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Public, Non Profit & Religious Organizations
8 reviewers
19%
PROJECT COST
$10K+per project28 reviewers | 31%
RETAINER COST
$2K - $5Kper month8 reviewers | 9%
Guile Lindroth avatar
Guile LindrothAI Director
Overall Rating
5.0
Communication
5.0
Responsiveness
5.0
Accuracy of Timeline
5.0
Expertise
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Accuracy of Cost Estimates
Not rated
The experience has been great, the team is very detailed and very prompt and reliable. They are experts in their space and have brought new strategy’s and ideas to the business that have helped us to continue to grow with new conversions and reaching new users overall. April 14, 2023

https://www.stormbrain.com

San Diego, CA

Founded 2007

11-50 Employees

Storm Brain is a digital brand and marketing agency

Storm Brain is a San Diego-based media design and marketing agency that has been helping brands across the world tell their story for more than 17 years. They also have offices in New York and Los Angeles. Storm Brain specializes in reaching mass-market consumers. This dedicated team offers a comprehensive approach to brand strategy, digital design, development, and online marketing. Storm Brain translates products into coherent visual narratives for the web, print and interactive channels. Client projects range from mobile apps to books, animated films, and web designs.

Expertise

Services Offered
Branding|Digital Marketing|Logo Design|PPC|SEO|Social Media Marketing|Video Production|Web Design|Web Development
Industries Served
Finance & Accounting | Retail, Consumer Goods & Services | Manufacturing | Hospitality, Dining, Event & Travel | IT & Software Development

Costs

Project CostProjects Starting at:
not provided by vendor
35 reviewers reported project cost for this provider
Less than $1K
1%
$1K - $2.5K
$2.5K - $5K
3%
$5K - $10K
3%
$10K+
31%
No cost reported
62%
Retainer CostRetainers Starting at:
not provided by vendor
20 reviewers reported retainer cost for this provider
$250 - $500
1%
$500 - $1K
2%
$1K - $2K
2%
$2K - $5K
9%
$5K+
8%
No cost reported
78%

Storm Brain Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

91 Reviews

Expertise
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Accuracy of Cost Estimates
Not rated
Communication
5.0
Responsiveness
5.0
Accuracy of Timeline
5.0

Pros:

  • The team at Storm Brain is always available and responsive via email and phone call. They have great digital marketing expertise and their campaigns and optimization have helped our conversions. They keep us up to date on regular reporting. They manage and support our sites across the board and we like how we can count on them for a comprehensive strategy, they do everything we need from an online marketing perspective.

  • Professional, hardworking team that was surpassed my expectations with every task.

  • Easy to communicate ideas back and forth. And a very creative staff!

  • We wanted to partner with a digital agency who could deliver consistent search ranking results for our company’s PR efforts. They’ve been great at helping us navigate the online sphere. They’re always available via phone or email and have been there to answer questions and guide us through the SEO process since the beginning.

Cons:

  • Nothing we would change in the way that we work together!

  • Nothing everything was great! Never had an issue.

  • Nothing thus far! We sill work with them and have yet to have any issues! :)

  • Nothing negative to say at this time. Overall, a great working relationship.

