King Street Pharmacy
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Overview Progress The Plan Original proposal
King Street Pharmacy × Brand Butter  ·  Engagement hub  ·  2026

King Street. Fredericton. All heart.

The work continues where it began: King Street Pharmacy, downtown Fredericton, under the name it's earned over twenty years. Brand sharpened rather than replaced, then a website, search visibility, and ads built to fill the counter. Everything prior is preserved in the archive.

See where things stand → Read the original proposal →
Engagement live

Phase 1: Branding. Approved, underway, on schedule.

Kickoff July 15. Naming routes presented. Scope refocused August 10: King Street Pharmacy keeps its name and this engagement centres on Fredericton, with the naming work concluded and preserved in the archive. Here is where things stand.

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Kickoff
July 15
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Naming routes
Presented
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Scope resolved
Aug 10
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Fredericton plan
For approval
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Build & launch
Next up
How the scope evolved
The decision

King Street stays King Street

The Fredericton shareholders chose to retain the name and identity. Moncton and Saint John align with the Pikes brand alongside the PEI team. The naming work did its job: a decision made with eyes open, on the record.

The credit

$2,530 applied in full

The unconsumed balance from the Saint John and Moncton payments ($2,200 + HST), applied against this engagement as confirmed by email August 11. Clean books, no friction.

The open door

The NB digital layer

Websites, search, and ads don't care whose name is on the door. Per Dan: "I definitely see an opportunity there." The conversation stays open while Fredericton gets our full attention.

On your desk

  • Approve the Fredericton plan below, or reply with what needs adjusting. Everything else starts from that.
  • Access for the audit: Google Business Profile, the current website and hosting, and any analytics that exist.
  • Prior agency materials. We hold the campaign concepts already shared; send anything else and it feeds the honest assessment.
The revised engagement

The Fredericton plan.

One location, its own name, no rename anywhere in sight. Four workstreams over roughly six weeks: an honest look at the brand you have, then the website, visibility, and ads it deserves. Tap any workstream to expand it.

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Brand Assessment & Refresh

The honest read you asked for · $1,500 one-time

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A plain-spoken audit of King Street Pharmacy's current identity and marketing, including our read on the earlier agency concepts you shared. What's working, what's dated, what's worth keeping because twenty years of trust lives in it. Output: a short set of refresh recommendations (type, palette, applications) that sharpen the brand without renaming anything.

Identity audit: logo, applications, signage, voice
Honest assessment of prior agency campaign work
Refresh recommendations, keep-vs-fix, with rationale
Light logo refinement if the audit calls for it
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Website Design & Build

King Street's digital front door · $6,500 one-time

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A fast, modern site for one pharmacy with one job: turning Fredericton searches into transfers and walk-ins. The heart of the original proposal survives intact, because it was always about this location: free parking downtown, the clinic told with dignity, the community work finally voiced.

Design + build, mobile-first, blazing fast
Prescription transfer flow: under two minutes
Clinic section: informative, stigma-free
Community page: the giving & 12 Neighbours story
All copywriting + photography direction
No plugins, no lock-in, yours outright
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Search, Answers & Content

Found by Google, cited by AI · $1,400/mo

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The full SEO/AEO/GEO foundation delivered inside the first 90 days (technical SEO, schema, Google Business Profile overhaul, citations, review engine), then ongoing content, ranking and AI-citation monitoring, GBP posts, and review responses. Six-month minimum, then month-to-month.

Technical SEO + structured data for one strong domain
Google Business Profile overhaul + review engine
AEO/GEO content architecture, Q&A-ready
Monthly content + plain-English reporting
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Ads Management, Meta

Fredericton, precisely targeted · $1,600/mo + spend

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Meta (Facebook/Instagram) only, deliberately: Google restricts pharmacy advertising to certified healthcare advertisers, so the high-intent searches get won organically by workstream 03 instead. Geo-targeted to King Street's radius, optimized continuously, ad spend billed at cost. Month-to-month after the first three.

