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Working On The Go! Free Tools Improve Your Remote Work Game
At Matcha Design we liked working remotely, even before the Covid-19 pandemic. It allows us to collaborate quickly and efficiently with our staff, local clients and those clients not so close (Canada, for example). Our computers, tablets, and phones allow us to...
What Makes A Great Logo?
Plus Three Things a Great Logo Can Do For You If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a well-crafted logo is worth a million. Logos are usually the first chance your company has to make an impression on a customer, which means that a strong logo can literally be...
Google Photos and Small Business
On May 28th, 2015, Google launched Google Photos - the newest member of the Google family of web apps. Although there are many other photo-sharing apps available that sprung up before and after Google Photos, Google Photos remains the most popular. Stacking Up Against...
Matcha Design Awarded Four Prestigious Davey Awards
Matcha Design, a full-service creative company known for their creative design solutions to complex branding challenges, brought home four prestigious awards from the 2021 International Davey Awards. The 17th annual Davey Awards accepted submissions from over 2,000...
5 Tips to Deliver Impactful Services to the Market
In an ever-shifting economy, companies struggle to keep their policies and offerings up to date with the current market. Decision makers understand the importance of seeking out the best practices in modern business in order to ensure competitiveness and innovation....
Social Media Networking is The Key
Having active posts and tweets on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is the core of many businesses daily social media strategy but many might not know. The impact of social media to business is something that shouldn’t be underestimated. It is important to build...
Matcha Design Takes Home Bronze Award from 2021 Summit International Awards
Matcha Design, a graphic and website design company known for their dedication to innovation in print, logo, and web page designs, celebrated yet another accredited award this week. Matcha Design announced their receipt of a Bronze Award from the Summit Creative Award...
Cultivate a Positive Brand Culture
Say you are an up-and-coming baker and would like to purchase a new stand mixer for your home kitchen. You’re likely to start your search off with brands that you know are reliable and high quality, such as KitchenAid or Cuisinart. They are recognized for the...
Good Design Do Not Just Sprout Out of Thin Air
Organized your pencils and pens lately? Sorted your clothes into a logical system in your drawers? Then you already understand the basic elements of good design: it is practical, it is systematic, and it makes life easier. In the same way, marketing materials that use...
Social Proof Marketing for Business Services
Social proof marketing is a concept that the average person would assume they know nothing about, claiming that it was yet another buzzword. Yet a large portion of the population has taken part in social proof marketing at least once in the course of their lives - and...
How to Stop Selling and Start Helping
Zig Ziglar famously quoted, “Stop Selling. Start Helping.” While this may seem like a counterintuitive practice for any sales-based company, he does make a pretty good point. When acting as a salesperson, you have a couple main objectives in mind, which can include...
How to Choose a Designer For Your Business
Despite economic uncertainty and unforeseen global commerce delays, the entrepreneurial world is booming. Established businesses, large and small, are rebranding; they're updating their logos, rewriting mission statements, and turning to marketing professionals as a...
How to Stop Selling and Start Helping
Zig Ziglar famously quoted, “Stop Selling. Start Helping.” While this may seem like a counterintuitive practice for any sales-based company, he does make a pretty good point. When acting as a salesperson, you have a couple main objectives in mind, which can include...
How to Choose a Designer For Your Business
Despite economic uncertainty and unforeseen global commerce delays, the entrepreneurial world is booming. Established businesses, large and small, are rebranding; they're updating their logos, rewriting mission statements, and turning to marketing professionals as a...
Get More Out of Your Small Business Branding with Custom Stickers
For decades loyal customers and fans have loved to share and present the stickers of their favorite brands. From computer companies, niche manufacturers, including free stickers in the box with every product has people... well, sticking them, anywhere they can. Early...
If You Want Killer SEO You Can’t Stop At Keywords
As we leave the globe gripping pandemic, brands large and small are looking to refresh how they approach digital marketing. This means investing in advanced content marketing for small to medium-sized businesses, paid advertising on multiple platforms, and redesigning...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
BlueSpeed Launches New Website to Engage Clients
BlueSpeed LLC launched their new website this week with help from design strategists at Matcha Design. The site was built around the new BlueSpeed identity branding, and includes custom photos of BlueSpeed's top-notch design portfolio from Chris Lo Photography, and...
More Than an Office Dog
At Matcha Design we are known for our award winning design projects and creative vision excellence. However, there is one key Matcha Design team member we have not yet introduced and would be a travesty not to highlight. We are pleased to officially introduce Pancake,...
FEDEL Music Photo Shoot with Matcha Design
This week Matcha Design had the opportunity to shoot press photos for FEDEL, an Oklahoma based Christian Hip-Hop artist. We needed to capture simple, yet engaging photos for the FEDEL to use for tour posters, social media, press opportunities and other collateral. We...
