Cincinnati social media marketing agency · Woman-owned · Est. 2001

Social media marketing measured in results, not likes.

Grimm Marketing Communications is a woman-owned social media marketing agency in Greater Cincinnati. Our senior-led team treats your brand like our own, building the strategy, running the paid campaigns, and creating the content that turns feeds into reach, leads, and revenue.

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The Grimm difference

Partnerships built on trust, run by senior people.

Grimm Marketing Communications is a woman-owned agency that has been helping brands communicate since 2001. We build partnerships on trust and tailor every strategy to your goals, with no one-size-fits-all playbook.

No media markup

We never mark up your ad spend. Media is billed at cost, so every media dollar buys reach, not agency margin.

Quick response time

You hear back from a senior member of the team, usually within a day, and changes happen without layers of approvals.

Nimble, senior team

Every specialist on your account brings 15+ years in their discipline, from paid media and search to video, SEO and copy. No junior handoffs.

Every platform, many industries

Hands-on experience across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Snapchat and Reddit, for CPG, restaurants, schools, healthcare, aviation and non-profits.

Industries we support
CPG & RetailRestaurantsSports, Entertainment & HospitalityHealthcare & WellnessConstruction, Aviation & Professional ServicesSchools & EducationNon-Profits
The big stage

We helped launch a product in the Super Bowl.

Grimm built and ran the paid-social plan behind a CPG launch that debuted on advertising's biggest stage, turning a regional test into a full national roll-out and an online stronghold on Amazon.

National CPG launchMulti-platform paid socialRegional test → national roll-outAmazon stronghold
A few of the brands we've built for
The numbers talk

Campaigns with receipts.

Real budgets, real efficiency. A look at what senior-led social and digital can do when strategy and execution live under one roof.

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Impressions on a celebrity campaign
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Record enrollment high for a school of choice
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More applications than a recruiter
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Occupancy for a salon (from 70%)
CPG · Celebrity
52MM impressions & 38MM video plays

A celebrity-led national campaign that turned notoriety into exponential reach, a :30 spot delivered at a $4 CPM and just $0.02 per thruplay.

52MM impressions5.5MM thruplays$4 CPM
Pinterest · Product Launch
5MM impressions, 1.8MM video views

A visual-first launch built for Pinterest's discovery engine, a "curated search engine" that became the client's top organic traffic driver.

$6 CPM$0.01 CPVtop organic source
Integrated Campaign · Enrollment
Record enrollment, its highest in 20 years

A full-funnel program (paid and organic social, digital media, YouTube Live, display ads, website and email retargeting, and direct mail, among other tactics) that drove a school of choice to record enrollment, its highest in two decades, with inquiries at under $20 a lead.

20-year high<$20 per leadfull-funnel mix
Meta & X · Franchising
26 qualified franchising conversions

A cross-platform franchise-development campaign that filled the pipeline with qualified operator prospects in a single target market, fast.

26 conversions1 market<4 months
Paid Social · Talent
2.5× completed applications, hiring at scale

For a national healthcare call center, paid social outperformed a recruiting service, 2.5× the completed applications and half the attrition, in under a year.

2.5× applications−50% attrition<12 months
YouTube Live · Events
85–100 concurrent viewers per event

Live, transparent Q&A programming that draws a real-time audience, converts within the week, and keeps compounding views for months afterward.

200+ views / 24h1,000+ views / 1–2 morepurposable
Snapchat: ~4MM impressions and 54K+ swipes at a $0.12 cost-per-swipe over a six-month flight.
X (Twitter): $5K drove 88.5K clicks at an 18.5% CTR for a school of choice.
Entertainment venue: +50% corporate bookings in four months with new platforms and tighter targeting.
Salon rental: occupancy from 70% to 95% in under six months on tighter targeting and creative.
Ambassador content: reached 1.5M prospects from a single post.
Inaugural B2C campaign: a 2.39% CTR (vs. a 1% benchmark), ~50% engagement, and multiple signed leases.

Recognized by TikTok for the best paid content in our client's vertical, created by the ambassador teams we built and trained.

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Capabilities

Full-service social, plus the paid, digital, and content around it.

Everything you need to show up, get found, and convert. We build the plan and do the work, so you don't have to hand it to three different vendors.

Social, done right

Strategy through daily execution, the organic backbone of a brand people actually follow, powered by content we shoot and edit ourselves.

  • Social audits, content planning & strategy
  • On-site organic content capture, video editing & content creation
  • Organic posting & community management
  • Live social events & YouTube Live
  • Influencer & brand-ambassador programs

Paid social that pays back

Performance campaigns engineered for efficiency, the right audience, platform, and lowest cost per result.

  • Paid social across 8 platforms
  • Audience & creative testing
  • Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
  • Lead-gen & conversion campaigns

Digital media that follows through

The always-on layer that keeps your brand in front of the right people across the web.

  • Website & audience retargeting
  • Digital display & programmatic
  • YouTube, streaming & connected TV
  • Geo-targeted awareness & out-of-home

Found & trusted

The search and content engine that keeps you visible, and credible, long after the ad spend stops.

