Brand strategy and creative direction to make your marketing easier.
We work with small businesses in moments of becoming, whose good work deserves to look, sound, and earn like it.
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 map what matters to you, who you’re for, and where you’ll thrive in your market, then shape your language, presence, and offers around it. You make confident decisions about what comes next instead of guessing. And marketing works the way it should: your people recognize you and 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.”
Brand strategy, creative direction, and advisory work that helps founders and teams see the business clearly enough that customers can too.
CLARITY YOU CAN BUILD A BUSINESS ON
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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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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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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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You already know exactly where you need another set of eyes.
The Copy Polish and Visual Polishes are focused reviews for an existing website that needs attention in one specific area.
Choose the Copy Polish for clearer, more compelling language; the Visual Polish for stronger visual consistency and creative direction; or combine the two when both need attention.
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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