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About Us

Working with a design firm to advance your brand requires a collaborative environment with a team you can trust. As a full-service agency, we take the time to understand your unique culture and needs. Our creative specialists offer full web, graphic design, video, and photography services to ensure everything in your campaign looks and feels consistent and impressive. A debt-free company with a wide variety of established long-term relationships, we are recognized for our high-impact and fully custom design and marketing work throughout Michigan and beyond.

About Us

Working with a design firm to advance your brand requires a collaborative environment with a team you can trust. As a full-service agency, we take the time to understand your unique culture and needs. Our creative specialists offer full web, graphic design, video, and photography services to ensure everything in your campaign looks and feels consistent and impressive. A debt-free company with a wide variety of established long-term relationships, we are recognized for our high-impact and fully custom design and marketing work throughout Michigan and beyond.

Our History

Addis Enterprises was originally founded in 1998 from our founder's dorm room to assist businesses and organizations in launching their earliest online presence. In 2006, the company restarted and expanded to a full-service design and marketing firm, and in 2014, added additional in-house capabilities to ensure we can provide consistency of design and message, from concept to completion, across all creative mediums.  

Addis Enterprises has active clients in three countries and over twenty states, so we've long been adept at making clients feel like we're right next door, no matter where they are.

A timline of 4 generations of AE website. 1998, 1999, 2007, and 2015

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160+ Awards Won

Our work has been honored with American Advertising Awards, MarCom Awards, and more.

All Awards

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163+ Clients Served

From non-profits to universities to large corporations, no job is too big or small for the AE team.

Client List

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EOS-Certified Team

Our business runs on EOS to create clarity, accountability, and focus that turns our vision into action.

About EOS

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Our Affiliations

We are proud to be members of AAF, MNA, the Lansing Chamber, and professional guilds.

AFFILIATIONS

Mission & Values

Addis Enterprises is defined by a simple two-word mission statement: Be Awesome

Internally, our mission statement commands us to strive for excellence in all we do. Externally, it inspires our clients, and assures them that by working with us, they too can be awesome.  

To fulfill the promise of this mission statement, Addis Enterprises embraces five core values. These values were identified by staff, and exist not to make us sound like a great company, but to reveal and define us as one. We hire based on these values, we choose clients based on these values, and we make collective business decisions based on these values. Our core values are how we create, how we collaborate, and how we show up for each other and for our clients. 

Creativity that Dazzles

We ensure everything we produce is crafted for impact and designed to wow, because "good enough" never is.

All In, Every Time

We are driven to deliver with passion and dedication to all projects and all clients, big or small.

Curiosity with Purpose

We ask thoughtful questions, listen actively, and engage deeply with our clients, our partners, and each other.

Unshakable Integrity

We are committed to honesty, transparency, and authenticity, because being great humans comes first.

One Team, One Goal

We are stronger together, with accountability and positivity, which drives our collective success.

Although we are passionate about our mission and values, we are equally committed to delivering results.. Our proven process starts by aligning on goals, audiences, and success metrics, then imagining strategic and creative directions tailored to each client’s needs. From there, we create everything collaboratively in-house, sharpen the work through focused iteration, and activate it across the right platforms and channels. We measure performance to see what’s working, and evolve the strategy over time through ongoing partnership, insight, and continuous improvement.

To ensure success, clients have direct access to the project managers and creative professionals designing their work, not salespeople or account managers playing telephone. Additionally, clients have access to our internal time tracking and project management records, with pre-paid hours that never expire, and all time pro-rated to the second. We believe our unique combination of cutting-edge creativity, strategic focus, unparalleled transparency, and disciplined project planning makes Addis Enterprises not just an awesome choice, but the right one.