About Traffel Media

An independent creative shop in Boston, working alongside the people behind every brand.

The People

Who's Behind Traffel

Small on purpose. You work directly with the people doing the work — no junior handoffs, no account manager in the middle.

Edward Bertrand

Founder & Creative Director

Traffel Media is a Boston creative studio for small businesses that want creative work done with care. We build websites, brand identities, content, and paid campaigns — the pieces that help a business stand out without losing what makes it itself. No account layers, no junior handoffs, no decks nobody reads. Built on the belief that small business owners deserve to be treated like the people who built their businesses, not the people we’re selling to.

The people behind a business deserve the same care they pour into the work.

Traffel Media is an independent creative agency based in Boston, working with small businesses across the country. We build websites, brand identities, content, and paid campaigns for painters, bookkeepers, coffee roasters, independent creators, and the owners running their own thing — the people who are too often overlooked by larger agencies.

The agency began with a frustration Edward kept running into. Small businesses were being handed corporate-shaped retainers and sixty-page strategy decks for problems that simply needed someone to sit down, listen carefully, and do honest work. Good creative was being priced and packaged for companies ten times their size, while the businesses that needed it most were left to settle for templates. He started Traffel Media to close that gap — to give a five-person painting crew or a two-location bookkeeping firm the same standard of craft, attention, and clarity that the larger accounts take for granted.

That belief shapes how every engagement runs. There are no account managers standing between you and the people doing the work, no junior handoffs, and no jargon dressed up as strategy. Each project — the design, the copy, the build, every small detail — moves through the team from first conversation to final delivery. We stay close to the work, answer messages, hold our deadlines, and treat each business with the same care its owner brings to it every day.

We are deliberately small, and we plan to stay close to the businesses we work with as we grow. The goal is a straightforward one: work we are genuinely proud to put our name beside, and clients who feel properly looked after — the kind who tell a friend about us.

What Drives Us

Our Values

Craft First

The work has to be something we'd be proud to put our name on. Anything less doesn't go out the door.

Honest Numbers

We measure what matters and tell you the truth — even when it’s not the answer you wanted.

We Show Up

Your business matters to you, so it matters to us. We answer messages, hit deadlines, and treat your project like it’s our own.