Best Business Consulting Firms Of 2019

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Prototype was tasked with the design and development of the Windows Phone application for The Entertainer, a leading provider of coupons and offers in multiple countries.We kept it simple while trying to give the user all the information needed in a simple yet intuitive user interface.The user experience was aligned with Windows Phone guides, but also enabled users to perform all tasks in an easy fashion at all times throughout the app.Users can fully personalize their experience by saving offers, calculating their savings or buying new offers on the go.

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Moonlite is a simple, magical little device that allows you to project your child's favorite storybooks, right from your phone or tablet! With vivid projections, sound effects and background music, storybooks come to life and turn into a magical experience.  The MAKO team brought this product straight from concept, through to industrial design, mechanical engineering, and prototyping. The product raised over $1,000,000 on crowdfunding sites within just a few hours and was acquired by a global toy conglomerate. 

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The Ask
Burnaby Meals On Wheels had an outdated brand and website that wasn't bringing forward the energy and vitality that that their food brings to their clients. Rather than the cheap processed and sodium rich packaged dinners that other meal delivery services offer, Burnaby Meals On Wheels focuses on fresh ingredients to make simple, wholesome meals that are good for the body. This was paramount to the successful rebrand.
There were also issues with the website: convoluted and outdated; users couldn't easily sign up or find the information they were looking for. It was hard for staff to update, and worse yet - wasn't responsive to format correctly on mobile devices.


The Solution
Weight Creative created a simple, clean logo design that would be much more legible at a glance, especially when paired with creative imagery. We chose photos of simple, fresh foods to be paired with the brand – speaking volumes about the quality of their food and nutrition before a word is ever read.
Driving traffic to donate or volunteer was one of the biggest metrics used to measure the success of the website. Weight Creative created clear paths to these conversions along with curating and organizing content in a way that allows users to easily find what they are looking for. Almost every page has a section on it with clear, vital call to actions: Want to donate? Want to get involved? Interested in registering? All of these actions are never far from a user at any given time and when paired with bright, contrasting icons and strong language, these call to actions we

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A startup provider of classroom survey assessments hired us to build a platform for ingesting and analyzing survey data and converting it to quality feedback for its clientele of teachers and school administrators. Prior to working with us the company had been conducting and scoring the surveys by hand. The process of tabulating and analyzing the data was performed by team members, and the final results data was delivered to clients in the form of Excel Workbooks or Comma Separated Values tables. Such a system, in which employees were required for the entire survey process from start to finish, imposed obvious limitations on the company. Growth, in the form of more surveys for an expanded clientele, would have been accompanied by steep and endlessly increasing labor costs.
We built a backend system that quickly processes survey data and generates detailed reports for teachers, classes, schools and school districts. Our work enabled the client to transform themselves from being a consulting company to being a Software as a Service provider (SaaS). Surveys are now conducted via an automated system that has allowed the company to establish itself as the leader in the K-12 classroom survey field.

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Bellevue University asked us to create their backdrop and graphics for their graduation ceremonies. The following is a wide backdrop created in three layers and pole mounted. Our graphics department can print up to 47 feet wide on just about any surface. 

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GSD® was invited by Vauxhall to produce an innovative direct mail piece to promote its new Eco-Flex range of cars. Loaded with intelligent new technology, the Eco-Flex range demanded a campaign that would reflect a ‘smart solutions’ theme and firmly underline the brand’s innovative positioning.
Our designers created a vibrant interloopmailer® using bold graphics to communicate key product information. The mailer’s four different sides proved ideal for telling the Eco-Flex story in an engaging, easily digestible sequence and featured a wide range of vehicles that use the technology.


The Eco-Flex mailer gave the target audience plenty to think about and look at too – delivering a high number of enquiries to dealers on the Vauxhall network. Once again interloopmailer® proved itself to work exceptionally well for promoting advanced technology products.

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Groove Jones is proud of the work we did on the McDonald’s V-Artist experience for the 2016 SXSW Festival in Austin Texas. The activation was voted the #1 VR experience at this year’s festival and the results were amazing.
“They over-delivered.”
– DeLu Jackson, McDonald’s Vice President Global Digital
McDonald’s – The Top VR Activation at SXSW

Groove Jones is proud of the work we did on the McDonald’s V-Artist experience for the 2016 SXSW Festival in Austin Texas. The activation was voted the #1 VR experience at this year’s festival and the results were amazing.
“They over-delivered.”
– DeLu Jackson, McDonald’s Vice President Global Digital
 
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Positioned right outside the front hall of SXSW, the McDonald’s Loft showcased the V-Artist experience and ran for the duration of the show.
“People lined up to participate. Their amazing work resulted in a lot of press about the Happy Meal VR experience. The number of articles that came out of it, the positive sentiment, and the social sharing tweets were great. It was rated one of the top experiences at South by Southwest.”
– DeLu Jackson, McDonald’s Vice President Global Digital

Participants have access to several different types of creative tools, a paintball shooter, a laser-guided color etcher and a paintbrush that allows you to paint in 3D space in front of you. Along with these awesome tools, you have a palette controller, giving you access to a wide range of colors to have fun with.


