Great Beans Reviews & Agency Profile

About Great Beans

Great Beans Co., Ltd. (株式会社グレート・ビーンズ) is a web production and marketing company registered on 24 May 2006. It works from the fourth floor of 3-16-26 Yakuin in Fukuoka's Chuo Ward. Kentaro Inoue is representative director and CEO, and Yuki Kawasaki is director and COO. Most of its work is for organisations in Fukuoka and the six other Kyushu prefectures. Its role is continuing marketing support that goes beyond handing over a finished website.

The method draws on the CEO's MBA training in marketing. Before any design work, the team analyses the client's customers, its industry and product, its competitors, the client itself, personas and positioning. It then holds group interviews with the client's own customers to settle four points: what sets the business apart, which information matters most, which concept and catchphrase to use, and what tone the design should take. Copywriting and photography are built from those answers. The firm has handled three recurring problems: products that look like commodities, sectors where mass promotion is hard, and local price competition.

For search, its services include on-page (internal) SEO and long-tail SEO built into new sites. Sites run on a CMS where every page can be edited, and the CMS is updated regularly. The firm also maintains sites, including ones first built by other vendors. Search and display advertising are sold as a separate listing-ads service. Google Business Profile management, review handling and map-pack work are not listed, so a dental practice that needs local listing support should check whether it is included.

Its portfolio has no dental clinic. The nearest healthcare examples are Kuramoto Women's Clinic in Fukuoka and Shakai Iryo Hojin Shunkaikai, a medical corporation. After Shunkaikai's recruitment site was rebuilt, job applications reached 130 percent of the previous year's level and 200 percent of the level two years earlier. Other named clients include Nishinippon Shimbun, Misawa Homes, Eishinkan, Kurosaki Harima, Fujikura, Yaskawa Electric and Kyushu Shosen. Results include about a 20-fold rise in enquiries for Nishikyu Daiun warehouse company. For Fukuoka Hospitality Academy, organic search traffic rose about 47.7 percent and enquiries about 56 percent across matching seven-month periods.

The firm suits Kyushu clinics that want a brand message tested against real patient opinions and a website their staff can edit. It suits practices less well if they mainly want local-map SEO. No prices are published. Proposals and estimates are free, and quotes are given on request.