What good looks like
An up-to-date visual brand that is clearly defined and aligns with your vision.
A logo that people recognise from a mile away, designed using best practices.
A website to be proud of, artfully designed and easy to update in the future.
Optimised site performance, user experience and conversion rates.
Who are you?
You are a B2B tech brand with a mission: to positively impact the world with your products or services. To do so, you need a website that grows your brand awareness and drives leads to your business. Your existing site fails on both fronts. Your current site isn’t doing the business and doesn’t reflect your ambitions.
Who are we?
Articulate Marketing is an award-winning marketing agency, B Corp and HubSpot Diamond partner. We help clients to build their Difference Engine and achieve their ambitions as market leaders with marketing strategy, thought leadership content, beautiful websites and HubSpot consultancy. See our latest success stories here.
What you get
Service overview
We offer a range of services including logo redesign, visual brand creation, website design and development, website copywriting, as well as technical maintenance and optimisation.
Having built dozens of websites for our clients over the years, we have an extremely efficient, integrated process that is a balm for those clients who have been burned before.
Here are some free resources if you’d like to see how we think about branding and websites:
Logo design
Either as a standalone project or as part of a website design and build engagement, we offer logo and visual identity services to help you modernise your brand.
The depth and complexity of these projects vary from revamping an existing logo to a complete brand journey that is intensely collaborative and iterative. Our in-house design team gets in the trenches with your stakeholders to truly understand your business and create a striking logo that you — and your audience — will love.
We can also craft logo variants or multiple logos for different product lines, establishing a happy brand family that grows as your business grows.
Design blueprints
As with our strategic blueprints service, we also offer design blueprints. Our creative process helps you identify consistent colour palettes, font choices and other elements of your company’s design architecture.
We use mood boards and mockups to illustrate your brand style, and collate this work in a brand book that your team can reference for all marketing and website requirements.
This work can run hand-in-hand with a logo project. Many clients also want design blueprints and a brand book as part of a website design and build engagement, which reduces the cost of this workstream. (It’s worth noting that site design is part-and-parcel of website projects, regardless.)
Website design and build
As a HubSpot onboarding accredited agency, we provide site migration and onboarding support for clients to get their existing site onto HubSpot CMS, our platform of choice for all website builds. If you’d like to know more about HubSpot websites, get in touch with our business development team.
From there, in a nutshell, we design and build award-winning, search-optimised, responsive, secure, beautiful websites that are aligned with your brand and your ambitions.
Such sites are made for marketing with CRM integration, lead capture and easy-to-update page editing. Meaning, we make sites that anyone can update in the future, without bothering a developer.
Engagements include proactive project management with our studio team to ensure multiple moving parts come together cohesively for launch. Here’s a top-level overview of our tried and true process:
1. Website strategy
Sitemap planning and strategic discussions for the project. Can include technical consultation and SEO/CRO recommendations, depending on engagement level.
2. Design process
Includes identification of colours, fonts and other design elements, and can include mood boards and detailed mockups, depending on engagement level.
3. Site development
Performance-focused, cutting-edge coding of bespoke modules, as per the engagement level, from our in-house team of experts, using the HubSpot platform.
4. Page build
Pages built with page-level SEO and imagery (curated photos or custom illustrations, as per engagement level), with optional copy. Site launched with QA checks.
Additional website elements
Copywriting
Some web page copywriting is usually included as part of the website engagement, but additional copy can be purchased on a page-by-page basis, as needed.
Extra functionality
Certain functionality such as database-driven content, careers site, members’ area, or multi-language support would be scoped as required.
Complex integrations
While some integrations can be included, depending on engagement level, complex integrations require paid scoping projects before implementation.
Website design and build engagement models
Website engagements are offered at three levels, from smaller sites to those with ambitious branding, design and functional requirements. Our strategic services are prerequisites for a website kick-off.
Launchpad website
For small sites, done quickly, this takes about one to two months from kick-off.
Creative website
Our recommended option for ambitious B2B businesses, this takes around 90-120 days.
Pro creative website
For large or complex websites, these engagements can take a bit longer and involve more collaboration and consulting.
Website maintenance and optimisation
Engagements include support for launch and 30 days post-launch. We also offer technical support on a sprint or retainer basis for maintenance and projects. This can include HubSpot support for activities like report-building, so you get maximum visibility on traffic, conversions and other key metrics.
Technical sprints are used by clients to run search and conversion optimisation projects, such as A/B testing, personalisation or other user experience improvements. They can be used to implement a range of elements, such as to build out new page templates.
Sprints are run as a one-off project OR on an ongoing quarterly basis, either as part of a website design and build engagement, or completely separately.
"Articulate are one of the easiest agencies to work with. They know what they are doing and are very upfront about what we could expect from them, but also what they’d expect from us in return, helping to build a healthy working relationship. Articulates approach has been a very refreshing and positive experience."
Kevin Levy Theorem Solutions
"We knew we needed to reinvent our brand to project a more professional and grown-up image, that matched our work standard and ethos. Matthew and the Articulate team led us gently into identifying what makes us tick as a brand, what sets us apart from the crowd and what we want to project."
Rebecca Halifax Tech City Teams
I cannot recommend our experience with Articulate enough. They took the time to understand our needs and requirements. We had open lines of communication and a clear plan. The website built for us is not only highly functional and user-friendly on desktop and mobile, it incorporates all the necessary features, is clean, bright, welcoming, easily navigable, and simple for us to update on our own going forward.
Leanne McGill Fairview International School
"We recommend Articulate for at least three reasons: they absolutely master their craft, they are a pleasure to work with and they are not just "doers" but great advisors. Thanks to their great knowledge of HubSpot, they handled specific requirements for our website single-handedly."
Vincent Lambercy FoxATM
"When Articulate helped us redesign our website and move it to HubSpot as a CMS/Host, this is when we quickly began to realise the true value of Articulate and the power of the HubSpot platform. Since going live we are now experiencing triple-digit growth and this trend is not slowing down."
Mitchell Feldman RedPixie
"The engagement with Articulate is like nothing we have experienced before. They took the time to really get to know us as a business and the website we have now is beyond our expectations. We could not be more pleased."
Sarah Howell HTG
"A very clear and focused plan on getting from an empty CRM to something that will support getting customers through the funnel. Doing HubSpot the Articulate way gives more time for customers, and takes away lots of time spent on customer admin. Safe pair of hands for your sales engine."
Phil Schofield Ripple
"Despite being "small", we received a white glove experience. The team is incredibly professional, the customer experience is delightful, the deliverables so far are exceptional. I can't wait to see the results of the entire project and start new projects with this amazing team."
Lori Brigg Cloudvisor
"Articulate's planning and integration processes are well-organised, and they have produced creative solutions for our B2B Corporation. We're reaching more leads than we could have imagined. The Articulate team are a very talented and a pleasure to work with."
Julie Roth Duff Norton
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