About StubGroup
A Marketing Partner That Thinks Like a Business Owner
StubGroup’s founders, Mark Stubblefield and Tim Horn, are both fourth-generation business owners. When starting StubGroup in 2012, they understood first-hand the responsibility that comes with stewarding a business’s marketing budget: deciding where to invest, what to fix, and whether the results justify the cost.
Today, CEO John Horn and our entire team serve every client by that same standard.
What That Means for Your Business
Our job is to understand your business and what marketing success actually looks like for your bottom line. Then we help you find and convert customers through Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads and other paid channels, SEO, AI Search Optimization / GEO, email, social, and fractional CMO work.
Here are a few examples of how we’ve helped businesses like yours:
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Dumpster rental
A dumpster rental company’s ad account was counting clicks-to-call as conversions. We rebuilt their conversion tracking and optimized their Google Ads campaigns, leading to 87% more monthly conversions from 32% less monthly ad spend.
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Custom printing
A custom printing company had us add email and SMS alongside our paid search marketing, and saw their order volume rise 46% in a month.
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Healthcare
A healthcare company’s Google Ads account was suspended for “circumventing systems” and “suspicious payments.” We audited their website, brought their ad account into compliance, and crafted an appeal that Google accepted almost immediately.
“A marketing budget comes with real choices. Our job is to explain what’s working, challenge what isn’t, and help you decide where the next dollar should go.”
What You Can Expect From Us
Our philosophy as a marketing partner is to act like an ongoing extension of your business, not a vendor you have to chase and stay on top of. You should know what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and how it’s performing. You should also hear from us when something needs to change, rather than have to discover it yourself.
- Reporting that helps you make decisions. We connect marketing results to your business goals and P&L, explain what the numbers tell us, and call out what they don’t.
- Realistic expectations. We’re clear about what marketing can accomplish and where other parts of your business affect the outcome.
- Straight answers. We tell you when something isn’t working, when an idea needs challenging, and when we need to change our own approach.
- A reason behind every change. We test new opportunities, keep what earns its place, and adjust when the evidence gives us a reason to.
- Ownership when we get something wrong. We acknowledge mistakes, fix them, and document what we learned so those lessons improve the work.
Solving the Hard Problems Others Won’t
We’re a scrappy bunch here at StubGroup, and we’re not afraid to take on challenges others won’t. For example, we’ve helped thousands of businesses resolve their Google Ads and Merchant Center suspensions and comply with Google’s policies.
If you’re struggling with a suspension, our free suspension resolution guides and hundreds of “how to” videos help business owners and other advertisers like you navigate vague suspension and policy violation notices from Google. We’ve built our own proprietary tools and a compliance division that does nothing but suspension and policy compliance work for our clients full-time. In fact, Google’s own reps have referred suspended advertisers to us for help.
Learn how we help businesses resolve their Google Ads suspensions.
Where AI Fits Into Your Marketing
Your potential customers are asking AI to research products and services, compare retailers and providers, and help them decide which business to hire or buy from. If your company is recommended by AI, you get instant credibility and the opportunity to win new business.
One of our jobs is to improve when and how your business appears within ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and other AI environments. That means making it easier for AI to understand what you offer, who you serve, and why your business belongs on a potential customer’s shortlist.
Find out how to get your business recommended by AI.
Where AI Fits Into Our Marketing Work for You
Used with the right inputs and guardrails, AI makes good marketers faster, sharper, and much more valuable. But used poorly, AI produces slop, bad analysis, and generic lookalike strategies.
That’s why StubGroup is AI-forward, not AI-dependent. We use AI to move faster through the groundwork: organizing account data, developing campaign ideas, and spotting patterns worth investigating. Our marketers check the reasoning, challenge the assumptions, and decide what to act on and how. Your business goals guide those decisions.
The time saved gives us room to ask a better second question, investigate an unexpected result, or test another approach. You’ll feel that benefit in the attention your account gets and the quality of the decisions we make for and with you.
Take a Test Drive
If you think we might be the right marketing partner for your business, give us a test. Show us what you’re running, where you think you need help, and what you need to accomplish with your marketing. We’ll have that conversation with you, then put together a free, customized audit showing where we see missed opportunities, what needs the most attention first, and why it matters to your business.
Get Your Free Audit