If you work with your design team leader effectively, this simply won’t happen. We generally work 13-weeks out, so you are far less likely to have an emergency need than when flying by the seat of your pants. But to directly answer your question, we don’t work in emergency mode. Ever. Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on our part. We have families and kids and stuff we like to do when we’re not at work, just like you do, and these times are sacred to us. Let us help you, so you no longer have to work in crisis mode.

Experience shows us that with a proper brief, we will nail your design goal the first time. However, if you are unhappy with the work, you have the right to unlimited revisions. Hell, if you’re really unhappy, we can start completely over with a new design brief. Our job is to make you satisfied. If you’re new to all of this, please keep in mind that design is less about your personal preferences and more about what works. It’s a rarity that our clients are part of their own target demographics, so in some cases, we will explain why something will work with your target audience, though maybe not with you. In those cases, you may choose to let us set up a test of an idea that doesn’t initially resonate with you.

We build our websites on WordPress, the most popular content management system on the planet, which serves 32% of all content on the web worldwide. In addition, we use Divi,  from Elegant Themes, to construct customized websites for each client. In other words, we don’t use off-the-shelf templates. Your website will be unique to your business, and you’ll not find another site like yours anywhere else in the world. Host your site anywhere that supports WordPress. However, we hope you’ll consider hosting with us as part of our donation to the UWA IMC Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation that supports the integrated marketing communications students at The University of West Alabama in Livingston.

Your design team leader is a working professional working at least full time in the industry. He or she has earned at least an undergraduate degree in integrated marketing communications or an equivalent specialty. Your team members are trained by Greg and/or Weldon, Flying Pig Brand’s CEO and President, respectively, to solve your most wicked design problems. Nothing leaves our office without their approval. Team members may or may not be design students, based on the complexity of your needs. However, in every case, you will receive commercial quality work from our designers. We only hire the best students, typically second semester juniors and seniors, with proven track records for commercial work in their own right. They’d rather work for us than work at Subway® or the university cafeteria, for example, so they can build their personal portfolios, creating a win-win-win arrangement for everyone.

First and foremost, we are design team.

Stationery and custom imprinted specialties are not free—although will be happy to design work to send to your imprinters. Through one of our sister companies, we can provide just about anything imaginable, at less than book prices. They have a catalog of over 500,000 items, including shirts, pens, coffee mugs, USB cards, and display signage. Honesty, the list of available imprintables is nearly overwhelming. We encourage you to check with us before ordering elsewhere.

Web hosting is not free. We offer affordable, lightning-fast web hosting as a donation to the UWA IMC Foundation at a rate of $40/month. Our sites are tested and proven to load in less that two seconds. Guaranteed. Our personal goal is to get them to load in roughly a second, and unless your content needs are excessive, we can usually accomplish this for you, too. You get tons of free services when you use them for hosting, and everything is redundantly backed up, so you’ll never have to worry about your site disappearing or getting hacked.

Web designs with shopping carts solutions are available at an additional cost.

While we create competitively-priced, commercial quality videos and radio spots, from 30-seconds to an hour long, these are at an additional cost. Check with your team leader for more information.

We need consistent income, so we can meet payroll each month. By having regular work and regular billings, we can keep designers on staff in between our feast or famine higher priced, à la carte jobs.

In addition, fixed billings permit us to hire some of the best student designers in the world from The University of West Alabama at above minimum wage, so they don’t have to subsidize their university schooling by working part-time, soul-stealing jobs at fast food joints or retail outlets. This model allows them to build their portfolios while getting real world experience on real client work, all carefully supervised by some of the most experienced designers and media design management experts in the industry. Greg, for example, has been doing design work since 1982 and national agency work since 1994.

Finally, we offer this entry-level design model, so small to medium businesses can compete with the big boys in their respective industries. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Business Employment Dynamics, only about 80% of businesses with employees will survive their first year in business. And the numbers get even more depressing. Only about 30% of businesses will survive their 10th year in business. While many entrepreneurs are good at services and selling, they don’t really understand branding or marketing, and by the time they get banged around by real life experience, it’s often too late for them to recover. That’s why you need Flying Pig Brand, an expert team on your side.