WQ Creative is now Third Raven & Co.

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For established service businesses

Brand strategy and a website, so clients choose you before they’ve met you.

Four weeks, done for you.

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Hayley Philip, brand strategist at Third Raven & Co, working with a client in Cairns
Unfurl EMDR website homepage designed by Third Raven & Co
20+
websites built for service businesses
6,595 clicks
and 92,020 impressions across seven client sites in 16 months
All seven
ranking for their core local service term
Strategy
led personally on every project

You already know the moments.

Someone rings. They like you. They say they’ll jump on the website and book. Then nothing.

A referral partner asks for your link so they can send someone your way, and you send it with an apology attached. We’re actually redoing that soon.

You’re booked out for three weeks. Someone on your team has appointments tomorrow. You offer the earlier spot and the client says they’d rather wait for you.

None of those are design problems. They’re all the same problem, showing up in three places.

Right now your reputation is doing the work your website should be doing.

A new look won’t change how you’re understood.

The instinct is to fix the surface, or to go and find more people. A redesign, more ads, more content. Both are the wrong order.

If the right person lands on your site and can’t quickly work out that you’re for them, what makes you different, or why they should trust the rest of your team, then a better looking page doesn’t help and more traffic just spreads the problem faster.

Every question you leave unanswered is work you’ve handed to the buyer. The more of it there is, the easier it becomes to choose someone else.

Brand strategy comes before design because the message decides the structure and the structure decides the build. Deciding who you are for takes a few weeks. Rebuilding around the wrong message takes far longer.

Clarity before design.

Conversion before traffic.

Direction before build.

AI can build you a website. It can’t tell you what you should be known for.

Building is faster and cheaper than it has ever been, which is exactly why it stopped being the hard part. The hard part is the decisions. What the business should be known for. Which client it should be the obvious choice for. What to say first, and what to leave out.

AI will build whatever you tell it to, confidently, including the parts you had wrong. It has no view on your business, because it has never had to win work in it.

And when everyone has the same tools, everyone starts sounding the same.

Production is cheap. Direction isn’t.

The True Bearings Method

Four weeks. One deep dive, a handful of approvals, and we take care of the rest.

01. Get clear

We work out who you need to be the obvious choice for, what problem you own, and what makes you different.

02. Get conversion-ready

The message, the structure and the site get built around that direction.

03. Get found

Search and answer-engine foundations, so the right people can find you. Third step, not the first.

04. Know how to grow

A Growth Roadmap for what to focus on next, and a checkpoint at ninety days.

What changed for them

See the work
Unfurl EMDR website homepage designed by Third Raven & Co
Jakara Enders, Unfurl EMDR

Unfurl EMDR, Cairns. New business. No brand, no website, no referral pathways. Within two months of launch she was getting around two website enquiries a week and roughly one GP referral a week from doctors who found her through Google. She increased her client days to keep up.

“GPs and paediatricians have been able to find me through the website she created.”

Jakara Enders, Unfurl EMDR

“It’s amazing. I get so many enquiries but having to say no is really hard. Not a bad problem to have.”

Beneath the Palms Midwifery, Cairns. Booked out for the rest of the year, and two new services launched off the back of it.

Caitlin MasonCaitlin Mason, Beneath the Palms Midwifery
“We have also hired new educators because our website is so beautiful and reflects our business so much.”

Bossy Boots, Kingscliff. The site brought in educators, not just families.

Candis HenryBossy Boots, Kingscliff

Each of those started the same way. One conversation, and an honest read on what was actually going on.

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We’ll look at where your value is getting lost, I’ll tell you what I see, and if I’m not the right person for it I’ll say so.

Who this works for

It’s for you if:

You’re established, good at what you do, and your clients already know it

Referrals are carrying more of the load than you’d like

You’re at capacity, or other people’s calendars aren’t filling the way yours does

You’re ready to look at what the business says, not just how it looks

It’s not for you if:

You’re still working out what the business is

You want it to look better but you’d rather not rethink what it says

You’re expecting a website on its own to create predictable growth

Being small isn’t the disqualifier. A solo owner at capacity who’s getting ready to grow is exactly right for this. Growth intent is the thing.

Hayley Philip, founder of Third Raven & Co, at work in Cairns

Who you’d actually be working with

Most people I work with are excellent at what they do and quietly baffled that it isn’t translating.

I know that from the other side of it. I lost my job in a restructure and had to start explaining my value to people who had never met me. I wasn’t good at it. Being good at the work turned out to have very little to do with whether anyone could see it.

That’s why this never starts with design. Getting someone to choose you is a clarity problem, not a visual one.

I’m Hayley. I lead the strategy on every project personally, which is why we only take three a month.

Where the name came from

What happens next

01.

A call, thirty minutes

You tell me what’s actually happening. I tell you what I think is causing it. If it’s not something I should be working on, I’ll say so.

02.

One deep dive

If it’s a fit, we go deep once. That session sets the direction, and it decides everything after it.

03.

You see the direction before anything gets built

The strategy and the site structure come to you first. If you don’t believe in the direction, you can stop there and the strategic work is still yours.

We know the rules you work under.

Plenty of businesses in this space can’t legally use client testimonials in their advertising. That means standards, method, credentials and how you present your people have to carry the trust instead. Most studios don’t know the rules and quietly put their clients at risk.

The questions I get asked most

It’s priced as the direction, plus the thing the direction gets built into. If you only want the build, I can do it, but not well. Building before the direction is set is how people end up doing this twice.

Quoted, because no two of these are the same size. Pages, whether you need booking or anything else that has to connect to your site, and how much of your brand needs building are what move it.

Yes. A paid audit, $500, credited toward the project if you go ahead within sixty days. I go through your site and you get a report with the actions written out. Work through them yourself if you’d rather, and plenty of businesses should.

Busy is usually the reason it is. One deep dive and a handful of approvals over four weeks. If that’s genuinely not possible right now, tell me when is and I’ll hold a spot.

Not ready to talk yet? Find out what your website is actually costing you. Four questions, two minutes.

The cost isn’t
the website.

It’s every enquiry that arrived warm and left unconvinced. The referral who looked you up and never called. The person who said they’d book and didn’t.

None of it shows up anywhere. It just looks like a quiet month.

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Thirty minutes. You’ll leave knowing what the actual problem is, whether or not you end up working with me.

Hayley Philip, founder and brand strategist at Third Raven & Co in Cairns