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Chris WestlundMinnesota MarketingBemidji, Minnesota

The growth team behind businesses you already know.

Minnesota Marketing plans, builds, and runs the websites, lead systems, and marketing behind companies across 18 industries and two countries. Every engagement is led by Chris Westlund, and every result on this page carries a name and a date.

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Six years. Named clients. Dated results. Live sites you can click.
6 yearsRunning Minnesota Marketing
18Industries served today
2Countries with live client work
6Brands and platforms we operate
Work you can inspect

The websites and systems behind companies people recognize.

Every case below is live, named, and measured. Click through to the site, then look at the numbers and where they came from.

storlieconstruction.com
Storlie Construction homepage on desktop with the fleet lineup and material cards
Built from zero

Storlie Construction

Aggregate, excavation, and site work · Cass Lake, MN · storlieconstruction.com →

Storlie had no website. We built the first one around how customers actually buy gravel, excavation, and site work: a materials page with a delivered-load calculator, six service pages, fourteen town pages, a project gallery, drone photo and video of the fleet, and a quote form that lands in a lead pipeline.

27Pages live, including a materials calculator and 14 town pagesLive site, Aug 31, 2026
98/100Site health with zero errors, ten days after launchSE Ranking audit, Aug 31, 2026
3m 19sAverage time on site for organic visitors in the first ten daysGoogle Analytics, Aug 31, 2026
  • Website
  • Local SEO
  • Town pages
  • Materials calculator
  • Drone video
  • Lead intake
  • Hosting
americandoorsupply.com
American Garage Door Supply ecommerce storefront on desktop
Full build + standing partnership

American Garage Door Supply

B2B ecommerce · Bemidji, MN, shipping nationwide · americandoorsupply.com →

A national parts storefront for garage door dealers, contractors, car washes, and industrial facilities. We built the store and its technical catalog, then stayed on for paid media, email, video, content, and the custom tools technicians actually use: a spring finder, a door system configurator, and specialty storefronts for car wash doors and stainless hardware.

3Storefronts under one brand: parts, car wash doors, stainless hardwareamericandoorsupply.com · carwashdoors.com · stainlessgaragedoorparts.com
2Custom technician tools built in-house: Spring Finder and Door System ConfiguratorLive on the storefronts
NationalDealers, contractors, and facilities served from BemidjiOngoing retainer: ads, email, video, content, catalog
  • Shopify
  • eCommerce
  • Paid ads
  • Email
  • Video
  • Custom tools
  • Content
shepardexcavating.com
Shepard Excavating homepage on desktop
Rebuild + lead system

Shepard Excavating

Excavation and septic · Laporte, MN · shepardexcavating.com →

A WordPress site that scored 64 on a phone became a 24-page build that scores 95 and up. Every form lands in one pipeline, the owners get notified, and people who never knew the Shepard name now find it for septic pumping, septic installs, and class 5 gravel.

64 → 95+Mobile speed score, old site versus newPageSpeed, Jun 12 vs Aug 31, 2026
81Clicks from Google in 28 days across 173 search queriesSearch Console, 28 days to Aug 31, 2026
3Record weeks in a row for search impressions: 540, 711, then 875Search Console, Aug 2026
  • Website rebuild
  • SEO
  • Lead intake
  • CRM
  • Spam protection
  • Reporting
villagehomesmn.com
Village Homes MN website on desktop
Full rebuild + growth system

Village Homes MN

Manufactured and modular homes · Walker and Bemidji, MN · villagehomesmn.com →

A regional home dealer with two sales locations needed one system, not one website. We rebuilt the site on Webflow around available homes, floor plans, and open houses, then connected it to lead management, automated follow-up, email marketing, video, and paid acquisition for both locations.

2Sales locations served by one site and one pipelineWalker and Bemidji, MN
Full stackWebsite, SEO, lead management, follow-up, email, video, paid adsStanding partnership
WebflowInventory, floor plans, and open-house pages the dealer can updateLive site
  • Webflow
  • SEO
  • Automation
  • Email
  • Video
  • Paid ads
New Wave Concepts website
New Wave ConceptsDemolition · Cape Coral, FL
CSI Overhead Doors website
CSI Overhead DoorsGarage doors · Trenton, MO
Bemidji Glass Company website
Bemidji Glass Co.Glass + glazing · Bemidji, MN
Grant Haven Campground website
Grant HavenRV campground · Bemidji, MN
BCI Rentals website
BCI RentalsEquipment rental · Brainerd Lakes
Marclay Point Resort rebuild
Marclay PointLakeside resort · Cass Lake, MN
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What we do

Everything a growing business needs online, planned and run by one team.

