Marketing Agency Focused on Building Brands & Impacting Lives
As strategic thinkers and creators of smart marketing solutions, AMPERAGE is a marketing agency solving complex marketing problems to help build stronger, more profitable brands for our clients. Our purpose is centered around doing meaningful work for clients who positively impact people’s lives in significant ways. It’s why we specialize in healthcare marketing along with higher education, nonprofit, fundraising, financial and manufacturing marketing. As a comprehensive-service marketing agency, we offer both traditional and digital marketing services allowing us to build integrated campaigns to strengthen brands and motivate audiences to act. It’s how we move the needle for our clients. And it makes us the top advertising and fundraising marketing agency in the Midwest and beyond. We are AMPers and we are energized to do meaningful work for you.
Ampers at Work
Responsive Marketing
Smart Creative
Our Culture
What is An AMPERAGE?
Healthcare
WE DIAGNOSE, TREAT AND PRESCRIBE, TOO
You’re three steps from a healthy marketing presence
LEARN MORE_
Nonprofit
NONPROFITS DO NEED MARKETING
Three key factors to marketing mission-driven organizations
LEARN MORE_
Lines of Code Per Year
Raised for Nonprofits
Videos per year
Clients
Jobs per year
NOTES
AMPERAGE Marketing & Fundraising is a full-service marketing agency with a team of 40 sharp, savvy marketing professionals with diverse backgrounds, a collectively impressive skill set and a fondness for sticky notes. As a top ad agency serving clients across the country from our offices in Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids, IA, Minneapolis, MN, and Wausau, WI we focus on building strategic marketing plans to help clients succeed.
President & CEO
Bryan Earnest
Vice President of Growth
Rachael Holland, MBA
Vice President of Strategy
Erin Earnest
Vice President of Operations
Brian Foelske
Vice President of Content
Annette Schulte
Senior Videographer
Daniel Hampe
Senior Art Director
Shad Opper
Traffic Manager
Kaitlyn Trent
Marketing & Research Strategist
Robin Frost
Account Manager
Nick Harvey
Bookkeeper/Office Coordinator
Terry Hall
Video Editor
Olivia Moretz
Media Specialist
Vanessa Kolb
Media Strategist
Toni Harding
Video Producer
Monte Bowden
Creative Director
Sarah Pauls
Graphic Designer
Hailey Hershey
Account Manager
Jenna Flugum
Project Coordinator
Daisy Boehmer
Fundraising Adviser
Amy Guardado, MBA
Art Director
Sammy Cantero
Video Producer
Bob Waters
Accounting Specialist
Monica Pierce
Fundraising Adviser
Melissa Pence, CFRE
People & Culture Manager
Mickey Waschkat
Video Editor
Michael Smith
Senior Project Manager
Kris Wieland
Interactive Manager
Kaitlyn Wolf
Senior Writer
Graham Van Dixhorn
SEO Marketing Manager
Chris Liedtke
Media Director
Denise Hesser
Senior Art Director - Video & Motion Design
Tiffini Kieler
Senior Account Manager
Stephanie Bresnahan
Digital Media Specialist
Kim Johnson
Director of Public Relations
Sarah Larson
AMPERAGE’s expertise and dedication have been instrumental in our success. From the moment we partnered with them, they understood our challenges and provided innovative, effective solutions. We’re not just a number; we are a valued client. Their tailored approach and deep industry knowledge have made all the difference. Our increased visibility has led to higher enrollment rates, proving that AMPERAGE is a true strategic partner.
“The team at AMPERAGE Marketing & Fundraising has helped our business execute several product launches with exceptional PR support, print and digital marketing strategies. We have been impressed with the upfront research, creative executions and collaboration throughout each project. They are always friendly, responsive, and a true partner to our marketing team.”
“As a multi-generational family business portfolio with a variety of individual company brands, we were in search of a firm that could spearhead the efforts to uncover the existing portfolio brand and effectively work through the various nuances in our complex environment. AMPERAGE masterfully engaged a large volume of stakeholders for input through a variety of mediums and presented informative data points, opportunities for collaborative thought, expertise suggestions, and a direction forward to launch a new brand. We have been exceptionally satisfied with the service AMPERAGE provided over the course of our project.”
“Working with AMPERAGE on our capital campaign was a collaborative, team process. We believe that AMPERAGE was able to increase our successful campaign with their shared expertise and past experience through the planning, implementation and completion of our project.”
“AMPERAGE eased the project along with their professional counsel and expertise. A capital campaign takes 100 percent dedicated time and effort and AMPERAGE helped us direct a campaign that was strong and effective. They gave us amazing results that will benefit our community for many years to come.”
“GreenState has been partnering with AMPERAGE for over five years. They help implement our statewide online and offline media campaigns. As trends change and opportunities present themselves, AMPERAGE serves as a valued strategic partner in recognizing and assessing new variables, in turn, providing guidance to optimize our investment.”
I would recommend AMPERAGE for any marketing project, large or small. AMPERAGE has certainly helped us move the needle and I truly believe they will do the same for your organization.
“We’ve seen steady month-to-month growth in key in-store metrics. It is evident that the combination of our online and offline campaign are working together to Move the Needle.”
“Our organization was going through a leadership transition and determined that we needed to refocus and rebrand. AMPERAGE partnered with us and helped us assess our status and capabilities to move forward. Our new name and message has been positively received and welcomed both within our organization and throughout the community. We could not have executed this organizational change alone.”
“We have worked with AMPERAGE for many years on major service-line initiatives that include research, marketing plan development, creative execution and media placement. From planning to implementation, AMPERAGE collaborates seamlessly with both our internal marketing team and Memorial Healthcare System’s strategic partners. The AMPERAGE team has a unique understanding of our market, our brand and our goals.”
NEWS
“We chose AMPERAGE for their comprehensive proposal, which delivered results for our COVID booster vaccination effort. Their solution utilized diverse advertising channels in four languages, leading to a successful vaccination campaign. AMPERAGE’s exceptional performance not only met our deadlines but also had the added benefit of converting vaccinated individuals into long-term patients.”
-Joe Lock, President and CEO, Eastern Iowa Health Center