About Marnie

Recently transplanted to Raleigh, NC from Las Vegas, NV, Marnie Settle is a respected marketing and branding consultant and owner of Summit Creative. As the owner of her own marketing consulting firm, Summit Creative, Marnie employs her knowledge of social psychology to develop relevant and forward-thinking strategies that lead her clients to the forefront of their audience, bridging the gap between brand and consumer and ultimately paving the path to a successful and a reliable return on their marketing investment.

Marnie’s innovative ideas mix fast-paced trends with up-to-the-minute research on the sociology and psychology of today’s modern and well-connected consumer. In order to educate her clients on successful strategies to create awareness, connect with their audience and create a cohesive brand identity for maximum reach and results, Marnie continuously explores trends and research in consumer psychology. Her understanding of neuro-marketing and its components provides for the creation of campaigns that generate a recognizable cognitive response to marketing stimuli while providing more focused messaging and a better measurement of a consumer’s decision making, preference and overall reaction to the tangible and intangible brand. An in-depth understanding on the consumer’s need and response paves the road for solutions that fit the needs of the client, mixing both the ever-present abilities of mass media with the quickly encroaching presence of digital media and online marketing.

For more than 14 years, Marnie has led her clients to discover and develop their individual brand and created recognizable identities to bring them to the summit of success. Designing marketing collateral, creating strategic marketing and media plans, implementing public relations campaigns and tailoring a targeted online presence are all part of the custom plans offered by Marnie and Summit Creative, designed to bridge the gap with the consumer, providing engaging concepts that reach and retain the consumer. Her brand-focused, integrated strategies are tailored to each client and its respective industry, noting the critical changes in society and new forms of communication and networking that affect the messages to be distributed and received. Leveraging new media outlets and concepts has successfully gained Marnie’s clients’ notoriety in the marketplace, effective brand recognition and thus, bottom-line profits.

Marnie is also the brainchild of the hugely popular ELITE Networking Group in Las Vegas that after only 1 year boasted a membership of over 400 people. After relocating to Raleigh, Marnie could see the opportunity to start another great networking group and the MIX Networking Group was born.