Starting a Business?

Starting a business?

Entrepreneurs are our favorite people to work with. We’re here to partner with start-ups to help you hit the ground running with your new business. And be your #1 fan!

We offer branding + business development support

We work with numerous small businesses over a wide range of industries which has given us valuable insight and experience. From what steps to take first to making the most of your budget, we customize our approach to fit your specific needs.

The first steps

Together we can clarify your vision to answer the 3 most important questions about your brand new business

1. the what

What do you offer?The answer might be products, services, or a combination of both. Identifying what your business offers clients or customers is the first step to discovering the strategy for building your business. And increasing revenue.

2. the who

Who do you offer it to? This one can be tough, but knowing who you need to reach is at the very core of the strategy for building your business. Let us help identify who your ideal clients or customers are and how to best reach them.

3. the why

What makes you stand out? We want to help your ideal clients or customers pick you over your competition. Together let’s find your niche in the market and what it is that sets your business apart. And then we can market the heck out of your new business!

Here's how we can help

A-la-carte projects tailored just for you

Business name consultation

The name of your business is integrally tied to the rest of your brand. Why not work with experienced branding professionals like us to help brainstorm ideas, research competitors within your industry, scout out available domain names for your future website, and create a few strategic naming options?

Branding board

We create a fully custom logo designed collaboratively with you as well as a guide for the visual tone of your business – fonts, color palette, design elements, photography direction, and mock-ups of how it might be applied. Your branding board becomes the foundation for every element of your business so each piece can be consistent, cohesive, and polished.

Collateral

Collateral pieces are the essentials – business cards, letterhead, email signature, social media templates, and more.The list looks a little different depending on your industry, but we can help identify what you might need and have you covered from design to final product.

Packaging

Packaging is one of the biggest extensions of your brand! From helping you identify what kinds of packaging you may need, to creating the designs, and reaching out to our network of trusted vendors for production, we’ll be with you every step of the way. Whether it’s boxes, stickers, packing tape, tissue paper, gift tags, belly bands, labels for drink cans, candles, or something else – you name it, we can do it.

Web

We can design and develop the perfect website for your specific business – which we all know is vital in today’s market. After identifying what your website goals are, we design and build websites on the WordPress platform with a premium visual content builder which allows for beautiful design, easy content management, eCommerce capabilities, and works seamlessly between all devices.

What our clients say

“I absolutely love everything about working with Christine! She is my go-to for graphic design, packaging, website design, coding, photo editing and more. Working with her is such a pleasure- she is a professional, talented, thorough, fast and creative. She exceeds my expectations in terms of product and timeline every single time! She has done incredible work for our biggest and most discerning clients: including Fortune 100 companies, leading technology firms, national publications and wedding professionals. Being able to turn to her at a moment’s notice and know that the result will be flawless every time is priceless. I can’t recommend her more highly!”

“Christine is the most talented and professional designer I have ever worked with. She is intentional in all elements of her design and her innate skill to art direct and create is an asset that any business owner would be lucky to have. I continue to recommended Illume to several clients and they have all been over joyed with the outcome.“

"Working with Christine has been an absolute dream! Her ability to take an idea and turn it into reality within a quick turn around time is unparalleled. She is creative, friendly, professional and my go to for everything!"

“My experience with Christine and the team at Illume has been absolutely exceptional. They took my disparate business concepts and combined them into a beautifully curated brand. From the first meeting to the ongoing communication, Christine has exceeded my every expectation. She and her team are insanely creative, have impeccable marketing chops, and totally GET my business. I can’t recommend them highly enough!”

"Twice Christine of Illume has drawn up a classy, clean business logo and branding package for me. That means I was so happy with the design – and the response of customers – to my first logo, that when I launched another business selling vintage, I called her again! Christine is easy to work with, and very timely. She sent me a brand prep questionnaire to help me communicate my intention, then she listened, and came back with a graphic that really reflected the spirit, or essence of my brand. (Grow Your Calm) All done with giving me choices, feedback, and in good time. I have been very happy with the organic, fresh look of my logo and colors. I highly recommend Illume’s process and product!”

Ways we can work together

pricing varies

30 Minute Discovery Call
Customized plan based on your individual business goals
Proposal broken out into separate projects + phases
Examples of relevant work

$135 / hour

Advice on where to start
Basics of branding + marketing
Website platform options
Identifying your niche
Budget-conscious ideas for packaging, marketing + more
Marketing strategy

$9,500

Business Naming Consult
Branding Board
Business Card Design
Branded Social Media
Wordpress-based Website
Custom Email Signature

Let's meet + connect

We’d love to set up a time to virtually meet up over a cup of coffee. We’ll talk about your business, goals, and priorities and how we can help.

Seriously, we can’t wait!

clients we love working with