coalitions that influence eco-systemic conversations around representation, equity and sustainability in media, tech, business and the arts, too.

Jane’s work has been profiled in publications like Texas Monthly, ADWEEK and Forbes, as well as recognized in the City of Austin’s Women’s Hall of Fame.

OPERATIONS / COO

Christine
Lopez

Christine Lopez founded Blue Chiron with over 25 years of experience in operations, project and production management, workflow design and implementation. She has worked in both agency and in-house environments, managing teams to create integrated campaigns for Mercedes-Benz, Armani Exchange, Absolut Vodka, Verizon, and MillerCoors. Christine believes that a finely tuned workflow produces superior deliverables and maximizes revenue.

CRO x FINANCIAL STRATEGY

Chris
Sica

Chris Sica went to U. Richmond and while earning a degree in Biochemistry, got his start in sales and marketing by building a sales organization that did over 1mm in revenue before graduating.  He then moved to NYC and was the Dir. of Business Development for a fintech startup, Vestorly, that completed it’s series A in 2017.  He then saw an opportunity in the college textbook market and built a textbook wholesaling business with reps in 28 states.  Not well versed in web development, but needing an app, he moved to Austin Texas and with his co-founder, started his idea of the perfect coding school, Austin Coding Academy.  It is the largest coding bootcamp in Texas by students.  He is currently the Chief Revenue Officer for The Ronin Society, a consultancy that helps business owners scale using budgets, forecasting, and weekly strategy sessions.

Go-To-MARKET STRATEGY x CREATIVE

Kana
LiVolsi

Kana LiVolsi is a leader in digital marketing & advocate for the empowerment of minorities and females in business. A featured speaker with General Assembly, The Riveter, Social Media Week, Austin Start-up Week, Guaranteed to Wrinkle, and more, she is a SXSW mentor and has recently been nominated for Austin Business Journal’s 2020 Profiles in Power : Central Texas Women of Influence along with other notable female leaders.

For over a decade, prior to starting Dos Mundos Creative, Kana focused on entertainment media, working in production for companies such as NBC, HBO, Showtime, BBC, Nike and MTV (every department from pre to post/marketing, including a brief stint in stunts) and transitioning into the digital publishing industry creating strategies for publishes and retailers such as Harper-Collins Publishing, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Cox Media, Conde Nast, Google, Apple, Sony and Amazon. A pioneer in the eBook space, her creative campaigns as Marketing Director for BooksOnBoard included work with a wide array of partners from Tyra Banks, to the Daytime Emmys and Nascar, and helped the virtually unknown eCommerce store grow to be the #1 largest independent eBookstore in the world, #3 overall behind Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Kana’s diverse experience has ingrained a deep understanding of brand and creative strategy across consumer markets. This insight provides her with the tools to pivot under high pressure situations and create out-of-the-box opportunities for her clients for more impactful business development opportunities. All of which has allowed her to adapt quickly to meet the needs of Dos Mundos’ high-end clientele — as well as be dangerous in a game of Catan. 

Influencer Consulting

Jane
Ko

Jane Ko is the blogger behind A Taste of Koko, Austin’s top food and travel blog featuring the hottest restaurants and weekend getaways. A Taste of Koko has been voted best local Austin blogger by the Austin Chronicle in 2018 and 2019 and has been featured in O Magazine, InStyle Magazine, OWN TV Network, and The New York Times. 

Koko launched her blog in 2010 and has been doing it full-time since 2015 and has worked with over 300 brands on influencer campaigns like Target, IKEA, Whole Foods, Best Buy, Visit Germany, and more. Tourism destinations include New Mexico, Miami, Michigan, Macau, California, Arkansas, and more.

Shop Koko is her very own line of foodie tees that help support local non-profits in Austin and she also self-published her first book, Koko’s Guide To Austin, a pocket-sized guidebook to Austin that’s sold in 40 locations in Austin.

AUDIO BRANDING x STRATEGY

Tamara
Deike

Tamara Deike has been a fixture in the entertainment space for more than a decade. Cutting her teeth at Om Records, overseeing 200+ releases. A former Vice contributor, booking agent, artist manager, promoter, and DJ. Her career has taken her from managing Rose McGowan during the MeToo movement overseeing her #1 New York Times Bestseller; to event production for Spotify, Facebook, and for artists like Beck, Sheryl Crow, and Cage the Elephant. Today, she resides in Austin, where she is the founder of Aces High – an agency focused on creative, audio branding, and media/event production. “Bring Music Home” is her latest endeavor, a book + podcast featuring 200+ music venues across 30 cities during the pandemic.

