Studio  ·  Minneapolis

About

Marketing Lions is a digital marketing agency 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

  • 12+Years in
  • Every digitalchannel
  • Industries fromhealthcare to e-com

First contact

A text or an email. Two questions.

What’s the problem, and who’s the customer. If we can’t answer those, no amount of advertising will.

Ownership

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.

On-call

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

HQHot zone
Rochester, MNBemidji, MNMilwaukee, WICleveland, OHPittsburgh, PASpringboro, OHManhattan, NYFarmington, CTCharlotte, NCTallahassee, FLMiami, FLHouston, TXDenver, COLas Vegas, NVSan Diego, CAMinneapolisStudio HQ

Hover any city. We can be there in 6m to 2h 8m.

Hot zone

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Distance from HQ

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Flight · Mach 0.935

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Marketing Lions HQ in Minneapolis, with hot zones in Rochester MN, Bemidji MN, Springboro OH, and Farmington CT.

We don’t pitch. We work.

Tell us.

Rough notes are fine. You’ll hear back the same day.