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Evolving A Legacy Brand

By Bryan Mann-Entzel, Managing Partner, Creative Lead, Brand Storyteller & Strategist It is a privilege to be trusted to work on a company’s rebrand. It is an even bigger privilege…

5 Tips for Riding out a Changing Market

By: Bryan Mann-Entzel Managing Partner at >Greater Thought Design+Marketing The past year or so has been a bit of a mixed bag for many businesses. We’ve seen the tech industry…

The Thought Behind What We Do (Part 2)

>Greater Thought was highlighted by Voyage Minnesota Magazine It was an honor to be selected for an interview featuring our Creative Lead, Strategist, and Brand Storyteller, Bryan Mann-Entzel. This interview…

The Thought Behind >Greater Thought (Part 1)

By Bryan Mann-Entzel Creative Lead and Strategist at >Greater Thought Design+Marketing As we cross the 3-year mark, we have decided to take a look back at what we’ve built with…

Websites and Referrals

By Mitch Granholm Website and Digital Designer, Strategist at >Greater Thought Design+Marketing Lots of businesses rely on referrals as their primary means of gaining clients. They use their website as…

Telling >Greater Stories

Homestead Honey Farm We love working with brands that align with our mission and vision, and there is no better example of this than our most recent collaboration with Homestead…

Scleroderma Warriors – A Top 15 Blog of 2023!

Congratulations to our client Scleroderma Warriors for cracking the top 15 Scleroderma Blogs of 2023! Scleroderma is rare diseases that involves the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective…

2022 Year in Review

2022 is wrapping up and has us reflecting back on the year. The honest truth is we feel privileged to be able to do what we love for a living.…

Sharpening Dull Edges

By Bryan Mann-Entzel Creative Lead and Strategist at >Greater Thought Design+Marketing Over a glass of wine with friends last night, the topic came up of how we were all feeling…

What is a WHY Statement and what is yours?

By Bryan Mann-Entzel Managing Partner-Strategist & Brand Storyteller Every few months I find myself having a cluster of conversations about DEFINING YOUR WHY STATEMENT with various clients. Your WHY, is…

What is TRUST and where does it come from?

by: Bryan Mann-Entzel, Creative Lead, and Sara Harrell, Insights Strategist at Greater Thought There is an old saying that “Trust is the ultimate human currency, it’s earned in drops and…

How Can We Help?

Watching a show recently, a phrase came out of the lead character’s mouth that resonated with me. Why? Because it is at the core of how we think at Greater…

Opening up the Craft Brew Conversation

By: Bryan Mann-Entzel Creative Lead, Managing Partner Have you ever stopped to wonder why you can’t purchase cans or bottles of beer at a local brewery the same way you…

Color and Website Design

Color is a powerful tool for evoking emotion and establishing your brand identity on your website. This is an add-on topic to Bryan’s article about Finding Color Inspiration

Where To Find Color Inspiration

Color Trend & Inspiration By Bryan Mann-Entzel, Managing Partner, Creative Lead For folks like myself who work in the creative industry, PANTONE® is the go-to expert when it comes to…

Fly Fishing Client Wanted

By Mitch Granholm Greater Thought Managing Partner.  Have you ever loved something so much it hurts? That’s how I feel about fly fishing. Another passion I love has been growing…

Apiary Client Wanted

By Bryan Mann-Entzel Greater Thought Managing Partner.  I have often heard that the best way to get something to happen for yourself is to manifest it. So that is exactly…

We All Need A Little Positivity

By Bryan Mann-Entzel, Greater Thought Creative  Lead, Strategist, and Brand Storyteller Lately, I have found myself having a similar conversation with multiple clients. How do we get people more engaged with…

From Chaos Comes Creativity

By Bryan Mann-Entzel Creative Lead, Strategist and Brand Storyteller at Greater Thought Marketing+Design Out of change, chaos and confusion comes innovation. Necessity is the mother of invention. The notion that…

Celebrate our pollinators!

Ahh June, the start of summer and we are finally able to enjoy getting outdoors. It is also notably National Pollinators Month where we celebrate and recognize the necessity of…

Why Referrals Matter

By Bryan Mann-Entzel Creative Lead, Strategist and Brand Storyteller at Greater Thought Marketing+Design Referrals matter. That is a fairly simple statement but it is also one of the most difficult…

Introducing Eric Warner

Eric Warner is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, music producer, and mix engineer based out of Minneapolis MN. He graduated from McNally Smith College of Music in 2006 and has a degree…

>Greater Respect on the last day of Women’s Month

L-R/T-B: Amelia Earhart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Julia Roberts, Frances Perkins, Sara Super, Betty White, Lucille Ball, Women’s Suffrage demonstrators, Jennifer Aniston, The Van Buren Sisters, Harper Lee, Sheryl Crow, Dolly…

Marketing 101 – We Teach Too

By Bryan Mann-Entzel Creative Lead, Strategist and Brand Storyteller at Greater Thought Marketing+Design Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish…

How Much Does a Website Cost?

By Mitch Granholm Website & Digital Design Lead, Strategist at Greater Thought Design+Marketing One of the first questions people ask when it comes to building a website is: How much…