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Keep Your Digital Marketing Efforts Out of the Lost and Found Box
Dayna Prepis
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October 21, 2025

Keep Your Digital Marketing Efforts Out of the Lost and Found Box

With billions of searches happening per day, it’s too easy for even the best brands to get lost in the digital sauce. For AEC and design firms, developers, and product manufacturers, your work is a testament to quality and vision. But if potential clients can’t find you online…your brand might as well be in the “lost and found box” of the architecture and design industry, forever waiting to be discovered.

How do you avoid disappearing into the digital abyss? A complete digital marketing strategy for your business; it’s the key to ensuring you're not just found, but remembered, and selected. It's about moving from a passive presence to an active, visible force in your industry.

Is Your Brand stuck in the Lost and Found?


Without a clear plan to act as your marketing anchor, your digital efforts can become a collection of disconnected items. A social media post here, an outdated website there. This fragmented approach often leads to:

  • Low Visibility: Your firm doesn't appear in search results when clients are looking for your services or products.
  • Wasted Efforts: You're creating content, but it's not reaching the right people, or not resonating with them.
  • Lack of Credibility: An unpolished or inconsistent online presence can make your brand seem unreliable, confusing and end the search early for the right audience.

To get your brand out of the box and into the spotlight, you need a cohesive, deliberate digital marketing strategy.

Your Marketing Map to being “Found” 


A modern digital marketing strategy is built on a few core components that work together seamlessly.

1. Start with a Digital Marketing Audit

Before you can chart a new course, you need to know where you stand. A digital marketing audit is a comprehensive review of your current online footprint and how your current or potential customers feel about you. Our agency will analyze your website, content, and search performance to identify what's working and what's not. This audit provides a clear, data-driven map for your journey forward. The key to authentic digital marketing is based on your actual audience - they are the best to ask burning questions and get a real gut check of how you stack up against your competitors.

2. Unlock Visibility with SEO, GEO and Content: You Can’t Get Hired if You Can’t be Found.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization), GEO (Generative Engine Optimization aka ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and more) and content are the foundation of your online visibility.

  • SEO, GEO and AI: This is the process of helping search engines and AI understand and rank your website and search results. For a commercial developer, this means showing up when a client searches for "sustainable building solutions." A specialized agency can optimize your site and identify the right keywords to attract the clients you want.
  • Content: This is the valuable information you share. Think of your portfolio, case studies, and blog posts as beacons that draw in your ideal audience. This content not only attracts search traffic but also establishes your authority.
3. Connect with Social Media: Conversion starts with Connection.


Social media is where you connect with your industry and showcase your work. This is your chance to build a community and tell your story. A smart strategy goes beyond simply posting. It involves:

  • Targeted Engagement: Connecting with other professionals, clients, and media partners on platforms like LinkedIn. This is a key place to put out specific content that your buyer needs, not just creating more noise on an already busy marketing channel.

Consistent Storytelling: Using platforms like Instagram and Pinterest to highlight your stunning project visuals and behind-the-scenes work. Carrying this marketing messaging across your website will also create a more seamless digital marketing experience.

4. Accelerate Growth with Paid Ads: 


While SEO and AI build long-term visibility, paid advertising offers additional results. A well-managed paid campaign on platforms like Google or LinkedIn can put your brand in front of a highly specific audience at the exact moment they are looking for your services. UpSpring can manage these campaigns to ensure every dollar is working hard for your business.

5. Build Credibility with Digital PR


PR digital marketing
is all about earning credibility, which leads to visibility and trust. It's not just about what you say about yourself; it's about what others say about you. This includes:

  • Online Mentions: Getting your projects featured in respected industry publications and blogs.
  • Positive Reviews: Encouraging clients to share their positive experiences online.
  • Partnerships: Collaborating with industry influencers and media to amplify your message.
  • AI and GEO: searches highly valued earned media placements via online publications.

This digital + PR integration is crucial for building trust and reinforcing your reputation as a leader.

The Advantage of a Digital Marketing Agency


Successfully managing and monitoring all these moving parts seems like a full-time job, because it is. Even with in-house teams, it can be a ton of work…. and can be overwhelming. This is where a specialized digital marketing agency like UpSpring can help lead the marketing strategy or lighten the execution load.

Having a partner helps to provide a comprehensive digital marketing services that integrate all these elements into a single, cohesive strategy. By partnering with experts who understand your industry, you can ensure your digital presence is not only found but actively works to drive your business forward.

Don't let your architecture or design brand get lost in the shuffle. A clear, powerful digital strategy ensures your work is always visible, credible, and ready to be discovered.

The Advantage of a Digital Marketing Agency


Successfully managing and monitoring all these moving parts seems like a full-time job, because it is. Even with in-house teams, it can be a ton of work…. and can be overwhelming. This is where a specialized digital marketing agency like UpSpring can help lead the marketing strategy or lighten the execution load.

Having a partner helps to provide a comprehensive digital marketing services that integrate all these elements into a single, cohesive strategy. By partnering with experts who understand your industry, you can ensure your digital presence is not only found but actively works to drive your business forward.

Don't let your architecture or design brand get lost in the shuffle. A clear, powerful digital strategy ensures your work is always visible, credible, and ready to be discovered.

Ready to uncover what’s holding your marketing back with a digital marketing audit?

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Dayna Prepis is Vice President of Marketing at UpSpring, where she leads creative, strategy-driven marketing initiatives for clients across the design industry. After launching her career at a small startup agency, she evolved her skills through roles at Interior Design magazine, a boutique hospitality design firm, and an international flooring brand—experiences that gave her a 360-degree perspective on the interconnected worlds of design, architecture, and marketing.At UpSpring, Dayna combines creative vision with strategic insight, generating bold ideas and guiding collaborative brainstorming sessions that unlock fresh perspectives.