Matcha Design Partners with MidFirst Backyard Bowl for 2012 Stadium Animation
Tulsa, OK - August 31, 2012 - If you spend any time in Oklahoma you quickly realize football is king, and there are intense rivalries in both college and high school arenas. Jenks and Union high school athletes take the field every year in the MidFirst Backyard Bowl...
BlueSpeed Finds a New Face
Tulsa, OK - August 29, 2012 - Blue Speed LLC is one of the leading providers of home and commercial automation and lighting control design in Tulsa and northeast Oklahoma. The wanted to take their brand to the next level and reflect their passion for combining...
Matcha Design Produces Tulsa Marriage and Family Website and Logo
Tulsa, OK - August 24, 2012 - Matcha Design is excited to announce RestoringMarriageandFamily.com, an online hub for marriage tips, helpful relationship videos, local marriage seminars and appointment reservations for Brittain Keifer, Licenced Marriage and Family...
Chris Lo Invited to Judge 2012 W³ Awards
Tulsa, OK - July 27, 2012 - Chris Lo, President & CEO of visionary design firm Matcha Design, has been invited to serve on the judging panel for the 2012 W³ Awards in the categories of website, online marketing, mobile and video. “I am so honored to be a part of...
Matcha Design Produces Stadium Animation for the MidFirst Bank Sponsored Backyard Bowl
For nearly two decades, the Backyard Bowl has been an annual tradition for glory and bragging rights between the top 2 high school teams - Jenks and Union. Matcha Design is creating a Full HD Animation for MidFirst Bank, the official sponsor of the Backyard Bowl, to...
Matcha Design Photography Coverage for 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance
To commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary, Matcha Design will be a part of the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance to provide photography coverage for the Asbury United Methodist Church, Tulsa Oklahoma. Asbury is planning to mobilize over 1500 volunteers...
Rhema Bible Church Christmas Lights Extravaganza!
Since 1982, the Rhema Christmas Lights Display has become a main attraction for folks around Tulsa and Oklahoma every year. James Shelby, the creator and supervisor of the electrical department of Rhema, orchestrates this amazing project year after year and the size...
Launching of the New Nian En Church Introduction Video
Matcha Design is excited to announce the new introduction video for Nian En Church, a Chinese evangelical church, located in Hong Kong. We have done many videos for churches in the United States in the past, but this is the first one we have done for a client in...
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...
Matcha Design Wins Big at the 13th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards
Awards and trophies need no introduction. Loads of people who say they hate them would secretly love to win one. While many businesses struggle to collect just a few or none, for Matcha Design – an award winning design firm, it comes in multiples on a regular basis...
Matcha Design Leads the Pack with 11 New Communicator Awards
Matcha Design earned two Gold Awards of Excellence and nine Silver Awards of Distinction in the 21st Annual Communicator Awards competition by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts. "This is the sixth year in a row that Matcha Design received awards in the...
Matcha Design Receives Six DesignFirms Awards for 2015
Matcha Design recently collected six prestigious awards from DesignFirms in both their Web Design and Graphic Design categories. The DesignFirms™ awards showcase some of the best work on the web from designers and developers from around the world, elevating the...
Matcha Design Picks Up 15 at the 2014 Service Industry Advertising Awards
Matcha Design brought home 15 new awards at the 12th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA). "It's always a great honor to receive such overwhelming recognition," said Chris Lo, President of Matcha Design. "We like to think that putting our clients first is...
Matcha Design Ranks Second on BestWebFirms.com’s Top Ten List
Matcha Design was ranked second on BestWebFirms.com's January 2015 top ten list of best custom web design companies. BestWebFirms.com provides monthly rankings as a guide to find the best of the best internet marketing firms in the industry. "We are extremely excited...
Matcha Design Picks Up Innovator Award at the 2014 Summit Emerging Media Awards
Matcha Design brings home an Innovator Award at the Summit Emerging Media Award (Summit EMA) competition held at the Summit International Awards. Matcha Design won this prestigious award for their work on Level 3 Communications' "Own It" interactive microsite. The...
Matcha Design garners a record 27 trophies at the 2014 SIA Awards
Matcha Design was honored with 27 national awards, including one Best of Show, from The 11th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA) for work in the print design, video production and website design fields. More than 1,700 entries were received from more...
Matcha Design Takes Home the Gold at the 2014 International Davey Awards
Matcha Design was presented with six awards at the 2014 International Davey Awards, sponsored by the International Academy of Visual Arts (IAVA). With nearly 4,000 entries from across the US and around the world, the Davey Awards honors the finest creative work from...