About Menekse

Menekse Stewart is a digital marketing specialist & the founder of popular creative Christian brands including Cheerfully Given, Cheerful Business, and Creative Christianity Summit, as well as providing digital marketing consulting & education via the Marketing with Menekse brand.

Menekse started her marketing journey in 2005 as a freelance SEO writer, earning $3 per article to rewrite medical advice on the internet. From there, she worked as a freelance SEO specialist and digital marketer with agencies and 1-1 clients in sectors from arts & craft, to automotive, finance, and agriculture, through to SaaS, ecommerce and knowledge commerce, as well as founding & running a successful ecommerce marketplace.

Now a Certified Master Marketer, Menekse has gone on to work as a freelance head of marketing for a variety of well-known authors and thought leaders, as well as teaching other senior marketing professionals from a variety of industries as an occasional lecturer for University of the Arts London and ELLE Education. She has also hosted three years and counting of the Creative Christianity Summit, which has thousands of attendees from 30+ countries each year.

Today, Menekse supports thousands of creatives and creators with injecting the joy and ease back into their marketing & businesses, alongside creating digital events, experiences, & solutions that inspire people to share Jesus through creativity.

 

Topics Menekse Has Spoken On:

Business, Faith & Creativity:

  • Marketing as a Christian

  • Starting & Running a Business as a Christian

  • Creativity: Hobby or Profession?

  • A Jesus-Centered Mindset for Christians in Business

  • Foolishness to the World: Listening to the Wisdom of God in Business

  • Generosity in Business: Using Your Gifts to Serve Others & Building Generosity into Your Brand

  • Virtual Reality & the 'Metaverse' as a Christian

  • Creativity as a Tool for Outreach & Connection in Church Life

Marketing: 

  • Marketing Strategy for Creatives & Creators

  • Ecommerce & Product Business Marketing

  • Search Engine Optimisation: What It Is, How to Approach It

  • SEO for Shopify & Squarespace

  • Easy (and automated) Email Marketing

  • Keyword Research & Content Strategy: How to find what your ideal customer is searching for, and use your content strategy to be there when they look for it

  • Sales Funnels & Marketing Journeys: How to create value-driven marketing experiences in a digital customer journey

Over the years, some of her personal marketing projects have included building a marketplace, raising £15,000 on Kickstarter, creating Choose Your Own Adventure chatbots, crafting a 5-outcome quiz funnel (each with its own 8-part sequence), developing a Wordpress membership site including over 1,000 pieces of content, and automating a CRM system for a high volume project.

 Speaking Experience

Menekse has spoken at a variety of events & summits (both in-person and online), and is a regular guest speaker for memberships, masterminds, and communities, as well as being an occasional guest for both radio & podcast interviews.

Podcasts, Interviews & Livestreams

  • The Building Your Brand Podcast with Liz Mosley

    • Sales Funnels Simplified with Menekse Stewart | Episode Link

    • Getting to Grips with Email Marketing with Menekse Stewart | Episode Link

  • Building a Creative Business Podcast Interview | Take Five with TBN UK (more info)

  • Brand Shoot Spotlight on London Marketer, Menekse Stewart | Wild Kind Photography

  • How to Get Great SEO & Direct Traffic to Your Website | The Pedddle Blog

  • The Impact of Having Parents of Different Faiths | Interview with John Pantry on Premier Christian Radio (video here | this was supposed to be an interview about creativity as a Christian.)

  • Interview with Frances Finn for BBC Radio Nottingham

  • LiveCast Panel with Glen Scrivener for SpeakLife

Teaching, Training, & Workshops

  • Marketing as a Christian | Guest Expert for Jordan Raynor’s Community of Redemptive Entrepreneurs

  • Monthly Teaching and Q&A Sessions for 500+ Ecommerce Business Owners inside The E-Com Growth Hub by Amanda Perry | Topics included:

    • Chatbots

    • Search Engine Optimisation

    • Keyword Research

    • Blogging & Content Marketing Strategy

    • Organic Traffic for Shopify

    • Google Search Console

    • Google Analytics

  • Sessional Lecturer | University of the Arts London’s Short Courses

    • Search Engine Optimisation

    • Email Marketing

    • Google Analytics

  • Lecturer | ELLE Education’s “Marketing and Communications for Fashion & Luxury Brands” university programme

  • The SEO Action Plan | The Design Trust’s Business Club

  • SEO for Artists | Guest Expert for Alice Sheridan’s Connected Artists Membership

  • Simple SEO Strategy: The SEO Action Plan | Guest Expert for the AMotherBrand Membership

  • Guest Masterclasses for The Creative VA Clubhouse | Training for online service providers to develop their professional skillset.

    • SEO 101 Masterclass

    • SEO for Blogging

  • Ask the Expert Session with Lara Sheldrake’s Found & Flourish Academy | Covering the importance of owning your own data, nurturing your email community and ways to provide value to your audience whilst increasing retention. (more info about the academy)

  • All Things SEO | Babes on Waves Business Club (more info about the club)

  • Lone Design Club | LDC Accelerates

  • Creative Industries Mentor for Younger Leadership College (18-25 stream) | Diocese of Nottingham

Summits & Virtual Events

  • How To Grow Your Product-Based Business with SEO | Create Make Earn Summit (more info)

  • Resilient Retail Online Summit with Catherine Erdly (2020)

  • The Creative Christianity Summit (2020, 2021, and 2022)

    • Virtual Reality & the 'Metaverse' as a Christian (2022)

    • Creativity: Hobby or Profession? (2021)

    • A Jesus-Centered Mindset (2021)

    • Jesus the Artist with Menekse Stewart (2020)

    • Running a Christian Business (2020)

  • StrongerNetwork’s Stronger Conference 2021 | Business & Finance Stream

Events:

  • Panellist at “Faith and Social Media” in West London (2019) | A pilot event seeking to offer practical advice for anyone looking to grow their social media engagement and influence.

  • Speaker at Creatival Manchester by The Creative Business Network | Talking about developing a longer-term mindset when it comes to marketing for creatives in business. 

  • Speaker at ChristianAid’s SALT Network | Sharing about being a confident Christian in business spaces, and what it looks like to start a faith-based business.

  • Speaker at Entrepreneurial Generosity by 40acts & Stewardship (2017) | Sharing the journey of creating a business, explaining how faith informed foundational decisions, and explaining how to weave generosity into a business model.

  • Host & Speaker | Creative Christianity Conference in London (2019)

  • Host & Speaker | Creative Christianity Conference in Northern Ireland (2019)

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