Semiosis Communications
Semiosis Communications is a Portland, Oregon-based sustainable marketing consultancy that helps socially responsible businesses empower people, restore the planet, and achieve prosperity.
Vision
All marketing is sustainable.
Mission
Semiosis Communications helps socially responsible businesses empower people, restore the planet, and achieve prosperity through strategic and sustainable marketing services.
- Service roster
- Client list and testimonials
- Peter Korchnak, Founder and Principal
What makes us different?
- Results. Our sustainable marketing services aim to empower you and your stakeholders, restore the planet, and achieve prosperity for you and your community. Your goals are our goals. And we guarantee your satisfaction.
- Approach. To achieve your triple bottom line objectives, we work in the triple bottom line way. Our services are always customized to suit your goals, objectives, needs and requirements.
- Relationships. We’ll help you cultivate relationships and partnerships, build alliances and coalitions, and foster networks and connections with and among your stakeholders. We’ll become a part of your community, as you will of ours.
- Empowerment. We will guide you through the process of developing and implementing your strategy, using resources and information already available in your organization to ensure optimal resource allocation. You will directly experience and be actively involved in the process and delivery of the service. The more you do and learn yourself, the more you’ll be able to do in-house next time.
How much does it cost?
Every business is unique , with different needs, interests, preferences, and challenges. Our prices reflect this understanding. Most work is done on an hourly basis and packaged per project, which allows us to customize the service specifically to your needs and which enables you to control the pace of the project and of your investment.
Satisfaction guarantee
No matter what the final price for your project, in the unlikely event you are unhappy or dissatisfied with our work or results, you are free to adjust the bill to whatever you believe the service was worth.
The only question we’ll ask: What can we do better next time?
Affiliations
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What’s the story, morning glory?
Why Semiosis Communications? Why sustainable marketing consulting, writing, or speaking? It’s all a culmination of my experience and thinking.
As an undergrad at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, I was drawn to the idea of companies discovering people’s needs and making products to satisfy them. I came believe in the power of business to shape human affairs in a positive and constructive way. I also saw, however, that marketing encourages mindless consumption, creating and developing people’s needs to feed them stuff they don’t need.
If our lives are shaped by a single formative event, mine was the fall of the Berlin Wall and state socialism in the Eastern Bloc. I realized state socialism fails to fulfill human potential. But as unfettered capitalism flooded the void and I learned more about its consequences, I also realized this other extreme can be just as damaging.
There had to be another way. Then I discovered sustainability – the triple bottom line offered a neat solution to all my concerns! A business that takes into account not only its financial bottom line, but also its impacts on community and the environment is a business I want to build and help others build.
Throughout my career, I worked for a multinational corporation, a small business, a government agency, a nonprofit, and, as a graduate student, in academia. Maybe I have a problem with authority (blame communism), maybe I’m unable to adapt; whatever the reason, starting and building my own business turned out to be the solution to my perpetual dissatisfaction with every organization I’ve worked for. I want to build a company I’d want to work for.
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