Your website represents you all day, every day.
Are you showing up the way you want to?
I recently had a meeting to discuss redesigning a website, so I clicked on the link to see what it looked like. I was confused... it was clearly professionally designed, had excellent head shots, and quotes.
But it didn't fit. She didn't feel like it represented her and her vision at all.
Here's the problem. It doesn't matter how polished and professional your website looks, it needs to fit like your favorite shirt.
After all, it's how you connect with people – specifically, the right people who "get" what you do. You don't need to change to fit the way you're "supposed to" be. You just need to be you.
I started Maple Creative in 2014, and this is why I do it... because these collaborations light me up. I jump out of bed each day excited to co-create with my clients who are doing truly inspiring and transformational work.
Maybe our next project is your project, let's talk 😊 Book a 15 minute consult to discuss your ideas or sign-up for the free website guide I created
👋 Hello! I'm Ryan Clover,
I'm the digital gardener here at Maple Creative. I'm also a dad, songwriter, and budding orchardist. Here's my @Now Page and some of what we're working on these days at Maple;
- Designer & Operations Strategist – The Halt the Harm Network, Building a Stronger and More Connected Movement to Fight Oil & Gas, halttheharm.net
- Curriculum and Cohort Leader with TENORM Campaign Accelerator – connecting and supporting grassroots messaging campaigns to fight oil & gas – specifically radioactive fracking waste. halttheharm.net/tenorm
- Event Production for the FracTracker Alliance Community Sentinel Awards, an environmental justice ceremony.
- Online Course Launch, Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide with Christopher Hobbs, BotanicWise
- Online Course Development, Co-Creative Partnership with Nature, Pam Montgomery
- Website Design and Build, Center for Coalfield Justice
→ Do you want to become more savvy with your online marketing? Check out the mini-course 4 steps to getting a website that grows your business (free until 1/31/22
👋 Hello! I'm Kevin Richardson,
I’m freelance consultant, writer, and community organizer with a background in environmental advocacy and a graduate degree in Japanese environmental history. I love running, being a dad to two small boys, and reading everything from physics to history.
- Strategic Campaign Support: Providing strategic, technical, and organizing support for grassroots leaders in the Halt the Harm Network who are fighting oil & gas pollution → halttheharm.net
- Event Planning & Hosting: Planning and hosting regular webinars and informative virtual “teatimes” for the American Solar Grazing Association → https://solargrazing.org/
- Website Design: Creating custom websites for individuals, small businesses, and nonprofit groups
- Communications & Outreach: Writing and developing email campaigns, website content, personal outreach to recruit members and supporters
Let's Fix Your Website
💬 Audit Your Website
If you have an existing website, and you know your website could do better, hire me for a Rapid Results Consultation.
This marketing audit gives you actionable feedback based on a full review of your website and digital systems.
🗓 Group Program
Want the structure and support of a client project, but happy to go through the process with a group?
Build Your Website Essentials is our 4 week group program that includes a customized website and complete guide to adding your vision, content, and style.
Instead of learning technical skills, you learn how to publish and be effective at making your website a valuable resource people will share.
🌳 Work With Me
Professional websites, media campaigns, and online course services require a two month commitment at $2,500 /month.
When you hire us you have a creative partner for your next big project success. Space is limited, plus we should really get to know each other, so if you're interested, start with a Roadmapping project.
Roadmapping projects take about 2 weeks to complete and provide a researched, fully custom project plan with clear options to achieve your goal.
"I knew nothing, so I have literally learned every single thing I now know about websites either from Ryan, or from resources that Ryan made or recommended. I would still be miserable and stuck on Weebly if it weren't for Ryan!"
~ Rachel Conroy, Kinship and Company
Eve's Cidery is building an audience that supports their vision
Eve's Cidery is a farm-based business. The owners, Autumn and Ezra, are involved in all the day-to-day operations, from planting and pruning to pressing and bottling cider. After I created their new website redesign, they wanted monthly support so they could start building an online business and become less reliant on distributors.
Their website tells their story and grows an online audience of fans who are excited to buy each new vintage they release from the farm.
A well-designed and well-managed website can help a business become more sustainable. The Maple Care Plan was developed with small businesses like Eve's Cidery in mind. Autumn and Ezra get regular reports so they can be informed on every change, as well as important stats about their traffic and sales.
Ryan gives our website the level of professionalism we need to grow the online aspects of our cider business, ultimately making us more independent.