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How to Grow Your Brand Online in the 2020s
The new era is here. While tried and true business practices still work well (you're the expert on what you do), you may need to rethink how you approach branding your organization for the coming decade. How you treat your customers, how you provide them value, and...
Matcha Design at 2021 Communicator Awards. Oklahoma Marketing Agency competes with industry giants
The Tulsa, Oklahoma design and media firm Matcha Design has taken home three gold and four silver awards at the 2021 Communicator Awards competition. This 27th annual showcase received over 6,000 entries from marketing advertising agencies, interactive shops,...
5 Ways Your Service Business Will Stand Out!
In the business services industry, your company offers something that's likely essential, but you may not be the only option. The local and regional competition is tough. Hard work and expertise are how you've forged the long-standing customer relationships you...
5 Small Business Management Tips That’ll Save You Time and Money
Running your business is a daily challenge, but that's part of the reason you keep it going. The function of the job you're passionate about usually comes with a slew of other headaches. These simple business tips just might help you save a whole lot of time and...
10 Best Practices to Boost Your Brand in 2021
Increasing your brand awareness is one of the most significant aspects of marketing your company. Running a business is challenging work. That's never been more true than in the past year. And 2021 doesn't seem to offer up any easy challenges so far. Focusing on...
Matcha Design ranked among top-performing marketing agencies according to DesignRush
One of Oklahoma's leading creative marketing agencies, Matcha Design, has forged an award-winning reputation. Analyzing Matcha's long-standing history of industry accolades in various sectors, including business services, non-for-profits, and start-ups, DesignRush...
Tulsa, Matcha Design included in Top 10 social media marketing agencies
Nationwide survey ranked most influential Oklahoma creative firms. Kicksta, the San Diego based organic growth firm passionate about real engagement on social, conducted an in-depth review of social agencies around the country. Diving into the local markets in every...
How Do You Create a Landing Page?
Building landing pages on your company’s website is one of the most effective and directly impactful actions you can take in marketing. It means chaining your philosophy about what your site can do for your business, and lets you use all of the experience you’ve...
Matcha Design (Tulsa, Oklahoma) Creative and Ad Agency Wins 2020 Service Industry Awards, Increasing Market Domination
The Tulsa, Oklahoma design and media firm Matcha Design has been awarded a number of awards at the recent SIAA Awards (Service Industry Advertising Awards). Earning 16 awards including 1 Best of Show, 11 Gold, 1 Silver, Matcha feels more than ever these accolades are...
Matcha Design Agency of the Year 2020. Tulsa Local Design Shop Wins Gold from Ad World Masters
The Tulsa, Oklahoma design and media firm Matcha Design has been awarded GOLD and named the TOP Ad Agency in the US in Ad World Masters annual agency of the year awards. Ad World Masters rewards agencies points based on the value they provide for customers. The 2020...
When Do You Need to Hire a Designer for Your Business?
When you’re running your business and doing it successfully, it’s easy to take for granted everything you’re an expert on. No matter how skilled or seasoned, we can all get caught up in the process and unintentionally be holding ourselves back. At Matcha Design we’ve...
How To Take Photos For Your Business
2020 has been pretty hard on small to medium sized businesses and entrepreneurs. In addition to dealing with financial, social, and operational issues customer behavior has also changed. Even during the best of times, marketing has been last in line for funding in...
How To Take Photos For Your Business
2020 has been pretty hard on small to medium sized businesses and entrepreneurs. In addition to dealing with financial, social, and operational issues customer behavior has also changed. Even during the best of times, marketing has been last in line for funding in...
How to Research Hashtags For Your Business
So many marketing and community management tasks are best left to in-house teams – particularly for small businesses. If your company fits that category, it’s likely you’re doing some DIY before you look for a third party agency… or your own marketing team wears a lot...
Why Hire a Professional Photographer
Why pay to hire a photographer while uncle Bob's cousin will gladly do it for a combo meal? Simply, you want to present your company or your product well to increase sales. Anyone, literally anyone can and will take pictures with a mobile phone, pocket camera or a...
What are Keywords?
Keywords are words and phrases within the theme of your topic. When your goal is to attract traffic to your website, the content on your site or within your blogs should focus around topics related to your brand. To be more specific, those topics should be something...
