The Whole Brain Group

Specialties

The Whole Brain Group, located in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan is a woman-​owned consulting firm that creates Smart Websites that are mobile & search engine friendly, integrated with social media, and built with WordPress™ — so clients can control their own websites and quickly publish fresh content.

We also provide consulting in social media strategy & execution, search engine optimization (SEO), Pay-​Per-​Click (PPC) advertising, and user experience design for web & mobile applications.

Our favorite clients view us as a partner in their growth, because they know we are passionate about taking an integrated approach to helping them achieve their business goals, and we strive to combine the logical & tactical (Left Brain) with the creative (Right Brain) to achieve Whole Brain Goodness!

Specialties:

Web Design & Development, WordPress, Pay Per Click Advertisting, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Internet Marketing, Application Design & UX, Branding & Logo Design, Mobile Application

History

Established in 2002.

The Whole Brain Group was founded by Marisa Smith in 2002. Initially named DataSmith Consulting, we rebranded in 2007 when we grew from a one-​woman operation with a corporate headquarters at a local coffee shop to a fully-​staffed office in Ann Arbor with our own coffee maker.

Our team members are full of energy and very colorful! Our left-​brained «nerds» complement our right-​brained «creative types» — forming a Whole Brain web design and social media nerve center in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor.

But you can’t squash our inner entrepreneurs… we love to apply our experience to other people’s business challenges. In addition to web applications, we’ve added social media coaching & training, and mobile application development to our bag of tricks — helping people grow their businesses with the power of the internet and other time-​saving technologies so we can all have more abundance in our lives.

The Whole Brain Group is 100% woman-​owned.

Meet the Business Owner

Marisa S.

Business Owner

Since her early days of playing office in her parents’ basement, Marisa has been obsessed with creating processes and automating repetitive tasks. She first developed an interest in web design and workflow automation after she got her master’s degree in Higher Education Administration at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. While working as an advisor of undergraduate engineering students, she was frustrated by the lack of good electronic tools for managing student records, and decided to solve the problem herself.

Marisa worked at the University of Michigan for several years, helping administrative offices solve their paper problems by designing web-​based electronic solutions, and decided to strike out on her own so she could help even more people.

Her real passion is for improving the quality of life for individuals and organizations and she’s devoted to helping people implement electronic solutions to improve efficiency and create more time and abundance in their lives.

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