Dirigo Creative Inc

Dirigo Creative is a full-service creative and digital marketing agency based in Raleigh, North Carolina, offering web design, SEO, logo design, social media and pay-per-click advertising. It was founded in 2011 by Jake St. Peter, who had spent about 15 years in web development, photography, SEO and media arts.

The agency says client success is its primary goal and that it aims to make a brand recognizable to the client's target demographic. It can take over a client's online brand across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Vimeo, and offers consulting and marketing strategy. Digital marketing engagements are described as data-driven, with tracking of website traffic, social engagement, conversion rates and return on investment. Logo projects follow four steps: forming the concept, making initial sketches, finalizing the concept, and choosing theme colors and file formats.

• Web design: WordPress sites and managed WordPress hosting
• SEO: work on organic visibility including local, image, video and news search
• PPC: Google Ads, Bing and social platforms, with keyword research and ongoing optimization
• Social media marketing and email marketing
• Logo design and branding
• Video and photography

The portfolio names WordPress site work for Automatic Vending Systems, Exec Space NC, CornerStone and attorney Kevin Bunn of Cary, along with logos for Town Hall Burger and Beer, ORO Raleigh and Vending For Veterans.

According to the agency's founder profile, he started at the online ticket broker GoTickets, founded the web development company Coalmarch Productions in 2003, grew it to 15 employees and more than $1 million in sales over seven years, and sold it in 2011 before starting Dirigo Creative. In 2009 the Triangle Business Journal named him a "mover and shaker" and listed Coalmarch among top internet marketing and design firms, and he served on the board of the Triangle Interactive Marketing Association that year.