Studio · Minneapolis
About
Marketing Lions is a studio in Minneapolis. We run marketing systems and fix the digital problems sitting next to them. Every client gets the whole studio — same person across every channel.
What we believe.
Principle 01
The work compounds. The pitch does not.
Every hour spent making something better is an hour the client keeps forever. Every hour spent in a deck is gone the moment the meeting ends.
Principle 02
You can't out-market a bad position.
Before we run a single ad, we make sure the company knows who the next customer is and where they are at the moment they decide.
Principle 03
Specific ads come from specific knowledge.
Any good advertiser has to know what they're selling. We dig in — your customer's real objections, your pricing logic, the language your team uses on the phone. The deeper the study, the sharper the ad.
Principle 04
AI is a screwdriver, not a strategy.
Handling inbound calls, scoring leads, automating follow-ups, and the smaller fixes that move a number quietly. We don't sell it as a service category. We deploy it where it works.
Principle 05
Slower at the top of the funnel. Compounds at the bottom.
We don't chase volume. We run every engagement like we own the business. No upsells you don't need, no agency theater. The clients tend to stay because nothing's being sold to them after the work starts.
How we work
Twelve years.
Same person across every channel.
Over a decade running ads, SEO, brand, builds, and automation. Healthcare, multifamily, retail, B2B, e-commerce, professional services. Different industries, same person. The playbook adapts; the email address doesn’t change.
A 30-minute call. Two questions.
What's the problem, and who's the customer. If we can't answer those, no amount of advertising will. A call, an email thread, a few texts — whichever fits your week.
Direct line. No layers.
The person you talk to owns the work. No account managers. No junior execs relaying messages. No agency theater between you and the work.
Site down at 3am? Call 3 times. We pick up every time.
Texts can wait until morning. Three calls in a row break through Do Not Disturb — that's the line for emergencies. The work doesn't care what time it is. Neither do we. We've fixed broken checkouts on Saturday nights and rebuilt landing pages before a Monday launch.
44.978° N · 93.265° W
Minneapolis.
The studio is in Minneapolis. The work is across the US.
Remote by default. When strategy needs us in the same room, we get in the CAR or on a plane.
Studio HQ · 15 hot zones
Hover any city. We can be there in 6m to 2h 8m.
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Distance from HQ
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Flight · Mach 0.935
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Journal.
Tell me what you need.
david@marketing-lions.comWe don’t pitch. We work.