A full service digital marketing agency in Renfrew
About Design Hero
We are a coalition of super-talented digital marketing experts with one shared mission:
We are here to take your business to the next level!
Who is Design Hero?
Design Hero is a design agency with hundreds of successful projects with business of all shapes and sizes.
We help local business owners to take their businesses to the next level with powerful designs.
Most of our work is done in Glasgow, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and Argyll and Bute, but we’ve worked all over the world with people and businesses both big and small.
Every one of our clients gets superhero treatment.
The Design Hero Team
Our team is a lean, mean marketing machine and our digital marketing consultants bring all of your marketing activities under one roof.
We don’t believe in geek-speak, and we can’t stand tech talk, so you can expect simple, practical marketing advice and solid strategy based on solid experience.
Nick
Web Wizard
The original Design Hero founder, and marketing expert. Nick will also help your business take off with web design and development.
Ellie
Killer Content Creation
Eillie’s creates content that converts your audience into paying customers. Her skillset includes copywriting, digital marketing, PPC and social ads.
Harrison
Photography & video
Harrison is here to capture the heart of your business withΒ captivating video content & photography to help your business stand out from the crowd.
Craig
Graphic Design Guru
Craig, our graphic design guru, brings cutting edge design and powerful illustration skills to help your business get the edge over the competition.
Sophie
SEO Superstar
Sophie is our very own SEO mastermind, here to help your business crush your competition online.
Our MIssion
What is your purpose?
I don’t mean in a fantasy superhero way, but in terms of resources.
If you had the ability to make one real thing happen in the world, what would that be?
If you’re Elon Musk, the patron saint of science, then you create an electric car or a rocket ship. And then propose a city on Mars Not bad. Not bad at all.
My dream is more modest:
I help people to take their businesses to the next level with the power of design.
Good marketing can take a business from obscurity to success. My clients work hard to grow their business and Iβm very proud of who I work with.
I’ve worked with hundreds of business owners over the years: The depth of their passion and the range of their knowledge never fails to amaze me.Β
But no-one can be an expert at everything. Too often dedicated businesses owners work hard but never get the recognition they deserve, or their brand doesn’t shine through the way it should.
I have the skills and know-how to help and I enjoy seeing my clients thrive and succeed.
Our Values
Affordable
Don’t be fooled by design villains! There is always be someone offering a crap service at cut-throat prices. I hate seeing people ripped off.Β That’s why I focus on real value at reasonable prices.
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- Clear design fees
- No hidden charges
Super
Don’t settle for second best. Super isn’t just my company motto, its a life ethos:
Bad design is my Kryptonite, so whenever I offer a service, I’m compelled to be best in the business at what I do.
- Best in the business
- 15 years experience
Beautiful
Don’t let your business by shoehorned into a template.
I design for your business at a personal level by treating it as if it were my own.
That means no templates, no repeats and no copying!
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- No templates
- Designed for your business
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Though I didn’t know it at the time, I was developing the hook for my characters’ brand. This is how I later came to realize that
superheroes (and supervillains) are experts at marketing:
- They understand the importance of symbolism and story
- They know how to deliver a high impact message
- They create a hook and build a brand around their alter ego.
Β Everyone has their weakness. I soon realized bad design is my kryptonite. I can’t stand it, and feel compelled to improve it. Back when design was still just a hobby I was tweaking marketing messages and building websites for friends of friends. As I started taking on projects my hobby grew legs and my designs transitioned from a past time into a business.
I enjoyed working with all sorts of different business owners from all sorts of walks of life. But all of my clients had one thing in common:
My clients all had a shared passion for their business.
Their determination to grow their business into something better, stronger, leaner, bigger, was inspiring, and their willingness to learn and adapt to my advice was my main motivation to keep going myself and take the plunge into a design career.
That’s why “Design Hero” actually refers to my clients.
Nobody can be good at everything. Most business owners are busy running the day to day and thinking about their marketing is the last thing on the list. That’s why sometimes everyone needs a sidekick to take a fresh look, and take a business to the next level.
But I didn’t always run my own design company.
It would be naive to think you can tell someone how to run their marketing, if you haven’t done it yourself first.
For many years my career in design was as an architect. Later split my time helping manage daily operations, and run marketing for various family businesses.
To this day, I still rate this time as invaluable:
I rely on the insight of having run small businesses when relating to my clients in my independent freelance work. Later I took the difficult decision to depart a promising career in architecture to focus on doing what I love: designing, creating and taking on new challenges.
Things began as small design projects for family and friends, business cards, minisites and flyers for local bands. Design Hero came into being when requests for work started to come in from strangers further afield and I was soon designing for clients across Inverclyde, Glasgow and beyond.
And so “Design Hero” was born…
Behind the Mask
My passion lies in good design, which spills into both my professional life and my personal life. My wife and I enjoy many creative projects in our spare time, if you’re interested, I document some of my creative hobbies in my blog: