To our dear clients, partners, employees, and fans,

It has been quite a ride. It’s hard to believe that Kendra and I founded Neovia Solutions just two-and-a-half years ago. It’s even harder to believe the state of the social media landscape at that time, especially in our mid-sized city. It was August 2009, and we could see that social media wasn’t going anywhere. In fact, it was only becoming more and more integrated into our daily lives. And we knew that this meant businesses would need help navigating the new digital landscape.

That is what we’ve done ever since.

We’ve worked with large corporations and solopreneurs. We’ve set up 500+ locations on Foursquare in one go, and we’ve launched first websites for growing companies. We’ve been fortunate enough to work with clients who we believe in, from non-profits to politicians to hardworking small businesses. Perhaps what we’ve loved most is seeing the spark of recognition in our clients’ eyes when they realize that they can do this by themselves. After all, that was always our goal – to teach our clients how to take the wheel once we got the ball rolling.

When my cofounder Kendra departed Neovia this summer to focus her efforts on her other business ventures, me and my team of awesome (Adriana Oliva and Martha Castro, interns extraordinaire) steamed forward. 2011 was another smashing year for Neovia, and I couldn’t be more proud.

2012 will bring the biggest client of my life to the table – a child. And so, my first baby – Neovia Solutions – will take a backseat this year as I prepare for this little bundle of life change.

We don’t expect you to wait for us to open our doors again, so if you need a new website, logo/design work, search engine optimization or help with social media strategy/build-out/training, we’ve included our recommendations. We’ve partnered with these companies, and they are tried and true.

If I may say so on behalf of the entire Neovia Solutions team, it’s been a helluva ride and we hope to see you all again next year!

Recommended resources

Website design & logo/design work
Rippke Design
www.rippkedesign.com

Search engine optimization
Image Freedom
www.imagefreedom.com

Social media
Sweb Development
www.swebdevelopment.com

That’s right. My business partner, Neovia’s administrative and financial head cheese, and our friend, Kendra Kinnison, is leaving us. Those of us who know Kendra are familiar with her passion for business and start-ups. For those of you who don’t know Kendra, we’re pretty sure she holds some kind of south Texas business ownership title. She’s had her hand in many businesses over the years, and over the past two years, she’s helped birth Neovia Solutions, 3eWerks, and Imagine More.

We’ve always admired Kendra’s energy and stamina, and we often wondered at it. Turns out, we were right to wonder. In her own words, “…It’s exhausting. The energy and attention needed for each of those projects created a life that was anything but balanced. Beyond that, it ultimately led to more reacting than planning, not a good business strategy.”

Read more about her decision on her blog here.

As for Neovia Solutions, it’s business as usual. We’ve known for a few months that we were headed in this direction, and any changes we needed to make were made then.

Happy trails, Kendra.

Thank you for helping Neovia Solutions get started and grown into what we are today. I can say that without her I may never have been able to make the leap to start a business on my own. The past two years have been a wonderful ride, and it’s a bittersweet goodbye to our fearless leader as she heads in a more balanced direction with her life.