About

We believe your content messages should be carefully targeted and are key to giving your brand credibility and value.

Our Philosophy on producing creative websites

Big Stick Web is a digital agency and part of Big Stick Design, an award winning creative design consultancy based in rural Hertfordshire. Formed in 1993, Big Stick has a hard-earned reputation for delivering creative websites and effective, affordable marketing communications working for businesses across a wide range of commercial sectors.

The ethos at Big Stick is reflected in our name, which is derived from a famous quote by former US President Theodore Roosevelt:

‘Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far…’

Consequently we focus on impact – the best way to differentiate your products or services from the competition is to be brave, accentuate the positive but never deviate from the truth.

We can help you re-evaluate your brand, establish what really needs to be communicated, how best it should be represented online, and makes sure that the key messages are communicated appropriately with intelligence in a creative website thats engaging and easy to use.

No Geeks, no techno-speak

As advocates of clarity and common sense we won’t ever bamboozle you with talk of coding and other such technical exotica – we will talk about options are available and of their potential benefits to your organisation.

We take a creative approach to all of our web-based services, so that your online brand works in conjunction with your overall marketing strategy, rather than as a remote, stand alone exercise.

We will deliver a creative website that’s cost-effective and works hard for you.

Our skills

     

  • Web Design 100%

  • WordPress 100%

  • jQuery 85%

  • Print 100%

  • SEO 75%

 

  • Carl Brady

  • Creative Director

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The founder of Big Stick and an award winning creative director with some 20 years experience. Carl believes that ‘hitting people between the eyes’ in terms of impact, gets results. (A strategy inspired by his mother in law apparently!)

  • Richard Benson

  • SEO Strategist

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Of Kiwi origin Richard has a substantial sales background and knows all the dark arts of SEO. He also is a black belt in the dark arts of Kyokushin (a deadly martial art) so even if he didn’t know what he was talking about, who’s going to argue!??

  • Helen Palfry

  • Designer

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Helen is our talented in house designer, interestingly her uncle played Jack Duckworth in Coronation St, Helen shares the same northern charm but is a little more stylish in her dress sense and only likes pigeons in a piquant orange sauce.

 

  • Chris Armitt

  • Designer

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 Chris is our latest acquisition an exponent of kick boxing and cake eating (sometimes simultaneously) he is also a very fast working Mac designer and closely mentored by Creative Director Carl so no doubt he will soon be talking in a northern accent and supporting Sheffield United.

  • Dawn Fox

  • Financial Wizard

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 Dawn handles all things financial at Big Stick, she even has the keys to the biscuit tin. Everyone is very polite to Dawn who used to work as a bank manager and we are hoping she still has a key to the bank vault.

  • Bob Lawley

  • Web coder

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It consultant at Big Stick web

bob is the geeky one of the bunch which maybe why he supports West Bromwich Albion but apart from that he seems entirely normal… apart from the Darth Vader helmet he sometimes wears at the office