Category: Kansas City

Your Brand’s Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19): How Essential & Non-Essential Businesses Should Be Marketing Themselves Right Now

Posted in Strategy on April 13, 2020 by JLSA

The JLSA team working from home

If you’re a business owner or brand manager during this time, marketing, next to licking your neighbor’s door handle, may be the last thing on your mind. But it shouldn’t be. Countless studies show businesses that continue or even increase ad spend during a recession have a huge advantage. Plus, people are still spending money, just in different ways.

Here in Kansas City, a “Stay at Home” order was enacted on March 24th, leaving many businesses to wonder how to operate and what to do. Yes, everything sucks everywhere, but it doesn’t have to be bad for your brand long-term. READ MORE →

Proud Partner of Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences

Posted in News on October 26, 2018 by JLSA

JLSA KCU Logos on Purple Background

We’ve got some exciting news—we recently started a partnership with Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences (KCU for short) to serve as an extension of their marketing and communications team. READ MORE →

Cause-Related Marketing for Kansas City Community Development

Posted in Strategy on October 11, 2018 by JLSA

We LOVE getting to do projects for Kansas City (have you seen our work for the KC Streetcar yet?). So when Central Bank of Kansas City came to us for help on a cause-related marketing campaign that funds community development, we couldn’t wait to get started. READ MORE →

Branding Phil Glynn for Kansas City’s Next Mayor

Posted in Strategy on September 21, 2018 by JLSA

When Phil Glynn first approached us for branding his Kansas City mayoral campaign, he was seen as the dark horse candidate in a hotly contested race that includes Quinton Lucas and recently Jason Kander.

Posted in Strategy on July 19, 2018 by JLSA

Wildwood Booklet Design Illustrations - Johnny Lightning Strikes Again

Since a summer camp should be fun, its brochure should obviously look fun too. If it doesn’t, it just doesn’t work. That’s why we made sure that Wildwood, a classic Kansas City summer camp and outdoor education center, got not just a mind-blowing brochure—they got a whole booklet.

Posted in Strategy on June 19, 2018 by JLSA

Media Planning for the Greenhouse Industry - Johnny Lightning Strikes Again

We recently had the pleasure of planning and implementing a whole year’s worth of marketing for Stuppy Greenhouse, a Kansas City-based greenhouse and aquaponics system designer and manufacturer who develops solutions for commercial growers and educators across the country.

Posted in Strategy on May 29, 2018 by JLSA

Christopher Elbow Chocolates Digital Consultation & Marketing Web Ads Display - Johnny Lightning Strikes Again

Everyone in Kansas City knows Christopher Elbow’s Chocolates as the créme de le créme of confections, but the brand wanted to improve traffic to their site through search, so they approached us to see what kind of solutions we could whip up.

Posted in News on July 21, 2015 by JLSA

Johnny Lightning Strikes Again opened for business in 2009 and in 6 short years, we’ve had the privilege of guiding the online brands of some truly iconic Kansas City institutions. These are the projects that keep us awake at night because we love our city and don’t want it to have ugly websites. Save those for St. Louis.

Posted in News on June 4, 2014 by JLSA

KVC Health Systems Website Design Development - Johnny Lightning Strikes Again

The month of May has been a busy one. This month, we marked the end of a phenomenal project by launching a brand new website for KVC Health Systems—a locally-based nonprofit organization that does really great work for kids and families throughout the country.

After closely working with them for more than a year, KVC now has a family of six websites all newly branded with a handmade look and a message that “People Matter.”

Posted in News on March 27, 2014 by JLSA

Kansas City Streetcar Website Design Development - Johnny Lightning Strikes Again

As people who love downtown Kansas City, we believe there’s no more important project for the future of the city than the construction of the streetcar starter line. So when we were selected to design the new kcstreetcar.org, we were both tremendously excited and extremely proud.