No packages. Chris looks at the business first, then stacks only the pieces that fit. These are the pieces.

01

Websites and ecommerce

Fast, phone-first sites and storefronts built around how customers actually buy, on Shopify, Webflow, or a hand-built static stack.

Storlie · AGDS · Village Homes
02

Lead systems and CRM

Every call, form, and estimate gets an owner and a next step. Missed-call text-back, pipelines, notifications, follow-up that stops when the customer replies.

Shepard · Village Homes · AAI
03

Local search and Google profiles

Town pages, service pages, and Google Business Profile work that puts a company in the map pack where its customers are searching.

Storlie · BCI · New Wave
04

Google and Meta advertising

Search and social campaigns with a landing page per service and town, tracked conversions, and reporting the owner can read.

New Wave · Bemidji HVAC · BCI
05

Video, drone, and photography

Fleets, crews, finished work, and property shot from the ground and the air, then cut for the site, ads, and social.

Storlie · Marclay Point · BCI
06

Email and review automation

Campaigns and automated review requests that turn a customer list into repeat revenue and public proof.

AGDS · Village Homes · KD Floral
07

Custom tools and software

Spring finders, door configurators, materials calculators, technician tool sets, and a national directory, built in-house.

AGDS · Storlie · Garage Door Pro Tools
08

Migrations, hosting, and care

Moving businesses off slow, fragile platforms onto fast hosting with backups, monitoring, and someone who answers when it matters.

Across the roster
Measured outcomes

What changed after the system went live.

Some clients stay unnamed by agreement. The baseline, timeframe, and method behind every result can be walked through on a call.

12% → 31% close rate

A five-step follow-up cadence lifted close rate from 12% to 31% in six months, with the same lead volume, team, and prices.

Follow-up automation · Service business, Bemidji area
“Near me” calls roughly doubled

A consistent Google Business Profile cadence reached top-three map placement for roughly 70% of core service-and-town searches in six months.

Local search system · Service business, Northern Minnesota
~$9k a month from email

A dormant 4,200-contact retail list reached a steady 38% open rate and approximately $9,000 in monthly revenue within four months.

Email restart · Regional retail, Bemidji area
How we work

A conversation first. Then only what fits.

Every business is different, so nothing here is sold from a menu. The first step is a call with Chris, and it is free.

1

You book a call

Twenty minutes, no pitch. Tell us what you want to improve and what is getting in the way.

2

We look before we talk

Your website, Google profile, reviews, ads, and follow-up get a proper look ahead of time, so the call is about your business, not a questionnaire.

3

You get a straight read

Where you are leaking opportunities, what is working, and what we would fix first. If the honest answer is "not us," you will hear it.

4

We stack what fits and run it

Scope, timeline, and investment in writing. Then documented delivery, dashboards you can read, and structured support that does not depend on one person's memory.

Chris Westlund, founder of Minnesota Marketing, Bemidji, Minnesota
Chris WestlundFounder, Minnesota Marketing. Bemidji, Minnesota.
Who is behind it

Six years building the systems that let owners step back.

Chris Westlund started Minnesota Marketing in Bemidji to do the work he saw local businesses paying agencies for and not getting: websites that win the call, follow-up that does not depend on memory, and marketing that can be measured. Today the company runs the online side of businesses across 18 industries, from a national parts supplier to a lakeside resort, and Chris leads every engagement himself.

Bemidji, MinnesotaServing the Upper Midwest, with clients in Minnesota, Missouri, Florida, and Ontario
Lakes Area Dive TeamTraining officer for the volunteer team supporting Cass, Hubbard, and Beltrami counties, 365 days a year
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Next step

Talk to Chris about your business.

A free twenty-minute call. We look at your business before it starts, you get a straight read, and you decide what happens next.

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