You work directly with the people who lead your project.
Circulation Studio has been a deliberately small Laguna Beach studio since 2011. We came to marketing from history, engineering, environmental science, and design, and that range is the point: business runs on relationships, trust, and demonstrated value, not on chasing technology down a rabbit hole nor running every client through the same ringer. Every specialty below is led by a senior person who owns the result.
The Team
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SEO
Steve Lepore
Co-Founder & SEO Strategist
The studio’s lead. Degrees in History and Literary Journalism from UC Irvine give his search work a researcher’s patience and a storyteller’s ear. Reading, camping, ice hockey.
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Design & Social
Vanessa Pacheco
Design & Social Media · English / Spanish
Studied visual merchandising and design in Barcelona, originally from Lima. Digital storytelling that helps brands illustrate their voice, in two languages. Puzzles, plants, interiors.
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Paid Ads
Connor Olson
Paid Ads Director
Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State, applied to paid media: Google Ads, analytics, performance tracking. An engineer’s read on every dollar spent. Reading, hiking, rock climbing.
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Development
Brian Seymour
Co-Founder & Development
A founder who still ships the technical work: web development, databases, code solutions. Environmental Studies at UCSB trained him to think in systems. Hiking, bikes, music.
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Brand
Ana Jaramillo
Graphic Designer & Brand Developer · English / Spanish
A Graphic Design degree plus a UX/UI postgraduate, and more than a decade in brand identity and editorial design, including brand work for international film festivals.
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Engineering
Marco Prado
Full-Stack Engineer · English / Spanish
Five-plus years building web and mobile applications for enterprises and startups, carrying them full cycle from design through deployment.
In a client’s words
We’ve been working with Steve and Connor since the early stages of starting our small business, and they’ve been there every step of the way. Whether it be on-page SEO optimization, keyword research analysis, or building a custom data studio report to empower us to make better content decisions, they’ve guided us in growing our business to where it is today. Compared to other digital content and SEO people I’ve worked with, Steve and Connor don’t upsell you on more social media posts or their best package for getting noticed as quickly as possible. While they helped us identify a number of items to work on for our website in the short term, they aligned perfectly with our objective to create an enduring online presence that has helped us reach a level of consistency in page views and consultations without having to spend too much on paid social ads.
Alex Loveless, Executive Director, The Admissions Angle
Why the name
- Circulation
- How people arrive. Almost no one goes straight to your door; they move through interconnected channels, and we work on all of them.
- Studio
- A workroom where things get made. Deliberately not a firm, and not a company.
Working with us means working with the people on this page. Booking for Q3 is open; if that sounds like the right fit, let’s talk.
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