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brandiD has been working in partnership with a lot of wonderful Pittsburgh-based organizations including Google Pittsburgh, The Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Chatham University, and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh to develop the …

The work the brandiD team did for my business and website was great. Not only was the website better than I hoped for, Rachel and her team members took their time to really understand my business, strategize with me and went above and beyond to help me grow to the next level. I look forward to continuing to work with brandiD on future projects. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for help building their brand, their business or their website.

Tad Reida
Former Pro Baseball Player & Entrepeneur

Rachel’s the best! Her ability to inspire and help me to see beyond what I thought possible is equaled by her ability to see the technical tasks through to completion. This is a rare combination. I recommend her and the brandiD team highly.

Betsy Reiling
Founder & President, Daffodil Labs

I came to brandiD because I wanted a vibrant website that was both elegant and accessible; I ended up getting that, but also so much more. Working with Rachel on the personal branding program (which, truth be told, I wasn’t sure I needed at first) not only helped me clarify what I wanted in a website, it also shaped the way I write, edit, and even think about my writing. This experience changed the way I view my work and myself—and the expert web design and social media coaching enabled me to communicate that new vision to readers and colleagues. Personal branding, developing a web presence, utilizing social media—none of it is necessarily easy. But these days it is essential, and the team at brandiD makes it enjoyable, too. I’m tempted to scrawl the web address on office walls with a note that says “for a good time—and a great website—call brandiD.” But I think it’s more professional to just write this testimonial instead.

Eleni Gage
Author & Magazine Editor

I obviously come from a sports background so for me brandiD was just that, a very positive “team” experience. Rachel was an awesome “head coach” managing this project and she has clearly recruited a talented group of people that make up “team brandiD.” To me, the way you know you are working with good people through an intense project, full of many details is when you emerge from the project feeling like you actually enjoyed the process and I can say with all my heart, I truly enjoyed the process with Rachel and her entire staff. All of them are talented, friendly and provide great customer service. Rachel Gogos, the boss, the head coach was amazing to work with. She is smart, well organized, works hard, communicates very well with her clients and she just has a wonderful demeanor. She is pleasant, patient and my favorite…she has a sense of humor! The other wonderful by-product of a well-managed project with a talented team of people is it builds your self-confidence. I had the opportunity to do things I have never done before and I learned A LOT in the process. I am very proud of all we have done together to create True North Sports. I find myself wishing we all lived closer together so we could go out and celebrate our success together! Overall, the project was a lot of work but in reality it felt like play! It was fun, I grew in the process and I would not hesitate to recommend Rachel and her team to anyone.

Celia Slater
True North Sports

We could not be happier with the website created by brandiD for our big fundraiser coming up. We came to them a month out needing a website built to promote the event and sell tickets. They finalized the site in days and it looks great! Everyone was super easy to work with and so creative. We are using them on another project now and they are already creating some great stuff! Thanks so much! We plan on using them for all future projects.

Shane Battier
Founder of the Take Charge Foundation & Former NBA Star

Working with The brandiD was the best decision I made to truly transform and propel my business and brand. The entire team goes above and beyond by not just doing the job at hand but by having intense engagement on my goals. Rachel and The brandiD team allowed for connections and insights that would not have otherwise occurred, and have enhanced my business in so many important ways. I decided to work with The brandiD to help create my brand for my website and business, but in completing this process I have walked away with a new purpose, better strategy and superior confidence that have boosted my business and brand to the next level. In addition, Rachel and The brandiD helped me to uncover the strategy for setting up my short terms goals to be able to meet my long terms goals. The process itself has allowed me to move a much faster pace.

Margaux Guidry
PhD, entrepreneur, lifelong learner

I’ve worked with both brandiD and iDentityShoppe. Working with both companies offered me many project-specific graphic design options, along with editorial assistance and a focused navigation for the right online strategy for my businesses. The teams at brandiD and iDentityShoppe drew upon the best resources and most current technologies, efficiently engaging me and my time to build a successful online profile and two incredible websites.

John Vardis
Diamond and Jewelry Professional

Rachel and her team have been wonderful to work with. They have provided amazing support to us in our development and launch of Fit Moms for Life—support that extends far beyond the development of our website. Rachel provides strategic guidance and asks thoughtful questions that have helped us think through multiple elements of our business as we develop our brand and grow our online presence. She has been a source of valuable business connections and insights, all of which will help us take our business to the next level. And she and her team have been helpful even on the minutiae, such as helping us select clothing for a photo shoot. I am grateful that we decided to work with BrandID, as they have provided us much greater value overall rather than just giving us an excellent website!

EMILY GREEN
Director of Fit Moms For Life

I cannot thank the BrandID staff enough for all their help in making Camp Elevate 2018 the huge success it was. In fact every event I have done since 2014 has been a success because BrandID is a part of my True North Sports staff. You will not find a group of people who are not only great at what they do they sincerely care about you and will do whatever they can to make your vision a reality!

