You know it needs to happen. It is also the thing that slides every week, because a customer needed something or a job ran long. So the site is three years old and nobody has looked at what any of it made.
There is a marketing manager, and there is a lot of marketing. They are not behind, they are outnumbered, and they get asked for numbers they cannot produce alone.
Marketing in Minneapolis
Minneapolis is the heart of the Twin Cities economy, and it does not behave like one market. The North Loop, Uptown, Northeast arts district, and the downtown core each have their own search behavior, competition, and customer.
We run hyper-local campaigns tuned to the neighborhoods a business actually serves, so a North Loop studio and a Northeast contractor are not chasing the same generic "Minneapolis" terms.
Minneapolis is the core of the market and the most competitive place in it. A business here is often fighting national franchises and venture-backed startups with big budgets for the same searches, and the city's distinct neighborhoods, from Northeast to Uptown to the North Loop, each behave like their own small market.
That means a single citywide campaign usually underperforms. The searches, the competitors, and the customer in Northeast are not the same as in Uptown, and treating them as one Minneapolis audience leaves easy wins behind.
We build neighborhood-aware local search, reviews, and paid coverage, win the high-intent terms that actually convert, and tie every lead back to revenue so a Minneapolis budget goes to what books instead of disappearing into a big, noisy market.
The proof is local. We run the full stack for Twin Cities businesses like Bob Boldt HVAC in Eagan and Foundations Natural Health in Excelsior, and the write-ups are public: what we ran, what changed, and how it was measured.
Why Snack Club for Minneapolis
GA4, Meta CAPI, server-side events, and call tracking wired up before a single dollar gets spent. You see what the ad earned, not what it touched.
No SDR funnel. No account-strategist relay. The same person sees your dashboard at 6am and writes you back when you ping the chat.
Review automation, reporting summaries, ad creative variants, content drafting. We use AI so we can spend more time on the things that bring in customers.
Simple services agreement, no 12-month lock-in. If we are not earning the retainer, leave with 30 days' notice. We'd rather earn it every month than hold you to a year.
The Work
Lotus United designs and builds retail environments for some of the best brands in the world. When we started, their site pulled 16 organic clicks in a month. We run their SEO, paid search, and conversion testing, and every deal it produces gets tracked in their own CRM. In September, a lead that first came in through Google Ads closed as the biggest deal in the company's history.
Say the right thing, to the right audience.
First, because everything after it repeats whatever you decide here. We start with who actually buys from you and what they are trying to fix, then build the positioning, messaging, and voice on top of it. Most businesses already have a brand. They just cannot say it in a sentence their customer would use.
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Fix what converts.
Second, because it is where everything after this points. Marketing sites, Shopify stores, and landing pages built to load fast and turn visitors into leads.
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Buy the demand.
Google Ads, Paid Social, YouTube, and retargeting, run as one program. The fastest lever you have and the one you control.
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Earn the demand.
Local and technical SEO, AI search, and content. Slow and compounding, and it pulls down what you pay for every other lead.
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Answer every lead.
A lead that waits until Monday is usually gone. Chat catches them on the site, AI voice answers the phone when nobody can, and the follow-up runs itself until they reply. This is where most businesses lose the leads they paid for.
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Keep the customers.
Flows, campaigns, and reviews. The cheapest revenue in the building, and the part most businesses never switch on.
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Measure it in dollars.
Conversion work, analytics, and attribution. The step that makes the other six get better instead of just repeating, because you can finally see which work produced which revenue.
See step seven →Those seven steps are what we run. This is the order it happens in once you're a client. Timelines flex based on where you're starting.
A read of every channel you run, what each one made, and what nobody is tracking, in the first ten business days. Included when you sign, so we plan on your numbers rather than a guess.
Included
A plan tailored to where you're starting. Budgets per channel, outcomes named at 30, 60, 90 days.
Tracking, dashboards, landing pages, and creative installed and QA'd before launch day.
Campaigns ship with conversion attribution verified end to end.
Weekly account work, monthly strategy calls, live dashboards always on.
Always onWe’ve had a great experience working with Snack Club Marketing. As a boutique design and build agency, this was our first time investing in Google Ads, and they made the process smooth and successful.
It’s been genuinely refreshing to work directly with another business owner instead of navigating a large agency structure. There’s a level of practical understanding, communication, and flexibility that comes from someone who simply gets the realities of running and growing a business firsthand.
Not ready for a retainer?
The Marketing Playbook is a $2,500 audit of what's working behind the scenes and what people actually see: your tracking, ads, and search, plus your brand, social, and content. Then a 90-day roadmap ranked by what each fix is worth. Yours to keep, with us or without us.
Sign a retainer within 30 days and we waive the build fee on your first service.
See what's in itYes. We are 8 minutes from Minneapolis, based in St Louis Park on MN-7. Most Minneapolis engagements happen on Zoom and in your Live Report dashboard. We are happy to meet in person if it helps the work.
Marketing budget should be sized to ad spend, scope, and which tools you bundle in. We quote after a strategy call so the number actually maps to your business in the Downtown + Core, not a one-size template.
Google Ads and Local Services Ads can produce booked leads inside 30 days. Local SEO and review velocity compound over 3 to 6 months. A strategy call will tell you which lever will move first for your specific market.
No. Every engagement is month-to-month with 30 days notice. If we are not earning the retainer, you can leave. We'd rather earn it every month than hold you to a year.
All five in-house tools (Snack Club Chat, Review Automation, Live Reports, Voice Answering, and Unified Inbox) come with every retainer. Custom builds are quoted per project.
Where we're located
Snack Club's office is in St Louis Park, on MN-7. We work with Minneapolis businesses in person, on Zoom, or over coffee at one of the cafes on the route over.
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