Strategic Branding, Marketing and WordPress Design for small businesses and entrepreneurs

Wordpress Development

Custom built websites that showcase your business and are equipped with all the SEO tools you need to market your business.

Google Strategy

We work with small businesses and entrepreneurs to assist them in showing up where their customers are looking. Google Business, GA4 Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Merchant Centre, Search Console – if you don’t know where to start we can help.

Branding and Design

Creating a solid brand identity is the first step for most businesses. Logo design, brand bibles, digital and print asset design and easy to use templates are available.

Meet Amy Kitchen

Amy is a design and communications specialist that has worked extensively in both Toronto and London. Her areas of expertise are WordPress development, digital media strategy, branding and campaign designs. Making non-profits, startups and small businesses branding and marketing dreams come true is what she loves to do.

The Side Hustle was her side hustle since 2014, but it became the full-time gig in 2019. She’s been fortunate enough to work with a variety of clients including Fintraq, Living Kitchen Wellness, Ron Sexsmith, Grassland Grazers, Massey College, Moms at Work, and The Glenn Gould Foundation. She is also the co-founder of Better than Fine Inc, a production company and public engagement agency based in Toronto.

Digital Strategist, BFA MAFDA, and Growclass Certified

We Work with the best clients

Projects We’re Proud Of

Here are some examples of the sites we’ve made for clients. We’ve built sites built large sites with 100s of pages, single landing pages, accessible sites in both English and French, incorporated e-commerce, and large searchable databases. 

Massey College

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Blair Ann Studios

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Taylored Granola

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Ron Sexsmith

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Ready, Set, Go!

Is your business ready for it’s time in the limelight? Here are the easy steps to working with The Side Hustle.

01

Book a Discovery Call

We write a custom proposal for every project and retainer. No two businesses are the same, so book a call and let us know how we can help. 

02

Research and Design

After you’ve signed a contract, we’ll get you set up with some research templates and design options so we can start building your new site, branding assets or ad campaigns. Let us do the heavy lifting.

03

Learning and Launch

Before we launch a new site, set a campaign live or send something to print, we’ll send it over for review. You’ll also receive documentation, recorded calls for your records, and support after launch. You have control over all your accounts.

Meet the Team

An advantage to working with us is we’re a small team and only work with a few clients at a time. Victoria works behind the scenes to keep us organized, Michelle is our Project Manager, and Amy leads design and strategy. 

Love notes

We work with the best clients and they’ve said some really nice things about our work.

Le Man and Anthony

Lemons and Ants Studios

We’ve been working with The Side Hustle in multiple capacities for the last two years and they’ve never disappointed. They run our Google ads, redesigned our website and run our email campaigns.  They are always thorough and really take the time to ensure we understand everything going on with our Google ads.  With both our website design and now our email campaigns, they always strike the perfect balance of aesthetically pleasing yet practical layouts to get the results that we want. 


“We find ourselves always recommending them to other businesses as we love what they have done for us.  On top of that, we love them as people and are so grateful to have found them.”

Colleen Hixenbaugh

Ron Sexsmith, Manager

“OMG! Thats amazing! you have such a rad magic wand. Thanks so very much.”

Susan Cunningham

Artist, Butter Tart Baker

Amy made it possible to take my art to a new level. Her skills in digital communications and e-commerce are priceless. Amy was able transform my ideas into a beautiful website I can be proud of. Her website design compliments my art and my personality perfectly. Thank you Amy!