grow Your Brand

Brand Strategy & Creative Services – Specializing in the Wine & Hospitality Industry

strategy

The foundation is positioning & messaging.  The framework is a unique & compelling story  about your brand.  Precise alignment of brand attributes with the target customer produces the best results.

Design

Strategy provides a roadmap for designing  user experiences.  This is executed via design/copy and other relevant disciplines, including web & mobile user interfaces, social content, or customer acquisition campaigns.

Production

We deliver content to wherever your customers connect with your brand. This includes website development, social media content & promotion, search engine marketing, “traditional” media campaigns, and more.

Analysis

You can’t manage what you can’t measure.  Messaging and media channels are evaluated not only for results but opportunities to improve ROI for all marketing activities.  Our only success comes from client success.

BrandXSocial is a Certified Wine Direct Partner

What Clients Say

Pat Garvey is a true professional. Astute, responsive, and agile, I greatly appreciate Pat’s work. Our team worked collaboratively, and communication between him and our company was stellar. I recommend Pat for his experience, wisdom, professionalism, and quality of work. From photography to video and content for our social media platforms, Pat turned products quickly to suit our needs and requirements. Thank you for doing an excellent job for Trattore Farms.

Michelle Robson

Trattore Farms

Pat and his team offer a rare combination of strategic marketing savvy and on-brand creative execution.  Brand X Social has been our go-to source for email marketing that consistently drives revenue.  Beyond email strategy, Brand X has become a “Swiss Army Knife” solution for our company assisting with copywriting, photography, social media, and more. They do beautiful work that captures the essence of our brand and the people behind it (our team members & customers).

Ali Ward

Partner, Yorkville Cellars

Pat Garvey made designing and launching a new website a stress-free affair. He is a pleasure to work with: organized, pro-active, upbeat, and reasonably priced to boot! He held our hand through the entire process and has been available for questions and to help with changes long after the new website launched.

Bettina Schiel

Partner, Laurel Glen Vineyard

Recent Work

Some of Our Clients

Mini Case Study: Winery Re-brand

The client, Russian River Vineyards, was undergoing a critical business model pivot. The new model required reconfiguration of the brand, which in turn required fresh content to support new positioning and messaging for the winery.

Deliverables

  • “Brand bible
  • Positioning & messaging strategy
  • Brand story
  • New imagery (photo and video)
  • Redesigned website
  • New email strategy & design
  • Social media content & campaigns

Rebranded Site

Results

Our Team

Pat Garvey

Founder & Head of Creative

Pat is a creative executive who approaches most marketing challenges from a storytelling perspective. As a brand strategist, he taps into a long history of helping prominent brands (e.g. Disney, Electronic Arts, Mattel, etc.) bring successful campaigns to market. His creative resume includes professional copywriting, web design, numerous photography & video assignments, and an FAA drone pilot certification. He is insatiably curious and nurtures a lifelong love of learning.

pat@brandxsocial..com

(925) 212-8077

Tam Starita

Creative Director & Content Producer

Tam is a creative visionary and team leader whose razor-sharp instincts are a byproduct of her personal artistic journey encompassing many domains, including design, fashion, and photography, to name a few. She has a gift for assembling teams across multiple disciplines and synthesizing a range of skill sets to speak with a singular creative voice. Tam keeps the highest standards for the quality of work she produces, demanding no less of her team than she does of herself.

Irene Yu

Graphic Design & Social Media

An accomplished Graphic Designer and UC Berkeley School of Business graduate, Irene combines a passion for design with a keen understanding of marketing and business fundamentals. A lover of music, fashion, and fine wine, Irene takes design cues from multiple creative disciplines and translates them into successful campaigns. She exemplifies a generation of content creators with the tools to generate breakthrough, compelling work that holds true to a brand narrative.

Reed Shelly

Client Services & Business Development

Reed brings over 25 years of experience as a traditional and digital marketing executive to BrandXSocial. His experience includes stints as a TV Development executive, writer and producer where he earned an Emmy nomination, two Humanitas nominations and a Cable Ace award. In the digital world, he led teams at Overture, Yahoo!, and Oversee.net, as well as heading up the full service marketing agency at Vantage Media.  Reed loves words and is good with numbers.

Contact

Drop us a line.  

Call: 925.212.8077 

Email: pat@brandxsocial.com

Or, complete the from and let us know if you have any specific needs or challenges we can address.  We’ll follow up.  The first call is free, and we’ll provide actionable insights before we charge you a dime.

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