WEB DESIGN + MARKETING STUDIO

Let’s Make Your Business

IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE

Liz, founder of Aviso Studios, smiling at the Santa Cruz Harbor — a brand and website designer serving small businesses in Santa Cruz, California.

The designer + strategist your competitors wish you didn’t hire.

Branding, websites, and digital marketing that help small businesses look legit, attract more customers, and finally grow on purpose.

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YOU WANT MORE.

— more people finding you, choosing you, and sticking around. So let’s build the brand + digital system that actually gets you there.

Aviso Studios designs clear brands, high-performing websites, and smart marketing
that help people find you and take action.

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SIGNATURE SERVICES

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Custom Website Design

Websites built to help your business grow—easy to use, great to look at, and designed to guide visitors toward taking action so you get more calls, more bookings, and clients who actually stick around.

WEBSITE SERVICES →

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Custom Brand Identity

Branding that gives your business its own distinct look and feel—instantly recognizable, built to last, and crafted to show people you’re the real deal whether you’re launching fresh or leveling up.

BRANDING SERVICES →

Phone and tablet on a desk representing SEO and local online visibility services offered by Aviso Studios for small businesses in Santa Cruz.

SEO + Online Visibility

SEO support that helps your business show up where people are already searching—so you’re found faster, chosen sooner, and seen as the business worth choosing.

SEO SERVICES →

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Social Media + Content

Social support that keeps your business visible and consistent — so people don’t forget you exist and actually feel good choosing you (without having to dance on Tiktok).

SOCIAL SERVICES →

Liz Kroft standing by the Santa Cruz harbor, smiling and approachable as the marketing strategist behind Aviso Studio.
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OH, HEY THERE

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If you’re tired of feeling invisible online, wondering why “post more” isn’t getting you customers, or googling marketing tips at 11pm and wondering why this still feels so hard… you’re exactly who I built this business for.

I bring Harvard-backed strategy (fancy, I know), sharp instincts, and just enough spicy-marg energy to help business owners show up with confidence, get found by the right people, and finally feel good about promoting what they do.

My job is simple: make marketing feel doable, make your presence feel unmistakably you, and make your business impossible to ignore.

meet your secret weapon
  • The image features a black background with a white alarm clock, a plant in a pot, and a stack of books.
  • Silhouette of a dog with a sun and clouds in the background
  • Black background with small white text that says, 'Make your mark today.'
  • Black and white drawing of a panda with glasses and a bowtie.
  • Revive Well Tahoe logo with a circular icon of a sun, water, and a mountain
  • Black and white line drawing of a person running with a book in hand and a backpack, wearing sneakers.
  • A hand holding a smartphone with a blank, white screen.
  • A black silhouette of a running horse.
  • A user interface with a text input labeled 'Type your message...' and a send button icon.
  • Stylized silhouette of a person crossing a balance beam, with a background of a crescent moon and stars, representing balance and night.
  • Black and white abstract minimalist line art illustration of a person reading a book.
  • A black rapper wearing a black hoodie and sunglasses, holding a microphone, with a serious expression on his face.
  • A black and white abstract illustration of a person sitting in a meditative pose on a large leaf with a spiral in the background.

  • Liz is a true master of her craft. She created a stunning website, handled incredible marketing, and her expertise has been invaluable to my business.

    STEPHANIE GARNIN

  • Liz helped our business establish an online presence that reflects our true value. The process was highly organized, eye-opening, and a total game changer.

    LEYLA REZAKHANI

  • Our phone hasn’t stopped dinging since Liz took over our Instagram. Her approach skyrocketed our social media in just the first month.

    STEPHANIE PUJALS

RECENT PROJECTS

  • Three different home interior design website pages showing home decor, staging, and real estate offerings with images of rooms, furniture, and design elements.
  • Laptop on a table displaying a home design and build firm's website titled Silicon Valley Design + Build Firm, with a button to book a consultation.
  • Smartphone and tablet on a white desk displaying a mental health podcast called 'Mind Meets Medicine,' with a coffee cup and a white vase nearby.
  • Two posters on a concrete wall. The left poster advertises a nightclub event with a woman in patterned pants and white boots, with a washing machine at her head, and bold red and black text. The right poster promotes a vinyl record collection, with an actual record player and a vinyl record on it, featuring orange and blue background colors and orange text.
  • Close-up of a textured white paper with the logo 'OLIVIA james' and a camera icon above the text.
  • Close-up of a black textured paper with embossed gold foil text 'OROMARIS' and a gold embossed decorative logo.
  • Advertising posters for LOFT event space featuring a woman holding a lantern, with text about a celebration happening on May 28, and promotional phrases about fashion, philanthropy, and change.
  • Nighttime scene at Echo Canyon Ranch showing a woman relaxing in a hot tub on a wooden deck, with a house illuminated by warm lights in the background, and a sunset sky with dark clouds.
  • Tags from Seaborn Co. swimwear on sandy beach, one for a bikini top and one for a bikini bottom, with a patterned card in the middle and a barcode.
  • Multiple perfume boxes labeled 'EDEN Eau de Parfum' arranged on a pink surface, casting shadows.
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LET’S GET TO WORK

It’s time for your business to be the one they notice.
Because when the right people notice you, they choose you.

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