Why Choose O8?
Get Measurable Growth
On-Demand
A digital agency supporting marketing and sales teams with transparency, agility, and deep expertise
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Capabilities and Expertise for Measurable Growth
Run by industry experts, we provide services to help you grow.
The Foundations
Traffic + Monetization
Growth + Optimization
Specialized Technology Partners and Expertise
We have specialized expertise and relationships with a wide variety of technology partners, offering you insider insight and capabilities.
Unique Offerings
Fuel Growth With an On-Demand Fractional Team
We help you close gaps in strategy or execution, filling in critical roles at a fraction of the cost of FTEs.
Marketing
- CMO
- Marketing Strategist
- Marketing Data Architect
- CRM + Automation Expert
- ABM Specialist
- SEO Specialist
- Paid Advertising Specialist
- Content Strategist
- Graphic Designer
Sales
- Chief Sales Officer (CSO)
- Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
- VP of Sales
- Sales Coach
- Sales Development Reps (SDRs)
- Business Development Reps (BDRs)
- Appointment Setters
- LinkedIn: Organic Content + Outbound
- Thought Leadership for Social Selling
Technology
- Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
- Technical PM
- Lead Technical Architect
- User Experience Designer
- Web Designer
- Front-end Developer
- Back-end Developer
- Data and Analytics Expert
- CRM Integration Specialist
Fractional marketing teams are 2x to 5x less costly than hiring full-time employees for the same skillsets.
Fractional Growth Team | 
Full-Time Hires (FTE) | |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing Team Cost | $68k-$102k per year 2 to 4 experts with varying skill sets | $250k-$500k per year 2 to 4 Full Time Employees |
| Marketing + Tech Team Cost | $102k-$136k per year 4 to 8 experts with varying skill sets | $500k-$1M per year 4 to 8 Full Time Employees |
| Benefit Analysis | + Low Overhead: No benefits, payroll taxes, PTO, employee infrastructure, office, etc. + Fast ramp-up: Able and accustomed to quickly adapting to new environments. + Flexibility: Month-to-Month Contract. Pause or unpause. Scale up or down on hours. + Autonomous: Project and team member management done for you. + Powerful Team: Fast execution, redundancy, shared brain power, strategic thinking, and new ideas. + Reliable: Track record of success and industry expertise. Low turnover. Strong culture. | - Costly Overhead: You pay for benefits, payroll taxes, PTO, employee infrastructure, office, etc. - Slower ramp-up: Interviews, onboarding, and less accustomed to quickly getting up-to-speed. - Less Flexibility: If you're not satisfied with your new hire it's more difficult to change course. - Not autonomous: You have to manage projects and team members. - Less Powerful Team: Unless you have a very large enterprise-level marketing team, you likely have gaps in expertise and even team dynamics. - Less reliable: Underperformance, employee churn, lack of strategic thinking, team member burnout. |
| Proven ROI | Yes | Maybe |
| Onboarding Time | Days | Months |
You're doing great, but your marketing, sales, and other revenue-driving teams can't be all things to all people. As a premier Minneapolis marketing firm, we work as an extension of your existing team, serving as a strategic powerhouse so you can drive growth and do better marketing and sales.
We help you scale fast, filling in talent gaps with industry experts on a fractional basis while eliminating the risk of recruiting, reducing the cost of hiring new FTEs, and supercharging your capacity so your team can produce greater results.
Find out more about how a Fractional Team can help you achieve your business goals.
Your knowledge, skill, and flexibility are amazing. You are truly an extension of our marketing team, allowing us to do so much more than we could on our own. We love working with you and look forward to doing so for years to come.
Core Statistics
Client Retention
Your account manager provides personalized 1-to-1 service, ensuring everything we do is aligned with your objectives and success.
Projects Delivered
You'll enjoy completely transparent project management so you always know what's going on at any given point in time.
Years in Business
Our 12+ years in business has helped us develop the secret to filling missing pieces in your digital marketing puzzle.
Core Employees
We are right-sized, meaning you will get high-touch service and won't just be a number. Still, we have a wide network of talent to deliver well beyond our size.
Our Eight Promises to You
- We always have your back, as an extension of your team.
- You have complete control of your data, website, and assets. No contract lock-in.
- Knowledge transfer to you, rather than keeping you dependent on us.
- Transparency. We don't hide anything and let you know when we see a better approach.
- Always prioritizing for highest business impact with agile, right-sized, adaptable solutions.
- Data-driven, measurable results over opinions and vanity metrics.
- Proactive, with fresh ideas rather than cookie cutter solutions.
- We always aim to do what's right with your best interests in mind.
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3. Custom Insights
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