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Julia beat the competition side-by-side.

Client
Cool Brand Media
Industry
Full-service advertising & PR agency
Location
Texas, USA
Team
Julia McDonald · "Lead Cowgirl" & Founder
Scope
Custom Illustrations · Graphic Design · Copywriting

Cool Brand Media is a Texas-based, HUB-certified full-service agency led by Julia McDonald, delivering tailored advertising, marketing, and PR solutions with over two decades of industry expertise. Since partnering with Flocksy, they've expanded their impact locally and nationally.

Julia's specialty is creating tailored, strategic marketing - social media management, SEO, performance tracking - for clients from small businesses to state departments.

The numbers

What Cool Brand Media moved.

Sourced from Cool Brand Media's reported outcomes with Flocksy - nothing rounded up.

122
successful projects
Custom Illustrations
most utilized category
01 · The challenge

Global brand, local pressure.

"Higher-quality content."

  1. 01
    Burned by a competitor's creative subscription early on.
  2. 02
    As a startup, worried about hiring the "right people" without a training runway.
  3. 03
    Needed pitch-ready creative volume to win bigger accounts.

When deciding between Flocksy and a competitor, Julia hired both simultaneously. "I basically put you both in a test, and you kicked their butts."

02 · The Flocksy solution

One dedicated team. Every market.

A design subscription with a dedicated creative team - unlimited requests, flat monthly fee, banked hours that roll over. No rotating cast of freelancers, no agency retainer.

Flocksy's creatives "blew the doors off," and Julia's Production Coordinator Brooke became her go-to for anything tricky - from fast answers to reformatting documents that would have cost her tears and frustration otherwise. A personalized team turned around the creative volume she needed to pitch more business, faster.

  • 01Pitch-ready templates that let Cool Brand Media chase more accounts.
  • 02Illustrator Sofia turning Julia's childhood memories into signature site banners.
  • 03A Production Coordinator who reformats documents, saves headaches, and moves fast.
  • 04Client-quality creative volume without training or managing freelancers.
The work

Shipped for Cool Brand Media.

A selection of real assets produced by the dedicated Flocksy team on this account.

Cool Brand Media custom illustration for client - Flocksy
Cool Brand Media illustration asset by Sofia - Flocksy
03 · Results that matter

What actually changed.

A lifelong-goal client in reach

"The Department of Agriculture wants us to do a vendor presentation, and I can guarantee it's because he got on my website and looked at all the illustrations that Sofia has done."

First employees hired on Flocksy-driven growth

In months, Julia grew her clientele and hired her first few employees thanks to the personalized team and creative volume Flocksy powers.

Treated like the biggest account in the room

"I'm not a big client, but you treat me like I am. You treat everybody like they're important."

In their own words
Don't hire a creative team, hire Flocksy. There's no need for anyone searching for a business like this to search anywhere else. They're just wasting their time. Just go straight to Flocksy - because birds of a feather flock together, and Flocksy is amazing.
Julia McDonald · "Lead Cowgirl" & Founder, Cool Brand Media
06 · The team

Same faces. Every brief.

With Flocksy, Cool Brand Media works with the same dedicated creatives from day one - never a rotating cast of freelancers, never a briefing tax on new hires.

Brooke
Production Coordinator
Sofia
Illustrator
Diego
Illustrator
Your turn

Same subscription. Your brand.

One dedicated creative team, unlimited design requests, banked hours that roll over, cancel at cycle end. Flat monthly fee - a fraction of an in-house hire or agency retainer.

Segment
Agencies scaling without hires

Client demand up, payroll flat. Margins kept.