How to Create Award-Winning Designs
Designing for the sake of winning awards is not the best way to express creativity, but it’s good to understand the mindset of competitions. By thinking outside of the box and incorporating some new philosophies you can give yourself the best leg up. Earning awards is...
6 Ways To Build Brand Loyalty
For business owners, the idea of having loyal customers is a universal goal. It’s not so much that loyal customers can contribute to a known quantity of consistent business, but because loyal customers turn into advocates for your brand. “It’s easier to love a brand...
Effective Logos Carry Emotional Weight
We have been designing logos and brand identities for decades. The most successful companies have instant recognition. Adopting a good design for your brand isn’t only about flair—it needs to serve you well for years. Effective design requires patience and meticulous...
Can You Choose a Creative Camera
How many times do people ask what kind of camera you’re using? When out on a photo shoot, there are always clients, bystanders and other photographers that come up and ask about my choice of gear. They even tell me the brand and model of camera they use and present...
How Your Brand Promise Can Set Your Business Apart
For small and mid-sized businesses your competition, footprint, or location might be hindering your ability to scale and reach the same market as your industry’s giants. That’s okay, because everyone starts small. The next tool in your marketing strategy should be...
Our Approach to Designing a Logo
Our goal is to create an image that will instantly reflect a company’s values, which requires careful attention. All research must be conducted thoroughly, and it’s paramount that design decisions be made in an unbiased way — especially given the current environment...
Mastering Balance and Rhythm in Design
Balance From a purely psychological perspective in human relationships, any imbalance in power is sure to create tension. While this phenomenon often leads to unsuccessful relationships between people, the concept is easy to understand — and we can apply the same...
Understanding Typography in Design
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type. Like fine-tuning a sports car, creating and defining great type design involves an intricate combination of educated and thoughtful selection of typeface, point size, line length, line spacing (leading), uniform...
Access Email Marketing Services From Matcha Design
Matcha Design officially launched new email marketing services on its website this week, with a portfolio of work available for viewing. "An email message landing directly in your client's inbox can be a powerful tool in your communications plan," said Jenna Schario,...
Logo and Facebook Cover Designed for Acceptance.org
Matcha Design was glad to come alongside acceptance.org, a grassroots movement to promote universal acceptance, and explore it's identity design. "Acceptance is among the most basic human needs, yet it has managed to stay just out of grasp since its inception," said...
Custom Copy Writing Services Now Available at Matcha Design
Custom copy writing has been added to Matcha Design's roster of creative services to help save clients time, energy and support their comprehensive creative needs. Our Copy Writing Philosophy Copy writing is an important component of any creative project, and...
DTAGS Christmas Ecard Features Animated Surprise for Clients
Tulsa, OK - December 21, 2012 - Matcha Design was excited to come alongside DTAGS to help develop their Christmas Ecard for clientele again this year. We brainstormed, designed and developed the 2012 piece with a personal holiday message, and an animated Christmas...
Danielhenderson.com Speaks The Transparent Truth
Tulsa, OK - December 5, 2012 - Matcha Design is honored to partner with Houston entrepreneur and public figure, Daniel Henderson, to launch the new brand identity and online presence for danielhenderson.com. The rebranding started with a strong identity design. The...
Matcha Design Surpasses 100th Award in 2012
Over the years Matcha Design has worked countless hours alongside clients to develop strategically creative projects. Every year, we enter national and international industry competitions to test our skills and highlight the amazing projects we have had the honor to...
Cancer Fighters Thrive Magazine Features Photography From Matcha Design
Tulsa, OK - November 20, 2012 - This month, custom photography from Matcha Design was featured in the winter issue of Cancer Fighters Thrive, a quarterly magazine from Cancer Treatment Centers of America designed to inform and empower cancer patients, their friends,...
Matcha Design Helps Equip Arizona State University Students For Campus Life
Tulsa, OK - November 9, 2012 - Matcha Design helps Arizona State University (ASU) and MidFirst Bank prepare students for their college experience by developing an informational video about the new ASU themed student ID card. The "Sun Card" and "Pitchfork Card" from...
Matcha Design “Thunders Up” with MidFirst Bank Animations for NBA
Tulsa, OK - November 7, 2012 - This past season of NBA basketball was quite exciting for Oklahomans as the OKC Thunder battled it out in the 2012 NBA Finals. Matcha Design was proud to partner with MidFirst Bank to create custom indoor and outdoor animations for...