Celia Slater
True North Sports

The BrandiD team is wonderful! I was impressed with the team dynamic of BrandiD, the thoroughness of the group, their previous work, and also their follow through. Everyone works together well, brings the entire team in on the project and timelines, and understands the goals of the project. The brandiD helped me see my dream, made my goals become more real, encouraged me, and to supported me in my journey toward personal and professional success!

Bill Bergau
Peak Career Success

BrandiD was a tremendous help getting our Merante Brothers Market website, branding, and social media plan together in an easy to navigate—and affordable—way. They worked diligently to keep us within budget and on time. Their personal care and attention made us feel like we were working with family. Great job!

Anthony Merante
Merante Brothers Market

I can’t thank Rachel and brandiD team enough for all the work they do on the front end…helping me ‘get inside’ of my brand, in finding ways to connect to my mission of raising the consciousness of business cultures through meditation. Seriously, how do you build a site FOR THAT? Lol. Rachel has a gift for pattern recognition, in aligning your brand strengths to color schemes, site layout, service offerings, and fonts. I can trust brandiD with my brand’s success because on many nights they are awake thinking about ways to make it all connect, even when I might not have have the time to. Rachel is a best-in-class personal-branding expert.

Kristoffer KC Carter
Culture Expert for Rapid-Growth Teams

Working with Rachel and the team at brandiD has been a great experience. From the initial design meeting through completion of the project, they worked collaboratively with me and kept me informed of their progress. They take your ideas and make them better and focus on exceeding client expectations. And that is exactly what they did when they built Personal Branding TV. I recommend them as a professional, client-focused expert resource to anyone who would like an on-brand web site that will WOW visitors!

William Arruda
Founder of Reach Personal Branding, Speaker & Author

Thank you Rachel, Kimberly and team for the outstanding work. This is my second time coming to Rachel for help on creating a site. We acquired another site/company, Showcasing Women, that needed a ton of help and love and, I won't lie, I was a bit nervous about the migration. This was a new experience - very different than building a site from scratch. It was seamless and easy and before we knew it the site was revamped and ready for us to dazzle it up with our personality. I highly recommend brandID and I look forward to working with them in the future.

Jenn Aubert
Co-Founder of LearnSavvy

I am blown away with the final product from brandiD. Their design process for creating a website that totally represents me was very different than any other company I researched. Starting with a personality survey and deep analysis of color and fonts produced a space that has captured my speaking and teaching essence. brandiD really listened to me and took my wishes and desires and put them into functional use on the website. My site used to be a random blog interface and you couldn’t tell who or what I did. But now, wow, it is clear and focused!

Phyllis Khare
Speaker, Trainer & Author

Working with BrandID was great. Communication and project management was spot on and the end result is fantastic. We’ve developed a site that fulfills all of the objectives that were set and it is already having a positive impact.

Matt Dove
Manager of BetaView

I was referred to Rachel Gogos and brandiD by a colleague. Rachel and her team helped me rebrand my Executive Coaching business. My new look is professional, fresh, and crisp. They created a new logo design, color scheme, business cards, stationery, and PowerPoint master as well as Blogsight and social media landing pages for Twitter and Facebook. Rachel collaborated with me every step of the way, listening to my ideas and preferences and incorporating them. I am really proud of the final products and how they showcase me and the services I provide to my clients. I recommend Rachel to those looking for a professional, well branded, coordinated outward appearance for their brand.

Pam Solberg-Tapper
MHSA, PCC

Over the past few years, I've watched with envy as colleague after colleague announced the launch of gorgeous new websites, all put together and supported by Rachel Gogos and her brandiD team. I also got to witness Rachel's mad smarts, business savvy, and creativity as we spent more than a year masterminding together with two other entrepreneur friends. So when it finally came time for me to upgrade my coaching/consulting practice site, there was no one else I trusted more! Rachel and her team put great thought and care into every single aspect of my brand and its presentation. Time and again, they offered welcome suggestions, opinions and perspectives, but always deferred to my decisions in the end. I ended up feeling incredibly well guided *and* empowered through the process, and as a result, I not only have an absolutely beautiful new website, but I understand myself as a business owner and my brand on a much deeper, more clear level. Thank you so much, Rachel and Team!!

Laura Neff
Leadership & Executive Coach/Consultant

I couldn't be happier with the service levels and results I got from Rachel and her team at BrandiD. They provided the tools for self reflection to get to what you really wanted to communicate to the world and the expertise to position your message in an innovative way. At each step the staff was highly intelligent, creative and easy to work with.

