We Help You Tell Your Story.
This One Is Ours.
We Are a Digital Marketing Agency.
Our founder, Matt Marquart, created HandBuiltBrands in 2013 as a generalist agency after working at two advertising agencies, JWT and Love Advertising in Houston. In the ensuing years, as our distributed team “came together” from locations around the world, it became clear that we do a handful of things extremely well, and that these things were really all that were needed to help business owners gain more customers and earn more revenue. So we keyed in on those major areas, and they are: custom website design, paid search, 3D video animation and SEO.
We Are Storytellers.
What makes us different from other digital marketing firms is what you might call our branding philosophy. We don’t look at a new project as merely an SEO campaign, or a content program, or a paid ads campaign, although these may well be products and programs we ultimately deliver. We see each project as an opportunity to tell a story — your story — better.
Our gift is being able to filter out the noise and drill down to the essence of what your company is, then building from that foundation with marketing materials that are stronger and more effective than you may have thought possible.
The HandBuiltBrands Story
Every business has a story — you’ve just got to find it, and then figure out the best way to tell it.
We Are Talented, Driven, Everyday People.
Although we focus on select marketing techniques, our specialties require us to possess a huge range of unique skillsets to be able to handle them all in-house. And even though we’re a boutique firm, our team combines proficiencies in:
Writing - website planning, content creation, blog writing, content marketing
Digital marketing - SEO expertise, SEM expertise, Display Advertising, Video Advertising, Analytics and Reporting
Animation - 2D and 3D animation, 3D modeling, post production, etc.
Design - Graphic design, website design, Brand Identity (Logos / Brand Standards)
Development - custom Wordpress sites, Squarespace sites
Overall smarts - business strategy, brand strategy, branding …
We also all recognize that we’re more than just our nine-to-fives…which is why we don’t really even do nine-to-fives. We work distributed because we value the freedom and work-life balance it gives us, and we work hard because we love what we do.
And this is what we do:
Our Clients
If your customers are searching online, we can help you.
(And spoiler alert: they are.)
Our clients are as diverse as Houston. They’re in medical technology, industrial chemicals, water treatment, generator sales. They’re lawyers and doctors and landlords, startups and Fortune 500 companies.
In short,
About all they have in common is the urgent need for a stellar online presence that rises above the noise. And we’ve been honored to provide that for them, whether they’re local folks or located halfway around the globe.
