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No matter where you are with your brand, we have a Brand Muffin ™ package perfect for giving your business the boost it needs.

The Mini Muffin.
Ready to invest in your personal brand and web presence? Our Mini Muffin is the recipe for you. Perhaps your business is still in the idea stage, or maybe you skipped over this process entirely and aren’t clearly defining who you are as a brand in the marketplace. We’ll start you off small (but we’ll pack a punch!) with the following items: strategic roadmapping session, brand identity (logo and positioning line), Style Guide, Coming Soon page with optional email signup, website design and build, award-winning copywriting, Guide to Email Marketing and other useful guides (created by us), two press releases or email blasts, basic on-site SEO setup and implementation, and one follow-up call scheduled for three months after your website launches. That initial investment will send your business flying sky-high – just follow our lead.

The Mojo Muffin.
Maybe you’re a bit further along in the branding process. You’re a designated “DIYer” – someone who launched their business 2-3 years ago, bootstrapped their branding and website, and have worn all the marketing hats ever since. Your brand has the solid foundation it needs and business is good – but you’re crying for help. It’s time to hand off the reins to someone capable of taking your brand to the next level, from DIY to clean and professional. Because as a business owner, time is your biggest asset. Our Mojo will give your brand the freshening it needs to catapult your business forward! With all the basics of our Mini Muffin recipe, this package kicks it up a notch with two additional digital ad designs, basic on-site SEO setup and implementation, social media profile review, branded imagery for your profiles, and four Instagram promo graphics tailored to your brand. How’s that for Mojo?

The Monster Muffin.
Sometimes you just need to bring out the big guns. The Monster Muffin is perfect for all you seasoned entrepreneurs (we promise it’s not as scary as it sounds!). You’ve been in business for over 3 years, and you know what sells and what doesn’t when it comes to your brand. You’re super busy, and we totally get it. If you don’t have the time to stay on top of your web presence, and you’re in desperate need of a brand makeover, the Monster Muffin is made for you. Packed with marketing tools and bursting with flavor, the Monster Muffin package includes all elements of the Mojo Muffin and goes one step further. Our recipe calls for an additional three-hour photoshoot plus an original, compelling video to bring your brand’s story to life. (Our production team will story board, produce and edit the video.) We’re filling our mixing bowls to the brim with this one!

Not sure which branding package is right for you? Let’s start with a consultation session. We’ll take an hour to learn about you and your brand, and more importantly, map out a strategic marketing and design plan to help give your brand the boost it needs.

While each design option was created to suit specific industries, we encourage you to choose the one you that gets you most excited! If once we get started, you think a different design would be better suited to your needs, you can completely change your mind.

Still not sure? We’ve put together a review of who we created each design for, and why we think it will work best for them.

Remedy
A great option for spas, salons, nutritionists, personal trainers, health coaches, and anyone else in the beauty and wellness industry who needs a calm, inviting, online environment to welcome their clients and accept bookings.

Casa
A great option for retail and boutique owners, interior designers, apparel designers, or anyone with a brick-and-mortar shop or a line of products that they want to sell online. This option is designed to feature your in-store brand experience via your website, and can be integrated with Shopify to let you sell your products directly online.

Lawson
A great option for lawyers, accountants, realtors, financial advisors, and consultants of any kind. This option is designed to elevate your offerings in a trustworthy and professional environment, without making you look like another piece of the “institution.” This option is designed to keep you modern and approachable.

Nantucket
A great option for food, lifestyle and fashion bloggers. Our Nantucket design was created to elevate your content, showcase your aesthetic, and connect you with your users.

Studio
A minimal and functional portfolio-focused design for creative entrepreneurs. Studio was designed to show off the various categories of work that you do, and highlight a simple pricing and services structure, so your clients have all of the information they need to say yes to working with you.

Pulse
A great option for fitness studios of any kind. Yoga, spinning, barre, personal training, local gym, aerial silks – you name it. Our Pulse design was created to seamlessly integrate your class schedule with MindBody, feature your studio location(s) and instructors, and connect you with your customers.

