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Realize your social impact startup's infinite potential.

Empower your marketing, attract top talent, impress investors, and outshine your competition with a striking brand, insightful strategy, and awe-inspiring website that are as daring and innovative as your growth-stage startup.

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CASE STUDY

Pioneering eco-luxury boating

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"BrandShine’s process completely transformed our company by clarifying our vision, challenging our assumptions, elevating our processes, and bringing every aspect of our dream brand to life."

– Austin Thiele
  CEO of Coastal Captains

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Forging the future of plant protein

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CASE STUDY

Building the teams of tomorrow

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You know it, your team knows it, and your investors know it: it's time to upgrade your early stage branding and craft a presence that conveys the bright future of your growing social impact startup.

To mold an unbreakable culture and forge differentiation immune to imitation, you'll need clarity, perspective, and an energizing spark of insight––each illuminated by intensive research, transformative thinking, and tech that transcends the ordinary.

Whether you just closed your Seed/Series A round, or your self-funded social impact venture is beginning to hit serious stride, you're seeking a like-minded partner to help you build the brand you've envisioned since day one––a brand you can believe in. That's where we come in.

Visionary startups need impossibly brilliant branding.

SERVICEs

Brand Strategy

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There’s more than enough noise in the market––your startup needs branding that strikes the right chord while expressing your unique purpose and claiming your distinct position in the market.

Our data-driven process leverages the key perspectives of your team, your audience, and the existing market to triangulate insights that reveal unseen opportunities and fuel branding greatness––inspiring extraordinary customer experiences.

Whether B2B or B2C, we'll equip your startup with the messaging and storytelling frameworks needed to communicate complex concepts and products with the simplicity and emotion that drive decision-making.

With a modern brand that tugs at heartstrings, captures the imagination, and activates action, there will be nothing to stop your startup from infinite growth.

Introspect

Brand Auditing
Reputation Evaluation
Stakeholder Survey
Extensive Workshops

Investigate

Competitive Analysis
Audience Research
Surveys & Interviews
Insights & Ideation

Illuminate

Philosophy
Positioning
Personality
Messaging
Storytelling
Impact & Sustainability

Integrate

Naming
Tagline Creation
CX Consulting
Website Copy
Content Strategy
Employer Branding

Visual Identity

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In order to close industry-disrupting deals and grow your loyal audience, you'll need a visual brand that is as meaningful as it is memorable––an instantly recognizable identity that delights the senses and stirs the soul.

We'll help your maturing startup to find its place in the market by standing out, crafting a humanized brand with guidelines that guarantee the flawless consistency needed to make a lasting impression.

It's time to see your startup in a new light.

Identity

Logo Design
Logo Animation
Typography
Colors and Textures
Illustration/3D
Digital Style Guide

Collateral

Stationery
Packaging
Social Media
Editable Templates
Ad Graphics
Mockups

Website Creation

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Let's face it: it's dangerous to play it safe when it comes to building a scale-stage website for your disruptive startup.

Your startup is challenging the status quo, questioning age-old assumptions, and pushing the limits of what was thought to be possible––your website should embody that same philosophy.

We embrace the power of poetry in business to craft moving copywriting, distinguished designs, and remarkable online experiences that motivate your visitors to take action––all built on platforms that can scale with your startup.

Built by pros.

Responsive and mobile-friendly
Search Engine Optimized
Clean-coded and fast-loading
User-friendly and fully accessible

Different by design.

No cookie-cutter templates
No maintenance fees
Easy to edit
Fully-custom e-commerce

Growth Strategy

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With your new brand firmly established and your website ready to convert new visitors, you'll be eager to scale your marketing efforts and transform those inspiring ideas into impactful numbers.

We'll help you analyze, strategize, and craft a data-driven marketing strategy and materials so you can launch your campaigns with one of our marketing partner agencies the moment your website goes live.

You'll also gain an in-depth understanding of your customer's journey, forge an actionable plan for content creation, and be well on the way to building your active community of brand evangelists.

Our Growth Strategy process runs alongside our Brand Strategy process and follows the same philosophical framework, with all deliverables incorporated into your BrandCenter.

Introspect

Digital Marketing Audit
True Cost Analysis
Attribution Questionnaire
Marketing Tech Stack Analysis
Marketing Goals Survey
Strategy Meeting

Investigate

Competitive Ad Analysis
Audience Targeting Research
Advocate Engagement
Data Integrity Audit
Pricing Optimization
Insights & Ideation

Illuminate

Marketing Mix Model & Budgeting
Creative Campaign Strategy
Content Planning
Cadence Guidelines
Example Content & Outlines
Ad Creative Concepts

Integrate

A/B Testing Framework
Media Planning
Future Evangelists Plan
Community Development
GlassDoor/Comparably Setup
Best Practices Guidelines

The soul of your brand in the palm of your hand.

Your custom BrandCenter is a futuristic deliverable that unites your new brand guidelines, comprehensive marketing strategy, and downloadable asset library under one password-protected URL.

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Your zero-stress website with limitless capability.

We leverage industry-leading tools like Webflow to build fully-custom, ultra-optimized websites for groundbreaking social impact startups like yours––without the need for maintenance or ongoing fees.

Why Webflow?

Let's find the
magic in the madness.

Scaling your startup can be challenging and chaotic. We'll help you discover clarity in your marketing, secure cohesion among your leadership, and deepen your understanding of your audience so you can strategize campaigns that click and lead your company with purpose.

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“BrandShine is an incredible experience for a business.”   “Very professional, timely and incredibly easy to work with.”   ”BrandShine did a fantastic job of taking our vision and turning it into a reality.”

“BrandShine did a stellar job.”   “BrandShine did a marvelous job on our website redesign and brand overhaul.”   “They created a brand and website that exceed what I could have imagined for my business." "Our project was thorough and on time.“

“BrandShine will stop at nothing to see your dream through.“   “We were thrilled with the results. You will not be disappointed.”   ”The energy Asa brings to the branding process is contagious.”

“Asa is highly talented and was a joy to work with.”    ”They make the experience interactive and educational.”   ”They were easy to work with and provided expert advice to make sure we were not missing a thing.”

“BrandShine is completely committed to finding, developing and implementing the optimal solutions for their clients.”   ”BrandShine brings the perfect blend of creativity and strategy to every project.”

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Give infinitely and create impact around the world.

We donate a portion of our revenue to Kiva.org, where we lend money to impactful startups in developing countries. Once the companies succeed and repay our investment, we reinvest the repayment with other less privileged impact entrepreneurs. It's the gift that keeps on giving!

Pictured: Agrosolar raised $50k through Kiva to finance the growing demand for their solar-powered irrigation systems.

Lightbulb moments to last the lifetime of your business.

Our process transforms abstract ideas into concrete results. Drawing upon data-driven insights and enchanting creative concepts, we forge brands that are poignantly authentic, starkly differentiated, and imminently scalable.

If you're ready to take the guesswork out of marketing, inspire your mission-oriented team, and attract your next round of investment, you've found the right agency.

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