Real-Time Social Sharing
How does a person share their VR experience with their friends? Groove Jones integrated components of our “Groove Tech” platform that allows participants to take photos of what they are doing in VR and we sync them up with cameras that are filming them in real-time. Once they take off the headsets, participants can walk over to the kiosks and can share them on their own social channels.

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Building a marketplace to help a plant seller disrupt its own 100-year-old business
Building a marketplace that connects buyers and suppliers on a single, price-transparent platform is a great idea — unless it’s competing with your wholesale business.
For over 100 years, the Fiore family has been supplying trees and shrubs to landscapers across the country. Their business, Fiore Nursery and Landscape Supply, operated on the standard wholesale model: they sourced the greenery from growers across the country, and buyers came to them to purchase all the plants they’d need for building sites, golf courses, even zoos. Now Lisa Fiore, the fourth generation of the Fiore Nurseries family, wanted to use all that industry knowledge to create an online marketplace that would disrupt the family’s original business — before someone else did. And she came to Table XI to do it.
The result is LandscapeHub, a web-based, responsive, two-sided marketplace platform built in Rails and React. To learn what we needed to build, we started with a Google Design Sprint, an Inception and a lot of user research to validate everyone’s ideas. Then we paired with LandscapeHub as it built out a technical team, teaching their new hires how we solved tricky data problems and built a marketplace strong enough to support future growth.
The MVP we launched attracted investor interest — enough to turn LandscapeHub into a fully-funded marketplace startup. And it’s self-reliant. We worked with LandscapeHub’s new developers and CTO to fully transition ownership of the product, so they can run with it without needing our help.
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We developed a strategy for Pick a Bloom to be AMP with their blog. It resulted in tremendous growth. Read the full case study here: http://www.w3affinity.com/seo-case-studies/amp-seo-for-shopify-site/

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nugs.net has evolved into the leading source for official live music from the largest touring artists in the world. Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Phish, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others stream audio and video recordings of every concert they play through nugs.net. The nugs.net platform includes downloads, webcasts, subscription streaming services and even CD sales, delivering exclusive live content to millions of fans every day.
Services: Product Design, User Experience, UI Design, iOS Development, Android Development, QA.

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Alexandra McIntosh Law, a San Diego based Law Firm, reached out to us to increase their website's relevance and contact form submissions.To increase traffic we cleaned up their keywords, page titles, and a host of other on-page issues.After their on-page issues were resolved, we cleaned up the user experience, added web analytics and then created a GOAL page so that we could monitor the success of the website.Prior to 2 month SEO services package, Alexandra's website had gotten around 20 quality submissions in 10 months.In the less than 2 months since Alexandra started working with us, she has received 11 submissions, on top of the increase in phone calls.SEO is simply about doing things the way that Google wants, and because most businesses ignore proper SEO, that leaves businesses a major opportunity for increasing business via their website.

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Research to understand and define the naming conventions for a city's cycle paths and walkways. Initially testing out various conventions we were able to provide recommendations on how the city’s council could best name the series of on-road and off-road routes around the city. We also developed a concept and name for the overall network (reflecting the relationship and interaction between the different types of path) which combined all types of facilities for both walking and cycling.

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The Challenge
How to successfully launch and scale a search marketing strategy cross-market?
Approach
We mirrored its organization with SEM efforts centralized in the newly opened Dubai office. New tag management and web analytics systems allowed us to provide detailed data for SEM Management. Finally, we provided full coverage of languages and search engines.
Results

• 80 Emirates Markets with active SEM campaigns within 12 months


• 18 Languages available for use by Emirates customers


• 15 Experts available to Emirates

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We created a full brand strategy including front-end site design, photography, and marketing strategy that was tailored for ease of use for their customers while representing the heart of their brand: a beautiful family story of impeccable and timeless design.

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The City of Antioch, located in Northern California, was settled before the Gold Rush. In 2018, they decided it was time to rebrand. So they engaged Evviva.ChallengeOne consequence of the 2008 collapse was that the City of Antioch became closely-associated with a collapse in home values. By 2016, the City had turned several important corners. Unfortunately, this the media didn’t notice. Antioch remained a talking point, but the most common media pick-ups were related to crime, blight, homelessness and low-cost housing. Process
The City we met was divided. It was economically split between “well-off” vs. “getting by," geographically split north vs. south, divided by recency, by perspective, by levels of contentment, and even by time spent in the city itself. As a result of all of these divisions, residents were committed to their City but deeply frustrated with the state of affairs. Importantly, we found a strong, positive theme: opportunity was everywhere, and avaliable to all. This insight led us to a new strapline for the City and as a campaign line to drive awareness about what’s best about Antioch: “Opportunity Lives Here.”  The campaign targeted business and lifestyle targets. With integrated programmatic planning, we launched the new brand across a variety of digital and OOH channels.Results
The campaign was a huge success for Antioch:

• Nearly 24 million total impressions were delivered during the initial campaign cycle.


• 51,000 clicks were generated with a .3% click through rate (CTR). 


• The CTR our ads achieved is six times (6x) the industry average.


