Case study · Digital marketing

Building TRIO: our own brand, from scratch.

Client · TRIO Digital Agency Industry · Digital Marketing Services · Naming, Brand, Web, Content, SEO
The TRIO Brand Guidelines book, version one, on the studio desk

25

Pages designed, written and built from scratch

9 days

From blank folder to live website

60 yrs

Combined front-line experience behind the brand

100%

In-house: naming, brand, site, content and SEO

The challenge.

Every agency tells its clients to invest in brand and website, and most agencies leave their own until last. When we founded TRIO we set ourselves the brief we would set a client: a name, an identity and a website that could stand next to the businesses we have spent decades growing.

And because we sell speed and focus, it had to be built fast without cutting a single corner: strategy, naming, identity, copy, imagery, SEO and analytics, all live from day one.

TRIO brand book: gradient cover and the Trusted by ambitious businesses spread
TRIO brand book: the Brand Method spread, iconography and colour pages

Imagery: TRIO Digital Agency.

The approach

Four stages. Applied to ourselves.

Attract.

Named and branded for recall. TRIO: strategy, creativity and performance, three disciplines in one word. Every icon on the site is drawn from the logo's own shapes, and every page is engineered for search and AI answers from its first day.

Engage.

Content with substance. Four data-backed articles at launch, ten client stories properly told, and a stages model that explains exactly how we work. No filler, no jargon, one voice throughout.

Convert.

Built to enquire. Every page moves towards one action: book a discovery call. A three-field form with two independent delivery routes makes sure an enquiry can never be missed.

Grow.

Measured from day one. Consent-friendly analytics, full search plumbing and a versioned build we improve every week. The same loop we run for clients, running on ourselves.

We set ourselves the brief we would set a client, then held ourselves to it. This site is us taking our own medicine.

Stefan Cardwell & David Turner, TRIO founders

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