Gearbox | functional creative

About Us

Strategy at the wheel. Creative hitting the gas.

Please don’t try this at home. We’re professionally trained in functional creative.

American Advertising Federation of Central Minnesota Judge’s Choice Award winner three consecutive years.

We help brands
live their best lives.

We’re a creative marketing agency that helps brands live their most dynamic lives. Our functional creative approach ensures our big ideas will be backed by well-thought-out strategies. And our end-to-end services will help you take your marketing results to the next level.

Ready to check something big off your brand’s bucket list?

It all starts with a nugget of truth.

We’ll help you uncover that special something about your brand that’s authentic and meaningful to your audience. Then we’ll transform that truth into an experience that grabs attention, makes your target market lean in closer and, ultimately, makes your brand a part of their life.

It all starts with a nugget of truth.

We’ll help you uncover that special something about your brand that’s authentic and meaningful to your audience. Then we’ll transform that truth into an experience that grabs attention, makes your target market lean in closer and, ultimately, make your brand a part of their life.

How we do it

Discovery
Strategy
Create
Implement
Evaluate

Discovery

Our first step is to ask a lot of questions and do a lot of listening. We’ll discover who you are and who you really want to be; where you are and where you always dreamed of going.

Strategy

Based on our discovery information, we’ll transform your marketing objectives into a forward-thinking strategy. This will be the basis for all of our creative work and deliverables.

Create

This is where we transform our strategy and that nugget of truth about your brand into creative work that grabs attention and shifts perceptions.

Implement

Armed with functional creative, we can help you implement and manage any components of the project, including marketing automation.

Evaluate

After the project is complete, we’ll dive into the analytics to measure our success.

How we do it.

Discovery
Strategy
Create
Implement
Evaluate

Discovery

Our first step is to ask a lot of questions and do a lot of listening. We’ll discover who you are and who you really want to be; where you are and where you always dreamed of going.

Strategy

Based on our discovery information, we’ll transform your marketing objectives into a forward-thinking strategy. This will be the basis for all of our creative work and deliverables.

Create

This is where we transform our strategy and that nugget of truth about your brand into creative work that grabs attention and shifts perceptions.

Implement

Armed with functional creative, we can help you implement and manage any components of the project, including marketing automation.

Evaluate

After the project is complete, we’ll dive into the analytics to measure our success.

A sample of our clients.

BCI Construction
Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity
Gearbox-Arise-Cares
Zendesk
Full Circle Water
McDowall Company