About ikanikon™
Creative Direction • Strategic Marketing • Custom Web Design
ikanikon™ is a creative and strategic marketing studio that helps business owners look professional, communicate clearly, and build a brand that truly reflects who they are. For more than 25 years, we’ve helped entrepreneurs, small businesses, and organizations across the USA bring their stories to life through branding, marketing, design, and online presence.
We focus on the heart of your vision first — then build the strategy, design, and messaging that bring it to life.
Integrating correct SEO, doing smart marketing and conversion-driven digital marketing means your whole operation strengthens. High-quality SEO services, thoughtful web design, and structured business development create momentum that lasts, when guided by the right marketing consultant. Your brand becomes a leader if you make good choices that support your business.
How We Got Started:
What started as a helping hand to a few freelance clients grew into a successful company that serves the vast needs of small and large local, national, and international businesses.
How We Have Lasted Over 25 Years:
We have an innovative approach that revolutionizes modern day business development thereby helping clients grow while harnessing every opportunity.
How We Work: Our approach is simple: educate, empower, and elevate every client. We mentor business development, do viability and growth research and analysis, design websites, create marketing materials, develop marketing plans, build online stores and funnel systems, create compelling and strategic marketing content, and establish long-term growth strategies that help businesses thrive for decades.
In today’s landscape, effective SEO must connect seamlessly with broader marketing and digital marketing systems, ensuring that your SEO services not only optimize pages but also strengthen your web design and overall business development efforts. Working with a strategic marketing consultant helps outdated web design websites evolve into high-performance website design website experiences. A reliable branding firm and digital marketing company can outperform the average marketing companies by focusing on deep marketing strategy and high-ROI digital marketing services.
When the front end feels polished through refined website development, it allows your graphic design and graphic designer contributions to shine. A memorable identity created through thoughtful logo design by a skilled logo designer gives users trust instantly. Whether you hire a freelance web designer, collaborate with a multi-talented freelancer, or bring in freelance marketing support in Virginia Beach, VA, 23462, you will benefit from unified expertise.
what we believe
Clarity First
If a message isn’t clear, it can’t convert. We specialize in perfecting your messaging so customers instantly understand the value you offer, and feel a compelling need for your products and services.
Design With Purpose
Every color, line, layout, and word is intentional. Good design isn’t decoration — it’s communication. That takes a strong background in psychology to get inside the buyer's mind, discover more than just stats about your audience, and invent unique ways to capture their interest, so your presence is always exciting for them. After we help you become a resource your audience knows they need, this is what keeps them coming back.
Plan for Long-Term
We build websites and marketing systems that last: clean code, modern UX, SEO strategy, and scalable structure from the foundation up. Everything is baked in together from day one, so you hit the ground running and start higher to gain even more traction faster.
Human Connection
People buy from brands they trust. Everything we build is crafted to strengthen connection, loyalty, and confidence. We never make stuff up or fluff or pursue black hat tactics.
Honor & Integrity
We believe honor and dignity are of utmost importance, and we do not compromise to create short-term results that not only cannot last, but also destroy reputations that often never recover. We do it right, from the start, and that is why our clients still have their top rankings and lasting, successful businesses a decade after working with ikanikon™.
These principles guide every project we take on — with clarity, intention, and lasting results.
who we are
Responsible
Founder Kristen Pflibsen was inducted into the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in America 2023. Kristen Pflibsen has been in the marketing industry since 1999 after going to college for 6 years and graduating Salutatorian with a Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Design.
Trustworthy
She has published articles and advertorials in national magazines and news coverage obtained from press kits she has written.
Verifiable
You can read many dozens of letters of recommendation about our high work ethics, personal testimonials from our clients and other references from many dozens of people who have great things to say about ikan-ikon.
Convenient
We offer a variety of payment methods that include Square, Paypal, all major credit cards, debit cards, Money Gram, Western Union, Google Pay, Apple Pay, CashApp, and Zelle.
what we stand for
Great Work Ethics Since 1999
Individualized Approach
Each client gets exactly what their company needs with totally custom-made one-of-a-kind graphics. Every project is all-inclusive and stress-free. Money only goes out when money comes in, keeping your costs as low as possible. This is how we have been able to sustain being in business since 1999.
Technologically Advanced
We have clients all over the USA. We are efficiency experts who have developed a fully automated online approval and communication process, with clients, vendors, and subcontractors. This also means that you can view and show your projects to anyone anywhere in the world!
Environmentally Conscientious
Our marketing is online, all information is on this website, and we have fully automated online processes that are seamless online. Meetings can be via web cam on Facebook or Skype saving time while being environmentally responsible.
You can help us reduce impact on our environment by following our efficiency guidelines.
We strive to leave this world better because we exist in it.
Buying American
We enjoy helping stimulate our own American economy while supporting emerging American businesses because we have a heart for the American entrepreneurial spirit that built this country.
our business philosophies
Mission
ikan-ikon.com is committed to providing easy and affordable one-stop website and marketing solutions, of the highest quality, quickly, and efficiently.
Vision
To transform ideas into impactful marketing with integrity and innovation through a dynamic, collaborative network that includes cutting-edge technology and freelancers.
The pillars of our vision are:
1) Strive to be the trusted resource for our clients.
2) Provide comprehensive support and expertise at every step.
3) Empower businesses with tools, insights, and creative solutions to make their businesses more successful over the long-term, organically.
Business Model
1) ikan-ikon measures our successes by yours. When your business does well because of our work, that makes us look good.
2) We hate sales, so you can rest assured that you will never have to deal with any pressure to buy anything.
3) It is part of our processes to help those in need because it is in our hearts. We donate food, time, and pro bono work to support causes, such as for protection against abuse of women and children, mental health, veterans, and animal welfare.
what we can do for you
Website Design & Development
Branding & Identity Design
Digital Marketing
Copywriting
SEO & Hypertargeting
Marketing Analysis
Marketing Plans
Trade Show & Event Marketing
Creative Services
Visit the services page for more information.
You can also learn marketing any time you have 15 minutes. We have 3.5 hours of fast, easy marketing training of complex marketing strategies combined with over 25 years of experience that we baked into 15 minute lessons you can use to quickly learn in laymen's terms and then implement your own custom marketing with simple, step-by-step online worksheets, and a few wonderful surprises you will appreciate on the way to your own DIY marketing!