What We Do and Why We Do It

Blueprint Interactive is a full-service marketing firm specializing in digital strategy, targeting, creative, and advertising. We work closely with you to define your goals, incorporate state of the art targeting techniques, develop breakthrough creative and leverage the optimal combination of channels to reach your target audience.

Our campaigns are as varied and unique as the challenges you face. They can be as comprehensive as an issue advocacy campaign to build awareness on a specific issue or an electoral campaign in support of a candidate or ballot initiative. We layer digital or print campaigns with phones, radio and TV as applicable to maximize impact.

Our tactics depend on what’s needed to meet your goals. In all this, our guiding principle remains the same: Our work begins and ends with you.

Strategy

Getting your message out has never been more important, and options never greater. We work with you to define and achieve your goals: who do we need to reach, why will they care, what do we want them to do. 

  • Goals
  • Planning
  • Metrics
  • Analysis

We integrate online with offline tactics for maximum impact.

 Strategy

Creative

At Blueprint, no two sites, tabs, widgets, or banners are ever the same, and each is built with your input every step of the way. 

  • Branding
  • Microsites & Mobile Sites
  • Advertising
  • Print Collateral

 
 
 

 Creative

Targeted Advertising

We believe in testing and learning, continually measuring, revising and adapting to ensure we achieve the optimal results:

  • Banners
  • Pre-roll Video
  • Mobile Ads
  • Search (SEM)
  • IP and Cookie Targeting

 Campaigns

 

What We've Done

From leading the online advertising operations for President Barack Obama's historic election, to working with the National Immigration Forum and National Partnership for Women and Families to grow their activist bases, to the social media strategy for No on Prop 23 in California, our experience is rich and deep, but only tells half the story.

With each campaign, we have tested, learned, and honed our skills, staying ahead of the curve so that our commercial, advocacy, and non-profits clients do too.

Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood

Online ads helped drive Planned Parenthood's slate of endorsed candidates to victory across the country. 


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National Partnership for Women & Families

National Partnership for Women & Families

A multi-channel promotion to drive traffic to a guide for pregnant and parenting teens in California.


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Ami Bera for Congress

Ami Bera for Congress

Online ads for Ami Bera were crucial to his narrow Congressional victory. 


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SEED Foundation

SEED Foundation

A mobile-friendly, responsive site for the new SEED Foundation college-prep public boarding school in Cincinnati. 


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EMILY's List: New York Women Vote

EMILY's List: New York Women Vote

IP targeted banner ads reinforce messaging to target universe and drive Grace Meng to victory. 


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WealthEngine

WealthEngine

Launched a revamped search engine marketing campaign that lowered cost per clicks and generated increased numbers of sales leads.


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Who We Are

Blueprint is comprised of strategists, writers, designers, and developers committed to a simple principle: achieving great things starts with great ideas.

Our backgrounds are diverse and varied - ranging from political communications and analytic marketing to technical innovation and creative expression. Our clients see the benefits of our diversity in everything we do.


Erin Malick Thompson

Erin Thompson, Senior Designer

Erin Malick Thompson is a Senior Designer at Blueprint Interactive, where she guides design strategy and develops creative aesthetic to engage audiences and inspire action.
 
Before coming to Blueprint, Erin worked at agencyQ, an interactive firm where she crafted user experience architecture and design for mobile and web sites and applications. Previously, Erin developed interactive designs at MSHC Partners, helping organizations and candidates inform and engage the public during the 2010 election cycle. She has also worked in the public sector, managing print and web education campaigns for the Federal Trade Commission.

Erin grew up in suburban Philadelphia and moved to DC after graduating from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Science in Family and Community Services. She also is a graduate of Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Arts' Graphic & Web Design program.

Nick Rivers

Nick Rivers, Lead Developer

Nick Rivers is Lead Developer at Blueprint Interactive, a new and social media firm. Nick is a self-motivated web developer who uses his passion for technology to drive success. He manages and maintains the company’s web server, and leads the execution of its websites and applications.

Prior to working at Blueprint, he worked at MSHC Partners leading the company’s development efforts. Always striving to innovate, Nick expanded the firm’s use of social media in websites by implementing creative solutions to increase user interaction while maintaining the performance of these applications. Other projects include online communities, countless websites, and integration of third party software.

Nick received a Bachelor’s of Science from Stevenson University.
 