Campaign setup, creative, and continuous optimization
Ad spend at cost, no markup
Ready to extend across NB if that door opens

Build investment, with your credit applied in full

Brand Assessment $1,500 + Website $6,500 = $8,000, minus the $2,200 (+HST) balance from the Saint John and Moncton payments. 50% to begin, 50% at completion. Monthly workstreams start at launch: $3,190/mo all-in (search & content $1,400, Meta ads $1,600, hosting & care $190), or choose the modules that fit.

$8,000
$5,800
after $2,200 credit · + HST

Ready when you are, Dan.

One click approves the Fredericton plan and we come back within one business day with kickoff dates for the brand assessment.

Approve the Fredericton plan →
Archive

The original proposal

The approved three-location proposal and the Phase 1 naming routes, preserved exactly as presented, pricing and all, because we like receipts as much as you do.

Phase 1 archive · The routes presentation

The naming routes, as presented.

Everything below grew out of what you told us at kickoff: one name for all locations, a blend of founder and place, room to grow, and a clean lane between the pharmacy brand and the clinic. Every route wears the same second line, so the family name is never what's being traded.

Route 01 · Regional · The Maritimes on the door
MaritimePharmacy
part of Pike Health Group

The word this region calls itself. Big enough for every door you have and every door you might add, warm enough to belong on a corner. And its quiet superpower: "maritime" is the same word in French. Tap the toggle above; that's not a translation, it's the identical brand serving Moncton in its own language.

The case

  • Scales to all current locations and any future one, either province
  • Pharmacie Maritime: the strongest bilingual play of any candidate screened
  • maritimepharmacy.ca, .com, and pharmaciemaritime.ca all secured
  • Sounds established on day one; "the Maritime" begs to be said out loud

Eyes open

  • The region's favourite word (Electric, Bus, Travel): the design must do the distinguishing
  • Trademark screen underway on a Nova Scotia trade entity; clearing before final commitment
"Thanks for calling Maritime Pharmacy, Fredericton." · "Pharmacie Maritime, Moncton, bonjour!"
Route 02 · Province · New Brunswick, proudly
BrunswickPharmacy
part of Pike Health Group

The tighter identity: the province itself on the door. Confident, dignified, and unmistakably from here. If the room feels Maritime is too big a coat, Brunswick is the tailored one.

The case

  • Strong local-identity signal in all three NB cities
  • Language-neutral; comfortable in Moncton
  • brunswickpharmacy.ca secured; screening clean in-province

Eyes open

  • NB-fenced: a future PEI door would stretch the name
  • Namesakes in New Brunswick, New Jersey: an SEO nuisance, not a legal or local issue
"Brunswick Pharmacy, good morning."
Route 03 · Founder · Your name, designed
Pike'sPharmacy
part of Pike Health Group

The name you already own, extended east. A family name on the door is the oldest trust signal in pharmacy, and the legacy conversation from kickoff, future family involvement included, lives most naturally here.

The case

  • One name across both provinces from day one
  • The founder's name where customers can see it, not just in the fine print
  • pikespharmacy.ca already in hand: live for PEI today, ready to carry all four locations

Eyes open

  • An unrelated, long-established US Pike's Pharmacy holds the .com and its search shadow
  • The PEI name is three months young: extending it spreads new equity thinner rather than importing history
"Pike's Pharmacy, how can we help?"

How it resolved

August 10: the Fredericton shareholders chose to retain the King Street Pharmacy name, and Moncton and Saint John aligned with the Pikes brand. The exploration above is preserved exactly as presented, because decisions age better when you can see how they were made.

Where things stand

Three great pharmacies, telling three different stories.

Each location earns its community's trust every day. But on paper (and online) they look like strangers. A customer moving from Moncton to Fredericton has no way of knowing they're staying in the family.

Fredericton

King Street Pharmacy

The downtown flagship. Free on-site parking in a city that charges for everything else, plus a clinic doing quietly important community-health work.

Saint John

Under the franchise flag

Operating as a Medicine Shoppe: solid equity, but it's rented equity. The name on the door builds someone else's brand.

Moncton

Freshly independent

Just exited the Medicine Shoppe banner and needs a new name anyway. The most urgent, and the perfect catalyst for unifying all three.

The Moncton exit isn't a problem to patch. It's the opening move. One location needs a new name regardless. Naming all three at once costs a fraction of doing it twice, and turns a franchise departure into an independence story worth telling.

