Marketing consultant in Cedar Falls, Iowa I help businesses connect with their customers online.
I'm Aaron Jarnagin, a marketing consultant and agency owner in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Ex-nonprofit marketing director and agency pro, now working with businesses and creators to grow. Honest strategy, real results, and a dash of Diet Coke in the whisky.
Co-founded with my brother: a marketing agency for small businesses that need professional marketing without an in-house team. Consulting, content, websites, and paid media across Meta, Google, and streaming TV (OTT).
Dozensof clients since launch$100Ksin new revenue closed200K+views and 25% follower growth for a chiropractic client in 2 months2xAmazon listing sales in one month for a client
My wife and I own and lease out real estate and rent out a camper. I also run Aaron Goes Outdoors, a personal brand where I experiment with content, SEO, and web ideas before bringing them to clients.
2021 – Now
Brand Strategist
Pixel Labs Marketing Agency
Lead strategy for a creative team of video producers, designers, and an intern, with clients ranging from insurance providers to financial institutions. Highlights include a multilingual Black Hawk County Health Department awareness campaign and a recruitment campaign for county jobs.
7 languagesin one county health campaign, geotargeted by community
2020 – 2021
Director of Marketing
Grow Cedar Valley
Ran a six-figure budget across social, email, and print, presented funding requests and progress to city councils and investors, and coordinated a talent-attraction campaign in Denver, Colorado.
+7%regional brand recognition400+attendees at an equity & inclusion conference I helped leadAirportWaterloo Regional Airport rebrand committee
Representing Grow Cedar Valley
2018 – 2020
Digital Marketing Specialist
Grow Cedar Valley · Live the Valley
Grew Live the Valley, the Cedar Valley's talent-attraction brand: launched the first paid advertising in its history, added relocation tools like a cost-of-living calculator, and published an award-winning magazine.
2.4M+reached online100K+visitors to livethevalley.com1,100talent leads for our community, about half from outside the regionAward2018 Iowa Publication of the Year
2018 Iowa Publication of the Year
2017 – 2018
Marketing & Communications Intern
Iowa Waste Reduction Center · University of Northern Iowa
Where my career started: social content with custom graphics and video, articles and blog posts, and the monthly newsletter.
+272%Facebook page views, year over year66%of blog traffic came from my articles
Community
Executive Committee & Council Member
Leader Valley
Helping guide a Cedar Valley nonprofit that provides leadership education to 1,400+ educators and 11,400+ students. Council member since 2020, executive committee since 2023.
Education
BBA, Marketing: Advertising & Digital Media
University of Northern Iowa
Grow Cedar Valley · Video
The Iowan Project
From the talent-attraction campaign I coordinated in Denver, Colorado as Grow Cedar Valley's Director of Marketing, where the job was making people picture a life in the Cedar Valley.
