About

Who we are

Your trusted partner for digital Marketing, Strategic Communications and design services

Actually was established to help actualize your business goals and vision—to literally make your ideas real by communicating your brand’s products or services with graphic design, digital marketing, and web technologies. We enjoy designing all aspects of client projects from start to finish.

Graphic design, web design, digital marketing, strategic communications, accessibility, user interface and user experience design, event marketing, social media marketing, and content production are creative services we enjoy working on the most.

Actually works with startup companies, nonprofit and charity organizations, solopreneurs and sole proprietors, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small businesses.

We operate in the heart of Downtown Barrie, Ontario. Actually works with remote clients and teams anywhere across Canada.

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History, vision and mission

History

Actually’s story began in March 2012. Over ten years later, the company still operates the same, working to be a trusted partner for clients’ graphic design, web design, digital marketing and strategic communications.

Vision Statement

To be a trusted partner offering affordable design, digital marketing, and communication services.

Mission Statement

To help small business owners and nonprofit organizations create space for their business.

 

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The team

Christine is an experienced designer located in Barrie working with remote clients and teams across Canada. Her experience specializes in graphic design, web design, content creation, email marketing and event marketing.

She is a web designer and graphic designer with a passion for business, entrepreneurship, strategic communications, digital marketing and tech education.

Christine has held a variety of responsibilities in her career making her a well-rounded designer. She designs affordable solution-driven business outcomes—serving clients well beyond their present needs.

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Our creative services

Website Design, e-Commerce and UI/UX

Design a content or e-commerce website with Squarespace. Actually designs websites to help businesses create space for their business online with an affordable website CMS platform that you control, website accessibility and SEO in mind.

 

Graphic Design

Visually appealing and interesting graphic design that is easy to read and aligns with your business branding on business cards, postcards, rack cards, stationery, invitations, pamphlets, brochures, posters, or other advertisements for digital and print.

Content Marketing

Write content for digital and print marketing materials that advertise your brand's products and services. Copywriting for business materials such as videos, articles, blogs and social media posts that distribute and communicate your business’s valuable, authentic and relevant content to attract and engage an audience.

 

Creative direction

Art direction to inspire branding with colour theory, typography, photography and illustration artistic graphic assets for future media production needs and sales goals. Art direction helps unify creative composition for multiple or various designs, using design principles, including a thoughtful and careful review of design conceptualization prior to production stages.

 

Brand Design

Brand design and identity design for marketing and advertising business, charity or nonprofit products and services in a competitive marketing place. Brand research and development includes colour theory, mood board, and brand guidelines for your digital and print.

 

Editorial Design

Publication and editorial layout design for annual reports, brochures, magazines, booklets, books, and e-books that are visually attractive and easy to read with a balance of interesting graphic design and visuals such as photography, icons, diagrams or charts and graphs.

 

event marketing

Customized full-service creative design for event marketing and promotional campaigns with email marketing, website design, and social media marketing for any type of event on Zoom, Eventbrite or in-person at a venue.

 

Training Sessions and Videos

In-person or virtual Zoom training sessions or prerecorded training videos to be viewed on-demand with private video links for your business needs. Training is an option for businesses or entrepreneurs who want to manage their creative services independently or with in-house teams.

 

Videography

Lifestyle, commercial or business video for a website or streaming media. Copywriting for script development and teleprompter services also are available.

 

Logo and Identity Design

Logo design for identity to visually communicate with your audience about your business brand. All logo designs include colour swatches for Pantone, web (RGB) and print (CMYK) colour gamuts, which are detailed in a PDF branding guideline booklet.

 

Strategic Digital communications

Develop a strategic plan for digital communications to develop messaging for your audience(s).

 

Social media marketing

Copywriting for social media shares and micro-blogging for social media campaigns. Connect your audience to your brand to drive traffic to your website to increase sales with social media plans and consistent messaging.

 

Advertising Design

Graphic design for magazine ads, online advertisements, website banner ads, and digital advertising. As well as signage, vehicle wraps, banner stands, retractable banner ads, a-frame signage, and backdrop trade show displays.

 

Illustration

Custom illustrations for digital and print products such as custom icon packs and other vector-based illustrations. They are useful to communicate instructions by visually decorating and creating order to abstract or complex business concepts or processes.

 

Marketing automation

Automation of marketing software to integrate tools to generate traffic or sales, or streamline your business operations so they are more automated.

 

Podcast

Podcast RSS feed configuration and setup with your website. Includes podcast creative design of show artwork for Apple Podcast syndication.

 
 
 
 

Work With Actually

Schedule a meeting with a trusted partner for digital marketing, strategic communications and creative.
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