The price doesn’t move
You get a number in writing before anything starts, and that’s the number you pay. No hourly billing, and no invoice at the end that’s bigger than you were expecting.
About me
I’m Jacob. I’m the whole company.
There’s no account manager and no team you never meet. You get me, from the first phone call to the day your site goes live.
Why one person
One phone call instead of four
A lot of small businesses end up with branding from one place, a website from another, and a Google listing nobody has touched in years. Then the phone number on the website doesn’t match the one on Google, the logo on the sign isn’t quite the logo on the van, and when something breaks it takes three phone calls to work out whose job it is.
I do all of it. So if something’s wrong, it’s mine to fix and you only have to call one person.
It also means I answer my own phone. You’re not filling in a form and waiting three days to hear back.
My background
I already do this for a living
I’m a marketing director for a company here in New Mexico. I’m responsible for a real advertising budget, and every month somebody asks me what it brought in. That job is where I learned the part a lot of designers never have to think about, which is whether any of this is actually bringing you customers.
Before that I studied design at NMSU, then got my bachelor’s in marketing from WGU. Design taught me how to build it. Marketing taught me how to tell if it’s working. You get both.
ForgeBrands is where I do that work for small businesses around Albuquerque. The day job pays my bills, which means I don’t have to take every project that comes along. I take two at a time, so yours isn’t waiting behind ten others, and you deal with me from the first call to the day it goes live.
How I work
Three things you can count on
No surprises
You find out exactly what I’d build and why on the first call, before any money changes hands. Nothing gets sold to you that doesn’t fix the problem you actually have.
You own everything
The logo files, the website, the accounts. All yours. If you ever want to move it somewhere else, I’ll hand it all over.
Worth knowing
A few things up front
- I don’t run paid ads. No Google Ads and no Facebook Ads. What I build is the side of Google you don’t pay for every click on.
- I don’t take heating, cooling or plumbing businesses. I work in that industry already and I keep the two separate.
- I take two projects at a time, so if I’m full I’ll tell you when I can start.
- Every website I build has a small “built by ForgeBrands” line in the footer. If you’d rather it wasn’t there, just ask.
Want to check me out first?
Fair enough. Here’s where else I am.
Or call and ask me anything.
Next step
Let’s get you set up to be found
Twenty minutes on the phone. You tell me what you sell and what’s frustrating you, and I’ll tell you exactly what I’d build to fix it.