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STRATEGY. CREATIVITY. TECHNOLOGY
Agency Support Specialists
- We help you to help your clients
HANDSWRITING - Writing one word
simultaneously with 3 hands
credits : Maki Gallery, Tokyo 1982 - STELARC
Blue Baboon represents the third hand that
helps you achieve what you want more
efficiently.
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WHO WE ARE
About us
We were founded in 2009 by Sean and Joseph
Conlon on the premise of delivering exceptional
digital products without the pain of high price, bad
communication and low quality output.
We have grown from two brothers creating websites
for SME’s in their Mum and Dad’s bedroom to a
team of eleven in an office in historic Richmond
that provide creative and technical solutions
to companies like National Rail, Sodexo and
Rossopomodoro. Our team is a mix of Consultants,
Designers, Developers and Project Managers. Our
focus these days is building long term relationships
with agencies of all types who need multiple projects
for multiple clients. We don’t like to brag, but if it is
digital, we can usually do it.
A SUMMARY
Founded in 2009
Setup by Joseph and Sean Conlon
Based in Richmond, London
Team of 11 (at time of writing)
We love working with agencies
We have designers, consultants & developers
Long term relationships are our thing!
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Why work with Blue Baboon?
Consistent Quality
We really do deliver at every part of the project life
cycle. You’ll find our consultants knowledgeable
and our production team swift and efficient,
meaning you’ll be confident your agency is in
safe hands throughout the whole process.
Value
When it comes to pricing, we know you need to
be able to make your own mark up on any
projects we deliver. We therefore price
accordingly and offer great value considering
the skill sets and the product delivery
methodologies we possess.
Relationships
The relationships we foster with our clients are
always top notch. We pride ourselves on
the fact we have always completed at least two
pieces of work with every agency we have
worked with. We don’t however, overreach and
although we are ambitious we won’t take
on work which may jeopardize our relationship.
We Help You Sell More
When working with our agency clients we
understand our expertise is invaluable. We will
advise on areas we can add extra value which in
turn gives you the tools you need to
advise on additional opportunities for your clients.
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How we deliver our work
With Discretion - unless you say otherwise
With Speed
We don’t need our name on every project we do. Our
passion is helping you deliver quality work to your
clients. Whether that means working in the background
as part of your team or turning up to meetings as Blue
Baboon with you, we are happy either way.
All projects, which use a systematic process to deploy,
are assigned an Account Manager and a Project Manager
to ensure a transparent, smooth delivery of your project.
We work fast because the industry expects it, but we
produce quality because we demand it of ourselves. If
every now and again you take on an urgent project that
needs us to get a late night pizza and some beers in
then that will be our little secret.
With Lots Of Communication
With Honesty
Throughout each project your Project Manager will
constantly be updating you on project progress and
quickly explain how any iterations you may need could
change the cost or delivery date. Your Account Manager
will be on hand if any change in strategy is required or
if a new requirement pops up.
Our approach demands a transparent and clear delivery
process which we share with all our clients.
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Lygia Pape’s 1968 performance “Divisor”
While people poke their heads out of the
fabric their bodies remain enveloped - the
movement of one affects the other. Blue
Baboon focuses on participation and hopes
to transform connections into relationships.
OUR CLIENTS
A Selection Of Our Own Clients
- Organisations
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A Selection Of Our Own Clients
- Agencies
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Who We Have Worked For
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Prepared Tree Suspension: Event For Obsolete
Body No.6, Black Mountain, Canberra,
10 October 1982
When your resources become overstretched
the Blue Baboon team comes in for help.
OUR TEAM
Our Team
Joseph Conlon
Nicola de Ferry
Sean Conlon
Samy Mansour
Creative Director
Co-Founder
Project Manager
Kevin Cavilla
Digital Strategist
Account Manager
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Lea Munzer
Experience Planner
Joao Neves
Digital Designer
Peter Goring
Technical Director
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OUR SKILLS
Our Skill Sets
We provide many services, but it’s our skill sets that enable them to creatively
come together. From websites to applications to banner ads, the digital product
you need are covered by the following skill sets:
DIGITAL DESIGN
FRONT END
BACK END
MOBILE
ONLINE MARKETING
POST PRODUCTION
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DIGITAL DESIGN
Strategy and Planning
By exploring the needs of both our clients and
their customers, we are able to design digital
experiences that are commercially effective
and a pleasure to use.