INVESTOR STRATEGY x BIZ DEV

Elisa
Sepulveda

Elisa is an experienced operator with specializations in growing early stage businesses and communities. She specializes in business development, go-to-market strategy and fundraising. She currently is growing the Data Board, a private community for Fortune 500 executives working in data strategy. She is also a local Director of Founder Institute Austin, a pre-seed accelerator where she has helped graduate 64 entrepreneurs. Elisa has worked at the intersection of technology, education, policy, and community for the last ten years with IBM, CognitiveScale, Galvanize, and the Riveter. When she isn’t advising startups, Elisa spends her free time with her horse Watson and miniature schnauzer, Lola “Potato”.

SALES ENABLEMENT

Polo
Aristoy

Polo Aristoy began telling brand stories using data as a strategy consultant with Nielsen, and has since held several senior sales and marketing positions in different fields including Telecommunications, Healthcare and Media.

With a foundation in established global organizations like ESPN, DirecTV and Net Jets, he’s more recently focused his efforts in leading and building out brands and the marketing function in early stage companies and currently works at the VP of Marketing for Austin FC. He’s also active in helping non-profits flourish, like he did at Code Platoon, a Coding boot camp that transforms veterans and military spouses into professional software developers.

He excels at crafting the brand essence, from which to build out content and segmentations strategies that lead to effective multi channel campaigns; as well as understanding the principles of sales performance for maximum profitability.

He holds an MBA from Boston College, has lived in 5 countries, and believes the world would be a better place if everyone owned a stamped passport.

  • Brand development
  • Brand positioning
  • Segmentation
  • Content Marketing
  • Sales Enablement

EXECUTIVE COACH

Robin Emmerich, D.PSc.

Robin Emmerich, D.PSc. is trained and certified as an expert in the subconscious mind through world-renowned psychologist, Dr. Coletta Long and ‘Creativity in Business’, the famed Stanford University master’s degree course by Dr. Michael Ray. Robin’s personal journey and professional knowledge led her to develop a unique method to help others discover their true desires and live a fulfilling life. She’s been featured as Inc Media’s first-ever invitee for ‘Ask Me Anything in Health and Wellness,’ Bumble Bizz first-ever Career Coach, and Austin Under 40 Award’s 2019 ‘Mentor of the Year’ finalist and recently launched her new book, “Love the Mess”, which premiered at number one on the Amazon bestseller list on both Death & Grief and Creativity Self-Help.

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Quick-Start
Packages.

LEVEL 01.

High- Level Assessment x Consult

Identify Core Issues x Pathways to Success.

Starting at $5k

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Not quite ready to invest in a team
or full-scale market analysis x strategy?

We have a low-barrier to entry package to help push you out of the rut and provide some guidance to point you in the right direction to navigate a few of the challenges you are facing — taking into account perspective from 2-3 of our expert departments that you need most.Our Level 01. Package provides an accessible way to utilize the experience x knowledge of our experts.

In this package we use your intake form and guided session to identify the root your issues x provide expert perspective on how to fix it from two different departments. We will identify obvious weaknesses x opportunities x provide insight on potential low-hanging fruit as well as big-picture changes to help you work through your existing issues. At the end, our experts will convene to create a comprehensive report based on the information given to identify a DIY path for you to begin to move the needle on the challenges at hand.


TAKEAWAYS

  1. High-Level Risk-Assessment to identify the what is causing the challenges you are facing.
  2. A DIY Solution Pathways Report with both some low-hanging fruit options to stimulate change more immediately as well as big-picture ideas for you to begin implementing over time to help you begin to build a solid growth.
 

PROCESS

  • 90 minute meeting w/ 2-3 of our experts (*assigned depending on issue)
  • Offline experts discussion and  combined report compilation.
  • 30 min meeting presentation of findings w/ personalized take-away report of findings x potential solution pathways.

LEVEL 02.

Assessment x Quick Turnaround Items

Begin to Move the Needle.

Starting at $10k

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Need to start making some changes to loosen blockers,
but don’t have the team to implement?

Our Level 02 package has been crafted to help take you one step further, taking our deliverables and process from Level 01 and creating change with action. In order to maximize the effectiveness of our efforts, for Level 02 we require a minimum of 2 action items from the high-level assessment that do not need the extensive research portion ( which would be part of a Level 03 or Custom package) to begin getting traction.

