Hive Creative Group Named Best Marketing/Graphic Design Studio
We are thrilled to announce that Hive Creative Group has been named the Best Marketing/Graphic Design Studio in the 2023 Best of C-VILLE awards! This was the first year this category has been included in the list, and we are honored to be the first recipients of this title.
Our team looks forward to the Best of C-VILLE issue each year to see our clients and favorite Charlottesville-area businesses in the spotlight. We think it is just “the bees-knees” (sorry, we can’t resist a good bee pun) to see Hive featured in the 2023 edition. Thank you all for voting us Best Marketing/Graphic Design Studio in Charlottesville!
We would like to congratulate all of the local businesses that were named winners, runners-up, and finalists, including several of our clients below!
winners:
Amanda Sovik-Johnston, Ph.D. from Active & Connected Family Therapy for Best Mental Health Professional (individual)
How we work together: We started working with Active & Connected in March of this year to help launch and establish their rebrand. Known in the Charlottesville area as Virginia Family Therapy for nearly 10 years, they have been expanding as a company and opening new office locations across Virginia and now in Raleigh, North Carolina. We have partnered with Active & Connected to create an organic and paid social strategy (Facebook and Instagram), add finishing touches to their new brand, and design various flyers and pamphlets. We increased Facebook page reach by almost 20x through paid ad campaigns, from 3k to almost 60k!
Potter's Craft Cider for Best Local Cidery
How we work together: With Hive’s redesign of the Potters Craft Cider website this past year, we took a previously cumbersome site and streamlined the navigation to make shopping for ciders, joining their cider club, or planning a trip to the tasting room easier for site visitors. We also incorporated new photography and video and utilized an updated style guide in the design. The bounce rate decreased by 10% with the new site.
W.E Brown for Best Plumber
How we work together: While W.E. Brown has provided customers with home comfort solutions in Charlottesville for 100 years, we only recently began to learn about their impressive history through providing social media (Facebook and Instagram), advertising, blog writing, and e-newsletter services. A monthly newsletter campaign received an open rate of 60.5%, over 20% more than the industry average. We also recently helped them launch a campaign focused on their annual nonprofit partnership program, W.E. Give Back, which awards Charlottesville nonprofits a marketing video to spread awareness and raise support.
Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital (Jefferson OB/GYN) for Best Birthing Services
How we work together: Our client, Jefferson OB/GYN, is a part of the Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital team through their role as the hospital’s labor and delivery physicians. Hive started working with Jefferson OBGYN in 2019. We designed their new logo and worked with them on the general branding of their practice. Now, we manage their social media accounts (Facebook and Instagram) and maintain their website and blog. Their average engagement rate is 6x the healthcare industry average. In 2022, we did a complete website re-design.
runners-up:
The Catering Outfit for Best Caterer
How we work together: In 2022, The Catering Outfit came to us for a brand refresh and a new website. We created a brand style guide with new colors to complement their pre-existing ones and new typefaces to freshen up their look. We then utilized their updated brand guidelines and typefaces in a website refresh, leaning into the light olive green as a primary accent color. Their website re-design is user-friendly, mobile-friendly and gives clients all the resources and information needed to ease the process. There are 21 sample menus, venue recommendations, FAQs, and more! We continue to work with them on social media marketing (Facebook and Instagram), paid ads, and email campaigns.
Gearharts Fine Chocolate for Best Specialty Foods Made in Charlottesville
How we work together: Over the 10 years of working with Gearharts, Hive has integrated social media (Facebook and Instagram), package design, email campaigns, and media relations into their work. More recently, we designed the packaging for their new Hot Honeycomb and Brownie Mix! Since 2019, Gearharts Fine Chocolates' Instagram gained over 2,000 new followers with the aid of the Hive Creative Group’s social media strategies.
finalist:
Field School of Charlottesville for Best Private School
