Built by operators.
Run like one.

Axle Eight is a growth and digital marketing firm led by practitioners who have built, scaled, and managed marketing at enterprise level. We don't theorize about growth — we've delivered it.

How we operate.

01

We Recommend What We Would Buy

If we wouldn't invest our own money in it, we won't ask you to. We do not inflate scope. We do not oversell services. We do not design programs to increase our fees. Our recommendations are grounded in what creates real value, not what creates larger invoices.

02

We Solve Problems, Not Tactics

We are not here to push media plans or creative concepts. We are here to understand your business, diagnose the constraint, and design a solution that moves the outcome. Sometimes that means spending more. Sometimes it means spending less. Either way, the objective is progress, not transactions.

03

We Operate With Discipline

Growth requires structure. We are deliberate about budgets, measurement, and accountability. We believe marketing should be measurable, repeatable, and economically sound. Every recommendation must stand up to scrutiny. Every dollar must have a purpose.

The team behind the work.

President

Kevin Fournier

Kevin Fournier is President of Axle Eight and one of the most experienced enterprise marketing leaders in multi-location retail. He served as Chief Marketing Officer at Mavis Tire — a $7B business with 2,500+ locations — where he led a national rebrand deployed across the entire portfolio, integrated marketing operations across major acquisitions including NTB, Tire Kingdom, Express Oil, and Brakes Plus, and built Customer 360 household-level targeting and CLV modeling capabilities. Prior to Mavis, he was Senior Director of Marketing & Advertising at Discount Tire ($9B; 1,000+ stores), where he built the company's digital marketing department from the ground up and drove material improvements in paid search ROAS. Across both roles, he was accountable for enterprise-scale annual marketing investment and built measurement systems that tied every dollar of spend to store-level performance. Kevin brings that same discipline — performance marketing, unit economics, and measurement rigor — to Axle Eight's clients.

Chief Financial Officer

Jeremy Baraff

Jeremy Baraff is Chief Financial Officer of Axle Eight and a strategic finance leader specializing in growth-stage and multi-location businesses. He brings deep expertise across accounting, capital markets, compliance, and operational finance, with experience spanning public accounting, regulatory advisory, and equity trading.

Senior Business Advisor

Kim Grennan

Kim is Senior Business Advisor at Axle Eight and an experienced operator and M&A strategist for founder-led and growth-stage businesses. She previously founded, scaled, and exited three marketing companies and held roles in Verizon's Global Strategy Group and a Chicago-based investment bank, focusing on mergers, acquisitions, and venture investing across multiple industries.

Senior Operations Consultant

Amanda Tegtmeyer

Amanda Tegtmeyer is Senior Operations Consultant at Axle Eight and an experienced operator specializing in scaling small and mid-sized businesses. She has helped lead high-growth SaaS and marketing organizations, contributing to Inc. 5000 recognition and guiding teams through operational expansion and successful exits. Amanda holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Marketing and Finance from Arizona State University and is a graduate of the Barrett Honors College.

Senior Growth Advisor

Montgomery Coleman

Montgomery Coleman is Senior Growth Advisor at Axle Eight and a healthcare growth and operations executive with experience scaling clinical organizations and launching new medical products. He previously served as Chief Growth Officer and operations executive at Blue Door, an urgent care organization integrating eastern and alternative therapies with conventional western medicine. A retired U.S. Air Force Captain, Montgomery brings additional expertise in acquisitions, operations, and team development.

We've Got Medals.

Results that speak for themselves.

A sample of what we've built for clients across financial services, real estate, and hospitality.

We help financial services companies — from registered investment advisors and wealth managers to FinTech platforms and alternative lenders — build marketing programs that generate qualified pipeline and measurable ROI.

SEO / Content

Registered Investment Advisor

1,091%
Increase in monthly organic visitors
  • Built full SEO strategy and content calendar from the ground up
  • Tailored keyword research targeting their specific audience
  • Grew monthly site traffic from the low hundreds to thousands
Paid Media

Alternative Financing Platform

75%
Reduction in cost per acquisition
4.5x
Increase in pre-qualified leads
  • Achieved results in 45 days with no budget increase
  • Built enhanced lookalike audiences off ideal target persona
  • Video ad retargeting funnel pulled leads all the way through
Email / CRM

Investment Fund for Accredited Investors

55%
Increase in email open rates
325%
Increase in new leads YoY
  • Developed user personas and custom HubSpot workflows per persona
  • 108% increase in email click rates
  • LinkedIn outreach program drove 325% increase in new leads YoY
Paid Social

FinTech Platform

300–400%
Decrease in cost per registration
  • Added 250–800 new MQLs per month to the sales funnel
  • Grew B2B referral leads 18% month over month
  • New creative, landing pages, targeting, and lookalike audiences

From property management and residential brokerages to real estate tech and investment funds, we build lead generation systems that scale — with disciplined measurement at every stage.

Paid Media

Real Estate Financing / Rent-to-Own

75%
Reduction in cost per acquisition
4.5x
Increase in pre-qualified leads
  • Results delivered in just 45 days with zero budget increase
  • Enhanced lookalike audiences optimized off the ideal pre-qualified persona
  • Video ad retargeting moved leads through the full funnel
SEO / Paid Search

Property Management Software

15–22%
CTR on ad strategy
40%
Lower customer acquisition cost
  • Full-funnel keyword strategy for both on-page SEO and Google Ads
  • Rewrote all SERP metadata with a real keyword strategy
  • Built content output process for ongoing SEO-driven blog production
Paid Social / Email

Residential Sale Leasebacks

18%
MoM growth in referral leads
300–400%
Decrease in cost per registration
  • Developed B2B referral partnerships with mortgage brokers
  • Added 250–800 new MQLs monthly through new paid social strategy
  • All-new ad creative, landing pages, targeting, and retargeting
Email / CRM / LinkedIn

1031 Exchange Platform

55%
Increase in email open rates
325%
Increase in new leads YoY
  • Built user personas and custom HubSpot workflows per persona
  • 108% increase in email click rates
  • LinkedIn outreach series drove 325% increase in new leads year over year

We help hospitality brands — from boutique resorts and luxury vacation rentals to hotel management companies — grow direct bookings, reduce acquisition cost, and build audiences that keep coming back.

SEO / Content

Experiential Alaskan Resort

112%
Increase in monthly website visitors
  • Built full SEO strategy anchored in Alaskan culture and audience targeting
  • Long-form content strategy based on tailored keyword research
  • Translated to thousands of dollars in net new direct bookings monthly
Paid Search

Luxury Hawaiian Vacation Rentals

39%
Increase in non-branded ROAS
  • Took over Google Ads from a prior agency not hitting ROAS targets
  • Removed high-cost, low-conversion keywords eating into budget
  • New landing pages, enhanced sitelinks, and market-specific specials
  • Added negative keywords that eliminated poor quality clicks

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with a team that's done it?

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