What you told us matters
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Grow the traditional pharmacy base

Stable, predictable prescription revenue across all three locations: the foundation everything else stands on.

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One identity, honestly earned

A name, logo, and brand kit that all three locations can wear proudly, including the one leaving a national banner behind.

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Get found by people and by AI

When someone in any of your three cities asks Google, Siri, or ChatGPT for "a pharmacy that actually answers the phone," the answer should be you.

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Clinic awareness, without stigma

The clinic's community-health role deserves understanding, not whispers. The brand and website should normalize it with dignity.

The part nobody's been told

The big heart is already real. It's just been quiet about it.

Most pharmacies claiming "heart" are decorating. King Street has receipts: years of community work that has never been voiced. This is the raw material a brand can be built on, because none of it needs to be invented.

Giving, in kind

Thousands of dollars' worth of food, snacks, and supplements given to Fredericton's homeless. Quietly, consistently, without a camera in sight. It's been happening for years. Almost no one knows.

12 Neighbours, side by side

The pharmacist works directly with 12 Neighbours Community (Fredericton's tiny-home community fighting homelessness by building homes) and has for a long time. Not a sponsorship logo. Actual hands-on care.

The clinic, without stigma

Community-health work, including addiction-related care, done with dignity for people other providers make feel unwelcome. The heart piece and the clinic piece are the same piece.

Marketing didn't create this heart. Its only job is to stop hiding it.

The craft is in the telling: voiced as community work, never as charity advertising. Done right, it's the most defensible positioning a pharmacy can own, because no chain can copy years of showing up.

Creative direction

"Small pharmacy, big heart" was a decent start. Here's where it goes next.

Our read on the earlier concept work: the heart is right, and unlike most who claim it, you can prove it (see above). What's wrong is "small," which undersells a three-city operation, and the fact that the heart was asserted rather than evidenced. These three territories keep the warmth and give it teeth. Full development happens in the engagement; consider these the trailer, not the film.
Territory 01 · Relationship-led

On a First-Name Basis

"The pharmacy that knows your name."

Evolves "big heart" from a claim into a proof. Chains know your file; you know the person, and the 12 Neighbours partnership and years of quiet giving are the evidence. Every touchpoint demonstrates recognition, continuity, and care that follows you across all three cities.

  • Heart becomes documented behaviour, not decoration
  • Direct contrast with big-box anonymity
  • Naturally extends to the clinic's dignity-first care
Territory 02 · Province-proud

New Brunswick's Own

"Three cities. One promise."

Leans into independence as identity. Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton: one homegrown pharmacy family covering the province's three biggest cities. The Medicine Shoppe exit becomes the origin story, not a footnote.

  • Franchise exit reframed as independence
  • Scale without losing local credibility
  • Built to welcome a fourth location someday
Territory 03 · Effortless care

Care, Uncomplicated

"Healthcare that doesn't make you work for it."

The rational route. Five-minute prescription transfers, free parking downtown, a human answering the phone. Positions the brand around removing friction: the thing every pharmacy customer secretly wants most.

  • Absorbs the "free parking" insight without being owned by it
  • Converts frustration with chains into transfers
  • Strong performance-ad hooks per city
Scope of work

Four workstreams. One connected system.

Each one works alone. Together, the brand feeds the website, the website feeds search, and search feeds the ads. Tap any workstream to expand it.

01

Brand Identity & Naming

One name, one logo, one kit, across all three cities

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Discovery with you and your teams, then a rigorous naming process (three routes → shortlist → screening for trademark and domain availability) and a full identity build. Includes a transition plan for the Medicine Shoppe exit so no customer gets lost in the rename.

Naming: 3 strategic routes, shortlist, screening
Logo system + location lockups (FRE / SJ / MCT)
Full brand kit: palette, type, voice & tone
Signage, bag, counter & vehicle applications
Clinic sub-brand treatment, handled with care
Franchise-exit transition & rollout playbook
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Website Design & Build

One flagship site, three powerful location hubs

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A fast, modern site built for one job: turning searches into transfers. Each city gets a full location hub that behaves like its own front door (local hours, team, parking, directions) while sharing one domain's authority. (Why one site beats three? See the next section.)