91 reviews

Recommended
Guile Lindroth avatar
Guile Lindroth
AI Director
Information Technology and Services, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Pros:
The team at Storm Brain is always available and responsive via email and phone call. They have great digital marketing expertise and their campaigns and optimization have helped our conversions. They keep us up to date on regular reporting. They manage and support our sites across the board and we like how we can count on them for a comprehensive strategy, they do everything we need from an online marketing perspective.
Cons:
Nothing we would change in the way that we work together!
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: $5,000+ monthly
Overall Experience: The experience has been great, the team is very detailed and very prompt and reliable. They are experts in their space and have brought new strategy’s and ideas to the business that have helped us to continue to grow with new conversions and reaching new users overall.
Other Contributing Factors: Portfolio, Reputation, Specific Service Offering, Technical Expertise
Christine Knights avatar
Christine Knights
Marketing Recruiter
Information Technology and Services, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: $2,000-$5,000 monthly
Overall Experience: I am a marketing recruiting expert and we had an immediate need to increase our organic visibility, in order to increase inbound leads, and support our growth goals. We picked Storm Brain because of their Reviews reviews reviews! They had such a great online reputation, it made our decision easy! We interviewed a few other companies, but made a quick decision and picked Storm Brain. Research and analysis, lead to our strategy for rolling out a new SEO campaign, and then we addressed some of the lead funnels on the current website. Our rank has grown month over month, and we're moving closer and closer to our goal. They have really delivered on their promises. Direct and available whenever needed. They don't leave us hanging, wondering what is going on... Proactive. Thanks!
Other Contributing Factors: Reputation, Specific Service Offering, Variety Of Services Offered
Paul Reyes avatar
Paul Reyes
Partner at A.D. Magellan
Real Estate, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: $5,000+ monthly
Overall Experience: We hired them to come up with all sorts of ideas — they completely strategized from top to bottom the creation of our new website, and the advertising and marketing strategy that was implemented at launch, and have been running ever since. Top to bottom, from he beginning of the proposal process, they were able to inspire confidence. We knew they could handle the job, and the lofty goals we had. Following the proposal process - we worked with them on strategy, in developing the website core features and backend functionality. Moved from there into the front end design elements. A few months of the build process, and we were live. Once live, we began working with them on an ongoing bases - SEO and PPC campaigns. We are constantly seeing growth, month over month, and this is a direct result of the activities and marketing efforts performed by Storm Brain.
Other Contributing Factors: Industry Focus, Location, Reputation, Specific Service Offering, Technical Expertise, Variety Of Services Offered
Samantha Kurtzman-Counter avatar
Samantha Kurtzman-Counter
President
Entertainment, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: Less than $1,000
Retainer: Confidential
Overall Experience: We hired Storm Brain to help us fix our very complicated and broken site. They worked wonders! They changed over our hosting platform, increased our speed, fixed and improved a lot of our design including major parts of our home/ landing page. They helped us with emergency security issues, fixing old plug ins, google analytics and many more items on our list. They also helped us to better understand what was happening with our site when many times it was hard for us to understand. They are so personable, friendly and easy to work with and always have a quick turnaround on the job no matter how big or small. We are continuing to work with them now and plan to continue working with them in the future.
Other Contributing Factors: Cost, Reputation, Technical Expertise, Variety Of Services Offered
Hao Ye avatar
Hao Ye
Education Management, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Single Project
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: Confidential
Overall Experience: We hired Storm Brain to work on our overall brand, brand messaging, and design/development of our new website. We are entering the US market, and we needed the expertise of a local US company to bring our first location to life. Think Academy’s website design and development was crucial to the success of this new expansion. We research companies in California, and we were lucky to find such a skilled team to rely on. They helped us to craft our content, clean up and solidify our branding, and overall messaging, improved our user experience design concepts. We now have a solid foundation for our business to get off on the right foot. Being new to the calfiornia market place, this representation of our brand is powerful in representing us online to potential students and their parents. . Overall, the experience was very smooth.
Other Contributing Factors: Location, Portfolio, Reputation
Vlad Herescu avatar
Vlad Herescu
Founder
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $5,000 - $9,999
Retainer: $5,000+ monthly
Overall Experience: Working with Storm Brain has been an incredible experience from onboarding to delivery and everything in the middle. They offer a wide variety of services, from Web development to website design, SEO, content, pay-per-click ads and more - which is super useful when looking for one agency to take care of most digital marketing challenges. Both Blake and Leah are awesome people and they just "get it", so you can have peace of mind that everything will go according to plan AND BETTER! Thanks for the awesome work and communication guys :)
Other Contributing Factors: Portfolio, Reputation, Technical Expertise, Variety Of Services Offered
Jake Brennan
E-Commerce Operations
Consumer Services, 501-1000 employees
Overall Rating
5.0
Pros:
The customer service and response time is impeccable. I have never worked with such friendly people at such a rapid pace! I never leave reviews but Storm Brain deserves it.
Cons:
Working with a team like Storm Brain has made things way too easy. We were thrilled with everything they did for us and we ran into 0 flaws along the way.
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: $2,000-$5,000 monthly
Overall Experience: When it comes to the quality and design of my wife and I's website, it was extremely important to deliver in order to create a first impression to potential clients. We spent months looking for the right people to work with in this category and their service is very hard to come by. Having the team at Storm Brain build and maintain my website, allows us to take a crucial piece of the business off our plate so we can focus on sales, building relationships and closing deals. Anytime we need to make an update, they have gone above and beyond, which helps us make a fantastic first impression with our audience. Allowing Storm Brain to handle this portion of our business has gotten us to the point we're at now. Thank you guys!
