Brand strategy and creative direction to make your marketing easier.
We help small businesses build brands and websites that reflect the quality of their work, make their value easier to understand, and give customers more reasons to choose them.
Looks like you?
Sounds like you?
Works for you?
The Annual Website Check-Up
Looks like you? Sounds like you? Works for you? The Annual Website Check-Up
Your business is always becoming. Your brand and website should keep up.
Picture a business where everything fits: the words, the look, the offers, the first hello. Marketing can only be as clear as the brand behind it, so here, brand comes first. We figure out what matters, who you're for, and what makes you worth choosing, then bring it all to life in the places your customers encounter you.
Whether you're building something new or improving what you already have, you can make confident decisions instead of guessing. And with everything working together, your marketing becomes more effective: the right people understand what makes you special and want to choose you.
Now that's a love story.
MAKE THE FIRST MOVE?
“What sets Candice apart isn’t just her design sense, though her command of color, energy, and visual identity is genuinely exceptional, it’s her ability to see into the soul of a brand (and the person behind it) before they’ve even articulated it themselves. She has this rare gift for knowing what you need before you do, and then delivering it with an attention to detail that makes the final result feel both surprising and completely inevitable.
Her approach to branding and marketing is grounded in something I deeply respect: honesty. She’s not interested in manufactured hype or manipulation — she builds brands around true identity and genuine community. Her strategic thinking is sharp, her aesthetic POV is distinctive, and her philosophy is grounded in humanity.”
CLARITY YOU CAN BUILD A BUSINESS ON
Brand strategy, websites, creative direction, and advisory that help businesses show up beautifully and give customers more reasons to choose them.
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You know something needs attention. You’re just not sure what should happen first.
The Beautifully Strategic™ Clarity Intensive is 10 focused days to understand what needs attention, make the important decisions, and leave with a roadmap for what to do, or not do, next.
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You know where you’re going. Now you need a clear foundation for getting there.
We’ll define the strategic choices that give your brand direction — what you stand for, who you’re for, what makes you worth choosing, how you should position yourself, and the language and ideas that hold it all together.
The result is a Brand Strategy you can use to guide creative work, marketing, offers, customer experience, and the decisions still to come.
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Your website should look like you, make sense to your customers, and help your business grow. Whether you're starting fresh or improving what you already have, we can help.
That might mean rethinking how your site is organized, rewriting pages, refreshing the visuals, improving functionality, or designing and building a new website. You don't need a full rebrand to make meaningful improvements.
Explore the Annual Website Check-Up or start a website conversation.
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The direction is clear. Now it needs to become something people can see, feel, and choose.
We translate your strategy into the creative expression of the brand — from visual identity and creative direction to the website and other places your business shows up.
Depending on what you need, that might mean developing a new identity, evolving the one you already have, directing photography and imagery, shaping the overall creative world, or designing and building the website that brings it together.
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Sometimes the question is bigger.
Business Advisory gives founders, leaders, and teams experienced strategic support around brand, positioning, marketing, creative direction, offers, customer experience, or other important initiatives.
We might pressure-test a new direction, shape an initiative, connect decisions happening across the business, or step into a strategic project that needs clearer direction and forward movement.
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Sometimes you know exactly what needs attention, and you don't need a big project to make it better.
Our $750 Copy Polish helps you improve the words you're already using, with clearer messaging, stronger headlines, and rewritten copy you can put to work right away.
Our $750 Visual Polish gives your existing brand a fresh visual perspective, with direction for photography, color, typography, and imagery, plus a selection of new images to use.
You’ll leave with concrete recommendations you can implement yourself, hand to your team, or ask Smitten to help carry forward.
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You want experienced guidance, but you want to stay closely involved in making the work.
In Collaborative Brand Building we work together at your pace, one decision and piece of the brand at a time. You do more of the hands-on work; I provide the strategy, creative direction, feedback, and outside perspective that helps you keep moving confidently.
Our sessions might involve positioning or messaging decisions, shaping an offer, reviewing identity or website work, working through copy, choosing imagery, or figuring out what should come next.
It’s a way to get expert support while spreading the investment over time and keeping more of the building in your own hands.
“I would absolutely recommend Smitten to any business owner looking to take their company to the next level… they always open my mind to way more possibilities than I’d ever been able to see before... and that combined with their expertise makes them a dream to work with!”
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“They shared a wealth of knowledge about marketing and branding that made me think through many elements of our branding strategy that I had not considered. I recommend them to anyone in need of branding work.”
Building beautifully strategic businesses people can see, understand, trust, and love to choose again and again.
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