About Kristi Mitchell

Hi, I’m Kristi.

I’m an MBA, a corporate escapee, Marketing Strategist, host of UNF*DGE Your Marketing and founder of Marketing Uncomplicated®. (I’m also a sister, daughter, wife and mom.)

I spent over a decade in the corporate world building marketing processes from the ground up, asking a lot of questions and constantly looking for ways to optimize results. But when I stepped into the world of small business, I noticed a frustrating pattern: brilliant, passionate service providers were struggling to grow; not from lack of skill, but because their marketing felt disjointed and overwhelming.

They were coaches and consultants drowning in a sea of conflicting advice from online "gurus,” and small business owners getting burned by flashy agencies charging high retainers for no results.

I built Marketing Uncomplicated® to offer a better way: a calm, analytical, and structured approach that turns random acts of marketing into a connected growth engine.

Credentials & Experience

  • MBA (Master of Business Administration)

  • 10+ Years Corporate Marketing Leadership

  • Marketing Strategist & Fractional CMO

Trusted by mission-driven leaders, consultancies, and service-based businesses.

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I love sharing my story and strategies with audiences; helping business owners build consistent systems and grow without the nonstop hustle.

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Mission

To simplify marketing for mission-driven service providers by building clear, connected organic strategies and offering the high-level partnership needed to execute with confidence.

Vision

A business landscape where service providers scale with clarity—replacing marketing chaos and burnout with predictable, sustainable growth systems.

My Philosophy:

Marketing Doesn't Have to Be Complicated

Marketing isn't magic, and it shouldn't require you to spend 8 hours a day on social media or burn thousands of dollars on paid ads.

I believe in:

  • Organic Foundations First: Building a website, messaging, social media and email systems that convert before you throw money at paid ads.

  • Calm Over Chaos: Replacing last-minute content panic with simple, repeatable systems and AI-powered workflows.

  • Clarity Over Jargon: Ditching buzzwords and complicated processes so you and your team can easily see how the pieces fit together.

Beyond the Resume: The Personal Side

Things I Love:

☕ A fresh cup of coffee to start my day.

📊 Color-coded calendars and clean, organized workflows.

☀️ Sunshine - I’m actually solar powered.

💡 The "Aha!" moment when a client realizes their marketing is finally working.

🌿 Spending time outdoors with my husband, son and our 2 yellow labs.

Things I Avoid:

⏳ Fake urgency and high-pressure sales tactics. (No countdown timers here.)

📣 "Hustle 24/7" culture. Business should support your life, not consume it.

🌀 50-page strategy documents that never actually get implemented.

🔊 Disorganized Zoom meetings that could have been a 5-minute Loom video or email.

My Marketing Pet Peeves:

💸 Running paid ads to a mediocre website. (It’s like pouring water into a leaky bucket!)

🔀 Marketing tactics without strategy tying them together.

🤐 Agencies that overpromise and under deliver. (Giving marketing a bad rap)

🧠 Over-complicating simple concepts just to sound smart.

📧 Believing that email or social media is dead when really, you never gave it a fair shot.

  • "Going through this process and developing an action plan with Kristi made it easy for me to commit to without being overwhelmed. What used to feel like ‘too much’ for me to handle is much simpler now. Having someone guide me through it is immensely helpful!"

    — Tricia T.

  • "Kristi has a knack for pulling information about the dreams and desires for growing a business that are deep inside a person out into the open. She really listens and uses this information to form a plan that creatively relays these dreams to the public."

    — Amanda F.

  • "Kristi created a set of systems to enable me to successfully execute a new product offering--on time and on budget! Kristi was a pure joy to work with. She was efficient, responsive, and solutions-oriented."

    — Miranda W.

  • "Kristi did a great job of understanding our values as a company, and showing us how we can capitalize on marketing approaches that align better with our organization. Very insightful! We now have a clear marketing map!"

    — Theresia I.

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