Projects / Branding / Web

Mascot Millenium.

Turning a local African Mastiff breeder into a brand that buyers on three continents took seriously.

Client
Mascot Millenium
Services
Branding, web, SEO
Year
2023
3,000+ ad accounts managed/ $8M+ annual ad budget/ 8+ years in marketing/ 12 countries buying in year one/ 203 keywords ranked #1/ 41% lower cost per booked job/ 2.3x more applications/
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01 / The result

What changed, in numbers.

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Countries buying in year one
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Keywords ranked #1
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Monthly organic traffic
02 / The challenge

A local reputation and nothing else.

The breeding itself was already excellent and locally known. Everything around it was not. There was no consistent brand, no site that a foreign buyer would trust with a deposit, and no way to be found by anyone searching outside the region.

Buyers for dogs at this level do a lot of research and spend a lot of money, often without meeting the seller first. That makes credibility the entire product. The job was to make an operation that was genuinely world class look like it, in a language its buyers actually search in.

03 / What we did

Four pieces of the same job.

01 Positioning and identity A name, look and tone built for an international buyer rather than a local one. Consistent enough that every photo, page and message reads as the same operation.
02 A site built for trust Structure that answers a serious buyer's questions in the order they ask them: lineage, health, process, and how a purchase from abroad actually works.
03 Being findable at all Content and on-page work targeting how buyers search for this breed, which is where the 203 first-place keywords came from.
04 Proof, repeatedly An ongoing stream of photography and updates, because in this market the evidence of care is the marketing.
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05 / The outcome

From local to international.

Within the first year the business was selling to buyers in twelve countries, with the site doing the qualifying work before any conversation started.

The search work compounded: 203 keywords in first place and organic traffic up 307% month over month against the starting point. More usefully, the inquiries that arrived were better informed, which shortened every conversation that followed.

"People stopped asking whether we were a real kennel. They started asking when the next litter was."
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