You Are Way Cooler Than Your Marketing is Telling Us.
We can help. We change local businesses with powerful, easy, cost-effective marketing.
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AI: Constantly testing new tools bringing the best and most cost effective to your workflow.
Web Design: Simple, clean, easy to navigate and easy to edit.
Video: Short video specialization & automation
Promotion: Automated Social & Email
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We employ Marketing Interns, using collaborative tools around a rigorous marketing structure to execute the fastest audience engagement.
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We specialize in conversation driven, short vertical videos (aka TikToks).
Videos are the most expensive content to produce but also the most authentic and we improve this design and lower the cost every day.
Featured Marketing Story
A Halloween Marketing Story About That Which Shall Not Be Named
I filmed myself reciting this little Halloween poem I wrote, then converted myself to Jack Skellington using RunwayML’s new Act One, using a MidJourney reference image, and then I used Eleven Labs to change my voice to sound like Boris Karloff.
Featured Collection: BataviaIL.co
My interns and I created a new website dedicated to telling the most engaging story of Batavia businesses through 60 second vertical videos.
Conversation driven, these feel to us, the most powerful marketing these businesses could use to build their audiences. What do you think?
Visit BataviaIL.co
We walked into 14 businesses and offered a free social media video if someone would answer two questions and let us film with our 360 camera. These snippets are from the question “what other local business do you admire”.
We’re Social Sparks, a student run marketing company with an idea on how to budget the most efficient marketing approach.
The client filmed this 360 himself and the Zoom interview with the client’s client was done from the interviewee’s truck. Note how great our voices sound with AI audio enhancement.
Marketing Intern Tyson helped create a video series for Chenga Ose in Zimbabwe. This particular clip was created for their donation page.
A 15 minute visit at the start of the project and one at the end and this short video tells the story of a new garage door installed with LOVE!
I did the voice over for Mississippi’s UticaFEST but used a voice clone from Eleven Labs. AI wrote the script and I voiced it, added visuals and created this video in less than 45 minutes.
Meet one of our top interns who will be playing division one soccer at Indiana University of Indianapolis and majoring in business. Tyson is a master at short video stories. We captured this video in less than 15 minutes.
Client Videos
Short client video conversations showcasing getting to the point quickly.
Quick and easy to produce.
The Best Marketing in 26 Years
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1 Short Vertical Video Per Week
TikToks, Reels, Shorts — A sixty second video every week forever. We use our phones, an external mic and we capture conversations in-the-moment. Interns help capture, edit, produce and post.
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Your Website: A Netflix Landing Page
Your website features these short videos kind of like a Netflix scroller of different categories of videos. Captivating thumbnails and headlines and people binge on your stories.
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Automated Social Media
Videos post automatically to 6 social channels (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X). Your own AI chatbot trained on your information is used by multiple people (or interns) to intelligently respond to social media comments.
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Monthly Email Outreach
Call it a newsletter, the engaging video thumbnails and short descriptions, that went out to social that month are sent to your email subscribers for an effortless email build and send.
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Streamlined Content
No installation needed, collaborative, use-anywhere software, and interns can interchangeably edit videos, install to site, send email blasts and manage inquiries alongside your team.
Featured Intern: Micah
This week’s featured intern is Batavia High School Senior Micah and his adventures as a top INCubatator 2024 winner and his recent mission trip to Ecuador.
Micah participated in a mission trip to El Refugio, combining physical labor like debarking trees for fencing with spiritual activities such as leading a Vacation Bible School for children, all while experiencing personal growth and capturing the beautiful surroundings with a 360 camera.
A 30 second tour of the shops, Micah from Social Sparks introduces eight Batavia boardwalk shop owners, highlighting their unique products and services, as part of a student-run marketing initiative to promote local businesses through short videos.
From an IncuBator fund raiser, Micah describes his love for golf, music, and socializing, while highlighting the importance of AI, community, and connections in business, and expressing optimism about the potential of their generation to make a significant impact.
1 Minute Marketing Stories
We are attacking our biggest quality issue in video editing with these two tools.