Design + build, mobile-first, blazing fast
Three full location hubs with local content
Prescription transfer flow: under two minutes
Clinic section: informative, stigma-free
Community page: the giving & 12 Neighbours story, told with dignity
All copywriting + photography direction
No plugins, no vendor lock-in, yours outright
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SEO / AEO / GEO Foundation

Found by Google, cited by AI, chosen by locals

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Search changed. People now ask Google, but also ChatGPT, Siri, and AI Overviews. We structure the site and your business listings so all of them answer with your name, in all three cities. AEO (answer engines) and GEO (generative engines) are baked into the build, not bolted on.

Technical SEO + full schema / structured data
Google Business Profile overhaul × 3 locations
Local citation & NAP cleanup across directories
AEO/GEO content architecture (Q&A-ready pages)
Review engine: QR prompts + response system
Baseline report so we can prove movement
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Ads Management

Meta (Facebook/Instagram) across three cities, deliberately

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Once the brand and site are live, paid media stops advertising three strangers and starts compounding one name. We run Meta (Facebook/Instagram) only, and that's deliberate: Google restricts pharmacy advertising to certified healthcare advertisers, so paid search isn't on the menu. The high-intent "pharmacy near me" searches get won organically by workstream 03 instead, where no certification gatekeeps you. Monthly reporting in plain English, not dashboards you need a decoder ring for.

Meta (Facebook/Instagram) campaigns + creative
Feed, Stories & Reels formats per city
Geo-targeted to each location's radius
Continuous optimization, honest reporting
Ad spend billed at cost, no markup
Scale up, pause, or stop anytime
The website question

One site or three? You asked. We did the math.

Toggle both options. This is the single biggest discoverability decision in the project, so it deserves to be shown, not asserted.

● What you gain

  • Every review, link, and visit in any city strengthens one domain, so authority compounds instead of splitting three ways
  • Each city still gets a full local hub that ranks for "pharmacy + [city]" searches
  • AI engines (AEO/GEO) strongly favour one authoritative source over three thin ones
  • One site to maintain, secure, and update: a third of the cost, forever
  • The unified brand story lives in one place, told once, told well

● What you trade

  • Location pages must be genuinely local; generic templates would waste the advantage (we write them properly)
  • One shared domain means the name has to work across all three cities, which the naming process solves anyway

● What you gain

  • Exact-match local domains (a minor, shrinking ranking signal)
  • Each manager fully "owns" their site

● What you trade

  • Domain authority splits three ways; each site fights alone against chains with massive sites
  • Three sites to build, host, secure, and update: roughly 2.5× the build cost and 3× the maintenance, indefinitely
  • AI answer engines see three small businesses instead of one established group
  • The unification story dies: you rebrand into one identity, then scatter it across three URLs
Our recommendation

One flagship site with three deep location hubs. It's cheaper to build, far cheaper to run, ranks harder in every city, and it's the only architecture that matches the entire point of this project: one name, three cities.

How it unfolds

Nine weeks, no mystery.

Phases overlap deliberately: while you're reviewing identity concepts, we're already architecting the site. You'll never wonder what's happening; there's a check-in every week.

1

Discovery & Naming

Sessions with you and the teams at all three locations. Competitive scan per city. Naming routes developed, screened for trademark and domain availability, and narrowed to a shortlist you'll actually be excited about.

Weeks 1–2
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Identity Design

Logo system, palette, type, voice. Applied to the things your customers actually touch (bags, signage, counter cards, the clinic), not just a PDF that lives in a drawer. Includes the Medicine Shoppe transition playbook.

Weeks 2–4
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Website Design & Build

The flagship site takes shape: architecture, copy, design, build. Three location hubs written like locals wrote them. Transfer flow tested until it's genuinely two minutes. You review a live staging link, not screenshots.

Weeks 4–7
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Visibility Foundation & Launch

Schema, Google Business Profiles × 3, citations, review engine. Site launches with SEO/AEO/GEO built in from day one. Baseline measurement locked so improvement is provable, not vibes.

