branding from $20,000 to $35,000
Get A Brand That Grows Your Bottom Line With The Confidence That It's Actually Done Right
Building a brand can be tough, confusing and expensive, but it doesn't have to be.
At Mission Control Brands, we have developed the first-of-its-kind turnkey branding delivery model that removes expensive, risky decision-making and delivers better results faster and more affordably than traditional alternatives.
3 Openings Available This Quarter
An hour with the person who does the work. You leave with the answer whether or not you hire us.
The Kind Of Proof That Matters Most
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Branded $72 Million Product Launch That Sold Out In 3 Months.
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Increased Profitability of a Home Goods Brand by 68% with Just the Brand Strategy.
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Built a Men's Apparel Brand That Sold To Investors Without A Single Change.
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There Is A Risk Nobody Quoted You For
You paid a strategist for a deck, and the deck was good. Then it went to a designer who never sat in the room, and what came back looked nothing like the argument you bought. So what happened outside of wasting your trust, time and money?
The person who understood your business never touched your brand creation work… That's a problem you’re paying for, and we have a problem with that.
Agencies
$50,000 - $100,000+
Too Many Handoffs: strategy gets passed through account managers, project managers, and designers before it gets back to you.
Something Gets Lost: not because people are bad at their jobs, but because the agency model is built that way.
You Pay for the Layers: all those handoffs add cost without necessarily adding value.
Brand Work Becomes Bait: some agencies underprice branding just to win the account.
Then Comes the Real Bill: media, web, content, retainers, and ongoing production.
The Risk: your brand becomes a loss leader instead of the thing everything else should be built on.
Your brand is too important for that.
Freelancers
$500 - $5,000
Beautiful Work Isn’t Enough: looking good doesn’t mean the brand will actually perform.
No Strategy Behind It: without research, positioning, and business thinking, you’re basically designing on vibes.
The Real Question Gets Ignored: will this brand actually work in the real world?
A Bad Brand Costs Twice: first to build it, then again to fix the damage it caused.
That Damage Adds Up: lost customers, missed opportunities, wasted time, and eventually starting over.
Pretty is cheap. Wrong is expensive.
Introducing A Better Way To Build Brands:
We took a look at the entire process and handoffs involved and realized that if you combined all the important skillsets and removed the complicated, unnecessary layers of bureaucracy, we could deliver a better brand that is more effective, more affordable, faster, while reducing the risks involved with playing telephone and trying to translate business strategy into how it shows up in your brand.
Brand Strategist
Business Strategy
Positioning
Competitive Analysis
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Brand Design
Logo Design
Art Direction
Visual Identity
Brand Guidelines
Identity Toolkit
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Copywriting
Messaging
Tag Line
Writing Tools
Brand Naming
Tone Of Voice
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Account Manager
Doesn’t Understand Business
Doesn't Understand Creative
Unnecessary Back and Forths
Constantly Tries To Upsell
Turns into a “Yes” Man
Expensive To Employ
Adds Complexity
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Project Manager
Doesn’t Understand Business
Doesn't Understand Creative
Pushes Too Fast
Doesn’t Translate Well
Expensive To Employ
Adds Complexity
The Single-Person Solution:Full-Stack Brand Architect
A New Kind of Professional Who Can Build a Brand You’re Proud of. That Actually Works.
A brand you love how it looks. A brand you trust will work. Zero hesitation putting your name on it. That's what happens when the strategy and the design never separate. When the same brain that mapped your market is the same brain that built your identity. Nothing gets lost. Nothing gets compromised. Nothing gets diluted on its way to your inbox.
A Brand Directly Connected To Your BusinessMore Affordable Since You're Only Paying For the Expertise. Not The Management.No Risking the Strategy-to-Design Hand-OffNo More Expensive Mistakes
How We Compare
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| DIY / In-House | The Freelancer | The Agency | Full-Stack Brand Architect | |
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| Brand That Looks Great | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Brand That Works | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cost Effective | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Moves Quickly | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Business Understanding | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| No Handoff Risk | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Strategy Included | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Proper Time & Focus | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Understanding Your Customer | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accountability | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Flexible To Your Needs | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Senior Talent Guaranteed | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Strategy To Design Continuity | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Revision Cycle Efficiency | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Single Point Of Contact | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Direct Communication | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| 100% Satisfaction Guarantee | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Unlimited Rounds Of Revisions | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Post Delivery Design Support Included | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
Engagements run $20,000, $25,000 or $35,000 depending on how much strategy comes before the design. The audit is $5,000 on its own and credits toward any package if you carry on. See what is in each one.