EXAMPLES OF THESE ACTION ITEMS INCLUDE

  • High-Level Assessment x report of findings
  • Core PR Strategy
  • 1 Time SEO optimization
  • 1 Time Financial Strategy Overview
  • Trademark clearance search
  • Trademark federal application filing
  • Texas LLC filing service
  • 8-session Coaching Package
  • etc.

TAKEAWAYS

  1. High-Level Risk-Assessment to identify the what is causing the challenges you are facing. (Level 01 Package)
  2. A DIY Solution Pathways Report with both some low-hanging fruit options to stimulate change more immediately as well as big-picture ideas for you to begin implementing over time to help you begin to build a solid growth. (Level 01 Package)
  3.  Minimum of 2 Action items from the original assessment. (NEW)
 

PROCESS

  • 90 minute meeting w/ 2-3 of our experts (*assigned depending on issue)
  • Offline experts discussion and  combined report compilation.
  • 30 min meeting presentation of findings w/ personalized take-away report of findings x potential solution pathways.
  • Process will depend on action items identified

LEVEL 03.

Deep-Dive Exploratory Package

Get Your Future-Proofed Strategies.

Existing Brands Starting at $20k New Brands Starting at $30k

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Looking to strengthen your
foundation — now & in the longterm?

In Level 03, we create an in-depth look at your company, industry x evolution to build the roadmap for a strong foundation that withstands foreseeable issues. Through our process we define potential pathways for innovation & potential internal & external pain points to prepare for.


TAKEAWAYS

  1. All Level 01 to address immediate x obvious issues
  2. Analysis of both your Industry x Complementary Industries for opportunities x threats.
  3. SWOT of your company
  4. Brand Covenants
  5. 12-24 month Roadmap of strategic pathways
  6. Other specific items TBD based on your company’s state x needs
 

PROCESS

  • 4-6 Weeks interactive and immersive deep-dive into your company and industry
  • Offline experts discussion and  combined report compilation.
  • Team of experts will be built around finding from our first high level meeting and intake form
  • Presentation of Findings, Brand Covenant x Roadmap of Strategic Pathways

CUSTOM

Enterprise Package

Leverage Our White-Glove Approach.

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Create a clear prediction of your
business future & execute on the most effective
plan for optimizing business objectives
for success.

Book a time to discuss your needs. For maximum effectiveness, custom packages are typically retainers or
Large-Scope Project (min 6-24 months with maintenance packages available for after as needed)

OUR SERVICES

Areas We Offer Assistance

Our Team Was Hand-Picked To Help Best Serve The Business Community With A Variety Of Skills Across Departments To Assure You Have An Effective Custom Plan For Your Business Needs.

OUTBOUND
Digital Marketing
  • Website Development & Design
  • Graphic Design
  • SEO
  • SWOT & Market Analysis
  • Data Analytics
  • Cross-Marketing Strategy
  • Social Media Strategy
  • Video / Photography
  • Digital Advertising
  • Copywriting
  • Partnerships
  • Creative Direction
  • Art Direction
  • Motion Graphics
Legal Consulting
  • Trademark clearance search
  • Trademark federal application filing
  • Texas LLC filing service
  • Deep Dive session/consulting on business plan, project management and/or branding from legal perspective
Financial Strategy
  • Financial Planning
  • Forecasting
  • Budgeting
  • Goal Tracking
  • Capital Raising
Public Relations
  • PR Strategy
  • Brand Partnership (including influencers)
  • Event Support & Coordination
  • Pitch Plan Research & Drafting
  • Content writing & messaging aligning with brand
  • Press release creation & distribution
  • Strategically promote brand to local media outlets
  • Oversee general media outreach, pitching, media relations & communications
  • Coordinate & secure media coverage including newspapers, magazines, online publications
  • Coordinate TV appearances
  • Implement social seeding & influencer marketing tactics
  • Develop unique promotions aligning with brand
  • Coordinate strategic community marketing of events & notable/newsworthy partnerships
Operations / Management
  • Integrated Project Management
  • Executive Production (broadcast, digital, audio, print, experiential)
  • Vendor Selection & Management
  • PM Training & Development
  • Workflow Audit, Recommendations & Deployment
  • Integrated Software Platform Recommendations & Deployment
  • Proposals, Pricing & Scope of Work Development & Counseling
Executive Coaching & Workshops
  • CONSULTING
    Create breakthrough results on a personal or professional challenge
  • WORKSHOPS
    Empower your team to authentically lead their best lives
    Boost morale and productivity
    Shift your team’s mindset to increase revenue
    Create healthy communication and culture
    Decrease stress and cultivate work/life balance
Media Production
  • Podcast Production
  • Video Production
  • Motion Graphics
  • Brand / Commercial Photography
Events & Community
  • Talent curation & management for virtual events, concerts (musicians, performing artists, etc.)
  • Talent/casting for content-related & digital campaigns (like artists, small business owners & other identity verticals)
  • Community engagement development (connecting company to appropriate nonprofit & managing charity relationship; ensuring charity relationship has a storytelling & content-related, marketing component)
  • Transitioning physical experiences into virtual experiences
  • Event Planning & Production
  • Pivot to Virtual Event
  • Event Programming & Speaker / Talent Curation
  • Sponsorship & Sponsor Event Integration
  • Event Marketing
  • Volunteer Best Practices & Volunteer Management
  • Event Communications Strategy
Audio Branding
  • Podcast Production
  • Video Production
  • Motion Graphics
  • Brand / Commercial Photography
Influencer Marketing
  • Influencer marketing
  • Social media strategy
  • Blogger relations