Weeks 6–8
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Ads On

With the brand unified and the site converting, Meta campaigns launch per city into a system built to receive them. Search demand is already covered organically, where Google's pharmacy ad restrictions can't touch you. This is where the flywheel starts spinning.

Week 9 →
The point of all this

Marketing: handled.

You run three pharmacies and a clinic. You should not also be running a marketing department. When this engagement is live, "who does your marketing?" gets a one-word answer, and neither of you loses a single evening to it.

The brand

Name, logo, kit, rollout across all three cities. Handled.

The website

Built, hosted, secured, updated. Handled.

Search & AI answers

Google, Maps, ChatGPT, Siri: all pointed at you. Handled.

The ads

Set up, optimized, reported in plain English. Handled.

Content & socials

Monthly content, Google Business posts, review responses. Handled.

Print & in-store

Bag stuffers, signage, review cards, designed by us, printed at cost through our print partner. Handled.

The reporting

One monthly report that a busy pharmacist can read in five minutes. Handled.

The 9pm worries

"Is the site down?" "Did anyone answer that review?" Ours now. Handled.

Your job shrinks to two things: approve the good stuff, and watch the counters get busier. Everything else rings Matt's cell, not yours.

Investment

Clear numbers. No decoder ring.

Deliberately light on the upfront, weighted toward the monthly, so cash flow stays friendly and we stay accountable every single month. All figures CAD.

The numbers are ready when you are.
Read the thinking first, then tap the lock.

01

Brand Identity & Naming

Naming (3 routes → 1 name), logo system, full brand kit, signage & application design, clinic treatment, franchise-exit transition playbook. Covers all three locations.

$3,900one-time
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Website Design & Build

One flagship site, three deep location hubs, prescription transfer flow, clinic section, community page, all copywriting, photography direction. Fully yours, no lock-in.

$7,500one-time
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SEO / AEO / GEO Foundation

Technical SEO, schema, Google Business Profile overhaul × 3, citation cleanup, AEO/GEO content architecture, review engine, baseline reporting, delivered inside the first 90 days of the monthly plan below.

$0upfront · built into monthly

Both builds, together: brand → site

Committed together so the work compounds instead of queueing. 50% to begin, 50% at completion. Nothing heavy up front.

$11,400
$10,500
You keep $900

The monthly engine, plus one add-on

Search, Answers & Content

$1,500/mo

The full SEO/AEO/GEO foundation delivered in the first 90 days, then ongoing: monthly content, AI-citation & ranking monitoring, Google Business posts × 3 cities, review responses. Six-month minimum, then month-to-month.

Ads Management

$1,750/mo + ad spend

Meta (Facebook/Instagram) across all three cities: setup, creative, continuous optimization, plain-English monthly reporting. Google restricts pharmacy ads to certified advertisers, so search demand is won organically instead. Ad spend billed at cost; we don't mark up media. Month-to-month after the first three.

Hosting & Care

$190/mo

Fast global hosting, SSL, backups, uptime monitoring, and small content updates handled within two business days.

Launch Print Kit · add-on

$2,500one-time + print at cost

Rebrand signage × 3 locations, prescription bag stuffers, review QR counter cards, downtown employer mini-flyers. We design and coordinate; printing runs through our print partner and is billed at cost, no markup.

The fine print, minus the fine: prices are fixed for the scope described: no surprise invoices. Anything genuinely new gets quoted before we touch it. Monthly plans can pause or stop at their commitment boundaries; everything we make is yours regardless: files, fonts, accounts, domain. Valid for 30 days from delivery of this proposal.

Why Brand Butter

Independent, like you.

We're a New Brunswick studio that builds brands and digital systems for businesses that outgrow their first identity. No account managers between you and the people doing the work. You'll have Matt's cell number.

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One more thing, plainly: you chose to talk to us because something felt off elsewhere. We'd rather earn the relationship than assume it, which is why this proposal shows its work, prices in the open, and doesn't require a signature ceremony. One click and we start.

Ready when you are, Dan & Hailey.

One click sends us your approval and we'll come back within one business day with the kickoff plan and Phase 1 dates. From that moment on, marketing is our problem, in the best possible way. Questions first? Just reply to the email this link arrived in.

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