Howdy Marketing Solutions — a creative studio and digital marketing agency in Udaipur, India, for branding, website design and development, social media, photography, video and motion design, SEO, Reddit marketing and generative AI.
Every language has a way of saying hello. Ours is an independent studio —
branding, websites, social,
photography, video, SEO and
generative AI under one roof — for brands tired of six suppliers
who never speak to each other.
We run your site through Google's own testing lab on a mid-range phone
and tell you what we find, in plain English. No pitch, no email gate.
Most people have never seen these numbers for their own website.
02 / What we do
Eight disciplines. One team. No handoffs.
Everything below happens in-house, by people who sit together. That's the
whole argument for hiring one studio instead of six freelancers.
Meridian
Coffee Roasters
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HeritageFor a roaster that has been doing this since 1998.
One name, four directions
A name is not an identity.
Positioning, naming, logo, palette, type, tone and the rules that keep it all
consistent when we're not in the room. You leave with a system, not a logo file.
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Roasted weekly. Never sooner.
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Ethiopia · $18Colombia · $16House blend · $14
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Design and development in the same room.
One team draws it and builds it, so nothing is lost in the handoff. Fast, properly indexed, responsive to the last breakpoint — and yours to keep.
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Run like a magazine, not a content calendar.
A point of view, a schedule, and nothing filler. Five posts that mean something beat thirty that don't — and we answer the comments too.
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Move the light
Light is the whole job.
Product, brand, food, interiors, people — on location or in studio. Graded to your palette and delivered in every crop the platforms want, so nothing gets shot twice.
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One shot, every platform
Cut for the platform it lands on.
Pacing, captions, safe zones, sound — reframed for each place it runs instead of exported once and hoped for. Reels, brand films, demos, long-form.
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bigchaincoffee.comCoffee Beans & Subscriptions | Big Chain Coffee
Position 8 for “small batch coffee subscription”
Switch the fixes on
Most SEO is just doing the boring things.
Technical fixes, a site Google can actually read, content built around what people
search for, and structured data so your result takes up more of the page than theirs.
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Anyone found a decent way to handle product photos without paying studio rates?
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Reddit can smell a pitch
Reddit punishes marketing. So we don't do marketing.
We learn the subreddit's rules before we post, answer questions properly, and earn
the right to mention you. It's slow, it's the only thing that works, and it sends
traffic that actually converts.
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Same message, your voice
Generative AI, trained on how your brand actually speaks.
Content engines that write in your voice at volume. Generative imagery and video
for concepts, variants and campaigns that would never survive a shoot budget.
Agents that answer customers properly and workflows that hand your team its
afternoons back.
We build the guardrails too — a brand-voice model,
a review step, and a human whose name is on it. And if AI is the wrong tool for
the job, we say so before the invoice.
Brand-voice content models, AI imagery and video, customer-facing agents, automation.
2–6 weeks
And the rest of it
Paid media and email. We run both as part of a plan we're already
running for you. What we don't take is a standalone media-buying retainer —
the people who do that properly do nothing else.
Bring us the whole problem and we'll handle the channels it needs.
03 / Selected work
Brands we've stood behind.
Four years, a long list, a few we're especially proud of. Ask for the full
book — the best of it never makes it onto a website.
Four years in the room, across hospitality, real estate, retail,
events and professional services.
23 Brands8 Disciplines0 Years
05 / In their words
What it's like to work with us.
Ask any of them directly — we'll put you in touch. That offer is the
whole point of having this section.
”
[Quote — what changed for their business, in their own words. Two or three sentences is plenty.]
[Name][Role, Company]
”
[Quote — ideally one that mentions a specific thing you did that they didn't expect.]
[Name][Role, Company]
”
[Quote — one about how you work, not just the result. Responsiveness, honesty, deadlines.]
[Name][Role, Company]
05 / How it goes
Four steps, in this order, every time.
The order matters more than the steps. Most work goes wrong because somebody
opened a design file before anyone asked why.
01
We sit down
An hour, no charge, no deck — booked in your time zone, not ours. We ask the
uncomfortable questions: who actually buys from you, what they're choosing between,
and what you've already tried that didn't work.
