The FGC team wanted to share our family holiday traditions as our way of saying Happy Holidays to all, may your days be merry and bright! And our hearts grew 10 sizes this day!
We’d love a few comments from our readers, sharing your holiday stories!
It’s unanimous: all of us here at FG Creative agree our favorite pastime is eating, drinking and being merry. So, naturally – as season is kicking up here in our beautiful desert – it seems appropriate to highlight some of our favorite hot spots around town. Whether it’s date night, girls’ night out, Sunday brunch, family night, or…just because…we have several places we love to frequent. And maybe you’ll be making reservations as quickly as we did after reading all the delicious possibilities! Cheers to season kickoff in the Valley!
Here at FG Creative we love using business apps to help free up your schedule, mange our time, and focus on getting your work done. These are some of our favorite apps we use everyday.
I started at FG Creative, in early November. The past ten months have been busy, fun, rewarding, challenging, exciting, and more! I have learned SO much and I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to be surrounded by such smart women, and men (JEFF!) every day. I always knew how hard it was to run a company and a successful one at that, but from the time I’ve started here I have realized how hard everyone works to make a successful team. Each person is a small but vital building block to the success that FG continues to have. I graduated college a little over a year ago now with the terrifying anxiety of “What Am I Going To Do With My Life?” and “Will I Ever Get A REAL JOB?!” and I will forever be thankful to Stephanie for taking a chance on me and helping me to believe in myself.
After 15 years of being in business, from our start in a one-room office above what is now Kaiser Grill Palm Desert, to much larger space across Hwy 111 near Deep Canyon that had offices and a conference room, and back to Portola with our whole floor and now our boutique space with a view of Kaiser Grill Palm Desert, we've learned a thing or two about having parties! We've had potlucks and mixers, but have found our happy place with our new Patty-O parties! Even when it's hot outside, we stay cool with taco bars, ice cream socials and possibly a tiki-inspired bash in August. Here are some insights from the FGC team, about our party spirit.
Well, well, well. Summer has arrived in the desert! We thought it would be the perfect time to catch up with everyone and see what summer plans everyone has in store. For some, summer is the perfect time to disconnect and refresh while for some, summer tends to still be busy, busy, busy. Here is what the FG Creative team has planned for the next few months:
Hi everyone,
Natalie from FG Creative here! Happy International Women’s day a few days ago!
It was such a wonderful day of women empowering women, and because I work in a mostly all women office (sorry, Jeff) I wanted to ask the ladies their thoughts on what it means to be a a woman.
I started at FG Creative, in early November. The past two months have been super busy but, fun and rewarding at the same time. I already have learned so much and I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to be surrounded by such smart women, and men (JEFF!) everyday. I always knew how hard it was to run a company and a successful one at that, but from the short time I’ve been here I have realized how hard everyone here works to make a successful team. Each person is a small but vital building block to the success that FG has had.
In early December, we had a holiday office decorating contest. The contest was to be all in fun…but everyone’s competitive natures came out once it was announced there would be a prize for the winner. Was it the best decorations that would win? The funniest? Best theme? 
That was all up to our judge, who hadn’t yet been named. With one week and a $50 budget, the decorating started slow but ramped up once people started seeing what their cubicle neighbors were doing. A little tinsel here, some snowflake stickers there…and then came an onslaught of both tacky and tasteful office decorations until the offices transformed in a matter of days into our own personal Winter Wonderlands. Each office spoke to the decorator’s personality – Jean’s “Candy Land” theme honored the cake (and cupcake and cookie and…you get the point) baker within her. Her windows were makeshift presents, as they were wrapped in donut wallpaper, something we didn’t previously know existed.
November is a month to count your blessings… eat a little too much… and spend lots of time with friends, family and loved ones. As FGC enters it’s 15 th year in business, I find there is much to reflect on and many blessings to count from the last 15 years.
When I commuted here from Orange County with my first big client, Mayor Sonny Bono and the City of Palm Springs in the 80s, and then to consult with Spotlight 29 Casino as their Senior Marketing Strategist in the late 1990s, I never imagined I would move here, start a small business, and find my happiness in this desert paradise. I was a beach girl at heart, part mermaid, and in love with watching the Disneyland fireworks from my backyard oasis. Or so I thought.
FG Creative is heading into the holiday season with giving in mind. We’ve recently launched a “Six Weeks of Giving” Facebook campaign encouraging our followers to donate to three Coachella Valley organizations with whom we work closely year-round. Each of the three non- profits, Dr. Carreón Foundation, Family YMCA of the Desert, and Desert Cancer Foundation, will be featured for two weeks on a Facebook fundraiser. To participate in each fundraiser, donors can visit our Facebook page, facebook.com/FGCmarketing, and click on “fundraisers.”
Fall is our favorite time around here. The temps are finally dropping, 'season' is starting, and all our favorite events return. We are thrilled to be involved again with Paint El Paseo Pink, an event that incorporates two of our clients - Desert Cancer Foundation and El Paseo.
When you work in advertising and marketing, often your work life becomes your social life. Client events, networking, co-worker happy hours – there’s something going on every night of the week and on weekends, particularly during season. Yet, as much time as we spend on that, we always seem to find time for our passions.
One passion we all share here at FGC, is donating our collective and individual time, treasure and talent to local charities.
In 2006, I was 20 years old and working on my AA in Culinary Arts at College of the Desert, when my brother and his fiancé started planning their wedding. Since I had taken approximately three culinary classes (none of which included pastry) and watched A LOT of Food Network, I volunteered to make their wedding cake. They were on a budget and didn’t much seem to care about cake, so a free cake sounded just fine to them.
As summer comes to the Coachella Valley, and the snowbirds fly away home, many businesses take the approach that they can take a vacation from their marketing efforts. We disagree!
In light of his birthday today (and yes, we are celebrating with bacon peanut butter ice cream), today’s blog is about our quirkiest, most adorable, and sweetest (well, tied with Cindy) FG Creative employee. Of course, I’m talking about none other than our Community Relations Director, Fenway. On the day of his 7th birthday, here’s a little bit of what office life is like since Fenway first started his employment.
PALM DESERT (May 15, 2017) – The El Paseo Business Improvement District, a 15-year partner of FG Creative, was awarded the “Palm Award” at the Annual Oasis Awards of the Greater Palm Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) on May 9th. The Palm Award is given to a business demonstrating outstanding partnership with the CVB and dedication to the tourism industry by partnering with other businesses.
mother:
noun moth·er \ˈmə- th ər\
A woman who, by virtue of kindness or complete lack of sanity, devotes her life to children that are hers either through biology or an abundance of love. She shows patience and unconditional love to little people who may not always deserve or appreciate it.
One of the many perks of having the best clients in town is that sometimes if you're lucky, they will lend pieces of their fabulous art collection to hang on your walls.
The new year is upon us and just like everyone else, the FGCrew has New Year’s resolutions to start off 2017 on a high note:
Steph: The Boss Lady is striving for balance this year, as well as hoping to seek out and explore new lands to boldly go where she’s never been before. Steph, being the busy bee that she is, also set a goal for herself to take down the holiday décor before June. We have faith in you Steph, get those lights down!
The holiday season is upon us, and whether you’re celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or Festivus, there’s a tangible excitement in the air. We here at FG are all catching the bug, and not just the cold that’s going around the Valley! The giving bug has hit us all and we are all doing what we can to try to give as much as we have received throughout the year.