Need a little more guidance? Let’s sit down for a consultation session, where we can dive deep into your brand and discuss how to move it forward. One hour, strategic planning, design and branding recommendations – it’s all available with a consultation session!

Not to worry! All of the designs that you see on our site are completely customizable. While our industry-specific templates are sure to strike a chord with small business owners of all types, we know that each brand and business owner is uniquely different. If you’re drawn to a certain design but aren’t completely sure if it will work for your business, no problem! As part of our Brand Muffin™ process, we’ll work with you to make the design fit the needs of your business, or help you choose one that does.

The best place to start is with a consultation session. Together, we’ll map out a strategic marketing and design plan to help you get where you need to go, and send you off with a tailored Brand Muffins™ design and branding package recommendation. If you decide to boost your brand with us, we’ll even throw in a $100 voucher to use on any package.

The layout of each design that you see in our demos will stay the same for your website – but the color palette, fonts, and imagery will all be unique to your brand.

Many of the small business owners who come to us for a rebrand use the same word: they feel stuck. They may have tried investing in other marketing services before with little to no success, or they may have gone it alone up to this point – trying to tackle all facets of marketing strategy on their own but not feeling quite “professional” enough.

And then there’s the headstrong, get-it-done entrepreneurs who are kicking ass and ready to take their brand to the next level. They’re not settling, and their business goals are oriented around one thing: growth.

No matter where your brand stands or how long you’ve been in business, we can give your brand the liftoff it needs to reach new heights – those pinch me, I’m dreaming kind of heights.

Don’t know which branding package is right for you? Let’s start with a consultation session. We’ll take an hour to learn about you and your brand, and more importantly, map out a strategic marketing and design plan to help give your brand the boost it needs. We’ll give you a Brand Muffins™ design and branding package recommendation, and a $100 voucher to use on any package, if you decide to boost your brand with us.

Good question! At its core, Brand Muffins™ is a web design service, and we have been hard at work creating a seamless process for small business owners to select industry-specific, stunning designs representative of their brand. Because each Brand Muffin™ package hinges on a design aesthetic, we need to start with a fresh design! But if you’re not on board with that, not to worry – our sister company DARCI Creative will take care of you. Just send a note with your branding needs.

Our recommendation: sign up for a consultation session. We’ll start at the beginning with a one-hour strategy session to catch up on you and your brand. We’ll take a closer look at what’s working in your business, what’s not, and talk about how to give it the boost you need. If you choose, you can take our recommendation for a Brand Muffins™ design and branding package, with a $100 voucher to use on any package.

If you’re still on the fence, though, and simply want a little website maintenance, give a shout to our sisters at DARCI Creative. They’ll work with you on the updates your site needs.

Love what you see but still crave a more custom web aesthetic? We totally get it. While our Brand Muffins™ packages aim to simplify the traditional web design process, we understand that not every business owner will find the perfect fit among our design library (and that’s okay). If that’s you, send a note to our partners at DARCI Creative – they can design a more customized package for your website.

But before you go – consider a consultation session! If you’re not sure whether our designs are for you, let’s chat. Together, we’ll map out a strategic marketing and design plan to help you get where you need to go, and send you off with a tailored Brand Muffins™ design and branding package recommendation. If you decide to boost your brand with us, we’ll even throw in a $100 voucher to use on any package.

That’s okay! We are flexible. Go ahead and book and we can work with you to decide on the best start date for you so you can realistically reach your goals.

Fantastic! We’re so pleased that you’re ready to invest in your brand and take your business to the next level. Contact us and we will work with you to create a realistic project timeline.

The entire project can take anywhere between 12-16 weeks, but it can be longer or shorter than that, depending on how promptly you can turn around feedback and approval of our deliverables. This project is a two-way street, so we both need to be meeting our deadlines in order to stay on track.

If you have a question about any of our Brand Muffins™ packages, feel free to contact us and we’d be happy to answer them. If you’d like us to consult on a plan and strategy for your rebrand or website launch, we recommend booking a consultation session.

We’re a team of small business specialists from DARCI Creative, a Boutique Brand Agency in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We are marketers, managers, copywriters, designers and artists who love their craft. We are Seacoast lovers and small business champions. To us, one of the best feelings is to help our small business community and watch our clients transform their brands and build their businesses.

