How Much Further Could Your Brand Go if it Were Founded in Faith? ✨
Brand Evangelist™ works with servant leaders, faith-based brands, ministries and the entrepreneurial disciple like you to create businesses, content and community that celebrates and spreads the Good News. Together, we can make sure the world benefits from your God-given talents and good works, regardless of what stage your business is at. If part of your brand vision is an embodiment of your faith, there’s no better time than the present to broadcast your message of hope. Brand Evangelist™ can help you reach the people who are looking for you. No more leaving your faith in the pews.
As a faith-based, Founder-led boutique design agency, Brand Evangelist™ takes pride in our human-centered design approach and clear process – direct connections with clients, relationship-based marketing strategies researched, developed and tested over 10+ years, cutting edge tech tools and beautiful design work. The result? Trust transference from award-winning agency leader, highest quality branding work on the market, no exploitive tactics or schemes, transparent pricing and the passing of invaluable wisdom to the next generation of authentic leaders. Ready to get to work on your good news?
A WORD FROM THE FOUNDER
Spreading the Good News. ✨
This agency was God’s plan all along. When I was launching my first business and needed a website but no bank rolling, I quickly discovered that a web developer was out of reach. This was 2012, in the days before Squarespace, Wix, Weebly and in the early days of WordPress themes and plugins (for public use). Committed to my consulting business, I took a leap of faith to design it myself. My business plan and design work earned me Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, a coveted spot in 40 Under Forty, nomination for a leadership cohort and countless press interviews and business opportunities. By 2014, I transitioned the business from its tourism development niche to doing design + creative strategy work full-time to meet the increasing demand of people wanting me to do for them what I had achieved for my business. I served as freelancer to some, did in-house work as Communications Director, Creative Director or Engagement Director for others – always staying committed to continuous improvement. Over the years, I became frustrated by workplace culture, mainstream media and marketing industry norms. The dishonesty, exploitation and race for more money, fame or attention made me more compelled to be values-first and position my business as faith in action. Brand Evangelist™ is the result of 10+ years of preparation and I’m excited about what the next 10+ years will look like, doing good works, celebrating God-given talents of others, supporting faith-based brands and giving back where we need it most. Together, I believe we will carve out a new niche and a better way to do business while spreading the Good News.
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SERVICE MENU
Copywriting
Enhance your brand story with expertly crafted, authentic content tailored to tell your audience what problem you solve and why.
Web Design
Stand out with a masterfully crafted website on Wordpress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Google Sites, Weebly, Hostinger, Framer or custom build.
Marketing
Make your value clear with attention-grabbing designs shaped by your authenticity and get coaching for designing by yourself in the future.
Brand Culture
Craft an inclusive culture; recruit
and retain leaders; improve brand reputation; or host talks on diversity, equity, inclusion + belonging.
Project Management
Design an event that builds community and brand loyalty; launch a creative placemaking project; or engage in a strategic plan.
A CASE FOR WEBSITES
Secure Your
Digital Real Estate
Human-centered design is the blueprint for all work produced by Brand Evangelist™, especially websites. A website is the most important real estate you could invest in online even though the world is funneling you towards social media. While many other experts can help you with social media, our specialized expertise is websites – how to build, the latest technologies to use, the cost-efficient options and how to evolve them over time – all authentic to your brand. By focusing on authenticity, clients are happier, product goes to market faster and your business has its best chance at sustaining your growth. And to make sure we stay focused on value and not just profits, you are given tools to manage and update the website over time and/or level up. Tell the world you’re “Open for Business” and ready to get to work with a site designed for your today and your tomorrow.
OUR SIX-STEP PROCESS:
BUILDING WEBSITES USING
HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN
1. USER STORIES
We work together to craft a short, user-focused perspective – we outline function of the website, then do matchmaking with features and create storyboards based on the value being offered to users.
3. DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT
We move from mockup to real-time design, crafting the look and feel to bring that big idea to life and work together to create best possible experience for the user of your site on the chosen platform of your website.
5. DESIGN GOES LIVE
We publish your site and make it available to the world! Usually accompanied with a big splash on your socials, e-newsletter or press release about the new site, here the goal is to let the public know about your new site.
2. PROTOTYPING + MOCKUPS
We visualize, test and refine concepts during scheduled design sprints to align everything back to user stories. We create a mockup using pencil sketch, Figma, Canva or other design tools so the design concept is locked in.
4. TESTING + DEBUGGING
We systematically evaluate and test every feature of your site and check it against initial expectations – replacing features that don’t fulfill user story and fixing any issues so that when we go live, it’s the best possible experience.
6. MAINTENANCE & UPDATES
We wrap-up every website design project with videos that train you from the backend of your exact website – how to login, update plugins, update content like pages, media files and copyright info at the bottom of the site.
Values Rooted in Faith
The Approach
Highly regarded as leader in technology, design and culture,
the work we do together is intentional. Brand Evangelist pushes back against outdated norms in the marketing and media industries in order to inspire brands to unite in a mission of better business, with the full belief that our faith is a more firm foundation for anything worth dedicating our lives to. We’re constantly seeking out strategic partnerships with those
who are mission-aligned. The values that guide our work:
Businesses are the cornerstones of community and entrepreneurship represents freedom. These are notions
held as fact the Agency. Since our origin, we have been a 100% referral-based boutique design agency focusing on brand culture and brand identity. Some might say that our Founder’s graduate school research paper called “Branding Authenticity” planted the seed, but we believe it’s actually our faith that compels us to design and build; brand and coach. Our niche is faith-based brands, but we are excited to work with servant leaders, ministries, nonprofits and businesses who have good news worth spreading.
CREATIVE FACILITATION
Weave creativity thru entire process, from whiteboarding to mockups to deployment
DIGITAL INCLUSION
Guide the process of technology integration with workflow apps, software and AI
HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN
Encourage the voice of the client, aiming for the best design in the shortest turnaround
Loving Our Neighbors as Ourselves
NONPROFITS we support
When you do business with Brand Evangelist™, you’re investing in more than your brand – you’re supporting God’s fulfillment of the covenant and taking care of His people – your neighbors. Brand Evangelist contributes 10% of our revenue to nonprofits that have a focus on discipleship. Have a sponsorship or donated speaking request? We’re always on the lookout for ways to give back!
ART & CULTURE
OSHANNA CHURCH OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM
OSHANNA is a faith-based ministry advocating for access to sanctuary and the arts through programs, services and resources to farms, community centers, churches + other spaces where creativity and nature can cooperate.
AGRICULTURE
GOOD NEWS GARDEN MOVEMENT
Good News Gardens is a church-wide movement of individuals, congregations, schools, colleges, seminaries, monasteries, camps and conference centers involved in a variety of food and creation care ministries.
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