BRANDING AND DIGITAL MARKETING

That makes your service-based small business stand out from the rest, get found and grow.

A FEW OF THE BRANDS WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY GUIDED

Get The Marketing Results Your Small Business Needs

Local service-based small business owners like you struggle to gain new customers because they don’t have the time or knowledge to market themselves. 

At Guiding Brands, we solve this by executing marketing and design strategies to get you found in the local search—the result is more qualified calls and more business.

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Does this sound
like you?

Your website doesn’t represent you well.

You’re not proud of your marketing material.

You do your marketing when you can (or never).

You struggle to create content.

Marketing stresses you.

If yes, we need to talk! We will take the stress out of marketing.

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Here’s How We Guide Your Small Business To Success!

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1. Exploration Session

Every journey begins by exploring options. This means learning about your goals, challenges, values, wants, and desires.

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2. Roadmap Design

Next, we design a roadmap to determine the best paths to take and the tools we need to get you to the goals for your business.

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3. Execute The Plan

Then, we execute! Your roadmap will guide us as we build your business together.

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4. Success!

Celebrate successfully reaching the mountain top.

Karen Vick - President, Guiding Brands

Let us take the stress and worry out of marketing with carefully and thoughtfully planned marketing strategies to help you build a thriving business.

We’ve helped customers like you overcome the stress of marketing and building thriving businesses.

  • Our business has soared in the last 9 months. We went from no calls to 2 to 3 calls per week, and now we are getting 18+ qualified calls per month. Seven to 8 calls out of 10 convert to purchase orders. Karen is dedicated, knowledgeable, smart and sensitive to understand our business and to make our website attract new customers with her monthly blogs and whatever she knows and applies to make it work. We are delighted with our results. Our marketing budget is well worth the investment. Thank you Karen.

    ⎼ Oscar J. Morales
    Drapes and Shades Custom Window Designs

  • It is my pleasure to share the experiences I've had working with Karen and Guiding Brands. They have been responsible for creating and maintaining my websites for over a decade, as we started back in the 2000s.

    I highly recommend Guiding Brands as the solution to guide any small business to wider acceptance in the marketplace and continued success in their business endeavors.

    David I. Muir, Author & Photographer
    davidimuir.com & Pieces of Jamaica

  • Guiding Brands f/k/a Island Design Studio has created two websites for my law firm over the last 12 years. Each time I have worked with Guiding Brands, they have been professional, timely, detailed, and, most importantly, creative. This is exactly what any business needs of its vendors. I highly recommend Karen Vick and her company for any branding needs, including website design.

    ⎼ Attorney Dia T. Colbert
    The Colbert Law Firm, LLC

  • Karen designed my website after listening carefully to my needs. It is professional and represents and promotes my business and my brand. She brought a lot of value to my team through suggestions for solutions we were not aware of.

    — Dr. Simone French,
    Imara Medical Centre

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A few of the small businesses we have served