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Branding on Purpose
How to Elevate Your Landscaping Website Design
For high-end landscape firms, your website isn’t just a place to store projects. It’s the first step in establishing fit with the right clients. Before someone ever calls your office, they’re already forming an impression. Your landscaping firm’s website design should reflect the same level of care, clarity, and intention that defines your outdoor spaces. Let’s look at how we can close the gap.
Why Beautiful Isn't Enough: Rethinking the Designer's Digital Presence
The question isn't whether AI can build you a beautiful website. It can, and impressively so. The question is whether you understand the cultural context that website needs to speak to. Whether you've identified how your clients actually position you. Whether your digital presence demonstrates the same level of fluency and discernment that your work does.
When Your Brand No Longer Fits the Business You’ve Built
Here at Ethos, we believe outgrowing your brand is a signal of maturity, not just misalignment.
How to Audit Your Brand
Sometimes you have to take a step back to see the best path forward. A brand audit, done every few years, can ensure that your brand is aligned with your purpose, your ideal clientele, and your future business.
The Truth About SEO: Blogging Still Matters
There’s one major difference I see in my clients’ websites that get high traffic from search and those that don’t…. long form content. Yes, I’m talking about blogs. Let’s get into why they still matter and how to make content creation easier for you.
Storytelling, Strategy, and Social Media Growth: Lessons from Oxfam and Harvard
In 10+ years of leading digital content at Oxfam and Harvard, I learned what really drives growth, what makes an impact, and the difference between the two.
How to Uncover Your Brand Purpose
But there's something even more foundational to your brand than your logo or color palette. Something that's at the root of cultivating deep, long lasting connections with your clientele and setting your brand apart from the rest.
5 Sneaky Things That Could Be Hurting Your Website Conversion
We all want our websites to be conversion machines. Your site is the always-on face of your brand. But sometimes the very elements we think are helping might actually be holding us back.