Who We Are
Based in the magical city of New Orleans, Carrie Williamson and Simon Blake have teamed up to bring their decades of marketing and design experience to wineries from NOLA to NAPA and beyond.
You can expect a high-level of expertise for a fraction of the cost of hiring an in-house marketing team or working with a larger agency.
Our Team
Carrie Williamson
Carrie Williamson acts as a Marketing Director for hire, establishing long-term partnerships with her clients that allow her to devise and execute an ongoing marketing and brand strategy that consistently achieves results. Her expertise across media platforms—digital, print, public relations, social, podcast, video—allows her to assess your overall marketing and branding needs and develop a strategy that best spends time and money. She collaborates with a team of talented and experienced branding, design and website pros to help businesses accomplish their financial goals.
Carrie has been recognized for her marketing talent. Her company CW Marketing won the Event Marketing 2012 Marketing Award of Excellence from the American Marketing Association New Orleans for Jammin’ for Japan, a highly successful fundraiser for the people of Japan who suffered from the catastrophic effects of the earthquake and tsunami.
During her 15 years as the Travel Editor of Leader’s Edge Magazine, an award-winning glossy for the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, she covered all things discerning—hotels, restaurants, wine, spirits and luxury goods. She won the Society of National Association Publications (SNAP) Excel Silver Award for the Feature Article, “Buyer, Holder or Cellar,” an entertaining and informative article about insuring vintage wine collections wrapped around the “Big Wine Caper,” the nickname for the theft of blue chips wines that occurred at the home of a Silicon Valley executive.
WSET Level 1 and WSET Level 2 Awards in Wine
Introduction to Wine Business certificate, Sonoma State University
Simon Blake
Simon Blake is a mixed -media creative whose career spans decades. He began his artistic career in London, England, and works in graphic design, branding, illustration, collage, animation and film. Collage is a serious passion that includes murals, wallpapers and original pieces for private clients, interior designers and noted NYC wallpaper company F. Schumacher & Co. His work is in collections in the USA, Australia and Europe.
Simon has worked and collaborated with numerous production companies, including the BBC, Limelight productions, Chelsea Pictures, Sandwick Films, Duck Studios and Fire on the Bayou - directing commercials and mixed media projects for many Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Heineken. Hershey, Crystal Hot Sauce, Sony, Samsung, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, Chase Bank, Levi Strauss & Co., United Airlines, The Jazz and Heritage Festival, Nestlé, Burger King, Audubon Zoo, Barnes and Noble, Disney, and many others.
His work has been shown at Sundance and Cartoons on the Bay, the international festival for animation that is held annually in Amalfi, Italy. He has garnered two AICP awards that recognize the production and post production of commercials in various media-film, video, digital-for advertisers and agencies. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.