Design
Our approach to design provides a clear and
concise experience for users. We design for the
internet - meaning our designs must be usable
but also look professional and cutting edge.
UX & UI
We use data and human insight to drive our
design thinking. Our method of working keeps
guess-work to a minimum, exposing even our
earliest ideas to feedback from our clients and
their customers. Sometimes this is tough pill to
swallow, but it leads to better design outcomes.
Through sitemaps, wireframes and content
strategies we produce exceptional project
plans that deliver results.
Digital Style Guides
Content Strategies
Site Mapping
Wire Framing
Design comps
Mobile Design
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FRONT END
Front end development is the development
of those elements of a website that the
customer sees and interacts with directly. It is
a combination of programming skills (knowing
which program to choose) and aesthetics
(understanding element arrangements on
the screen, the color and font choices). Blue
Baboon possesses the dark arts when it comes
to front end!
Some of our front end capabilities
HTML 4/5
CSS3
Ajax
PHP
JavaScript / jQuery
JSON / XML
Java
Ruby
Python
.Net
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BACK END
We call back end code the ‘brain’ of any app
out there. The back end development is a part
of the application that is never visible to the
user. It is built with use of server-side language
and database. In simpler words, front end code
interacts with a user in real time while back
end code interacts with a server to return user
ready results.
Some of our front end capabilities
NoSQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
SQLite
MongoDB
CouchDB
Redis
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MOBILE
Mobile Design
Whether you need to extend an existing user
experience out onto mobile devices or create
an entirely new mobile service we can support
your expansion in this rapidly developing
channel. We help clients navigate ‘Web vs
Native vs Hybrid vs Responsive’ decisions, and
design useful, elegant mobile experiences
which create value for their brand.
Mobile Application development
We take pride in building the most awesome
apps that both create value for our clients and
users love to use. We have built hundreds of
bespoke apps that users love to use.
We build with
iOS
Android
Windows
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ONLINE MARKETING
Search
Search marketing is about being there when
the consumer needs you. Every request is an
opportunity. Whether they’re looking for your
brand specifically, or a brand like yours, it pays
to get there first. But the way we get there
has changed. Mobile and social media have
established themselves as indispensable parts
of the mix. It’s important to have someone
in your corner that knows how to put these
elements to work. That someone is us.
Social
We help you understand the impact that social
media is having on your organisation and work
with you to implement the changes that need
to be made as a result. We help you listen to
conversations throughout social media relevant
to your brand, products, services, competitors
and sector. We help you engage in social media
by having meaningful conversations with
people and igniting positive word of mouth.
Local
Local SEO has become an increasingly
important digital marketing strategy. The
increase in mobile traffic has led to a direct
increase in location becoming an integral
part of the search landscape. We understand
and actively promote this trend to customers
of all sizes.
Email
Email marketing is an efficient way to stay
connected with your clients while also
promoting your business. With email marketing,
you can easily and quickly reach target
markets without the need for large quantities
of print space, television or radio time or high
production costs. We help you safely navigate
the email marketing minefield.
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POST PRODUCTION
Hosting
Our hosting is provided by UKFast, one of the
UK’s leading managed hosting and colocation
providers, supplying dedicated server hosting,
critical application hosting, and cloud hosting
solutions. We have an array of different hosting
platforms available and can work to create
custom solutions, with UKFast’s support at the
drop of a hat.
Support
With all projects we guarantee the code for a
4 week period. During this time you can call
us up 9am - 5pm Monday – Friday and we will
fix any bugs you come across as quickly as
possible. After this period we can support your
product with one of our dedicated support or
maintenance plans.
Analytics
Maintenance
We can be on hand to help update, fix and
upgrade applications, websites or any other
complex software solutions you need us to keep
fully operational at all times. Our maintenance
plans are flexible and offer varying levels of
support.
We use data to make smarter decisions. We use
onsite analytics tools like Google Analytics,
Adobe Site Catalyst and Webtrends Analytics.
