Kelly Austin
I'm the owner and founder of Kelly's Creative, which I started in 2022 after spending over 17 years in marketing. I made the transition from the corporate world to help small businesses grow with my expertise in graphic design, strategy, video editing, website design, instructional design, and creating courses to help businesses become seen in the digital world. We help businesses move from hoping to grow to building the structure, visibility, and expanding strategically. We're not just building your branding - your logo, colors, or website - we're growing with you through the years of your business, creating various strategically sound marketing items, whether that be social media, email campaigns, ads, or presentations. We're that key marketing partner to help you deliver and execute the things of being in business focused on growth, branding, and profit margins. Our services are very dynamic and include website optimization with keywords and SEO, being found in search engines and AI engines, streamlining onboarding processes, course creation, email campaigns, and social media. We tend to be trailblazers, keeping you abreast of the new technology coming into the market. I very much embrace AI and use different AI platforms to create images, B-roll, and courses, which has allowed us to make our prices cheaper and bring down costs that used to require entire teams. My goal is to be known in the local Chicago area as the go-to boutique marketing agency and to bridge across the United States and maybe even into Europe, offering digital marketing services.
• Women Belong
What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to being an avid learner, honestly. I'm learning all the time and enjoying that. I also enjoy being with like-minded people and surrounding myself with entrepreneurs that have that growth mindset. Those two items kind of interchangeably have driven my success. It's a part of what I do for fun - I love being on the cutting edge, diving in and testing out several different AI platforms and seeing what each one says. I find a lot of my time is actually kind of learning, whether it's through AI, through YouTube, Reddit, whatever. I'm a nerd at heart.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Be patient, and be consistent, and keep going. Keep going.