Spectrum helped brands tell diverse stories. Our world-class team specializes in socially driven, brand content. We partnered with organizations, media outlets and individuals to craft dynamic stories that captivated the imagination of our collective audience in the tens of millions.
With zero capital, catalyzing required a limited scope and a simplistic, focused go-to-market. The first steps were clear: organize top talent and quantify audience reach, define value proposition and sellable product/service, generate creative spec campaigns, pitch, close, deliver. Develop case studies. Rinse and repeat to increase contracts and revenue.
By instantly securing new business at higher contract values, we were able to broaden and deepen the talent network, partner with large communities of global creators, and attract larger clients.
From day one, we tapped into the communities that are currently thriving, relationally driven, and highly collaborative. Existing networks have self-organized and typically use platform tools to create ecosystems that mutually benefit the participants — bad actors opt or self-select out. Therefore, the focus was to serve those groups with advice, counsel, new business opportunities, weekend retreats, and more.
Originated a growing pipeline of clients while continuing to nurture talent in order to cultivate the network which in turns rapidly expands the total audience and reach — critical for brands and campaign success.
Aundre Larrow
Director & Photographer
Recent Adobe Creative Resident
Developed a robust client list, collaborating with some of the largest brands and agencies in the world. Secured new business opportunities for the talent network and communities.
Out of the gate, consistently increased (5-10x) contract value for talent above their typical opportunity which drove rapid revenue growth within the first six months of standing up the network.
Established global network of creative talent and integrated partnerships with two successful creative communities. Weekly reach easily surpassed 50+ million.
Spectrum was a collaborative group of talented, ethnically diverse photographers, content creators and influencers that are acutely in tune with the large audience we are cultivating. By working with our team, companies and agencies were able to gain a broad perspective on their brands that ultimately communicates a more realistic story that accurately reflects our world.
Brand creation with a focus on highlighting the talent, their creative work and content; development of all messaging and copywriting, site design and development, pitch and campaign creation, etc.
Driving force of go-to-market strategy, business development and sales, etc. Pipeline creation and new business development; implementation of management tools.
All aspects of the project lifecycle administration: contract and scope negotiation, billing, budget development, project management, reporting and analysis, recap presentations for brands and agencies, etc.
Walt Whitman
Author
Every individual is truly unique with a valuable perspective, yet one’s talent is broader than the ability to execute their craft. Today, these types of creatives are more akin to independent media companies than simply a photographer.
While high quality creative is critically important, talent must also have the capacity for problem solving, growing their network, managing their audience and community, and most importantly own the ambition of developing their overall personal and professional goals as a business. The individuals that understand this multiplicity are the accelerators — the interpreters of the emergent trends and action the opportunities.
Teamwork makes the dream work. And while the network of talent and core team were all exceptional and excellent individuals, we were too broadly distributed. Each individual had their own, very unique set of incentives and goals: creative development, transitioning out of a full time job, more revenue, bigger projects, more collaboration, traveling more, less administration, etc. etc. Across the network, these competing priorities certainly hindered the pace of growth simply because I could not transition to scale.
Simply wearing too many hats: creative campaign and pitch development, all new business development and sales, contracting and scoping, billing and administration, researching visa requirements, project management, reporting and analysis, and much more. Given the divergent work activities, the transition to scale was consistently deprioritized.
The culmination of two years and 20,000+ miles on the road, where we connected with the individuals shaping our collective future: visionary entrepreneurs and investors, design futurists, prophet artists, change agents — the dreamers and the doers.
