Website Development

Manning Canning is a multifaceted business with a growing online presence. Our current Squarespace website houses three distinct lines of business under one roof: artisanal preserves, commercial kitchen rentals, and co-packing services. To better serve our audiences and clarify our offerings, we are looking to redesign and restructure our web presence by creating three separate, user-friendly websites—one for each line of business. We are seeking to collaborate with students to help bring this digital transformation to life. The objective is to build three cohesive, easy-to-manage websites with clean interfaces, strong branding, and clear pathways for customer engagement. These sites may be built using Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, WordPress, or another recommended platform. Key project steps may include: Researching and comparing site-building platforms, with pros and cons for each. Conducting a needs assessment for each business line to determine the ideal platform and structure. Building and launching three distinct websites: Manning Canning Preserves (consumer product focus) Manning Canning Kitchens (commercial kitchen rental) Manning Canning Co-Packing (B2B services) Assisting with content integration and design layout based on our existing brand materials. Providing training and documentation for ongoing site maintenance and updates. Optional enhancements could include: Prototyping and user testing with our customer base. Iterative improvements based on feedback and analytics. We’re excited about the opportunity to work with students who are eager to apply their skills in a real-world business setting and help us evolve our digital strategy.

SEO and Social Media Strategy for small beverage company

Are you a social media coordinator looking to help a young brand further develop their voice, create engaging (and humorous) content and drive online sales? Ex. 1: As a social media coordinator, the student(s) will help: Increase brand awareness : This involves creating and implementing social media strategies to help increase the visibility of the brand across different social media platforms. Researching keywords to determine the most relevant terms that our customers search for. Research and locate potential online influencers who are willing to collaborate with the brand (non financial). The brand will ship product to the influencer and collaborate on a giveaway to the influencers audience. Focus - Ontario Drive traffic to the company's website : By creating and posting engaging content that can drive traffic to the company's website through social media platforms. Grow the company's social media following : By using tactics such as running campaigns, engaging with users, and creating shareable content to help build a community of followers. Improving engagement rates : Improving engagement rates on social media to help increase visibility, reach, and ultimately sales. The social media coordinator will work towards creating content that resonates with the target audience and encourages engagement such as likes, comments, and shares.

Creating Graphic Design Assets

Our company is looking to revamp and update our brand book. This may involve: Creating a new branding guide that is new, but still aligned with our existing branding including fonts, colors, logo usage and imagery to be used. Meeting with the project manager to evaluate the choices made for the branding book to ensure it is aligned with company branding goals, and making any necessary revisions. Designing and presenting thumbnails for design assets (banner ad, illustration, infographic, etc) based on the branding guide to be included in a proposal and presented to the project manager. Executing the full designs for each branding asset using Canva, based on the approved thumbnails. Creating multiple thumbnails with different color schemes based on the colors in the branding guide.

Brand Identity and Graphic Design

Our company is looking to solidify our identity that we currently have. We are looking to better connect with our audience by standing out and being memorable while also being able to use the designs the students offer in a corporate setting. We are looking for real designs that we could use in our branding as well as general branding knowledge. The right candidate would work to create consistent promotional branding and come up with possible new names for the company. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Researching the brand identity. Work to create a branding guide for us to reference Help create prototypes using software tools that can be implemented in our marketing Research into the competitors to see what they are doing. Creating custom branding sheets with colours and logos.