Or more specialist tools, depending on your
needs.
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OTHER SERVICES
Video
Branding
Animation
Illustration
Our film, television and video production work
covers a wide range of branded content for
leading brands, creative agencies, financial
institutions, global charities and revered
universities.
We pride ourselves on creating high quality,
bespoke and customised animations. Each
of our videos is illustrated and animated
individually for each client. As we don’t use
stock images, animation templates or library
music, you can be sure all the content of your
animation is unique to you, and won’t be seen
anywhere else.
Although branding isn’t something we offer
directly, as our focus is mainly on improving
our digital offering, it is something we are darn
good at and are constantly being asked to help
clients position their company and illustrate
their brand identity. We help organisations with
brand strategy, logo design and brand toolkits.
With content becoming more and more
focused on images supporting textual content
– illustrations are as important as ever. From
infographics to hand drawn cartoons, Blue
Baboon are able to produce a wide range of
styles that suit any corporation’s brand identity.
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APPROACH
How we can work with you
Outsourcing
We have a large number of experienced in
house and external members in our digital
production team who work with us on a daily
basis. All are supported and vetted by our own
dedicated team of designers, developers and
project managers.
Send us your projects with a full brief and we
will give you a fixed cost to complete the works.
Your projects may vary in size and complexity
but you can always rely on discretion, quality,
communication and great value for money.
Insourcing
Many of our clients want our designers,
developers, project managers and UX
consultants to work on their projects in their
own offices. This is usually because they feel
it speeds up communication or the project is
rather secretive. To us it really doesn’t matter
and we have all the necessary contracts and
insurance in place to facilitate this.
Think of us as a recruitment company, but the
difference being we actually KNOW the quality
of our candidates because we have used them
on own projects before we even think about
sharing them with you.
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PORTFOLIO
Please note that this is not a fully inclusive list of our projects as
some of them are confidential and completed under our clients NDA’s
Brief - Details
Newsweek looked to Blue Baboon for consultancy, digital design and best practice when it came to
online marketing. We worked with them on a campaign that spanned many months and produced
e-mails, banners, web pages, mobile responsive web layouts and landing pages. We also advised
them on their social media strategy, content delivery, where to place advertisements and which
audiences were likely to connect with them and in which location. Our work was distributed to
thousands of individuals across the UK and helped relaunch the Newsweek EMEA print edition.
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Brief - Details
Quill, one of the fastest growing companies in the UK, is a content marketing business based in
London. Quill approached us because we were able to take them on a journey from a simple brief
to a fully tested, mobile responsive website. Not only did we listen, but we advised - we ran a series
of workshops aimed at understanding their user personas and planning the user journeys. Once
the plans had been agreed it was then onto integrating their stunning brand within the website.
This required a highly complex graphic and technical solution to match their unique brand.
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Brief - Details
MF Comm are a telecommunications company that had 6 different websites - all called different
names - that were supporting hundreds of different products for different types of users. We worked
with MF Comm to combine their 6 websites into 2 distinct different companies. The first website MF Comm - had over 30,000 products which we helped them collate, plan and launch. The second
website, Office Phone Shop, had 5,000 products that they would sell directly within the UK Market
via an e-commerce website. Our approach helped us to understand their user groups, plan the
user journeys and deliver 2 highly functional yet easy to use websites that have so far generated
exceptional ROI.
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Brief - Details
We Make Footballers is a children’s football coaching company based in London. They train over
1500 children a week and are rapidly growing. Initially called ‘Sports Linx’ we rebranded them
to better suit their core beliefs and objectives. We then looked to digitalise their online payment
system and customer management facilities by developing their own bespoke software which
we named ‘Kids Register’ (see below). We have helped them achieve some of the highest ranking
keywords in their local areas and the company has grown by 200% in the past 3 years we have
worked with them.
At the time of writing we are supporting them during a franchise creation which will see them
launch throughout the UK.
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Kids Register
To support the growth of We Make Footballers (above) we advised on getting rid of their paper
system which relied on cash payments, insecure cheques and zero visibility on if they would have
any customers the next week. At this point they had 1 location with 2 classes once a week training
200 children. They now have 7 locations, training 4 days a week, with 20 separate classes training
over 1000 children a week. Our digital strategy allowed them to scale and take advantage of
online automated payments. This meant that instead of charging on a pay as you go system, the
software would automatically collect the payment every term time reducing admin and marketing
spend dramatically.
