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 expert partner. We help clients to build their Difference Engine® and achieve their ambitions as market leaders with brand strategy, thought leadership content, signature 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, 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 has been instrumental in assisting me with defining a cohesive brand identity, positioning and messaging for my company. They’ve brought clarity to how we communicate our unique value proposition in ways that I would have never imagined prior to working with their incredible team. This has only been possible because they have taken the time to learn my business, requiring deep analysis, ongoing support and a considerable investment of time. The power of their ideas, and The Difference Engine they’ve collectively built as an organization cannot be constrained by the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel or any other physical encumbrance. In my experience and for my business, Articulate doesn't move the needle, they are the needle."
Dennis Stilger Concord
"The work was turned around in an incredible timeframe. That was down to precise planning and project management, as well as skilful implementation. The project included a launch of our Symbio product. To turn that around in six weeks was unbelievable. We’ve seen really positive feedback and leads. Plus, the visibility we have on those leads is on scale we’ve never seen before. Given this success, it was natural to continue with further projects."
Katie Opie HealthHero
"With Articulate’s combined expertise of sales enablement and content creation we started driving significant traffic to our web site, increased our LinkedIn network exponentially and generated inbound, qualified leads within a couple of weeks. I’m not impressed easily – but I am by Team Articulate. Not only that, but they are a jolly lovely bunch of people to work with! Can’t thank or recommend them enough."
Elsa Cheshire Azured
"We loved the collaborative approach of working with the team, who were able to bolster our in-house capabilities and provide us with the right tools to accelerate our digital marketing strategy. The output has not only exceeded all expectations but has been met with resounding positivity within the marketplace. It finally feels like we have a brand reflective of our product, culture, and capabilities."
Emily Plummer Beyond Encryption
"Articulate has provided great advice and we've been able to tailor weekly sessions to what we want. Articulate has audited our HubSpot account, got things up and running from a technical perspective, and helped us solve our problems. We've set up new dashboards, custom audience lists for advertising, and built our first webinar campaign. We've already begun to see ROI."
Simon Marlow Ecologi
"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
"The processes are night and day with Articulate - in a good way. I really love and sincerely enjoy our brainstorming sessions. What stands out to me is the research that goes into them. The team comes with well-thought-out, topical, and evidence-backed ideas. They are very flexible when we give our input too, pivoting on the spot to take those thoughts onboard, which always comes through in the final content plans."
Kelly Peters JazzHR
"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
"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
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