Saint Paul Media - St Paul, Minnesota

S. H.

My team worked with St. Paul Media in rebuilding the Touchstone Mental Health website to support our fundraising and strategic communications goals. The St. Paul Media team led us through an engaging creative process to gain a real understanding of the organization and the needs of our many stakeholders. The result was a beautiful, human-focused design reflecting the mission of the organization and allowing us to tell the important stories of those we served. We wanted to be sure to select a partner that would not just help us build a site, but continue to help us in the long-term. With their responsive support and willingness to point out what we could do in-house to save on overall cost, St. Paul Media was the perfect partner for us.

Maria Paik

Saint Paul Media was exceptional to work with! At Global Minnesota, we greatly valued their thoughtful approach to our website redesign, which balanced aesthetics with functionality. Saint Paul Media uses a well curated process, which helped us organize and present information to better reach end users on a variety of platforms. And they brought to the table a wealth of knowledge to ensure our project met organizational goals and budgets as well as the technological demands of the online world. We’ve been extremely pleased with our new website and continue to receive positive feedback on it.

Erin Hamilton

I have had the pleasure of working with the Saint Paul Media team on several web design projects. They were top notch in every aspect every step of the way, from the very beginning concepting phases, to well after the sites were launched. The team is just plain smart—I was so happy with how smoothly they designed the navigation on my sites, how clean they coded everything, and last but not least, the absolutely stunning designs they presented. Saint Paul Media was able to come up with some truly creative solutions to problems I didn't think could be solved. Not only that, but the team is a blast to work with! It's so fun to find a group that can balance a great sense of humor with classy professionalism. I can't wait to work on my next project with them!

Propel Nonprofits

When it comes time to refresh – or, in Propel Nonprofits’ case, to merge – websites, the task can be daunting. That is why it is so critical to find a true partner in the process, which is exactly what Saint Paul Media was for us. All of our discussions – from how people enter our site to what paths they could follow in the site to the personas of our primary clients – all were part of Saint Paul Media’s site mapping used to create an intuitive, user-focused website. They were collaborative in challenging us to look at the site with a fresh perspective as opposed to just repackaging the content from the two sites.

Jonathan and Tasha were with us every step of the way from the initial brainstorming to the design and launch. Not only were they valuable when it came to web design and usability, but in helping us incorporate our new brand into many online resources – and all on a tight timeline. They continue to be critical and trusted partners as we look at ways to keep the site current, relevant, and responsive. Saint Paul Media is with us for the long haul, and we are excited and relieved that they are.

And it should be noted we managed to do this immense and intense project with some laughter and camaraderie that made the project more enjoyable. The staff that were involved with developing personas, reviewing design concepts, and testing the site looked forward to the meetings with Saint Paul Media, saying how energized they were by them. And as we all know, energized is not the typical word we hear our peers use when describing meetings!

International Institute of MN (IIMN)

We worked with St. Paul Media to overhaul our website, have used them for print design, and maintain a relationship with them through managed website hosting.

It is clear that they have a strong understanding of what it's like to work with nonprofits. They're incredibly responsive, they're understanding of shifting timelines on projects, they're incredibly reasonable in pricing, and overall just delightful people to work with.

Not to mention, our website and print annual report turned out beautiful! They worked with our brand but still innovated in fun ways--we will definitely continue our relationship (:

Women's Advocates

Saint Paul Media has been a forward-thinking, inspiring and motivating partner in our online presence. Our outreach to potential survivors of domestic violence and our accessibility to people seeking safety has increased since Saint Paul Media helped to launch our new website. Their work with us has pushed us to think beyond what our preconceived concept of web design is and helped us to find a platform that connects us with new audiences.

Gallagher Financial

The team at Saint Paul Media are some of the most creative and innovative persons to collaborate with. Working on our web redesign with such an accommodating and experienced team was a pleasure. Our site was modernized and became more user friendly. If there is a problem you just can’t figure out, they can! If you want your designs to be original and state of the art, call the staff at Saint Paul Media. You will be glad you made the call.

Marisa Geisler

We were extremely happy with St. Paul Media's work in designing and developing our new website, and we recommend them without reservation.

One of the greatest strengths St. Paul Media (SPM) brings to the table is their staff, which we found to be highly knowledgeable, competent, creative, responsive, and up to date with the latest in the field of website design and SEO. We had full confidence in their recommendations, guidance, and design solutions throughout the process. Moreover, they were simply a delight to work with - extremely personable with just the right mix of business and humor to be excellent working partners for a long-term project such as this. I can’t stress enough the importance of a good working relationship for a website redesign, and we definitely experienced this with SPM. In addition, their staff members have an excellent working relationship as well: they respect and trust each other, so they’re also able to question each other, test out different ideas, and work through issues in a very collaborative way.

Their other very notable strength is their outstanding design process. It is very detailed and well laid out, so the client has a solid grasp on how things will work and where they are in the process, but it’s also flexible enough to deal with issues that arise along the way. This process enables SPM to arrive at a very good understanding of the organization (which of course is key to the design and development of a website that works well for the client), manage relationships and input from multiple stakeholders, test design elements and make modifications along the way, and carry out complex projects with lots of moving parts.

And finally, now that our main website has been built, I'm finding their tech support to be top-notch as well. We enjoyed working with SPM so much that we almost immediately hired them again to work with us on a new microsite project with multiple external stakeholders and content curators. The process is going great. High marks for St. Paul Media!