We invite you to meet our team, see what our happy clients have to say about us, or shoot us a quick note to say hello. We can’t wait to get to know you!

If you’re still with us, you might have noticed that the Brand Muffins™ team and the DARCI Creative team is one and the same. But our offerings are not! We created Brand Muffins ™ as a simplistic, intuitive solution for the small business owner – someone who needs a bite-sized package of expert branding and web design (at a delicious price) to help launch or relaunch their business. Think of it as a branding and digital marketing combo to help jumpstart your business quickly, efficiently, and brilliantly. A simplified branding process.

We offer branding and web design services at DARCI Creative too, but there’s much more to our process than that. At its core, DARCI Creative is a boutique branding agency with an Inside Out Brand Marketing approach. This means that the sky’s the limit in terms of what we offer – strategic planning and brand consulting, web design, award-winning copywriting, public relations management, social media management, print advertising and more. We craft these marketing strategies to suit the varying needs of our clients, no matter what size organization they may be.

From our experiences working with businesses of all shapes and sizes, we realized that there was one group of business owners with similar needs: small business owners. We’re familiar with the process that takes small business owners from idea stage to launch, and we get the many obstacles a small business owner faces during that time. That’s why we created a solution just for them to give their brand a little boost.

That’s easy. We’re not Squarespace, and we’re not trying to be. We offer so much more than web design services to our Brand Muffins™ clients, because we’re not just a web design company. Let us explain.

Squarespace helps you build a website, but their services stop there. Essentially, it’s a self-service web design company. On the other hand, we designed Brand Muffins™ as a full-service, comprehensive branding process, which includes expert branding, killer copywriting and web design all in a neat little package for small business owners at all stages of the branding process. We’re not a “DIY” design template process. When you become a Brand Muffins™ client, you’re getting so much more than a website – you’re getting expert branding and strategy by DARCI Creative, a team of branding specialists who have been in the biz for decades.

Many small business owners have expressed interest in our Brand Muffins™ packages but have asked, “What’s next?” when it comes to project completion.

We offer a variety of maintenance packages to follow up each web design process. They aren’t outlined on our site, because these offerings are exclusive to Brand Muffins™ clients. Once you sign on with us and we deliver our final recipes to you at the end of the project, we’ll send you all of the maintenance package options for you to chew over.

Unfortunately, no. Due to the nature of our Brand Muffins™ packages and the efficiency we are able to offer our clients, we are not able to offer constant support at every hour of the day. Our team runs a full-service marketing agency in addition to the services we offer small business owners through Brand Muffins™, and when we show up to work in the morning at our branding agency, we like to give it our all.

That’s not to say we’ll shut our doors on a Brand Muffins™ client once they graduate the branding process and never speak to them again. We’re still here for you! And, we are happy to offer support hours from Monday – Friday, 9am – 6pm for any follow-up questions and support you might need. If you encounter a sudden emergency, like your website crashing in the middle of the night (we feel you), we recommend calling your hosting company first. (But no worries – we’re happy to be on standby.)

No, we’re not a bakery.

Aside from the fact that we absolutely love baked goods of all kinds (Who doesn’t?), the Brand Muffins™ name was carefully crafted with an underlying theme in mind.

The idea stemmed from a bran muffin. One of the simplest muffins of them all. And one of the healthiest and most wholesome of them all, right? (Okay, so maybe muffins aren’t the healthiest foods out there, but a bran muffin is certainly better for you than a chocolate chip muffin.) We’d even go so far as to say that a bran muffin is good for you (everything in moderation, folks).

In the same vein, a Brand Muffin™ is good for your business. Small, sweet and nutritious. To us, branding is what what makes a business healthy and wholesome – and we are big brand champions. That’s why we’ve crafted these brand booster packages to help our small business owners out, no matter what stage of the branding process they are in. Have you had your Brand Muffin™ today?

DARCI Creative, our parent company, will produce your video and photo shoot if you are within a 90-mile radius of Portsmouth, NH. If you are in another part of the country or the world, we will provide a storyboard outline and arrange the shoot with one of our partners.