Spivey Consulting

Perry Kibler is phenomenal at what he does. Four years ago, we reached out to him about conceptualizing, developing content, wordsmithing, and ultimately producing a high caliber, professional website. Since launching the website, our small firm's revenue has grown 1000% — and with no money spent on advertising. We attribute a substantial part of this success to the look and ease of navigation of our website. We unconditionally recommend Perry for any professional/creative project large or small.
Karen Buttenbaum, Spivey Consulting

Goal

Give the client a unique and memorable look and feel, yet still make it obvious what the company does.

Approach

Oddly, every business in this industry is using the same cheesy stock art of business people and lawyers. It's a strange business to sell (consulting), so I know why. However, we chose the fox in the logo for a reason, and it was a simple matter to expand that into the rest of the branding. I didn't go overboard, the general look and feel was still very business-like and we sprinkled in some photos of law school related stuff, but it certainly stands out among its competitors and people remember it.
We reworked this site in 2021, and for the rework we put a little more attention on the foxes. Most sections have a fox 'hero', and for those heroes, you can click an icon to get some random facts about foxes.

Goal

Allow the client to manage content.

Approach

Like many of my other sites, Spivey Consulting is a hybrid between a static site and a lot of other tools that allow it to still be manageable by the client and have a constantly updated feel.
Spivey Consulting understands that being 'found' is a lot about having actual, useful content. They are active blog posters and do well with social media. Their blog is in Ghost which fully supports being a headless CMS for blogs, but (at least as far as I can tell), doesn't do nearly as well with things like employee bios. So for some of the content, we're still using Contentful.
For the search, I chose Algolia, which is the 800lb gorilla in that market. I had to get some help to set it up, but it's far more powerful than we need the cost is fair.