Explore our services: Social media marketing · Paid social advertising · Retargeting, display & CTV · School enrollment marketing · Restaurant social media · Recruitment marketing · AI search visibility (AEO/GEO)

Modern tools, senior judgment

We use AI where it earns its place.

We've been an AI Business Society member for three years, and we put AI to work where it makes the work sharper and faster, never as a substitute for strategy or the human touch your brand deserves.

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Where AI sharpens the work
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Sharper competitor & market research

We surface competitive and category insight faster, so strategy starts from a deeper base.

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Framing brand & messaging

We pressure-test positioning and message angles before a dollar of spend goes out.

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Enhanced creative

We accelerate concepting and variation so more ideas get in front of your audience.

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Dashboards & measurement

We build live dashboards and bring excellence to reporting, so you always know what's working.

How we work

A method built on data, not guesswork.

Every engagement follows the same disciplined loop, so spend goes where it performs and you always know why.

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Plan with data

We start with your goals and the numbers behind them, objectives, KPIs, and the leading indicators that predict them.

  • Goals & KPIs
  • Market & audience
  • Seasonality
  • Conversions by tactic
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Build & launch

We create authentic content and stand up campaigns across social, paid, and digital media, plus ambassadors and live events to amplify reach.

  • Content & community
  • Paid & digital media
  • Ambassadors
  • Live events
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Track & optimize

We build a custom dashboard, report on results by media and creative, and keep testing new opportunities against your goals.

  • Custom dashboards
  • Reporting cadence
  • Optimization
  • New tests
Who we've worked with

Regional favorites and national brands.

Past and present clients across CPG, restaurants, hospitality, healthcare, education, and beyond.

CPG & Retail

CrayolaSmithfieldJohn MorrellGwaltneyBall Aluminum Cupgood2growKandooBoogie BottomsMagnus Home ProductsLongstrethAaron'sVegyVidaLittle KingsBacon UpOatey

Restaurants

Gold Star ChiliFrisch's Big BoyBIGGBY CoffeePenn StationThunderdome GroupCitybirdNBLCKN Noble ChickenCurritoBakersfieldBuffalo Wings & RingsSnappy Tomato PizzaBonBonerieDewey's PizzaMaplewoodLong John Silver's

Sports, Entertainment & Hospitality

brightSTARBoone County FairArthur Rozzi PyrotechnicsArtistry of Jacques PépinLifeSurgeSoccer VillageConey IslandJellystone ParksFull Throttle Indoor KartingWool Bowl

Healthcare & Wellness

The Christ HospitalBethesda Fertility CenterLYPHilltop ResearchCNS CaresThe Care TeamHome HelpersZero Gravity MedSpaSalon Lofts

Construction, Aviation & Professional Services

Drees HomesReece CampbellCincinnati Commercial ContractingPorterfieldBRGDBL LawTire DiscountersDiatom AviationMidwest Aero SupportDigiProfessional PalletsDegree DataFoxhole EquityForthright People

Schools & Education

Great OaksCamden Military AcademyNew Mexico Military InstituteStewart Home & SchoolMiami University MBASt. UrsulineOAGC

Non-Profits

Family PromiseLife Learning CenterEasterseals RedwoodBoys & Girls ClubProKids
This past year, our team worked with Angela to standardize and amplify Tire Discounters' employer-brand communications on LinkedIn. She led social content strategy and execution, including B2B Sales Navigator test-and-learns on the platform. Her strengths include highly effective time management and follow-up, and her collaboration style is quite simply described as lovely: easy to talk to, receptive to feedback yet firm in the conviction of her recommendations.
C. NieseSVP & Chief Customer Officer
Our team has been working with Angela for over 20 months and are thrilled with the partnership. Angela's experience in the social realm significantly advanced our work in using social media to recruit employees; we consistently see 4–6× higher than average response rates on our paid social. She is a fantastic resource in our employee culture work, providing creative ideas and work. Angela has seamlessly blended into our marketing & recruiting teams with professionalism, grace, and humor.
J. MullinsTalent & Employer-Brand Leader
I had the pleasure of working with Angela for the past 15 months, and it was a wonderful experience. Her creative ideas and innovative thinking, combined with her quick responses, made collaborating with her incredibly smooth. She was always willing to listen and incorporate what we needed and wanted, and was great at being flexible with meeting changing demands. I highly recommend working with Angela!
K. OlsonChief People Officer
We appreciate their passion. We appreciate their knowledge. We appreciate their integrity. It's no exaggeration to say that Grimm Marketing has helped us connect and serve our stakeholders in ways we never thought we could.
J. WeidlichDirector of Marketing & Communications
Simply put, they are the very best. Not only does Grimm Marketing bring the consistency and expertise that is necessary, they have also encouraged us in the most respectful manner to push ourselves beyond our comfort zone. The work we do is unique, yet Grimm is able to understand our brand and better articulate it to our stakeholders. It often feels like they know us just as well as we do.
S. DavisDirector of Marketing
Meet the principal
Angela Grimm, President of Grimm Marketing Communications

Angela Grimm

President & Principal Consultant · Social Media Strategist

Grimm Marketing Communications is a woman-owned social media and digital marketing agency based in Liberty Township, Ohio, in Greater Cincinnati. Serving brands since 2001 and led by Angela Grimm, the agency plans and runs organic social, paid social, search and digital media campaigns for regional and national brands, schools and non-profits.

