Iowa · statewide from Cedar Falls
Headquartered in Cedar Falls, working across the state and the country. 23 years, $355M+ generated for clients, and case studies written about us by the platforms themselves.
The short answer
EVM is an Iowa marketing agency headquartered in Cedar Falls and serving the whole state: paid media, SEO and AI search, websites and custom software, AI automation, and email. Small businesses start at the $500/month website tier; full-funnel retainers typically run $2,500 to $15,000/month. The record: 23 years, $355M+ generated, LinkedIn-published case studies, top 10% worldwide rating from Google.
Iowa has plenty of agencies that can design a logo and post to Facebook. What is rare in this state is operator-level paid media and engineering: people who have managed eight-figure ad spend, shipped production software, and built AI systems that answer real phone calls. Companies that need that usually assume they have to hire Chicago or Austin, pay coastal rates, and become a small account at a big shop. EVM exists so they do not have to.
From Cedar Falls we run paid media on LinkedIn, Google, Meta and TikTok, build custom Next.js platforms, run SEO and AI search visibility programs, and deploy AI receptionists and follow-up automation. The work has been strong enough that LinkedIn corporate published case studies about campaigns we ran and Google's elite team rated our campaign work top 10% worldwide.
For Iowa small businesses: productized systems at honest prices, like the $500/month website tier that took a client to Page 1 in 18 days. For Iowa companies with bigger ambitions: full-funnel retainers spanning paid media, custom software and AI automation, the same stack we run for national B2B accounts. Both speeds are run by the same hands, which is the point.
Cedar Falls and Waterloo in person. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Dubuque, Sioux City and the rest of the state by a short drive or a call. The rest of the country remotely, as most of our client base already is. There is exactly one office and it is in Cedar Falls; the disclosure below is on every location-flavored page of this site because agencies faking storefronts is an industry habit we refuse to join.
Where we actually are
Effective Visibility Marketing has one office: 2405 Leigh Ln, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. We do not have a Waterloo office, a Des Moines office, or a branch anywhere else, and this site will never claim one. We serve Cedar Falls and Waterloo in person, the rest of Iowa by a short drive or a call, and clients across the United States remotely. If a local agency page you are comparing us against claims offices it does not have, treat that as data about how they market.
The full stack
Custom Next.js sites with local SEO, schema, and real-time lead capture wired to your inbox. $500/month, you own the site.
Buffalo Windshield: Page 1 for 9 of 10 keywords in 18 days on a brand-new domain.
Smart Bidding tuned, conversion APIs wired, attribution end to end. Spend maps to tracked revenue, not impressions.
Google’s elite team rated EVM campaign work top 10% worldwide.
Technical audits, keyword universes, local pack work, citation cleanup, and pages that actually rank.
116-page local build ranking #1 organic against Safelite in under three weeks.
A voice agent that answers your business line 24/7, books appointments, and captures the lead you would have missed.
The Luma AI receptionist answers live business calls around the clock on the Platinum Directory platform.
Get recommended when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity who to hire. Structured data, llms.txt, entity work.
Multi-LLM visibility is live on the Platinum Directory platform across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.
Deliverability-hardened flows (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) with revenue attribution per send. Postmark, Klaviyo, Customer.io.
225K+ leads moved through email funnels EVM has built.
Proof, not promises
A full directory marketplace we built and operate: 8,800+ businesses, 11 cities, 10K+ indexable pages, and the Luma AI receptionist answering calls 24/7.
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A single-location shop we put on Page 1 for 9 of 10 keywords in 18 days, ranking above Safelite, on a $500/month plan.
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Questions
The full stack
One call tells you whether we are the right fit. If we are not, you still leave with a written list of the three moves we would make in your position.
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