Design and digital marketing agency in Bastia, Corsica
KALLISTACK is a design and digital marketing agency based in Bastia. We create your visual identity and your interfaces, then work on making sure people can find you online. The logo and the campaigns go through the same person, so your image holds together from one medium to the next. Every action is measured and explained.
What we do
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Brand identity and logo
A logo with its colours and typefaces, plus brand guidelines that set the rules for using them, so people recognise you at a glance on a shop sign as much as on a phone screen.
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UI/UX design and mock-ups
UI is how your website or app looks. UX is how easy it is to use. We draw both as mock-ups, which you approve before development begins.
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SEO and local search
An audit first, then technical fixes and useful content. We fill in your Google Business Profile as well, since it is often the first thing people see when they look for a service nearby.
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Online advertising
Google Ads, Facebook or Instagram campaigns set up for your customers and your area, which we then adjust on the enquiries they bring in rather than on clicks.
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Social media and marketing collateral
Your accounts kept active and your reviews followed, with the printed pieces that go with them (brochures, flyers, roll-up banners, signage). Online or on the high street, it is the same business.
Our solutions in detail
Brand identity and logo
A logo built to last and brand guidelines that explain how to use it, from the shop sign to the email signature.
LEARN MOREUI/UX design and mock-ups
Mock-ups and a clickable prototype you can try before development, for a website or app that people pick up without a manual.
LEARN MORESEO and local search
Audit, fixes, content, Google listing. Groundwork so that customers searching for you land on your site rather than on a competitor's.
LEARN MOREOnline advertising
Google Ads, Facebook or Instagram ads built around a precise goal, then watched and corrected as the results come in.
LEARN MORESocial media and online presence
Posts, Google listing, replies to reviews. A presence that is kept up, so the information is right on the day a customer looks for you.
LEARN MOREPrint and marketing collateral
Brochures, flyers, roll-up banners, signs. Documents in your image, delivered as files ready for the printer of your choice.
LEARN MORE
A communications agency in Corsica that also speaks tech
Redesigning a logo, launching a website, showing up on Google, keeping social media going. These jobs often end up with different suppliers who never talk to each other. The designer hands over guidelines nobody applies. The website only half follows the brand, and the ads send visitors to a page that fails to convince them. In the end the image gets scattered, and the budget along with it.
KALLISTACK is a company based in Bastia, founded by Alexandre Sciacca, a full-stack engineer with more than ten years of experience. Design and digital marketing are planned alongside development, so a mock-up reflects what can really be built, SEO is part of the site from the start, and campaigns rest on reliable tracking. You talk to the same person throughout the project, first sketch included.
We work with SMEs as readily as with start-ups or public bodies, and every enquiry gets a reply within 48h. Quotes are written in plain English, line by line.
How a design or digital marketing project moves forward
A logo, an ad campaign or ongoing support all go through the same steps, and you approve each one before the next begins, which saves you from finding a problem too late.
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Understand
We start by talking about your business and your customers, then your competitors. What people want varies a lot from one business to another (being recognised, more calls, filling the quiet months, hiring). We also look at what already exists, so we keep what works.
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Design
We propose a direction. Depending on the project, that means logo concepts, screen mock-ups, an SEO action plan or a campaign strategy. Nothing goes into production until you have approved the mock-ups, which avoids nasty surprises.
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Build
We produce what was agreed. Identity files, interfaces, copy, ads, posts or print-ready documents, as the case may be. You hear how things are going without having to chase us.
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Launch and support
Going live, publishing or distributing, then measuring what actually happens, so that every adjustment rests on real figures. At any point you know what has been done, and why.
Marketing on the island, season by season
On the island, a lot of businesses live by the seasons. A hotel or a boat hire firm does not talk the same way in April, on 15 August and in November. Holidaymakers often plan their stay from the mainland or abroad, long before they arrive. That is when they compare reviews and photos. Your marketing has to be ready before the peak, not during it.
Not all of them speak French. An English menu, a translated Google listing, sometimes an Italian version of the website, and the decision comes more easily. Then there are the other customers, the ones who stay through the winter and keep shops and tradespeople busy all year. Mostly they want to find, quickly and close by, a name, correct opening hours and a phone number that gets answered.
