Design for Tewkesbury businesses.
We already work in Tewkesbury. WatchGecko, the watch and strap business behind Geckota and ZuluDiver, is based here, and over eighteen months we helped grow its turnover from £3.5m to £5m. So the idea that a Tewkesbury company can sell to the whole country, and well beyond it, isn't a pitch to us.
Start a projectA market town that sells nationally
Tewkesbury is a small historic town with businesses whose customers are anywhere but Tewkesbury. That's an ecommerce problem more than a local one: the brand does its work on a phone screen, to a stranger, in the few seconds before they decide you're worth their money.
In that setting distinctiveness and speed aren't finishing touches. They're the difference between a sale and a back button.
We already know the ground
WatchGecko is three British brands in one business: WatchGecko itself, the in-house watch label Geckota, and the dive-focused ZuluDiver, in a sector that has grown 65% in three years. Working with the team here taught us plenty about how a brand and a growing ecommerce operation have to move together rather than take turns.
It also means we can be honest about what does and doesn't move the number, because we've watched it happen here rather than read about it.
Makers and B2B
Beyond ecommerce, the area has a solid base of manufacturers and technical businesses, typically strong on product and thinner on brand. When the website looks like an afterthought next to the quality of what the company actually does, that's a straightforward and worthwhile thing to fix.
Close enough to turn up
We're in Warwickshire, about an hour away, and we already make the trip. Close enough to be in the room for the parts of brand work that genuinely need it.
Common questions
- Do you work with businesses in Tewkesbury?
- Yes. WatchGecko, based in Tewkesbury, is a client, and we helped grow its turnover from £3.5m to £5m over eighteen months across its three brands.
- We sell online to the whole country. Does being local matter?
- Only for convenience. Most of our work is national, and the brand has to earn a decision on a screen regardless of where either of us is. Being nearby just makes meeting in person easy when it helps.
- Do you build ecommerce websites?
- Yes, website design and build is one of the things we do, alongside brand identity. For an ecommerce business the two are the same project, which is how we approached the work with WatchGecko.