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Marketing stories

My conversation with AI on what it thinks the future of websites and branding overall looks like.
Marketing Engine Products
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StorySeed
The essential local marketing starter—intern-powered, story-driven content that plants the seeds of your audience.
$1,500
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StorySprout
Grow your local presence with enhanced storytelling and increased intern support. All StorySeed features.
$3,000
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StoryBloom
Watch your story flourish with expert creative oversight, enhanced videos & audio for deeper community connection.
$5,000
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StoryHarvest
Reap the rewards of premium, Hollywood-quality content with expert interviews, advanced visual design, and six months of outreach.
$7,500
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StoryLegacy
The ultimate local marketing experience— expert-driven, cinematic storytelling, a year-long content calendar, monthly events, and a deeply integrated AI assistant.
$15,000
Limited Budgets & Support
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StoryCause
Discounts for non-profits and limited budget organizations.
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StoryGuardian
Maintenance, Care & Support
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Testimonials
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Mark Frith · Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty
Gary and Orbis has taken us from identity, purpose, mission, and strategy to rendering a fabulous looking and dynamically interactive web design that will provide the end user with an ability navigate the site easily and a desire to return frequently, and share with others.
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Dennis Piron · Batavia High School
I have had the opportunity to work with Gary through our entrepreneurship program at Batavia HS and he has taught our students AMAZING concepts in digital marketing! Gary is truly one of the best partners we have ever had at Batavia HS and his kindness, generosity, time and connections he has made with students has been a special addition for all our students.
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Emma Harrison
Gary is simply the best. He goes above and beyond to bring clients creative solutions and goes the extra mile to troubleshoot when things aren’t working perfectly. That is rare for a web developer. It’s been such a joy working with and learning from him over the past five years. He always inspires me and teaches me something new. I’ve been incredibly grateful for our partnership.
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Richard DeVeau
Gary is truly the Magellan of digital marketing. In the last decade that I’ve worked with him, he is constantly exploring new marketing terrain … unearthing new, uncharted passageways that lead to enabling his clients to communicate better, smarter, and more efficiently. You won’t find a better digital marketing partner anywhere on this big blue marble.
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Joseph Shansky
Gary's enthusiasm and expertise in the world of marketing, messaging, and technology is unrivaled! He will often introduce new concepts or tools into a conversation which end up vastly improving the project. Gary stays on the cutting edge of tech because he has so much fun with it and as a collaborator, he keeps a great attitude that is infectious.
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Robert Hiebeler · Link The Dots
After we launched our new website and podcasts, I received very positive feedback from many people that I had not been in contact with for over 20 years. And these are people from my career that I really respected for their views and outlook. So, to hear from so many of them in this way was very special.
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Carla Lyons · Marketing Guru
“I have worked with Orbis Design for many years. Gary is truly an innovator! I rely on him to provide creative digital solutions that are time and cost effective. Most of all, he delivers - I know I can trust him to get the job DONE. Bonus … Gary is one of the finest people I know - it is a pleasure and a privilege to work with him.”
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Keith Boatner | Abbot Molecular
“I worked with Gary for over 10 years on the Abbott Molecular websites where he provided several excellent Web sites for our organization. Gary was significantly involved in the Internet strategies of Vysis and Abbott Molecular. His involvement outlasted three significant leadership changes within our Marketing departments and was consistently meeting our ever changing demands!”
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Jenny Conviser, Psy.D. · Ascend CHC
“Amazing...the work you do. You all are true artists. I am so pleased that you were able to capture so much of what we originally talked about. You were masterful and kept it simple on our end. You juggled 1000's of thoughts, ideas, messages, personalities, dates, dollars and deadlines.“
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TUTORIALS
These 3 videos show you how once the videos are cleaned up, segmented, how to assemble in Kapwing, export and install to a Landing Page.
A ChatGPT Project picks a current holiday, writes an email headline, crafts the image prompt, provides 3 short paragraphs of history and quadruples click-thru rate, oh, and it takes 10 minutes vs 60 minutes before.
Iphone interview, editing in Descript, AI to generate b-roll images, assembling video in Kapwing, installing video to Squarespace Website.
How to install your bio video using the new video publishing system. Easy-Peasy
This new update is insanely awesome. I’ve been trying to improve this through Kapwing for 8 months and I finally got ti all working!
Sound design, music, interview framing, logo design, call to action
The easiest way to create a thumbnail using a screen capture tool.
Creating a thumbnail for installing a video into a Squarespace website
A super fast video production from a descript edit into Kapwing using a brand template - typical process can be done in 5 minutes.
Using the free Insta360 Studio Desktop Editing Software to edit vertical 360 videos and bullet-time video.
Two different tools for turning long landscape videos into several short vertical videos — one uses some amazing AI to help.
Simple text edits in Squarespace Fluid Engine and ensuring mobile is good.
Photoshop Generative AI for expanding profile pics is insanely easy!
The process of enhancing a blurry image using Topaz Photo AI, including enlarging the image, adjusting settings to avoid cropping, and using a focal point feature for better composition.
I lost a previous 3D render artist and needed renders for a project in hours and found this guy from Estonia charging $20/hour. I never would have hired him because of his lack of jobs on Upwork but he killed it!
Interns Local, smart, talented and driven students trained and certified on a structured and efficient marketing system.
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Colin Hervey
University of Missouri Columbia | Studying Finance and Marketing
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Tyson Aschliman
Indiana University
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Grow it.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.