Packaging design agency offering displays, labels, boxes, POS, retail promotional, specialty packaging & printing by Packagingarts

Packagingarts is  a creative and marketing production agency that offers brand development and strategy, design and manufacturing, retail displays, labels, print, customized packaging, custom promotional products, fabric banners, eco-friendly manufacturing, rigid containers, shrink labels, brochures, wood boxes, point of sale. 

About Packagingarts

Packagingarts started from printing and production management. Today, they have partners with many global resources, continuing to deliver high-end products to the marketplace.

The Company’s design capabilities extend across a variety of disciplines including: brand strategy and identity, packaging and retail merchandising, print collateral and online interactive media.
They believe that the product they offer is a truly special model and are successful because of the experiences that they deliver.

Approach

Packagingarts is an integrated team of designers, printing, packaging and structural specialists. 

The team has three simple goals: 

  • First, create and produce works that connect brands with consumers.
• Second, build and extend a brand’s vision through innovation and inspiration.
• Third, to simply be the best, always delivering on the promise they make with the clients.

Our People

The packagingarts team is comprised of individuals who add value through creativity and innovation and whose experiences cover a broad range of disciplines.

They are a team of comprised individuals who add value through creativity and innovation and whose experiences cover a broad range of disciplines.

The versatility and talent are they company’s strongest assets. At Packagingarts, they allow people to achieve their best – because it’s the best to satisfy the clients, please consumers, and deliver innovation and excellence.

Design Services

Packagingarts has always had two main goals: 

• First, provide clients with strategic design solutions that meet marketing/brand objectives
• Second to deliver quality, value and great service.

Design services include:
•         Brand development & identity
•         Product & label design
•         Packaging design
•         Retail promotions
•         Point-of-sale
•         Collateral
•         Environmental graphics/signing systems

Packing Services

Packagingarts is committed to deliver results. From designing and producing award-winning custom packaging to straight-forward brand extensions, they have the experienced team to make it happen.  They create solutions and efficiencies that deliver value and do not compromise quality for budget. They guarantee to deliver excellence.
On-pack promotions
Gift boxes
Specialty packaging
Wooden cases
Shippers & displays
Labels

Structural Services

Packagingarts also assume the competitor’s products have basically the same technologies and pricing. Design and function are what differentiates one product from another in the marketplace. The goal at packaging arts is to maximize a brand’s vision and create impact on the retail floor through our understanding of the marketplace.
Promotional displays
Retail fixtures
Wooden racks
Corrugated displays
Trade show

Production Services

Production, project management and printing of labels and boxes are where Packagingarts started as a company. Today the changing needs of the marketplace require innovation and technical solutions. They have been able to meet these changes through the expertise and experience of our team. Packagingarts has earned a reputation of providing quality products, relationships and experiences and is one of the most respected production and design groups in the industry.
Print management
Production management
Sourcing & pricing
Fulfillment

Branding Services

At packagingarts, helps the clients build successful new brands in emerging product categories as well as assist them in revitalizing and extending their existing brands. The team is consistently produces effective design solutions to connect emotionally with consumers and build brand equity.
brand assessment/research
brand positioningbrand engagement
naming
product development

For packaging design and brand development solutions call Packagingarts at 707-562-2787. Visit  www.packagingarts.com/.              

The Emerging Status of Nonprofits And the Bystander Effect

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was returning home from work as a bar manager in New York. She parked her car and walked towards her apartment, just a 100 feet away. Suddenly she heard footsteps racing behind her. Before she could react, the assailant stabbed her twice. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she cried for help; repeatedly. No one came.  She died two hours later.

As investigators and reporters began piecing the story together, they were shocked by the lack of citizen intervention. At least two dozen people heard the screams over a 30-minute time span. Politicians, psychologists and clergymen were outraged, calling it another example of our apathetic social decay.

But two psychologists weren’t so sure. They wanted to know why Kitty was offered no help. Over the course of the next year, they conducted a series of experiments in crowded and private situations to understand what triggers and doesn’t trigger a response from bystanders. Here’s what they discovered:
Crowds behave like schools of fish – they group think. If there are no reactions to a stimulus, no one in the crowd will act. They found that “no one wants to stands out in a crowd.” This was proven time and time again as experiments were conducted on busy New York streets.

But as they tweaked their experiments, they finally discovered the answer and what instigates a reaction.
In today’s version of the “bystander effect,” one of our most precious socially important industries continue to pattern their future in the same methods as the past. As funds continue to dry up, many nonprofit agencies continue to seek financial help by using a single method of revenue generation: writing grants.

