What twenty years in print taught me about building websites
Magazines, books, and album sleeves don't get a redesign next quarter. That kind of permanence changes how you think about everything you…
Read the postIndependent Brand, Web & Marketing Studio · Tyler, TX · Est. 2005 · Rebranding 2027
On offer
Web, social, SEO, print, email, and photography, from the same person, in the same voice. You shouldn't need six agencies to look like one business.
Custom-designed sites, mobile-first, built around what your customers are actually trying to do. Brand work (logo, type, color) included when the project needs it. Hosting set up in your name at launch, so the site is yours from day one.
More on custom websitesFull social marketing campaigns planned from a goal, not a posting schedule: the message, the visuals, the video, the captions and the follow-through, built from your brand and run as one piece. Offline marketing can ride along on any campaign: print, trade show tables, pop-up displays, and a brainstorming session for the ideas that live off the screen.
More on social campaignsGoogle Business Profile, local citations, on-page basics. The unglamorous work that actually brings calls in.
More on seo & local listingsEverything that is not a website or a feed. Business cards, banners and signage, flyers and mailouts, packaging and freebies, magazine and book layout, and the logistics of a pop-up or a trade show table. Twenty years of print work, files right on the first pass, and a plan for where it all goes once it leaves the printer.
More on print & offlineA newsletter your customers actually open. Designed to match your brand, written in your voice, sent on a schedule and read against the numbers. It runs on the list you already have, grows it from the site and social, and no algorithm decides who sees it.
More on email newslettersPhotos for the website, the feed, the newsletter and the print pieces, all shot or finished to match the brand. In East Texas, that means coming out to shoot your products, your facility, your staff and the content a campaign needs. Further out, you send the raw shots and the post-production happens here: edited, color-matched and turned into assets in every size each channel needs.
More on photography & postSelected work
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From the Journal
Process, behind-the-scenes, things learned the hard way. Updated when there's something worth writing down.
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