02
We draw the map
A short, plain-language plan: what we're making, who it's for, what it should do,
and how we'll know it worked. One page. You approve it before anything gets designed.
03
We make the thing
Design, build, shoot, cut — all of it in our studio, in the open. You see work in
progress every week, not a grand reveal at the end that's too late to change.
04
We watch it work
Launch is the middle, not the end. We track what the thing actually does, tell you
the truth about it, and adjust. Reports a human can read.
06 / About us
Small studio. Big clients.
Nobody you brief will hand your work to someone you've never met.
Est. 2022One studioEverything in-houseOwn camera kitNo white-labellingNo lock-in contracts
Four years in, and deliberately small. Eight disciplines under one roof means
the brand, the site, the photography and the film are made by people who sit
within earshot of each other — which is why they end up looking like they belong
together.
The person you brief is the person who does the work: designers who write,
developers who care what it looks like, a photographer who shoots for the edit,
an editor who thinks like a marketer.
We take fewer clients than we could, which is how we end up knowing a business
well enough to argue with it. If you want a vendor who nods, we're the wrong
studio. If you want someone who'll tell you the campaign isn't working before
you notice — howdy.
Founded2022
BasedUdaipur, India clients worldwide
DisciplinesEight all in-house
Brands23 and counting
Don't doWhite-labelling or media-buying retainers
07 / Questions
The things you're about to ask.
Answered properly, because you shouldn't have to book a call to find
out whether we're a fit.
What does a project cost?
It depends on scope, and any studio that answers otherwise is guessing.
What we will do is give you a real number on the first call rather than a range wide
enough to be useless.
No project ever costs more than the number we agreed. If scope grows,
we tell you before we start, not after.
We're in a different country. How does that work?
We work your hours, not ours. One point of contact who knows your business,
a shared board you can open any time to see exactly where things are, and a weekly call
at a time that suits your calendar.
We've been working across time zones for four years, from our own studio
with our own kit. Nothing gets subcontracted and nothing gets lost in a handover.
How long does a website take?
Four to eight weeks for most, from first call to live. The variable is
almost never the build — it's how quickly content, photography and approvals come back
from your side. We'll tell you at the start exactly what we need from you and when,
so the timeline is yours to control.
Do you work with small businesses and startups?
Most of our clients are one or the other. Size isn't how we choose work —
we take on fewer clients than we could, and the deciding factor is whether there's
something real to build.
Do you run paid ads?
Yes, as part of a plan we're already running for you — alongside the site,
the content and the social. What we don't take is a standalone media-buying retainer.
The studios who do that properly do nothing else, and you deserve one of those if
paid is the whole strategy.
Who actually does the work?
The people you meet. We don't white-label, we don't hand your project to
a production farm, and the person you brief on the first call is the person in the file
on the last day.
We already have a designer or a developer. Can you work with them?
Often, yes. Tell us who owns what and we'll fill the gap instead of
duplicating it. Plenty of our work is one piece of a bigger team — a build against
someone else's designs, a photographer's shoot cut by our editor.
What's the difference between a creative studio and a marketing agency?
An agency usually sells strategy and media buying and subcontracts the making.
A studio makes the work. Howdy is a studio: the brand, the site, the photography and the
film are produced by the same people, in the same building, which is why they end up
looking like they belong together.
Should I hire a studio or a freelancer?
A freelancer is right when you need one skill done well and you can art-direct
it yourself. A studio is right when a job crosses disciplines — a brand that needs a site,
photography and a launch film — because nobody has to co-ordinate five separate people
who have never spoken.
Do you work with international clients?
Yes. Most of our work is for brands outside our own country. Calls are booked
in your time zone, invoices can be raised in your currency, and everything is delivered
digitally. Four years of working this way means none of it is improvised.
What industries do you work in?
Hospitality, healthcare, retail and D2C are where we have the most depth,
but the method does not change by sector. What changes is how long we spend on the first
step, understanding who actually buys from you.
What do you need from us to start?
Less than you think. A conversation, access to whatever already exists,
and one person on your side who can say yes. We'll do the rest of the digging.
08 / Say howdy
Say howdy.
Tell us what you're trying to make happen. We'll tell you straight whether
we're the right people for it.