In comparison, a growing legion of innovative nonprofits across the globe are building “social enterprises,” and generating income through their own sales and services. One important result of this type of income is that grant-makers are more inclined to approve funds to organizations that are proving their ability to diversify their resources and gain greater self-sufficiency.

So in collaboration between Renaissance Marin and the Marin Community Foundation, we’re launching our best effort to break the bystander effect. Open to the first 20 nonprofits, this is an opportunity for agencies to learn the methods for building their own social enterprises. Think about the alternative: stay steady on your current course and watch your grant dollars diminish. The cost is also exceptionally affordable with some tuitions at $100 - less than seven percent of a popular national training program.

This is the one and only time we’ll be offering this training in 2013. The program is tailored made for nonprofits with little or no experience with business modeling. Not only will you learn all the essentials, you’ll have an opportunity to pitch your concepts to a panel of well accomplished business and social entrepreneurs. For ten groups that finish this two-month program, personal consultation will be provide to help you take your concepts to reality.

In addition, the workshops have been developed to respect your busy schedule. We’ll be meeting once every Thursday morning for three hours during the eight-week program starting January 31.

To get all the information, we urge you to attend the upcoming orientation on Thursday, Dec. 13; 10am at Renaissance Marin, 1115 3^rd Street, San Rafael.

This program is specific to nonprofit agencies in Marin County and highly recommended for organizations receiving their funding through MCF.

For reservations to the orientation, please call us at 415.755.1115.

If you find yourself among of sea of bystanders unwilling to help you, what the researchers found was to target a single individual, get in front and make a plea. They found that tactic was the most effective way to gain help because a single individual when alerted stops group-think and becomes personally responsible. 

North Bay Bohemian Best of 2013 Readers Poll (Marin)

Survey ends January 11 at 05:30 PM.

Once a year, it’s your turn to vote! Vote in the Bohemian Best of the North Bay Readers Poll.

The Survey runs between now and Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. 

Keep in mind that any big-box corporate entities will be tossed out in favor of our prized independents; we’re all about supporting local businesses and people. Sit down with the ballot and vote for your favorites today!

Take the Survey!  

http://posting.bohemian.com/northbay/Survey 

This survey consists of 168 questions. You must answer at least 50 questions in order for your answers to be counted.

RenCenter event: Increasing Revenues for Your Nonprofit

Renaissance Marin will conduct an orientation on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 10 am for nonprofit agencies who need to supplement their existing revenues by creating a social enterprise.

This program comes through the sponsorship of the Marin Community Foundation which saw a need to help many of its own grantees to diversify their revenues streams.  Renaissance Marin will be launching this workshop on January 31 to the first 20 organizations that sign up and pay the low-cost tuition, based on a sliding scale.

The workshop will provide:  

* Classroom instruction

* Real-world practices

* One-on-one assistance and 

* An opportunity to pitch your concepts to a panel of  experts.  

If you've explored taking a workshop on this very subject, you know the costs are upwards of $1500.

In this workshop, the tuition costs: 

Annual Revenue                                  Tuition

to $100,000                                           $100

$101,000 to $250,000                             $200

$251,000 to $500,000                             $300

$501,000 to $1,000,000                          $400

Over $1,000,000                                     $500

The training will take place at the Renaissance Center Marin in San Rafael. It will run three hours per session, once a week on Thursdays at 10am for eight weeks. Following the class sessions, a number of hours have been reserved to provide one-on-one assistance to individual agencies to help them launch their enterprises.

So, if your agency has been searching for new ways to generate revenue, we urge you to attend this orientation, meet the staff and the main instructor. We'll give you the full picture about the program because we all know that many nonprofits continue to operate at less-than adequate financial levels.

Please RSVP to reserve your seat by calling 415.755.1115. Please note: this workshop is for Marin County Nonprofit Agencies only.  

Renaissance Marin

1115 Third Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 348-6300

http://rencentermarin.org/

Kahl Consultants just completed a website redesign for Groundswell Marketing of San Rafael, CA.

The former Groundswell website was built in flash. Unfortunately flash is not supported by Apple mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads. 

The Groundswell site was therefore converted to a mobile ready Wordpress CMS (content management system) site. It uses a responsive design to adapt to mobile devices and various monitor sizes. 

Groundswell offer clients around the world marketing and event planning services including:

• Marketing Program Management
• Conference Planning
• Event & Tradeshow Marketing
• Customer and Press Events
• Sustainable Events
• Sustainability Marketing

To see the new Groundswell site visit them online at:
http://www.groundswellmktg.com

Joanna Intara Zim is a Licensed Psychotherapist (MFT 38453, Life Coach and Spiritual Teacher and Guide in the Sonoma and San Francisco Bay Area.