"Twenty-five-plus years in, I still take every brand personally. Our clients get direct access to senior people who care about their results as much as they do. That is the whole point of working with us."

A social media strategist with 25+ years in marketing, Angela served as Director of Social Media Marketing at Walch Communications for a decade and Marketing/PR Director at Robeson Marketing & Design for eight years. She has consulted and freelanced for Cincinnati and New York agencies, including Burke (Seed), Curiosity, Flint & Steel, Marsh Ideas, Creative Department, Jarrell Media, Synergistic, Connection2Consumers, Freshwater Creative, and Brightside, and has served as a fractional CMO for a number of companies, embedding with leadership teams to guide marketing strategy. She holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Cincinnati, and her background in social services and non-profit work shapes a marketing style built on genuine human connection.

MBA, Marketing, University of Cincinnati25+ years in marketingAI Business Society memberGreater Cincinnati, OH
Good to know

The questions we hear most.

Straight answers about how Grimm Marketing Communications works, who we help, and what to expect.

Q. What does Grimm Marketing Communications do?

Grimm Marketing Communications is a woman-owned, senior-led marketing agency in Greater Cincinnati. We specialize in social media marketing, paid social advertising, search engine marketing (SEM), digital media, SEO, influencer programs, and content, building the strategy and running the day-to-day work across Meta, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, and Snapchat.

Q. Where are you based, and do you work with clients outside Cincinnati?

We're based in Liberty Township, in Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, and have served brands here since 2001. We work with both regional favorites and national brands, and because our work is digital, we partner with clients across the country, remotely and on-site for content capture.

Q. Which social and advertising platforms do you manage?

We plan and run organic and paid campaigns on Meta (Facebook & Instagram), TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, X (Twitter), and Snapchat, plus Google and search engine marketing, website and audience retargeting, digital display, and connected TV. Beyond social and digital, we also handle print, tradeshow, PR, broadcast, and any other media that reaches your target audience.

Q. How do you measure social media success?

We measure results, not vanity likes, tracking leads, revenue, applications, cost per lead (CPL), cost per thousand (CPM), and conversions against your goals. We can build a custom dashboard for your brand and report on results by platform and creative, so you always know what's working.

Q. Do you offer paid social and SEO, or only organic social?

Both. We're a full-funnel agency: organic social, paid social across eight platforms, SEM, retargeting, digital display, YouTube, and SEO with blog and content development, so your brand shows up, gets found, and converts without juggling multiple vendors.

Q. How do we get started?

Reach out through the form below or email us directly. You'll hear back from a senior member of our team, usually within a day. We start by learning your goals and the numbers behind them, then build a plan tailored to your brand, with no long layers of red tape.

Q. How much does social media marketing cost with Grimm?

Depending on the type and scope of the work, we bill either a fixed monthly retainer or hourly. We never mark up media: your ad spend is billed at cost, so every media dollar goes to media. After a short conversation about your goals, we send a written scope so you know exactly what you are paying for before anything starts.

Q. How long does it take to see results from social media marketing?

Paid social usually shows meaningful data within the first two to four weeks, once we have tested audiences and creative. Organic social and SEO build over three to six months. We set leading indicators at kickoff so you can see progress before the bigger numbers arrive.

Q. Do you work with schools and academies?

Yes. Enrollment marketing is one of our deepest specialties. We run full-funnel programs for private, military and career-technical schools, including New Mexico Military Institute, Camden Military Academy and Great Oaks, using paid and organic social, YouTube Live open houses, display, email and direct mail.

Q. Why choose Grimm over a larger agency?

Four reasons: we never mark up media, so every ad dollar goes to media; you hear back from a senior person quickly, usually within a day; every specialist on your account brings 15 or more years in their discipline; and our experience spans every major platform and a wide range of industries, from national CPG and restaurants to schools, healthcare, aviation and non-profits.

Q. Does Grimm use AI?

Yes, where it makes the work sharper and faster: competitor and market research, pressure-testing messaging, speeding up creative concepts, and building live dashboards. It is never a substitute for strategy or senior judgment, and a member of our team reviews everything before it reaches your audience. We also help brands show up in AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews through our AI search visibility audits.

Q. Is Grimm Marketing Communications a woman-owned business?

Yes. Grimm Marketing Communications is a woman-owned agency led by Angela Grimm, a social media strategist with more than 25 years in marketing and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Cincinnati.

Let's talk

Let's grow something together.

Tell us a little about your brand and your goals. You'll hear back from a senior member of our team, usually within a day.

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