Amy Gonzalez

Amy Niles Gonzalez, President

Amy Niles Gonzalez is Founder and President of Blueprint, a digital strategy, marketing and design firm. A veteran entrepreneur, interactive strategist and management consultant, Amy works with numerous clients on issue advocacy and digital campaigns that leverage data and modeling alongside creative and messaging. Amy was recently selected as 2013 CampaignTech Innovator by Campaigns and Elections magazine

Prior to Blueprint, Amy served as President of MSHC Partners, Inc., where she managed the overall business as well as led the interactive division. Under her leadership, MSHC’s interactive division grew from three employees to more than twenty, generated record profits and won numerous awards, including the coveted Yahoo! “Big Idea Chair Award.”

Previously, Amy founded and managed the Interactive Marketing group of Capital One, one of the nation’s largest and most diversified financial services companies. She also co-founded Strong Numbers – a software firm – that was recognized as a Top 10 e-Commerce Company in Massachusetts and a finalist in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Amy has held management consulting positions at The Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company.

Amy holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Darin Senneff

Darin Senneff, Art Director

Darin Senneff is the Art Director for Blueprint Interactive, a new media strategy, marketing and design firm. Prior to joining Blueprint, Darin worked as the Senior Interactive Designer at MSHC Partners, Inc., a position that saw him drive the design of the firm’s interactive and online projects. During his five-plus year tenure at MSHC, Darin helped to expand the firm’s online capabilities, allowing MSHC to grow from a strictly online advertising shop, to a full-service digital agency.  Darin has led projects that have won two Reed Awards, two Golden Dot Awards, and countless Pollie Awards.

Some of Darin’s projects include the Fair Food Foundation’s Double-Up Food Bucks site, the United Nations Foundation’s American Idol landing pages and mHealth Alliance site, and the California Nurses Association’s Dress Like Palin and Bush Moving Day viral sites.

Darin holds a Bachelor of Arts from Ashford University in Graphic Design.
 

Emily Williams

Nick Kessler, Associate Project Manager

 

Nick is an Associate Project Manager for Blueprint. He supports the development, set-up, reporting, and optimization of digital campaigns including advertising, web sites, landing pages and email. Nick previously joined Blueprint for the 2012 election cycle, where he helped manage the successful execution of online campaigns for AFSCME, Planned Parenthood, among others.

Before landing at Blueprint, Nick worked on digital communications projects for a range of clients in the political, business, and charitable arenas. Previously he was a member of Fleishman-Hillard’s digital practice, where he managed social media, supported website and app development, and implemented online advertising for clients like AT&T, the Mathile Institute, Electronic Arts, and the U.S. Marines Corp. 

Nick also has experience on Capitol Hill, working on the press team for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce under Ranking Member Henry Waxman as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Studio Art from Kenyon College.

Cameron

Cameron Cook, Director of Project Management

Cameron Cook is the Director of Project Management for Blueprint. Cameron leads some of Blueprint's most innovative projects. These include The SEED School of Cincinnati's responsive, mobile-friendly website, advertising campaigns that layer in IP address targeting, search, video, and more.

Cameron also manages Blueprint Labs, Blueprint's product development arm. Blueprint Labs projects include Dashboard, Blueprint's project management suite and Mobile Tracker, a tool that gives organizations data on what kinds of devices their emails are read on.

Prior to Blueprint, Cameron worked at Apple on the App Store helping developers to take advantage of the iOS platform to surprise and delight iPhone and iPad consumers. During his time at Apple, he helped launch the App Store for iPad, saw the App Store grow to over 200,000 apps, and led external communications with developers.

Annette Lee

Annette Lee, Online Strategies Manager

Annette Lee is an Online Strategies Manager for Blueprint working on campaigns for clients like Planned Parenthood and National Partnership for Women and Families.

Prior to coming on to Blueprint, she was an Online Program Manager for Avalon Consulting, managing online fundraising and advocacy programs for political and non-profit clients including Lautenberg for New Jersey and the National Parks Conservation Association.

Annette was previously an Interactive Account Manager at MSHC Partners, Inc. where she worked on various email, advertising and engagement campaigns for an array of political and non-profit clients. In 2010, she served as the Deputy Communications Director on the Mongiardo for U.S. Senate campaign in Kentucky.

Annette has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of California, Davis and a Master of Arts in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University. In her spare time she enjoys baking and not understanding football.

Let's Get Started

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202-681-0215 1155 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 601
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New York, NY 10013

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