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Motif Poetry

How we built Motif Poetry's scalable web presence.

Nonprofit / Arts
Auckland, NZ

A charity outgrowing social media alone, given a self-managed home online built to grow reach and authority without agency dependency.

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The Brief

A mission stuck on social media alone.

A vibrant, established, much-loved charity needed to grow reach beyond social media, build credibility, and scale their platform without becoming dependent on an agency. Without a website to support their brand and mission, Motif was struggling with visibility for events, poets, and supporters, in other words, their whole mission. Social media alone had become a ceiling, not a strategy, and Motif needed something cost-effective and easy to manage, on their own terms.

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No website presence

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Reliant on social alone

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No self-managed platform

The Approach

A site that's theirs to run.

A Webflow site built to mirror Motif's visual identity and mission, fun, authentic, credible. SEO went in to build online authority around poetry and event-related searches, there was a whole community out there waiting to find them. Alongside audience growth, an easy, effective fundraising pathway was built in, because every penny counts. Publishing tools for events, articles, and updates meant no ongoing costs or dependence on a third party, a totally self-supported site was the whole point.

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SEO for poetry & event terms

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Built-in fundraising

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Self-managed publishing tools

The outcome

A leading voice, owned outright.

Clever page organisation means Motif Poetry now owns several key event and poetry search terms, and the charity is established as a leading voice in NZ's poetry community, online and in real life. The team manages a simple site with no fear of breaking it, at meaningfully reduced long-term operating cost, and Motif's website now grows and scales alongside the charity's mission.

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The results speak for themselves...

“I’m absolutely amazed by the new website, it frames the last six years of the charity so well, while also fizzing with excitement for the future - it already has search results we never expected!”

Ben Fagan
Creative Director
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