Either way, local search matters enormously. Your Google Business Profile (the free listing that shows your business on Google Maps and in search results) and your customers' reviews often sway the choice before anyone opens your website. We treat that listing as a proper part of your marketing. Not a formality.
What lasts, in design as in digital marketing
There is no recipe. A few principles still separate marketing that pays from spending that never shows a return.
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Consistency
Shopfront or website, Instagram or invoice, people should find the same logo and the same tone. Repetition is what makes you recognisable. As soon as each medium does its own thing, that work comes undone.
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A clear message
Within a few seconds, a visitor should understand what you do, where you are and how to reach you. If they cannot, the finest design in the world is wasted.
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Regularity
SEO and social media reward steady effort. A modest rhythm kept up all year beats a big push followed by a long silence.
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Measurement
We track what matters for your business, meaning calls, quote requests, bookings or people asking for directions to your address. Likes are nice to get. They do not pay the bills.
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Promises to avoid
Sooner or later someone will promise you first place on Google, or offer followers to buy and reviews to order. These shortcuts do not hold. They can harm your image for a long time, and fake reviews can also bring legal penalties.
Your marketing budget, and what moves it
We do not publish prices, because two projects are rarely alike. In design, the price depends mostly on the number of deliverables, how complex they are and how many variations are needed. For SEO, social media or advertising, what counts is the volume of ongoing work, together with the number of channels and languages, then the level of follow-up you want.
Online advertising adds a media budget. It is paid directly to Google or Meta, separately from our management fees, and we help you size it to your goals. The ceiling is yours to set. The quote itemises every line, so you can decide what to start with.
Who this service is for
We work for shops and restaurants, hotels or campsites, tradespeople, independent professionals. Also for associations, local authorities, SMEs or start-ups, in Haute-Corse and further afield. Some are just starting out. Others have an image that seems to have aged ten years overnight. We start from your goals, never from an off-the-shelf package.
How we work
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Understand
We talk through your goals and budget. You get a quote you can actually read.
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Design
We map out the solution and the mock-ups, which you approve before any development starts.
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Build
We develop and test. You follow progress at every step.
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Launch & support
Go-live. After that we host it, fix it and keep improving it.
Technologies and methods
- Brand identity
- Brand guidelines
- UI / UX
- Mock-ups and prototypes
- Technical SEO
- Local SEO
- Google Ads
- Meta Ads
- Google Business Profile
Frequently asked questions
Should I start with the logo, the website or advertising?
With the visual identity, most of the time. Your website borrows its colours, and so do your social accounts and printed material. If yours already works, we keep it. Advertising comes later, once the page that will greet visitors can actually turn them into enquiries.
Can you promise me first place on Google?
No. Nobody can promise that honestly, because rankings depend on Google, on your competitors and on what people actually type. We work on what really counts, which means a clean website, useful content, a complete business listing and genuine reviews. And we show you how the results move.
How much does design or digital marketing work cost?
It depends on the scope. The number of items or screens counts, as does how much is brand new rather than reworked. Languages too. For SEO, social media or advertising, the price mostly comes down to the volume of ongoing work. After a first conversation you get a detailed quote that is easy to read, before you commit to anything.
Do you only work with businesses on the island?
No. We work with SMEs, start-ups or public bodies, in Corsica as well as on the mainland, and most of the work goes perfectly well at a distance. Every enquiry gets a reply within 48h.
Can you take over an existing brand identity or website?
Yes. We begin with a review, to see what still works and what has dated or is missing. Depending on the case, we modernise the logo without losing what makes it recognisable, fill in the brand guidelines, or start again from scratch. The same logic applies to a website or to social media accounts.
Who provides the copy and the photos?
Whichever suits you. You can send us your text and images, which we lay out and adapt to each format. We can also write from an interview with you and tell you which photos to plan for.
Will I own my accounts and files?
That is what we recommend. Your ad accounts and Google listing, like your social media, are opened in your name, and we only have manager access. You keep control whatever happens. For design work, the assignment of rights and the list of files handed over are written down in black and white in the quote.