• The campaign added 40,000 new visitors to the campaign website (www.antiochisopportunity.com)


• Google Analytics showed a bounce rate of 32% to the site. (This is outstanding.)


• Arrivals results indicate 46,524 physical visits to Antioch from people who were exposed to our ads.

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With a product family that performed at the highest level, Samsung knew its packaging design needed to innovate as well. Having exhausted the limits of their galactic motif, they needed fresh ideas for their packaging design. We aimed for a cleaner aesthetic, complementing the graphic minimalism with interesting angles and premium materials and treatments. Samsung’s internal design team incorporated our conceptual work into their unprecedentedly minimalistic 7 series packaging design.

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TechCarrot HUB Bot is a multifunctional Telegram chatbot that helps to manage communications between partner companies of TechCarrot HUB and simplifies the process of notifying partner companies about all active and relevant requests in the Hub, and of collecting offers (CVs of candidates) from the companies. TechCarrot HUB is one of the largest IT communities in Eastern Europe which unites more than 150 companies. One of the key functions of the Hub is the exchange of leads (projects) between partner companies. The idea of TechCarrot HUB Bot appeared when at one point the number of partner companies was growing rapidly, and it became clear that we needed a tool that would simplify and speed up the process of communication, lead exchange, and CVs collection.

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Our team partnered with fast-growing startup Market Prophit, a big data analytics enterprise delivering trending social media sentiment for investors, with the goal of launching the new service through the world's foremost business and investment media and social influencers. The founder's goal was to earn adoption from the community of socially-savvy investors by leveraging the awareness and credibility resulting from the top business and financial media coverage.
90-DAY RESULTS:

• Earned 19,992,283 digital media impressions


• Secured feature inclusion in over ten Tier 1 media targets, including:


• Wall Street Journal (4x placement wins)


• Fox Business News


• Yahoo Finance


• Barron's and more~


• Ten key journalist & social influencer briefings


• Significant boost in web traffic and platform registrations


• Paved the way for Market Prophit's next success:  the industry's first Smart Beta Index powered by social media, CROWD.

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We are a premium software development company with more than 250 experienced software developers keen on working with international companies focused on helping customers expand and scale their software development teams. We can assist you in the development of your current or upcoming projects.Scale

• Scale your product team on-demand, without lengthy, risky and expensive hiring process


• Choose the people you want, easily replace the ones that don’t fit.

• Implement projects that require special skill sets, outside your current domain


• Full-spectrum of talent: Architects, Developers, QAs, Designers, UX/UI specialists, Product Owners


• Special areas of expertise: Fintech, Blockchain, Networking, HR

• Long term relationship


• Agile cooperation

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Concordia Equestrians are a charity for horses, they are looking to improve eductaion, best practice and the main goal is to improve horse welfaire.

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https://nin9productions.com/jordan-kuwait-bank-jkb-rewardsA Motion Graphics Explainers created for Jordan Kuwait Bank to promote their new Rewards program.Since the Reward system is based on collecting and exchanging points, we created a world of colored and textured “points” where we navigate and reveal the program’s key features in a freehand drawing style.Client: Jordan Kuwait BankConcept: Bilal AlsurriNine Productions:Motion & Sound Design: Bilal AlsurriExec. Producer:Future Vision Productions

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The Bipartisan Policy Center makes everyone equally uncomfortable.
They “combine the best ideas from both parties” to create actionable, sustainable public policy that inspires lawmakers to think differently. This is not kumbaya, lets-all-get-along stuff: They bring diametrically opposed thinkers into the same room and do the tough work of finding consensus. The result is “battle-tested” policy: not what either side would pick in a vacuum, but something we can all get behind. After all, isn’t that what’s missing? Americans will never agree on everything, but we canmove forward. The BPC is fighting to re-establish the spirit of progress that built this nation, and to help lift the sails of our democracy once more.
They asked Cantilever for a total overhaul of their online presence, starting from scratch. They asked us to reimagine what the ideal user experience for navigating their content was, and to create a website as unique as them.We audited their old site, did user testing through our UX phase, took our time with design and development and came out on the other end with a new site that was assertive and dignified. 

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As usual, when taking on a new client who has an existing Magento 2 installation, we carried out a number of site audits for Tom Dixon to fully understand what has been delivered, where there are potential issues and set a baseline of code and site quality that has been delivered to date. Each of these audits provided a raft of work to be prioritised and delivered for Tom Dixon over the coming weeks and months.The out-of-the-box search for Magento 2 wasn’t performing well for Tom Dixon. The search result rendering was slow, the ordering of results wasn’t best for their products and the search was lacking the “wow” already visible on parts of the rest of the site. Also, the mobile interface was inconsistent in places and difficult to use leading to high drop-off/bounce rate on mobile devices and very low conversion.  Tom Dixon have a wide-reaching global following and it’s made business sense to deliver a localised website to various countries. This has started with a transactional Hong Kong site with more to follow. Working closely with translation agencies, payment providers, shipping and more.There is a lot of work to deliver. And in record time. We can’t say more, but just keep checking in on the website every few months and watch it evolve.