Why Working With Us Is A Zero Risk DecisionThree Guarantees. Zero Risk. One Decision.
There is no bad outcome here for a founder who engages in good faith. You either get a brand you are proud of and confident will grow your business, or you get your money back. The only thing left to decide is whether you are ready to start.
Zero Risk Audit Roadmap Guarantee
Two weeks in, you can walk. Full refund. You keep the planEvery Build opens with the Blueprint. Read it, and if you decide not to move forward you get a full refund and the Blueprint is yours to keep. Take it anywhere. The worst case is a complete brand diagnosis that cost you nothing.
Unlimited Revisions Promise
You'll Never Be Stuck With Something You Don't Love.Revisions are unlimited within the direction we're building toward together. We iterate as many times as it takes until it's exactly right. No caps. No extra invoices. No pressure to approve something you're not proud of.
The 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If You're Not Excited To Launch It, You Don't Pay For It.If we reach the end of the engagement and you're not genuinely excited about the brand and ready to go live, you get a full refund. All of it. No negotiation. No partial credits. We part ways clean.
73+
Industry Awards
$250 Million
Annual Revenue Across Client Brands
Since 2009
Building Brands in Tampa
A Few Awards We’re Proud Of:
GRAPHIS PLATINUM
ADDY AWARDS
HERMES CREATIVE AWARD
Trusted Across Industries
Proof In MotionEight Years. Everything On The Line. One Shot To Get It Right.
Power-Pole spent eight years building the best trolling motor on the planet, then had to launch it at twice the price of billion-dollar competitors who got there first. A company known for stopping boats now had to convince the market to trust them to move it. Get the brand wrong and eight years collapses on impact.
It didn't collapse. The product sold out in three months, pulled $72 million in year one, and took over the category so completely that Power-Pole owned the Google results for it. An anchor company became a boating powerhouse.
Results: $72M First Year
Sold Out in 3 Months
Category Owned
Questions Founders Like You Actually Ask
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Depends entirely on who you ask, which is why the question gets searched so much. A freelancer will do a logo for $500 to $5,000, and the rest of the brand is your problem. An agency with senior people on it starts around $50,000, and most of the difference pays for the layers between you and them. Here it is $20,000, $25,000 or $35,000 for the whole build, and the number is on this page before you ever call. What moves it between the three is how much strategy sits under the identity, not what we think you can pay.
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Every Build: the Blueprint (interviews, a brand autopsy, a written plan), the identity system (logo, the system around it, mockups, guidelines, a launch toolkit), and a month of us applying it to real work after launch. The $25,000 tier adds a strategy phase before anything gets drawn. The $35,000 tier adds pricing analysis, personas, messaging and voice. The line-by-line list per tier is on the pricing page.
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That is what the Blueprint answers, and it is the first two weeks of every Build. If the strategy is sound and the identity has drifted, that is a refresh and it is the $20,000 tier. If the business has changed and the brand has not, that is a rebrand and it needs the strategy phase. If you do not know which, that is exactly what the Diagnosis Call is for.
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Both have the same gap. The person who writes the strategy is not the person who draws. With a freelancer you do the translating yourself. With an agency, someone does it for you at agency prices, and it is still lossy. We are the third option: one senior person who does both, at a price that is on the page, with guarantees in writing. The comparison table above puts all four side by side.
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This is the question we built the offer around. Every Build ends with a month where we apply the brand to your real work, at no extra cost, one request at a time. And the person you meet on the first call is the person doing that work in month three. Three Builds a quarter is the cap that makes it true.
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The Brand Architect does the strategy and the design, start to finish. There is no account manager and no junior. If it goes wrong: two weeks in, you can walk with a full refund and keep the plan. At the end, if you are not excited to launch, we keep working until you are, and if we both agree it is not going to happen, full refund. All three guarantees are in writing above.
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A brand on its own moves nothing. A brand built from the strategy, by the person who wrote it, in front of the right shelf, is a different thing. Power-Pole MOVE launched at twice the price of competitors ten times its size and did $72 million in its first year. A home goods client raised profitability 68%. We will not promise a number for yours, because nobody honest can before the Blueprint. We will promise the strategy makes it into the design, which is where most rebrands lose it.
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Two ways. The Diagnosis Call is an hour, free, and you leave with the answer to your brand problem whether or not you hire us. And the Blueprint on its own is $5,000, two weeks, and every dollar credits to a Build whenever you are ready. The credit never expires.