We made sure that Kids Register is scaleable enough that it has actually resulted in OTHER kids
sports businesses using Kids Register for their own businesses. Watch this space!
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Brief - Details
Good Deli Company is the consumer arm of Donatantonio - a national distributer of World food
products. Donatantonio approached Blue Baboon to help produce a new company name, brand,
tone of voice, industry position and digital marketing strategy. Our approach took us through a
variety of workshops and design sessions which led us to Good Deli Company. Once the Good
Deli Company branding was complete - we produced a highly functional yet user friendly product
catalogue of over 400 products. This was no small task while keeping to the strict brand guidelines
we had set. The result was a highly functional yet aesthetically pleasing digital product that the
client was delighted with.
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Website Design
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Wireframes
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Brochure
Photography
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Brief - Details
Rossopomodoro are one of the largest Pizza companies... in Italy. They have around a dozen
locations here in the UK and are growing rapidly. Having launched a new UK brand with the highly
talented Mascot Creative (of Nando’s fame), Blue Baboon were approached to help create the new
website and digital marketing set.
This was a new, highly functional site with a huge focus on the creation of mobile optimised
content. We created a highly functional CMS system that powered the products, menus, restaurants
and promotions which has made the clients life so very much easier. Rossopomodoro loved the
website so much, they are using it over in the states where they are launching their next batch of
restaurants.
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Our Services
WEBSITES
DISPLAY ADVERTISING
- Microsites
- Landing Pages
- Portfolio Sites
- Parallax Scrolling Sites
- E-commerce Sites
- CMS Systems
- Secure login
BRANDING
- Brand strategy
- Logo identity
- Logo guidelines
- Brand guidelines
- Print Design
- Static Banners
- Flash Banners
- GIF Banners
- HTML5 Banners
MOBILE APPS
- iOS app’s
- Android Apps
- Window’s Apps
WEB APPLICATIONS
- Invoicing
- Automation
- Customer Support
- Login Areas
- Report Generation
SOCIAL
- Social Strategy
- Platform Setup
- Maintenance
- Engagement
- Analytics
CONTENT
- Animated Explainer videos
- Commercial Production
- Video Editing
- Infographics
- Email Templates
- Photography
MARKETING
- SEO Strategy
- Local Search
- CRM Integration
- Social Marketing
- Paid Search Campaigns
- Inbound Marketing
OTHER
- Hosting
- Email Hosting
- Web Maintenance
- Website Support
- Usability Reports
- Analytics
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All Development Languages
CMS
- Wordpress
- SharePoint
- Drupal
- Joomla
- Magento
- Concrete5
DATABASES
- Full database
design capabilities
- Both relationship and
Non-relational design
(SQL and NoSQL)
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
-MongoDB
- CouchDB
- Redis
ENVIRONMENTS
- Windows
- Linux
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- InDesign
MOBILE APPS
- Strong iOS app
development
- Medium strength in
androiddevelopment
- Basic embedded
system development
SUPPORT
- Website Support
- API’s
- Security
- Hosting
- DNS
- Analytics
OUTCOMES
- Websites
- Web Applications
- Responsive Design / Build
- Landing pages
- Micro sites
- Intranets
CODING
- PHP
- JavaScript / jQuery
- jQuery UI
- Ajax
- CSS 3
- HTML 4/5
- MAMP / LAMP / WAMP
- JSON / XML
- Social Media Integration
- Objective-C / C
- Java
- Flash
- C++
- Python
- Ruby
- Node.js
- C# / Bash
- .NET
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Our Rates
All our projects include Project Management and
Account Management. This enables us to offer a
much higher value than a freelancer. We also have
redundancy in place to make sure if someone in
our production team falls ill we have some backup
resource in place.
DAY RATES
(Based on 8 hour days)
SENIOR
- Development day rate: £620
- Design day rate: £520
JUNIOR
- Development day rate: £480
- Design day rate: £400
Prices shown subject to change
and not inclusive of VAT
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