Growth-Driven Design.

A data-driven approach to building websites. It’s a process that takes away the stress and delivers results. Your website is too important to only develop once every few years. Here’s why we’re the right agency to help you.

Personally trained by Luke Summerfield.

We’ve worked with and been trained by Luke Summerfield, the Founder of Growth Driven Design, and are therefore a fully-certified GDD agency (one of only a handful in Europe). This means not only do we understand GDD and use it to get results way beyond client expectations, but we also produce when it comes to design and aesthetics (a rare combination).

Experienced in the HubSpot CMS.

The HubSpot Website Platform (also known as the HubSpot CMS) is our core development platform. Some agencies struggle to get to grips with it, but we live in it every day. Combine this with our fully-certified GDD status and the fact we’ve been trained by Luke Summerfield, and that makes us one of the most experienced HubSpot design agencies in Europe.

And we’ll share our knowledge with you.

We’re here to be an extension of your existing team. You’ll always be kept in the loop, whether it’s to do with a particular design we’re working on for you or a new tool or trick we’re trying out. It’s all about sharing the knowledge and growing together.

We’re award-winning.

Our design and development team has over 40 years of experience between them. And they’re talented too. So talented that thanks to their efforts, we’ve won a HubSpot Impact Award for one of our clients’ websites.

Inbound marketing and GDD make a perfect pair.

The wider thinking behind inbound marketing, from personas and buyer’s journeys to user experience, can help inform GDD decisions. And ultimately, that means a better-performing website that your audience will not only want to click on but will actually find.

Make the most of all the HubSpot features - and we can help.

When you build your website on HubSpot CMS, you can use HubSpot for your marketing and gain all the benefits fully closed loop reporting would create. We know that because we've done the same for ourselves and dozens of our clients. And we want to share our knowledge with you.

State of play: GDD vs traditional web design

Why is the GDD process better for marketers like you?

Better results.

Let’s face it. All your boss cares about is the results and that’s where GDD comes into its own. GDD is based on real user data and becomes better over time as we learn where the points of friction are and what users really need. With GDD, results really do outshine traditional web design.

You can see below the typical difference in visitors, leads and revenue from GDD vs traditional web design…

A less frustrating process.

Because you know everything's happening for a reason.

As well as the results, we know marketers like you care about the process - after all, it’s you who needs to manage to process and expectations internally.

With GDD, you can get a website live in 30-60 days, typically four times faster than traditional web design. That means we get to launch much faster; the pressure is off you and we can start improving the site - rather than waiting around.

Spread the cost. Remove the risk.

Rather than paying out the full fee for the website on completion (or even before), with GDD, the cost is spread over a longer time period.

With GDD, you’ll pay an initial fee to cover the strategy meetings and the launchpad website, but this is typically only 30-40% what you would pay out with traditional website design. Then you pay a small continuous improvement fee each month. In the long run, you may pay more, but the results will speak for themselves. You get a website that continually improves using measurable data without losing leads and customer interest.

You get a website that continually improves using measurable data without losing leads and customer interest.

For you, this strategy means it is much easier to budget. Instead of going to your boss and asking for a big, one-off pot of money for a website build every two to four years, you can budget in a modest ongoing cost instead.

What exactly is the GDD process?

The GDD process can be broken down into three distinct stages: blueprint, build the engine and performance tuning.

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1. The blueprint.

Here we develop an empathetic understanding of your audience's world and how the website can solve problems along their journey.

2. Build the engine (launchpad).

Quickly build a website that looks and performs better than what you have today, but is not a final product. Rather, your Launch Pad is the foundation on which to build and optimise from.

3. Performance tuning.

With traditional web design, how often do you make impactful improvements to your website? 40% of marketers only make impactful improvements to their website once or less per year (based on responses from a 2016 Hubspot survey).

Plan, build, learn and transfer.

Audience

Verify we have a consistent flow of organic visitors for testing and hitting goals.

Value

Creating real value for the user.

Usability

Make sure users can find the value as easily as possible and leave the site feeling happy.

Conversion rate optimisation

Analyse points of friction on the site to reduce them, resulting in a smoother user experience.

Stickiness

Ensuring visitors come back to solve their points of pain.

Personalisation

Provide a personal experience for users based on their persona type or lifecycle stage.

Assets

Create resources and tools which produce leads.

Promoters

Find ways to get users to tell other people about the site.

A partnership that will improve your website, forever.

When you choose GDD, you’re choosing to keep your website optimised for the long-term. It’s an agile methodology which means we can be proactive rather than reactive to changes to the market. And, your website can always reflect what your company is about - there’s no worry about only updating once every few years.

If you’d like to learn more about GDD, you can watch the video below. We interviewed Luke Summerfield as part of our video series, Inbound Influencers. You can watch the interview or you can scroll down to read more about GDD (we’ve included some handy resources too).

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