Speaking
Need a keynote speaker in marketing or entrepreneurship?
Sponsorship Areas: Southern California
Are you struggling to take your business to the next level? Marketing expert Laurel Mintz has the proven marketing methods and passion you need to elevate your brand, attract new customers and increase your visibility.
Her company, Elevate My Brand, has worked with some of the top brands in the world to elevate their finance, food, retail, law and service brands globally. Laurel's energetic presentation gives you the keys you need to expand your vision and implement new strategies that take your company or product to the next level. You'll learn how to create dynamic collateral, attract corporate sponsor dollars, stage stunning live events, and harness the powerful world of social media to expand your online presence.
"The most important thing about what I do is help business owners understand what marketing is and how it's crucial to their business success."
— Laurel Mintz
Keynote presentations
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, consumer product brands
The term marketing is a broad and amorphous term covering everything from PR to advertising to branding, and everything in between, and everyone thinks they’re an expert. Learn how to cut through the clutter and develop a core marketing plan that won’t just collect dust on your shelf.
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, consumer product brands
The world of corporate sponsorship is a long, challenging road, one that most people don’t understand. Learn how to develop a corporate sponsorship deck, a wish list, and a plan of attack to develop long-term corporate partnerships and mitigate marketing costs for your brand.
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, consumer product brands
Most entrepreneurs/start-ups are just eking by, watching every penny and wondering why they aren’t growing. Learn how to take the right steps for your business, both legally and through marketing.
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, consumer product brands
Events are always a scary thing. Will anyone show up? Will we make any money? Learn how to guarantee a successful event, both in turn-out and revenues, and breathe a sigh of relief when you start seeing ticket sales roll in!
Best fit audience: startup founders looking for funding
Laurel Mintz also runs ESG fund, Fabric VC, and has vetted hundreds of startups based on their financials and marketing potential. Learn how to market your startup for success and catch the eyes of venture capitalists.
Best fit audience: startup founders looking for funding
Investors look at thousands of pitch decks. So, how do you stand out? Learn how to present yourself and your idea with a pitch deck that wows investors.
Best fit audience: new and seasoned VC investors
Your investment portfolio may be diverse in terms of sectors or assets. But are you funding diverse founders and ideas? Learn how your money can impact social and environmental crises and make larger returns at the same time.
We offer presentations in the following formats. Laurel is also available as a panel guest or moderator.
Breakouts
Keynotes
Trainings
Webinars
Seminars (half day or full)
What people are saying
"You delivered a great presentation, so full of knowledge, zest and vigor. Thank you so much! During and following the meeting, I was enthusiastically shouting across my hallway to my wife and business partner, 'You’ve got to hear this! It’s great!' I’ve attended dozens of webinars trying to understand how to unpack the marketing + fundraising puzzle for my startup, none have so clearly and cohesively explained how to win as yours."
Anonymous
Entrepreneur
"Elevate My Brand has served as a catalyst in the growth of my accounting firm over the past several years. And when it was time to re-brand due to a partnership split, EMB seamlessly transitioned my firm to its new brand. Laurel Mintz has built so much more than a branding firm with EMB… She is my executive coach, event planner, creative thinker and branding expert all rolled into one. EMB is an integral part of my team and I highly recommend making them a part of yours."
Adam Jones
CEO, Jones & Associates
"I wanted to thank you all for the incredible event! We were blown away by it all. The decor, entertainment, food and service. It was all so wonderful and we have heard from everyone that this was a really special and unique event. Thank you and your whole team for your work, diligence, and the quality of the production. Yay team!"
Sabrina Merage
Principal, Echo Capital Group
"From the first press kit to the launch of our first location to all the rest, I’d like to thank the Elevate My Brand team for all their hard work and passion for the project as they helped us build our own brand from scratch. It was such a pleasure to work with their bright and thoughtful team, and I’d highly recommend them to anyone else looking to 'elevate' their brand."
Tobias Miller
Co-Founder, Brätworks
"It is with great pleasure, and a debt of gratitude, that I recommend Laurel Mintz and her team at Elevate My Brand. When Laurel and her team signed on to my vision to create a massive, county wide innovation celebration, no one knew that it would grow to encompass 160 events over 22 days. EMB's excellence and dedication were instrumental in creating the juggernaut that is Innovate.LA. Through their digital marketing strategy and leadership we were able to achieve a staggering 43K hashtags used and 120 million total impressions for #LAIW2015.”
Chris Rico
Innovation Director, LAEDC
“We engaged Laurel Mintz and Elevate My Brand to help launch our new fundraiser in Los Angeles in August 2015. In short order, Laurel just 'got us;' it felt like we had been working together for years. She always came through, over-delivered, was thoroughly professional, advocated for us with partners or vendors if ever needed and was just plain fun to work with. I couldn’t recommend her or her company more.”
Matt Feldman
Senior Director of Marketing, Prevent Child Abuse America
"Thank you for helping us plan our 50th Anniversary gala! You were not only extremely helpful during the pre-planning stages, but also incredible with on-site coordination. Your attention to every detail was top notch. By all accounts, it was a highly successful event and we couldn’t have done it without you!"
Cindy Burton
President/CEO, PathPoint
"A year ago we were a small company, with a better mouse trap, competing against giants. EMB helped us build the brand we needed to compete at the top levels. With their help we’ve doubled in size and are poised to double again."
Rob Kent
CEO, O2 Concepts
"Elevate My Brand did more than manifest their name into reality for me, they created a family in which I felt comfortable to grow as an entrepreneur, and also share the labor of conceiving my idea into reality. My company, Standing Light, is the deepest expression of myself, it came to life through my personal trials and errors, so it went beyond just an idea, it was something deeply personal, like my own child. EMB - Laurel and her incredible team - helped me raise this child into a full fledged expression that is on its way to function by its own, and where I feel safe to let it spread its wings."
Leyla Salvadé
Founder & CEO, Standing Light
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