Solomon Consulting Group Starts November with a New Look
Tulsa, OK - November 2, 2012 - Matcha Design helped launch the new look and feel of Solomon Consulting Group this week by giving their website a boost with new custom designed banner graphics and features built around their core services. "We designed their original...
Midfirst Tips-off Phoenix Suns Season with Animation by Matcha Design
Tulsa, OK - October 31, 2012 - Matcha Design's custom animation work will accompany the Phoenix Suns as they take the court tonight in their season tip-off against the Golden State Warriors. The four separate LED digital signage animations were developed for MidFirst...
Matcha Design Receives Best of Show for FOCUSED Print Ad
Tulsa, OK - October 24, 2012 - Matcha Design is proud to announce the Best of Show award for their FOCUSED print ad (DTAGS) in the 9th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA). "Following the success of our last few DTAGS campaigns, we concentrated on giving...
Matcha Design Wins Gold At The 15th Annual SIA Awards
Tulsa, Oklahoma based digital marketing firm Matcha Design participates in the 2017 SIA Awards and receives 13 accolades. Having entered the competition since 2010, Matcha’s bold client focused approach has earned them over 142 service industry advertising awards to...
Matcha Design Named One of Tulsa’s Top 21 Top Web Designers by Expertise
Matcha Design, an award-winning full-service digital agency, is honored to be one of the top web designers in Tulsa. It's important to us that a business can’t pay to be included on Expertise. The recognition comes from Expertise, a Seattle-based company that...
Matcha Design Awarded at Thirteenth Annual 2017 International Davey Awards
Full-service digital design agency Matcha Design reclaims distinction at the 2017 International Davey Awards. The Tulsa, Oklahoma based company was awarded five awards during last year’s ceremony. The 2017 worldwide honor to the “Creative Davids” who triumph against...
Matcha Design Wins 9 Awards at the 23rd Annual Communicator Awards
Tulsa, OK – Matcha Design, a Tulsa-based full service web design, development and implementation company that works to provide functional, innovative, and responsive website platforms for a variety of clients, this week was announced they were the recipient of 9...
Matcha Design Brings Home 23 Awards At 14th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards
Matcha Design, a full-service Tulsa-based Digital Marketing and Advertising agency dedicated to providing website development, social media marketing, photography, identity, and high-quality branding to businesses of any servicing kind, this week took home a...
Matcha Design Awarded 5 Distinctions At The 2016 International Davey Awards
Tulsa, OK – Matcha Design, a full-service digital design and website development company based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, this week announced they have won five distinct awards at this year’s International Davey Awards, a worldwide event designed to honor the...
UpCity Selects Matcha Design as One of Tulsa’s Best Web Designers
Matcha Design, a renowned web design and full-service creative agency, has been named one of the best web design firms in Tulsa by UpCity! The recognition was announced following the release of UpCity’s new Top Local Agency marketplace. UpCity selected Matcha Design...
Matcha Design Named One of Tulsa’s Top 20 Best Web Designers by Expertise
Matcha Design, a full-service graphic design and creative agency, has been hand-picked as one of the 20 best web designers in Tulsa. The recognition comes from Expertise, a Seattle-based company that specializes in connecting people with experts in their community....
Matcha Design Wins DesignFirms Award For Southern Hills Baptist Church Website
Matcha Design, a full-service graphic design and brand cultivation agency with a commitment to innovation and creativity in the logo and web design process, this week announced they have won a DesignFirms Award for their creation of the Southern Hills Baptist Church’s...
Matcha Design Wins 10 Awards at the 2016 Communicator Awards
Matcha Design, a full-service graphic design and brand cultivation agency with a flair for unique and eye-catching logo and web design, this year, for the seventh year in a row, took home a plethora of awards from the Communicator Awards. Recognized for their...
Matcha Design Wins Silver at the 2015 W3 Awards
Prestigious awards were once again given at the recently held 2015 W3 Awards that was powered, sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA.) Regarded as an award platform where creative excellence on the web as well as the people behind...
Matcha Design Bags Four Awards at the 2015 International Davey Awards
Oklahoma, USA, February 6, 2016 – About 4,000 entries were received for the 2015 Davey Awards – an international creative award focused exclusively on honoring outstanding creative work from the best small agencies worldwide. It is however worth mentioning that out of...