I absolutely love a good makeover story, whether it’s reality television or someone on social media sheds a lot of weight and does a big reveal! This is why I was so very happy to take on BBR Soft Washing of Manchester, MD as a client! The current website that they had up was very lacking.
Read MoreI typically try to keep these blogs straight forward and business professional, if this blog for my company were a business woman she would be dressed in a nice blouse and wear a blazer. There are however exceptions, when exceptions are necessary, and this is one of those times.
Read MoreMelissa Spittel is a real-estate agent in the Maryland area who reached out to Hampstead Marketing and Design looking for help with developing a brand. A lot of people confuse branding and marketing, branding is more of an idea and concept, and it’s what we use to actually market a business. I like to think of a companies brand as their drivers license. Their drivers license has their picture, basic description, and is their official identity that they carry around to show people.
Read MoreAfter we learned all about the high level work Tara and PVDS do, we were able to construct an easy to read website that flows, and also contains good clear information, and has a sleek technological look and feel.
Read MoreIn addition, we made a few changes to help with branding by giving them a solid strong color pallet that was consistent throughout, fun masks for their images, a light and airy feel, and some really cute little caveats like the animal call outs in the footer and random sections of the website, and the fun rollover features of the event calendar.
Read MoreCurrently if you call and ask me what the single most important puzzle piece is that your business needs to do to grow, my answer will always be Google. If you do just one thing to help your business, aside from a website, it should be Google.
Yes over Facebook.
In a world of analytics and algorithms, Google is King.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to welcome Shiloh Pottery of Hampstead, MD into the HM&D family! Shiloh came to us as a referral and already had an existing website. Their previous website was so old that it didn’t include navigation and was primarily basic html still.
Read MoreAs the Internet continues to grow, it is increasingly important to get your business online. One of the vital tools to help grow businesses online presence is Google My Business. When setup, it allows a business to show in their local area with ease, transforming the process that customers now take in finding the information, product or service they require. With Google My Business being a free to use tool, it really is worth looking in to and will help drive your online presence forward.
Read MoreGingerich is a Southern Pennsylvania company, they serve all of York County, which is quite close to our office in Hampstead Maryland. Gingerich reached out to us specifically because their website was outdated and broken, and they had already begun a rigorous radio ad campaign that was directing lots of traffic to the broken site. We planned a fast track rush job on the new site in order to prevent losing leads.
Read MoreCheck out the sweet reach in, they requested vintage style tattoo illustrations with their logo and brand colors. They turned out awesome and we are so excited for the public to start reaching their hands into that cooler for cold brews!
Read MoreJamie Fay Holistic Wellness was a referral to us that we were exceptionally excited about. Sometimes designers can get stuck in a rut of designing a lot of service style websites that feel very similar. Jamie came to us with a vision board filled with fantasy images, deep bold color palettes and so much whimsy!
Yes. yes to all of that.
Read MoreWe used beautiful bold pictures that feature the company’s excellent landscaping techniques and work. Rounding out the amazing hero images and accent photos are fine tuned SEO that will help with organic local leads, both commercial and residential.
Read MoreWhen designing this website, we chose a bold theme with Mexican illustrations in eye catching neon colors. Bold Cap fonts, and a focus on real food pictures makes the website design flow and the user experience easy and exciting. We hope that the website visitors will be able to smell the food and hear the Mexican music playing in the background while browsing the new menu.
Read MoreThis site is clean, built for function, and strong in typeface and imagery. We chose to use large hero images throughout and focus on natural pictures that featured natural light, to relay that “home grown” environmental feel, we also wanted to stay away from those typical green color schemes that a lot of companies in the Medical Cannabis Sector tend to get sucked into.
Read MoreWe partner with The Wrappers to provide our clients high quality Vinyl pieces from a local source. So when we got a call about creating some wheel caps, we said: "SURE."
Read MoreI enjoyed working with this Sykesville Maryland small business to give them a classy, clean, modern logo design. We also supplied them with 100 free business cards to get started and so they’d have their logo in print, it is always very exciting to see your brand new logo on actual collateral.
Read MoreNo matter what you are trying to promote and when you are trying to promote it, Every Door Direct Mail is a great way to boost your Maryland business. You can send anywhere from 500 to 5,000 EDDM pieces per day per zip code, which gives you the flexibility to start smaller and then go big when you are ready. We are offering a special for our Maryland customers and providing a complete postcard mailer, design + printing + postage all for one low price!
Read MoreAngie will be helping with graphic design assignments, learning marketing basics, social media, website design basics, and probably a lot more! We are hoping to be able to help her grow her skill set and her knowledge of the industry over the next few months.
Read MoreHampstead Marketing and Design is elated to be a recipient of the highest award, the award of excellence in graphic design for our Pipe The Side Crowler Label Design.
Read MoreJust like usual though there are marketing professionals (using that word lightly) and agencies that are not blessed with our large funnel of customers and are grasping at straws for new business. Offering a discount is wonderful, but offering discounts so deep that they are too good to be true, that’s a red flag.
Sailor Jerry said it best: “good work ain’t cheap and cheap work ain’t good.”
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