Porous Pave: The Local Legend You Drive Past Every Day
From golf courses to playgrounds, walkways to downtown tree surrounds, odds are we have all come across Porous Pave.
Kevin Kamis
Project Manager
You know how every town has those local legend brands? The ones that are low-key everywhere around town. That's Porous Pave. Until 2022, they'd been flying under the radar, building a sustainable company that has already begun to pass from one generation to the next.
So What Is Porous Pave?
If you're downtown, look out your window. Do you see any trees on the sidewalk? What's at the base of them? If it's a rubberized looking, asphalt looking material that's held neatly in place, that's Porous Pave. It's a permeable pavement product that the Ouwinga family has perfected over the years. The applications have turned out to be endless. We're not kidding.
From coast to coast, the Porous Pave team has installed their product in more places than I could list in this article:
Stadiums
Golf courses
Downtowns
Parks
Schools
You get the point. There are plenty of names and places I wish I could name drop here but just can't. Their product is that good.
How Launch Kit Connected With Porous Pave
Launch Kit first connected with Porous Pave in 2022. Connor Ouwinga came across my content on TikTok. A few DMs back and forth and a website was in motion.
While the Porous Pave team had no shortage of cool projects, high quality photo and video content was minimal (like many businesses we talk to). So we started with a simple photoshoot of the team installing their product at Grand Valley State University's golf course, The Meadows.
This photo material served as an initial base of content to be used on their website. We quickly followed that up with another photo and video shoot at ___ in ___, Michigan. This time, adding video into the mix opened up what was to come.
What's Next After the Website
With a quality website in place, it posed the natural question of "what's next?"
The answer was consistent content across three channels:
Photo and video content
Organic social media
Paid ads on Meta and Google
Launch Kit teamed up with Porous Pave as a marketing client, which put the right people in the right seats to manage content, social media, and ads every single month, backed by robust reporting.
The Results
Years have gone by since that time, and we've accomplished quite a bit. We've:
Traveled across the state documenting their work
Generated millions of views online
Built an audience
Driven traffic to their website
This has ultimately led to consistent business growth year over year.
A Textbook Partnership
We've watched Porous Pave:
Build a new warehouse
Hire new team members
Welcome in the next generation of Ouwingas
This partnership has been a textbook example of the ideal work we do here at Launch Kit. We partner with great people who are doing great work, and our job is to share their story.
See What's New
To see what's new these days at Porous Pave, check them out on social. We're posting content weekly, taking you behind the scenes and having no shortage of fun along the way.
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Porous Pave: The Local Legend You Drive Past Every Day