Other Contributing Factors: Industry Focus, Location, Portfolio, Reputation, Specific Service Offering, Variety Of Services Offered
Debra Newsom avatar
Debra Newsom
Partner at A.D. Magellan
Real Estate, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: $5,000+ monthly
Overall Experience: The goal is always to drive new leads to our business. In the form of phone calls, emails, lead magnet submissions, etc. We reviewed a number of local companies, and after reading the great reviews on Storm Brain, we selected them to be our partner moving forward. We run a number of PPC campaigns through a variety of services; Google, Bing, Linkedin, Facebook. We needed a team to manage the campaigns, optimize and keep things fresh with quality design assets and a fresh perspective. Also, it was important that they really understood our industry. Storm Brain checked all of these boxes.
Other Contributing Factors: Industry Focus, Location, Reputation, Specific Service Offering, Technical Expertise, Variety Of Services Offered
Fanny Wan avatar
Fanny Wan
Bankruptcy Attorney
Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: $5,000+ monthly
Overall Experience: As a law firm, it's crucial our brand and our reputation, are constantly top of mind. We interviewed numerous marketing agencies and web design companies, and one of them stood out – Storm Brain. We hired them to design our new website, and then develop it. After we launched, we were so happy with the overall experience, we engaged them to run our SEO campaign to drive organic traffic from search engines to our new beautiful site.
Other Contributing Factors: Industry Focus, Portfolio, Reputation, Specific Service Offering, Technical Expertise, Variety Of Services Offered
Aaron Rosenzweig avatar
Aaron Rosenzweig
Manager
Hospital & Health Care, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: $5,000+ monthly
Overall Experience: Managing our existing digital marketing strategies internally, we decided to bring in an external resource to give our search engine optimization (SEO) and overall digital marketing efforts an extra boost. We were surprised with not only the overall proficiency, but the level of impact working with Storm Brain had on our search exposure. Our lead influx got the boost we were looking for! Thanks!
Other Contributing Factors: Industry Focus, Portfolio, Reputation, Specific Service Offering, Technical Expertise, Variety Of Services Offered
David Levy
President
Industrial Automation, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Single Project
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: Confidential
Overall Experience: Storm Brain was a great company to work with. Our website redesign was relatively complicated since we cater to three different markets, and each part of our website had to be made in a way that fit those markets. We had many demands and challenges along the way, but Storm Brain was able to work though the challenges in a very positive, professional manner. Everything was done as quickly as we needed it to be, and they were very communicative throughout the process. We are extremely pleased with how the website turned out.
Other Contributing Factors: Cost, Portfolio, Reputation
Jordan Lemke avatar
Jordan Lemke
Marketing Communications Manager
Marketing and Advertising, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: $500-$1,000 monthly
Overall Experience: We utilize StormBrain for our web design needs, but the team is incredibly helpful with any requests we throw their way! They always respond promptly, communicate well during the lifetime of a project, and are friendly and nice to work with. Their team always goes above and beyond to answer any questions we have, and we have been thrilled with their web design work over our year's long working relationship.
Other Contributing Factors: Cost, Location, Portfolio, Reputation, Technical Expertise, Variety Of Services Offered
Kevin Schnurr avatar
Kevin Schnurr
Director of Communications and Patient Engagement
Non-Profit Organization Management, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $10,000+
Retainer: Confidential
Overall Experience: My organization, Alport Syndrome Foundation, went into this project seeking an entirely re-done website featuring new content and aesthetics. Storm Brain had a sit down with our management very early in the process to ensure clarity of vision wasn't lost via electronic communications. Their team has made themselves available to us at all times and is always eager to help see our vision through. Even now, post website launch, the team is as adamant as ever about ensuring everything is exactly how we want it.
Other Contributing Factors: Cost, Location, Portfolio, Specific Service Offering, Technical Expertise, Variety Of Services Offered
Trevor Nolan avatar
Trevor Nolan
Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Pros:
StormBrain taught me how to run my digital business and how to execute smart and impactful digital media. They understand design, marketing and online behavior including SEO. They design beautiful websites. And best of all, they are a pleasure to work with.
Cons:
I honestly have only had great experiences with Storm Brain. They dive deep, earn trust and deliver results.
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Cost Per Project: Unspecified
Overall Experience: I hired Storm Brain to transform my online business and they exceeded my expectations. My online sales were a small percentage of my total sales. After developing and implementing a new digital strategy with Storm Brain, online sales quickly moved to more than 50% of my total sales, my marketing assets were powerful and my new and existing customers invested in my value proposition. Storm Brain is a professional, full-service design agency that strikes the perfect balance of ideation and high-level consultancy. The team at Storm Brain is personable and respectful, and truly understands marketing including web design, and digital and social media, I would highly recommend working with them and have referred several professional colleagues to them, all of whom had similar experiences.
Maggie Janes Tancred avatar
Maggie Janes Tancred
Director of Development
Entertainment, Unspecified
Overall Rating
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: UpCity
April 14, 2023
Frequency: Ongoing Service
Cost Per Project: $2,500 - $4,999
Retainer: Confidential
Overall Experience: We hired them to help fix a number of issues on our site and have been blown away by how easy and pleasant it has been to work with them. Their team is super efficient, fast and great at communicating. They quickly fixed issues we have been having for years in a matter of days. Great turn around and quick feedback when we have little questions about things. They came highly recommended and it was the best decision to go with them. Can't recommend enough!
Other Contributing Factors: Reputation, Technical Expertise

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Locations

Headquarters:
San Diego, CA
US U.S. Locations (2)
  • Los Angeles
  • New York