It’s not about being good at what we do. It’s that we do what we do.
We founded Lunabean.com in 1999 upon our arrival in Portland, OR from Boston, MA. At the time of the site’s creation, all we had was a name (provided by our cat), and a desire to learn how to make web pages. Lunabean was to be our playground.
Between self-taught web building sessions and waiting tables (did I mention we were two newly graduated Boston College kids with English degrees?), we found an addictive little machine called the Nintendo 64. One of our favorite games at the time was one that went by the name of “Jet Force Gemini”. Combining our desire to learn web building with our love of “JFG”, we created a web page that served as a resource for people who might be stuck in the game. To our amazement this page became incredibly popular. So, we decided to build more pages dedicated to video games, followed by more pages, followed by more pages.
Fast forward to today, Lunabean.com has sold tens of thousands of e-guides, receives over a million hits a month in traffic, and successfully competes with sites like IGN (owned by Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp.) and Gamespot (owned by Viacom) for customers.
Outside of a few of the video game strategy guides, nothing was outsourced. The site was built by us. The copy was written by us. The social media was managed by us (before it was called “social media”, no less). The marketing was done by us.
We have been our most difficult client. We would settle for nothing less than 100% effort 100% of the time, as we knew our livelihood depended on it. That’s what makes us different from other web designers and web marketers. We have lived and breathed this for over 12 years. We can look at a site for five minutes and tell you five ways to make it perform better. It’s not about being good at what we do, it’s that we do what we do.
While we were running Lunabean.com, we picked up a few accidental clients. We never went looking for them, but, after conversations about what we did with various people, we were often asked if we could help with their online businesses. Our clients were thrilled with the results, as were we.
After years of sharing our expertise with others in an unofficial capacity, we launched Lunabean Media in 2009. Since then, we have worked with the smallest of start ups to the largest of corporations. We have loved every minute of it, and look forward to continuing the work we do with businesses like yours.
- Allison and Jeremy Schubert