Joanna offers psychotherapy and guidance to people from the Bay Area, Marin, and Sonoma County areas, and coaching and consulting in those areas and beyond. She is dedicated to continue her training, education, collaboration, and consultation for further growth and continuously deepen and mature her skills.

Joanna offers individuals and groups assistance with personal growth, teaches the need to come together as community, to listen to one another, and to work together to address the larger picture of integral planetary healing. She also offers consultation services for MFT Trainees and Interns, in addition to practice building consultation services for people in psychology and related professions. She is committed to continued development of these professional endeavors.

Her work speaks in this way as well…

“In the hushed hours of the night, an old, familiar whisper sighs…something isn’t working.  Can you continue to smother the voice that is calling you to all that is real, all that is unlived, unloved, and all that is missing from your waking life?  For many people each day is a struggle, a compromise and a resignation.  They are just waiting to live.  They dream of the other shore where life truly begins. Guiding people to cross over to the other side is my life calling.

I show people how to break lifelong patterns once and for all, so they can end a lifetime of silent suffering.  They are finally free to fully express the peace and aliveness that is waiting to pour out of them.  It really matters to me that you can learn to be truly happy and not fake happy. Together we can walk through the matrix of the unnatural shadow self you have long carried, and release the life force to create the true desires of your soul. 

When you reach that real place inside yourself, your instincts are naturally restored and your life begins to flow. You no longer experience burnout, emptiness, or unnecessary separations that cause humans pain.

When you are living from your genuine self there is a native relaxation.  Life, love, and work spring from a natural internal state of rest. So do joy, creativity and play.

I am here to walk beside you, as your authentic self emerges and you begin to live in the simplicity of your being. I offer you a heart that truly cares and a keenly intuitive perception to witness the gifts awakening inside of you.

Psychotherapy Practices

Adult Therapy - Couples Therapy - Teen Therapy - Group Therapy - Trauma Therapy

Common Issues that often lead people into therapy/counseling

Abuse Recovery (Physical, Emotional, Mental, Sexual, and Neglect) - Multi-Generational Trauma & Recovery – Difficult Childhoods - Family of Origin Issues - Releasing & Resolving Shame and Guilt

Anxiety – Panic – Terror / Depression including Grief & Loss Issues (including pet loss)

Anger, Rage – Power & Domination Issues

Creativity – Artist Challenges

Couples Issues –  Relationship – Interpersonal Conflicts/Challenges  -  Divorce – Separation Codependency Issues

Eating Disorders – Body Image – Body Detox Effects

Money Issues – Wealth & Inheritance Issues – Compulsive Spending Problems

Multi-Cultural – Immigrant Issues

Parenting Your Teenager –  Separation – Individuation Issues - Gifted Adults/Teens Work Issues – Stress management – Professional Job Burnout – Job Loss - Entrepreneurs

SPIRITUAL WORK

Sacred Prayer

Yoga & Meditation

Spiritual Inquiry

Earth Wisdom

Sacred Feminine

MENTORSHIP & COACHING

Coaching

Coaching is different from psychotherapy or spiritual guidance work in that the process focuses on the development of a new vision of your overall mission in work, personal or other area of life, via the development of specific tasks and goals, and a pragmatic, simple and clear approach to accomplishing and manifesting them within a very specific period of time. Whereas therapy focuses on the underlying feelings, motivations, and underpinnings within any situation, coaching does not delve into these areas, but instead goes directly into the work, action, and movement that is required to move from point A to point B and to embody that work effectively and clearly.

I offer the coaching packages below to suit your individual needs. Choose one and begin to embody your authentic life or business spirit, occupational destiny calling and mission now. If you have tried this before and struggled, please come, and begin again today.  Supervision and Consultation for MFT Interns and Licensed Individual.  Trainings Offered For MFT Interns and Agencies.

In addition to supervision, consultation and practice building services, Joanna is also available to counseling centers and training facilities to provide trainings. Her training style is warm, interactive, and multi-dimensional. Also she is sensitive to the needs and vulnerabilities of new trainees and interns. Training offers:

•         Developing Presence as a New Practitioner

•         Beginning To Work With Countertransference

•         Clinical Issues at The End of Therapy

For Psychotherapy, Spiritual Guidance, or Coaching services, please call Joanna Intara Zim at 415 923 0481. Visit http://joannaintarazim.com/