To celebrate the 4th of July, I teamed up with Batavia High School students to create a chatbot for Batavia city meetings, indexing over 150,000 words from 17 hours of meetings to provide instant summaries and detailed information on any topic, alongside engaging School Council members to create monthly summary videos, enhancing public engagement and self-governance in Batavia.
In working on a volunteer project for a chatbot for Batavia city meetings, I indexed over 150,000 words and focused on prompt engineering by refining prompts through iterative feedback to improve summaries and information retrieval, ultimately discovering the importance of human input in selecting key topics for accurate and useful outputs, which will be used by interns to create concise and informative 60 to 90-second meeting summaries.
Written from a custom chatbot we created, Tess, a Batavia High School Student Council member delivers a 90 second summary of the lastest city council meeting.
Celebrating Father's Day and the trailblazers who shaped the world of marketing—from the inventors of digital technology and cinema to the pioneers of the Internet and modern marketing strategies, leading up to today's innovative short form video marketing for small businesses.
How do you change your business by leveraging AI without losing and trust and wasting money. Watch what I did just for fun and how awesome it turned out.
How will you differentiate yourself when anyone can do this?
A teaser for 2 of my favorite tools which convert long videos down to short vertical videos for social.
Exploring the mesmerizing world of AI art with MidJourney V6 and the impossible blend of Star Wars and 70s Bollywood - a pixel-perfect fusion that redefines creativity. It's not just art; it's a new reality crafted by AI.
A teaser of one of my favorite tool for making people look as good as they really are.
A teaser for my latest marketing tutorial on using Upwork to hire a 3D Modeling Artist to build insanely beautiful visuals for your marketing.
Knocking out email designs in record time with ChatGPT and image generation with Dalle, Bing & MidJourney
There’s one thing that is universally important for every business and one that’s universally important for every person and we’re covering both today.
31 years ago today, the first web page was posted. Check out this Dr. Seuss version of the story.
This is INSANE what I was able to do with this PDF! Extract structure and build an interactive data filtering and sorting tool - everything with a new ChatGPT competitor called Claude — all in less than an hour.
Sail through a day in the life of a quintessential, small american town rich in tapestry of an authentic 4th of July, from the tranquil morning to the fireworks-lit night sky.
On the eve of our nation's birthday I thought I'd share a project that transports us back to those days #4thofjuly
Last month I held my very first art exhibition of art I generated from pictures shot on my and then rendered with AI. Here’s the backstories behind the art.
Don't miss out on the game-changing --seed parameter feature in MidJourney, which allows you to refine your favorite creations — improve your AI prompt engineering skills with this short video.
Descript offers user-friendly audio tools for text-based video editing, significantly improving audio quality through Studio Sound, compressors, and parametric EQ.
Discover the RESTRICT Act's implications on national security and its potential impact on innovation, rights, and the marketing and communications industry.
MidJourney 5, the groundbreaking text-to-image AI generator, brings revolutionary upgrades, redefining digital art with enhanced realism, flexible aspect ratios, and a language workout that opens new dimensions of creative possibilities.
Learn how small businesses can not only survive, but thrive during tough economic times by focusing on customer retention and leveraging social media.
Users have been reporting all sorts of ‘unhinged’ behavior from Microsoft’s AI chatbot including claiming it spied on Microsoft’s employees through webcams on their laptops and manipulated them.
Don’t have a Google Account — this how to create a “shell” account which uses your own company email and then use most of Google’s Services.
Using AI to rebuild a super low quality image and then enhancing with another AI tool to bring the subject to the forefront.
Written by ChatGPT with the prompt: “Write a poem about a groundhog seeing his shadow and thinking about marketing, in the style of Dr. Seuss”
Google has made their Google Business manager harder but reviews are on the line so don’t miss this short tutorial on how to whip those reviews into shape.
A Big Thank You for the 5-Star Reviews!
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Mark Frith · Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty
Gary and Orbis has taken us from identity, purpose, mission, and strategy to rendering a fabulous looking and dynamically interactive web design that will provide the end user with an ability navigate the site easily and a desire to return frequently, and share with others.
