LORI BELL • FOUNDER, IDEAPOP

I am the Customer Oracle.

I’m also an intuitive strategist and a systems thinker. I love ideas, interesting people, and unconventional solutions. I like finding possibilities in the places where everyone else stopped looking. And I pay attention to what happens to people when they meet a business.

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Portrait of Lori Bell, founder of Ideapop

FROM THE CUSTOMER'S SIDE OF THE DOOR

My life has been the lab.

After 17 military moves (and counting!) I'm used to being the new customer, so I have a very unique perspective on being the one who's interested but never moved to "I'm in."

New doctors. New hair salons. New dentists, churches, schools, and favorite lunch spots. I’ve been served by the best, and I’ve had the best examples of the ones never to return to. And in all those businesses the ones who kept me coming back and bringing friends were the ones where I could feel the care. I was on a guided path to a repeatable yes.

I know what it's like to see a polished Instagram with a promise of luxury and then get on their site and it feels...grabby. It was like they forgot who they were talking to and dropped me off in a field of transactions.

Every new place, I arrived carrying what the last one had taught me. Everything I learned lived in my head, and I carried it from city to city.

So I know both sides. A customer who was interested and never got to “I’m in.” And a business leader with a lifetime of knowledge and nowhere to put it.

WHO WE ARE

"Ideapop is a boutique design studio for leaders who recognize the value of a extraordinary customer path and the value of their expertise in the marketplace."

I’CONIFY® is how I help leaders get what they know out of their heads and fix it to their name. I’m a woman over 50 with a lot to say, so I built AI tools to dig out what I know, put it inside frameworks, and build a company that holds it all.

That's the lens I bring into a business: notice what's happening, understand what people need, and design a coherent way forward.

THE FRAMEWORKS BEHIND MY WORK

TWO FRAMEWORKS. One way of seeing.

The RED Method designs what a customer experiences. I’CONIFY® turns what a leader knows into a signature body of work.

01 / IDEAPOP

RED Method

Repeatable Experience Design examines the entire journey from first interest to an ongoing customer relationship. We design, build, maintain, and help teams use it in their world.

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02 / I’CONIFY®

I’CONIFY® Method

The framework for helping leaders recognize, structure, and develop their hard-earned experience, expertise, and ideas into valuable intellectual property. Bankable Brilliance is the signature talk exploring that possibility.

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SPEAKING & CONVERSATIONS

Bring a different perspective into the room.

For business associations, founder communities, leadership events, and podcasts.

THE RED METHOD • SIGNATURE TALK

If You Build It, They'll Come. But Do They Come Back?

A case for strong customer journeys that make customers stick and stay.

What happens between a customer's first spark of interest and a relationship that lasts? Lori challenges the assumption that attracting customers is enough and shows how clearer, more thoughtful experiences create the conditions for confident decisions and return visits.

Ideal audiences: Owner-led businesses, chambers, service-industry associations, and customer experience events.

I’CONIFY® • SIGNATURE TALK

BANKABLE BRILLIANCE

How to Turn What You Know, What You've Lived, and What You Can't Stop Thinking About Into Bankable IP

An invitation for leaders to recognize the intellectual assets already present in their experience, expertise, and persistent ideas—and explore how those assets can be structured for meaningful commercial and legacy value.

Ideal audiences: Leaders, executive communities, entrepreneurs, professional associations, and conferences.

LET'S START A CONVERSATION

Something worth building? Let's talk.

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