While we don’t like to get all hoity toity around here, it’s getting hard to ignore the number of awards that have been given to projects with which we’ve been involved lately. It’s not like we’re out there begging for awards in the streets, but heck, if they keep giving them out, we’ll keep taking them!
This time, it’s the Zookbinders web site we developed on behalf of SDM Marketing, with the design provided by PBR Design. Workshed did all of the information architecture, wireframes, slicing, XHTML/CSS templates, SEO, Flash development, PHP development and custom CMS development (built on our very own Pegboard platform), as well as providing dedicated hosting services in our colocation facility.
The award was from the Summit International Awards — in the category of Emerging Media. The site was presented a Leader award. Of the approximately 700 entries from numerous countries only 12% earned recognition. There are 3 levels that were recognized: visionary, innovator and leader.
Workshed is extremely proud to have been a part of this project and thanks SDM Marketing, PBR Design and most importantly, the fine folks at Zookbinders for allowing us to be a part of it.
On Friday, December 5, Workshed will be celebrating the launch of a new web site for our clients at Jonesy’s Auto Restoration. The new Jonesy’s site allows them to share their work with the world, communicate with their clients via private project blogs, invoice and receive payment for their customer work online and manage their web site content all through a custom-built CMS based on our Pegboard platform.
Everyone’s welcome to attend. You can find out more about Jonesy’s, about the work we do and you can enjoy some live music from local indie act, Hellokopter. Did we mention the free snacks and drinks?
The event starts at 5:30 and goes until 8 p.m.
See you there!
Workshed Creative Agency
415 NE Cedar St.
Suite B (Downstairs)
Camas, WA 98607
It’s no secret that people are holding onto their money right now. Things are downright scary out there. Whether businesses are doing well or not, they are being cautious about spending money, with good reason. But they still need to market and have a web presence. When times are tough, the businesses that can still keep their name out there are the ones who will survive.
Recognizing a shifting market in a down economy, Workshed has decided to work with businesses and make a great, custom-designed web site, complete with content management tools and a blog, all the more accessible—all without breaking the bank.
Enter SimpleSites, our entry-level web presence solution. We design the site tailored to your business brand and style, we build out your pages, perform a basic search engine optimization and submission, then turn it loose for you to enter your content and go to town. We even provide a solid and affordable hosting platform for a reasonable monthly fee.
So, you may ask, why should you get a SimpleSite when you can get a template site for really cheap?
Simple: This isn’t a template site. It’s a custom design, done by an award winning creative agency that knows the web and how to design and build web sites. We’ve been able to streamline our process to make this product offering at a sigificantly reduced cost compared to a completely custom web site solution. Best of all, it’s built on a platform that is already search engine friendly right out of the box. Oh, and did I mention you can update your content at any time using an intuitive, web-based content management tool? We also probably didn’t mention that, depending on schedule and client turnaround times, we can complete your SimpleSite in as fast as one week.
Contact us for pricing information. We have some lovely, flexible payment plans at your disposal.
Fool the economy—stay in the minds of your customers by keeping it simple.
We just launched a new coordinated advertising campaign for Lacamas Community Credit Union. Titled the Better Match Campaign, it’s geared towards educating consumers about their offerings in an entertaining way, and ultimately increasing their membership. The campaign consists of a web site and four TV spots currently, but will be expanded to a print campaign and have additional TV spots added in the future.
The TV spots will be showing on KPTV (Fox 12) in the mornings, then across multiple cable channels on Comcast, such as TBS, USA, Food Network, Oxygen, Animal Planet, CMT, CNN, E!, FX, TRU TV, A&E and TLC.
The web site features the commercials, engaging copy and design style as well as a viral marketing-style Breakup Letter Generator, which consumers can use to break up with their current bank by e-mailing their customized breakup letter to one or more people.
Special thanks to Furman Pictures for their cinematography and editing contributions!
Check out the spots below and if you live or work in Southwest Washington, check out LCCU, too!
Congratulations to Workshed client, Lacamas Community Credit Union, who recently won First Place at the Washington Credit Union League’s Spectrum Marketing Awards. The award was for their recent “Dear John” direct mail and in-branch campaign, for which Workshed created the concept, copy writing, creative and art direction. The award category was for the the 150 million to 300 million asset category for best coordinated campaign. The contest was judged by a panel of non-credit union marketing and branding experts.
LCCU and Workshed will be expanding on the “Dear John” concept with an expanded, integrated Television, Print and Web “Better Match” campaign, which will be hitting the airwaves in early October.
We’d like to thank LCCU for being such a great client to work with, for trusting our creativity and giving us the freedom to cooperatively help push their brand and marketing to a new level.
While we don’t like to get all hoity toity around here, it’s getting hard to ignore the number of awards that have been given to projects with which we’ve been involved lately. It’s not like we’re out there begging for awards in the streets, but heck, if they keep giving them out, we’ll keep taking them!