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Dennis Piron · Batavia High School
I have had the opportunity to work with Gary through our entrepreneurship program at Batavia HS and he has taught our students AMAZING concepts in digital marketing! Gary is truly one of the best partners we have ever had at Batavia HS and his kindness, generosity, time and connections he has made with students has been a special addition for all our students.
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Emma Harrison
Gary is simply the best. He goes above and beyond to bring clients creative solutions and goes the extra mile to troubleshoot when things aren’t working perfectly. That is rare for a web developer. It’s been such a joy working with and learning from him over the past five years. He always inspires me and teaches me something new. I’ve been incredibly grateful for our partnership.
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Richard DeVeau
Gary is truly the Magellan of digital marketing. In the last decade that I’ve worked with him, he is constantly exploring new marketing terrain … unearthing new, uncharted passageways that lead to enabling his clients to communicate better, smarter, and more efficiently. You won’t find a better digital marketing partner anywhere on this big blue marble.
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Joseph Shansky
Gary's enthusiasm and expertise in the world of marketing, messaging, and technology is unrivaled! He will often introduce new concepts or tools into a conversation which end up vastly improving the project. Gary stays on the cutting edge of tech because he has so much fun with it and as a collaborator, he keeps a great attitude that is infectious.
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Robert Hiebeler · Link The Dots
After we launched our new website and podcasts, I received very positive feedback from many people that I had not been in contact with for over 20 years. And these are people from my career that I really respected for their views and outlook. So, to hear from so many of them in this way was very special.
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Carla Lyons · Marketing Guru
“I have worked with Orbis Design for many years. Gary is truly an innovator! I rely on him to provide creative digital solutions that are time and cost effective. Most of all, he delivers - I know I can trust him to get the job DONE. Bonus … Gary is one of the finest people I know - it is a pleasure and a privilege to work with him.”
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Keith Boatner | Abbot Molecular
“I worked with Gary for over 10 years on the Abbott Molecular websites where he provided several excellent Web sites for our organization. Gary was significantly involved in the Internet strategies of Vysis and Abbott Molecular. His involvement outlasted three significant leadership changes within our Marketing departments and was consistently meeting our ever changing demands!”
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Jenny Conviser, Psy.D. · Ascend CHC
“Amazing...the work you do. You all are true artists. I am so pleased that you were able to capture so much of what we originally talked about. You were masterful and kept it simple on our end. You juggled 1000's of thoughts, ideas, messages, personalities, dates, dollars and deadlines.“
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Marketing Tutorials
Iphone interview, editing in Descript, AI to generate b-roll images, assembling video in Kapwing, installing video to Squarespace Website.
How to install your bio video using the new video publishing system. Easy-Peasy
This new update is insanely awesome. I’ve been trying to improve this through Kapwing for 8 months and I finally got ti all working!
Full review and changes made
Sound design, music, interview framing, logo design, call to action
The easiest way to create a thumbnail using a screen capture tool.
A super fast video production from a descript edit into Kapwing using a brand template - typical process can be done in 5 minutes.
Using the free Insta360 Studio Desktop Editing Software to edit vertical 360 videos and bullet-time video.
Two different tools for turning long landscape videos into several short vertical videos — one uses some amazing AI to help.
Simple text edits in Squarespace Fluid Engine and ensuring mobile is good.
Photoshop Generative AI for expanding profile pics is insanely easy!
I lost a previous 3D render artist and needed renders for a project in hours and found this guy from Estonia charging $20/hour. I never would have hired him because of his lack of jobs on Upwork but he killed it!
About Orbis
26 Years of Digital Marketing.
We’ve helped a lot of clients since starting in 1998 but it’s the local, face-to-face work we find the most powerful.
We also find connecting local high school and college students with our clients provides the most cost effective and authentic marketing possible.
Strong relationships come with proximity and frequency. Add speed to that equation and that’s us.
Build everything around short conversational videos using inexpensive tools like our phones, AI and that’s our recipe.
Social Sparks, a Marketing Intern company went out last weekend and captured their stories.