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Connect SWFL

Fort Myers firm offering branding, web design and managed IT services to Southwest Florida businesses

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About Connect SWFL

Connect SWFL began in a home office in 2011 and now operates from Fort Myers as a combined creative and technical firm. Two founders, a married couple, brought branding experience of more than twenty years and information technology work going back to 1997 into one business for Southwest Florida companies.

Websites and brand identity

Web design is the creative core. The team builds user-friendly business websites and refreshes existing ones, and it creates logos, updated brand looks and advertising collateral to go with them. The firm describes itself as designers, innovators and IT specialists working together to connect businesses with their clients in a meaningful way.

Managed IT, servers and backups

The technical side is managed IT. The firm monitors client systems, installs routine updates, sets up servers, migrates data to new ones and handles data backup. It says the aim is to keep a company's computers running smoothly at all times, so owners are not left to look after their own equipment.

Business phones

Office phone systems are also on the list, so a small company can get its website, its branding, its network and its phone lines from the same place.

The Connect 360 approach

The firm packages these services as the Connect 360 approach, meant as a one-stop shop. The idea is that a brand identity, the website that shows it and the technology that runs the business behind it are planned together. The site says the firm looks for long-term partnerships, tries to understand each client's needs and builds personalized strategies rather than selling a standard bundle.

Local coverage

Clients are local businesses around Fort Myers, and the firm's service area stretches to Naples, Sanibel, Captiva, Estero, Cape Coral, Bonita and the Beach. The team has grown beyond the founders by bringing in specialists in branding, web design and IT, which the firm presents as the way it keeps its advice current.

Where the firm started

The founders began with projects that mixed creative branding and technical IT help for local companies, working from home. That history is the reason the firm gives for offering design and IT together instead of treating them as separate trades.

TrustList summary

Connect SWFL combines creative and technical services for businesses in Southwest Florida. Stephanie See and Alex Santana, a married couple, founded it in 2011, bringing together her branding background and his IT work dating back to 1997. It began in a home office and now runs a wider team from Fort Myers.

What Connect SWFL does

Web design: building user-friendly business websites and refreshing existing ones.
Branding and graphic design: logos, brand refreshes and marketing and advertising material.
Managed IT services: monitoring client systems, applying routine updates and keeping computers running.
Server and data work: server installs, data migration and data backup.
Business phones: phone systems for office use.

Customers and markets

Its clients are local businesses in and around Fort Myers, including Naples, Cape Coral, Sanibel, Captiva, Estero and Bonita. Testimonials come from a design company, a commercial construction firm and an air conditioning and electrical contractor. The firm calls its combined offer the Connect 360 approach.

Key facts

Based in: Fort Myers, Florida
Founded: 2011
Founders: Stephanie See and Alex Santana

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Connect SWFL rankings

Connect SWFL is ranked on 2 TrustList rankings: #12 on 1 and #33 on 1.

Every ranking orders its listings by their reviews, how complete the profile is and the Trust Score. Connect SWFL has no reviews yet and 3 of the 10 profile details we look for. Where no listing on a page has been reviewed, the order follows the profiles alone.

Design agency · 2 rankings

#12of 52
Florida
It is one of 3 here listing construction and one of 7 here listing advertising.
Its profile: “Two founders, a married couple, brought branding experience of more than twenty years and information technology work going back to 1997 into one business for Southwest Florida companies.”
Of the 52 here, 14 also cover creative and 13 also cover branding; 3 also work in Miami and 2 also work in Naples, Florida.
Behind BexCode Services, ahead of Cornerstone Creative.
#33of 128
Advertising
It is one of 38 here listing creative.
Its profile: “The team builds user-friendly business websites and refreshes existing ones, and it creates logos, updated brand looks and advertising collateral to go with them.”
Of the top 69 here, 20 also cover eCommerce and 19 also cover business services; 3 also work in California and 3 also work in Texas.
Ahead of Boston Web Partners LLC.