OUR SERVICES

Areas We Offer Assistance

Our Team Was Hand-Picked To Help Best Serve The Business Community With A Variety Of Skills Across Departments To Assure You Have An Effective Custom Plan For Your Business Needs.

Digital Marketing

  • Website Development & Design
  • Graphic Design
  • SEO
  • SWOT & Market Analysis
  • Data Analytics
  • Cross-Marketing Strategy
  • Social Media Strategy
  • Video / Photography
  • Digital Advertising
  • Copywriting
  • Partnerships
  • Creative Direction
  • Art Direction
  • Motion Graphics

Financial Strategy

  • Financial Planning
  • Forecasting
  • Budgeting
  • Goal Tracking
  • Capital Raising

Operations / Management

  • Integrated Project Management
  • Executive Production (broadcast, digital, audio, print, experiential)
  • Vendor Selection & Management
  • PM Training & Development
  • Workflow Audit, Recommendations & Deployment
  • Integrated Software Platform Recommendations & Deployment
  • Proposals, Pricing & Scope of Work Development & Counseling

Media Production

  • Podcast Production
  • Video Production
  • Motion Graphics
  • Brand / Commercial Photography

Audio
Branding

  • Audio Branding
  • Sound Design
  • Sonic Branding
  • Podcast Production
  • Original Audio Production

Legal
Consulting

  • Trademark clearance search
  • Trademark federal application filing
  • Texas LLC filing service
  • Deep Dive session/consulting on business plan, project management and/or branding from legal perspective

Public
Relations

  • PR Strategy
  • Brand Partnership (including influencers)
  • Event Support & Coordination
  • Pitch Plan Research & Drafting
  • Content writing & messaging aligning with brand
  • Press release creation & distribution
  • Strategically promote brand to local media outlets
  • Oversee general media outreach, pitching, media relations & communications
  • Coordinate & secure media coverage including newspapers, magazines, online publications
  • Coordinate TV appearances
  • Implement social seeding & influencer marketing tactics
  • Develop unique promotions aligning with brand
  • Coordinate strategic community marketing of events & notable/newsworthy partnerships

Executive Coaching & Workshops

  • CONSULTING
    Create breakthrough results on a personal or professional challenge
  • WORKSHOPS
    Empower your team to authentically lead their best lives
    Boost morale and productivity
    Shift your team’s mindset to increase revenue
    Create healthy communication and culture
    Decrease stress and cultivate work/life balance

Events & Community

  • Talent curation & management for virtual events, concerts (musicians, performing artists, etc.)
  • Talent/casting for content-related & digital campaigns (like artists, small business owners & other identity verticals)
  • Community engagement development (connecting company to appropriate nonprofit & managing charity relationship; ensuring charity relationship has a storytelling & content-related, marketing component)
  • Transitioning physical experiences into virtual experiences
  • Event Planning & Production
  • Pivot to Virtual Event
  • Event Programming & Speaker / Talent Curation
  • Sponsorship & Sponsor Event Integration
  • Event Marketing
  • Volunteer Best Practices & Volunteer Management
  • Event Communications Strategy

Influencer Marketing

  • Influencer marketing
  • Social media strategy
  • Blogger relations

Ready to Kickoff?

In Order to Secure a Custom Team, Please Set Up A Free Exploratory Call To See If Your Company is a Good Fit for Our Services.

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