Upward Engine is a digital marketing agency in Salt Lake City's south valley, working with small businesses out of Riverton. The team runs SEO, Google Ads, programmatic and social advertising, plus web design, hosting, and maintenance.
Clients sign no long-term contracts. Reporting spells out the specific deliverables in each program, and the stated goal is positive ROI within months.
AI search optimization is a newer focus, aimed at visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. A Google Premier Partner and Inc. 5000 honoree, the agency has worked with Academy Mortgage, Enso Rings and American United Federal Credit Union.
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Pairing website builds with in-house video production sets Crunchy Lemons apart from most shops in the Salt Lake Valley. Brand videos, graphic design and customer texting tools sit alongside search engine optimization and hosting.
The agency has worked with clients from local plumbers to nine-figure healthcare groups. Eduro Healthcare relies on the team for websites and search across more than 40 locations.
Review automation and reputation management round out the services offered by this Salt Lake City digital marketing agency. Its work has been picked up by outlets including USA Today and MarketWatch.
Founded in 1999, ThoughtLab is a brand and product studio headquartered in downtown Salt Lake City. It also keeps offices in New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco.
The studio calls its method category design. It defines a space the client can own. The brand system, website and product experience follow from there. Positioning, voice, visual identity, and mobile apps all fall inside that scope.
Past projects include a 3D and WebGL site for WanderJaunt and award-winning video work for Varex Imaging. A fit for companies at a growth moment that need strategy before execution.
Marvelous Media Solutions covers responsive web design, search engine optimization, audience targeting and review management from downtown Salt Lake City.
The team has served more than 600 businesses, including Ogden's Own Distillery, Flower Patch, and Brickwall CrossFit. Listing management, email campaigns and content strategy fill out the rest of the menu.
The shop draws on 12 years of marketing and brand management across the West Coast. It suits retail, fitness, and hospitality brands that want a single vendor.
Part of dentsu, Merkle brings global scale to its Salt Lake City office. The company has worked with brands for more than 30 years on customer experience, loyalty programs, data and analytics.
Its Merkury identity platform and LoyaltyPlus product sit behind campaigns for Under Armour, Volvo Trucks and Six Flags. Consulting, experience design and platform engineering are handled by specialist teams.
This is enterprise territory rather than small business work, but few local options match the martech depth.
Ryan Lingenfelser has consulted full-time in organic search since 2018 and operates as RDLDIGITAL from the Salt Lake City area.
Clients work directly with a single senior specialist rather than an account team. Services cover technical SEO audits, on-page optimization, backlinks and citations, plus training in AEO and GEO best practices.
Past engagements include Sojern, Blendtec, Liberty Safe, and Lexington Law, with SaaS and multi-location brands the sweet spot. His writing has appeared in Search Engine Land and MarketingProfs.
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Over twenty years of SEO and SEM experience sits behind Stay Wild Digital Marketing. The team works from Sugar House, with a second office in Park City.
The team builds custom WordPress and ecommerce sites on WooCommerce, Shopify and Wix. Search, paid ads, and graphic design stay in-house. Every designer on staff is based in the United States.
Recent client sites include Canyon Transport, Sagebrush Logistics and Key Lime Electric. Quotes cover web design, logos, blog posts, and SEO separately, which helps smaller budgets.
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Audience In Motion, known as AIM, is the digital arm of Bonneville International. That media parentage gives clients access to owned radio and audio audiences alongside the usual channels.
Services include search optimization, pay-per-click, display advertising, social media, video, and website development. Home services, automotive, medical, legal and government are recurring verticals.
Teams also run in Denver, Phoenix, Sacramento and Seattle, so multi-market campaigns stay under one roof.
Event production is where Dragonfli separates itself from other Salt Lake City shops. The company has handled marketing and live video for Red Bull Rampage, the Burton US Open, Nitro World Games and Formula E.
Live streaming for concerts and conferences is a stated specialty, backed by content delivery work for large brands. Campaign and digital ad projects include Toyota, Lexus, The North Face and the Children's Justice Center.
NuEthic builds ecommerce stores from North Salt Lake, with certified developers across Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce and WooCommerce.
A Magento 2 rebuild more than doubled conversion rates for Basic Research. Other work includes a custom warranty tool for Gadget Guard and an employee storefront for Nu Skin. Camp Chef and L3Harris are also past clients.
Speed and performance optimization, analytics, and municipal government sites fill out the practice.
Branding, web development and video production anchor RUMOR, a creative and media agency with 25 years of work in Utah.
Rebrand projects include Utah Trust Lands, Cache Valley Transit District and the University of Utah College of Science. The team also designs for RootsTech, the world's largest family history conference.
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Established in 1998, TWIO handles brand management, creative, web development, content production and event marketing from Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh.
The agency counts more than 500 clients, 1,800 projects and 250 websites launched, with work for W.R. Berkley, PGT Trucking, BioFire Defense and Urban Hill.
Riot is a creative agency on Redwood Road covering branding, film, photography and digital marketing, with a second office in Philadelphia.
Clients skew toward outdoor and firearms brands, including SilencerCo, Radian Weapons, Barrett and Nightforce, plus national work for AutoZone and GMC. Riot Motion supplies pursuit vehicles and camera rigs for film shoots.
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Online reputation is the entire business here, not a side service. The Utah firm removes defamatory content and fake reviews, suppresses what it cannot remove, and shapes how AI assistants describe a brand.
Fifteen years in, it reports that more than 12,000 harmful URLs have been removed or suppressed across 2,000 client reputations. Data broker removal and Google autocomplete work are also on the list.
Strategic Results has supported small business owners and service professionals since 1999, focused on turning offline referrals into online leads.
Work spans website development, content marketing, search optimization and review management. Founder MaryPat Kavanagh also delivers training and documented processes so owners can run the work themselves afterward.
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Since 1999, Twist Lab has worked as a strategic consulting and communications agency from West Broadway in downtown Salt Lake City.
Engagements start with brand messaging and vision, then move into integrated marketing, public relations, or employee value proposition work. Dell, Intel, Micron, HPE, and the University of Utah are among past clients, and the team contributes to the Forbes Agency Council.