David Bishop
Owner, The David Bishop Group

The thing I most appreciate about Rachel and her team is how thoughtful and responsive they are. In the development stage Rachel was very generous with her time and ideas, giving me resources and asking sharp questions that helped me figure out how I wanted to focus the site. But even once the site was up and we were in the maintenance phase, everyone is super-responsive when I have a need or question relating to the web site. It almost feels like having an IT and marketing team for my business of one!

Miriam Klevan
Founder of Fulfilling Families

Since hiring brandiD to rebrand my business and develop a completely new website, my business has significantly increased. I am astounded at the power of the web and the results from clarifying my brand and gaining a fresh point of view on my business approach. brandiD’s expertise goes far beyond design. The time and money I invested in this process have already been earned back by new business. Working with brandiD was a powerful experience—one I would recommend to anyone looking to breathe new life into their business.

Rosemarie Perla
Coaching & Consulting

I decided to work with brandiD because my business was growing, but my professional website was falling behind. The investment into developing a strong website and brand with brandiD has been great. Rachel and her team are very responsive and professional and have great experience and insight. I would particularly recommend brandiD to anyone whose target market is women, since it is a company led by a woman who is also an expert in her field.

Dustin Maher
Founder of Dustin Maher Fitness & Fit Moms for Life

Patience is one of the strengths of the brandID staff. They helped me work through all the steps I didn’t understand. I never felt any hesitation when I asked for a change, and another change, and another! I would recommend brandID for business owners like me who need an affordable site and the guidance to move it along.

Kathy Serenko
Founder of YourSellingPoint.com

For years we’ve worked with wonderful developers, web strategists, and stellar graphic designers, but integrating and managing those resources was always a challenge and fell short of our broader needs. Rachel and her team were the first to see the whole picture, make sense of our disparate ideas and motivate the appropriate resources to deliver exactly what we needed on all fronts. I recommend her without hesitation.

Rob Hatch
President and Co-Founder, Owner Media Group

We had our design in hand, but we needed professional WordPress developers to code the site. As we were already on the Studiopress infrastructure it made sense that we go with a development team that knew it through and through. Brand iD was able to take our design and code it beautifully. The end result was just what we were looking for. We’re now planning future sites based on the same design. Thank you brand iD!

Nicholas Cole
VP of Marketing at Trinity Road LLC

We decided that we wanted to professionalize the online home for our City Dads Group, and we quickly recognized that we didn't have the expertise to do it on our own. The brandiD team helped us unite our Meetup groups, our blogs, our social media channels, our podcast, our press mentions, our workshops, and everything else we do in one place. We now have a solution that will scale as we continue to grow.

City Dads Group
Founders of City Dads Group

When I first met Rachel Gogos, I was taking her workshop on personal branding. I knew within the first 10 minutes that I had to hire her, she amazed me! When we started our work together (which was branding and creating my web site) I soon realized that her company and all of the people on the brandiD team were the best that you could ever ask for in creating your presence. Every single interaction was professional and actually really fun. There was never stress and the team was so genuinely interested in what it was I was doing in my company. They were clearly invested in the project. BrandiD is without a doubt the only way to go if you are thinking of creating something on the web. I am forever grateful that they gave me a tool to attract all of the clients I could ever want.

Susan Lustenberger
Founder of Consciously Prosper

I chose to work with brandiD because of Rachel’s professionalism and savvy in the arena of the web and personal branding. She is smart and strategic, yet practical with her clients. I expected to gain a more interactive website that was more Google friendly. One that I could easily update. A site that was blog compatible. I got all those things and more! I like an organization that is super at communicating, as I’ve been told that I ask the questions that some people think about but would fear asking. Rachel and her team embraced all my questions and helped me understand each step of the project. Rachel gave me great encouragement along the way when I was stuck with the writing piece. Her advice to hire a copywriter was incredibly valuable. I was concerned about the investment and she coached me through it. It was a great choice for me.

Jen Bertsch
Entrepreneur Coach

BrandiD is a unique web design firm because it has expertise in both branding and design. Rachel and Thoma worked incredibly hard to make sure my website was true to my brand and had all the technical bells and whistles that were important to me. As a result, my target audience loves my site and responds to it.

ORA SHTULL
Executive Coach to Manhattan’s Exec’s

When I started our web design project with brandiD I was more than a little skeptical that the job would be done on time and that all of the parts of the project would be done well. In my last ten or so web design projects my experience was web designers never do what they say they're going to do. So, I wasn't prepared for the great experience that brandiD provided me. They did everything when they said they were going to do it. They brought the project in for our agreed upon budget and they were a total pleasure to work with. I can tell you that as we continue to work on our website and design new sites for different offerings we'll be working with Rachel and her group. I can't give them a high enough recommendation. Oh, the end product also exceeded my expectations. Take a look and see for yourself.

Josh Patrick
Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Financial Consultant

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