Week 0–1
Signal
Positioning workshops, audience interviews and the audit of what's working and what isn't.
Signal · Aylesbury UK · Est. 2014
See the signal. not the noise.
We're a creative studio and growth team rolled into one. Brand, design, web and SEO, delivered by people who stick around — because the best work is what happens in year two, three, five.
01 · Coffee Lady
3.2%
Doubled CTR in 6 months
02 · Retained
100%
client retention, 3+ years
03 · Bay Aggregates
£1.5m
new organic revenue
04 · Average
4.2×
return on retainer spend
05 · Speed
8 wks
brand + site, start to live
06 · Coverage
#1–3
page-one rankings held
07 · Years in
12
years of retained partners
What we do
Five reinforcing systems, run as one retained engine.
Strategy sits at the centre. Brand, web, SEO and automation rise out of it — each one a panel, each one carrying its own weight, each one tuned to the same signal.
05 · Pillar
Automation & CRM
HubSpot, Zapier, lead routing and the reporting that shows what's actually moving the number.
+38%Lead → meeting
03 · Pillar
Web design & build
Sites built in WordPress or headless with Core Web Vitals baked in. Designed to convert and keep ranking.
<1.2sLCP target
02 · Pillar
Brand & identity
Logomark, type, colour, system and the guidelines that keep it on-brand long after we're gone.
6 wksDesign phase
04 · Pillar
SEO & content
Technical, on-page and editorial SEO — content that answers real questions and earns real positions.
12 moMinimum retainer
01 · The plinth
Strategy
Positioning, naming, audience and messaging architecture. Everything downstream hangs from this.
£10–25kTypical scope
The Proud Brands method
One studio. One signal. One shared outcome.
OSOF™ is how we keep brand, web, SEO and automation pulling in the same direction — so the thing you launch in week eight still earns its place in year three.
Pillar 01
Visibility
Show up where your customers are already looking — with the right message, in the right position, ahead of the competition.
Pillar 02
Clarity
Positioning, messaging and design that strip the fog. One idea, said well, reinforced everywhere your audience meets you.
Pillar 03
Trust
Proof, craft and consistency — the quiet things that turn traffic into enquiries and enquiries into long-term customers.
How a Proud partnership starts.
Four phases, eight weeks to launch, then years of retained work. Every engagement follows the same shape so nothing gets lost between brand, web and growth.
Week 2–4
Shape
Brand system, site architecture and the content plan that feeds the next twelve months.
Week 5–8
Ship
Design, build, QA and launch. Real analytics wired in from day one so we can prove movement.
Ongoing
Sustain
Retained SEO, content, conversion tuning and quarterly reviews against the number we agreed in week one.
A small core. A senior bench.
A four-person core in Aylesbury, plus a vetted bench of senior specialists for development, content and execution. The people who pitch you the work do the work — and the people you meet in week one are still on the account in year three.
01 · SB
Sean Brannon
Managing Director · Your Account Manager
02 · EB
Elizabeth Brannon
Director · Finance & People
03 · US
Usman Shoukat
Head of Strategy & Marketing
04 · SK
Simon Kay
Senior bench · Video direction
05 · ··
Senior bench
Dev · Content · Specialists
Tell us what's not working.
We'll tell you honestly whether we can fix it. Thirty minutes, no slides, no follow-up sequences.
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