Fractional Creative Support:
Your On-Demand Creative Team
Sometimes you don’t need a full in-house marketing team, you just need experienced creative partners you can call on when it matters most. Hiring our team for flexible creative support provides flexible access to branding, website design, copywriting, campaigns, and digital marketing expertise. Whether you’re looking for consistent part-time design services or short-term project help, we can act as an extension of your team. With the same collaborative process we bring to large-scale brand and website projects, we’re nimble enough to meet quick-turn needs and strategic enough to guide your long-term vision.
“TBS provided our team with dozens of templates for our website, presentations, letterhead, flyers, and social media, along with an advanced, 56-page brand guidelines book to support our in-house design team.”
— Jen Wick, Creative Director, Port of Portland
Fractional Creative Services: What You Can Expect
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We integrate seamlessly with your team, reviewing your strategic documents, working within your brand guidelines, and aligning with your internal processes. By collaborating directly with your staff, we ensure our work supports and amplifies your existing efforts. We work as an extension of your team, stepping in to manage creative projects and ease your day-to-day workload so your internal team can stay focused on their priorities.
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The Beauty Shop is an Oregon COBID-certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and Emerging Small Business (ESB). This certification allows public agencies, nonprofits, and private organizations to partner with us to meet COBID contracting requirements while gaining the benefit of seasoned creative support. As a certified women-owned creative agency, we bring expertise in branding, website design, copywriting, and digital marketing, helping clients fulfill diversity contracting goals.
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We offer flexible retainer agreements that give you consistent access to our team each month. We can work within any budget and are adept at creating incremental plans that enable private companies and nonprofits alike to achieve their goals over time.
Retainers provide predictable costs, priority access, and the ability to align creative work with fixed fiscal year planning, helping you achieve your marketing goals while staying on track financially. -
We’ll work with your team to structure projects to fall under contracting thresholds of $25,000, making it possible for agencies and organizations to engage us directly without a lengthy RFP process. This streamlined approach allows you to move faster, stay on budget, and build long-term creative capacity with less administrative overhead.
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Our team can step into projects at any stage, whether it’s launching something new, refreshing existing materials, or keeping ongoing campaigns moving. This flexibility means you get immediate support without the long onboarding process of a full-time hire. We align with your workflows, brand guidelines, and internal systems so projects move forward seamlessly. By working as an extension of your team, we keep things simple and reduce the lift for your staff.
For answers to our most frequently asked questions about working with our team, please visit the Insights & FAQs page of our website to learn about our approach to brand strategy, naming, design, and digital experiences.
Teams we’ve supported with fractional creative services:
For over a decade, we worked with Weston Table to define their brand, and build their Shopify Plus marketplace of over ten thousand products.