# Verve Marketing Group Verve Marketing Group Reviews (20), Pricing, Services & Verified Ratings - Premier Verified - 4.9 out of 5 average review rating - 2 connections joined Verve Marketing Group's Network [Visit Website](https://vervemarketinggroup.com) [Get a Custom Proposal](https://clutch.co/profile/verve-marketing-group) **MOVING BRANDS with beauty, purpose and power** Verve Marketing Group is an award-winning brand marketing agency based in Chicago fueling transformational growth for organizations who advance human flourishing—body, mind, and spirit. We clarify what makes a brand distinct. And we bring that to life in standout creative that connects, inspires, and delivers results. Our expertise spans comprehensive brand strategy through to its creative expression in highly effective websites and marketing communications programs. Expertise: - Brand strategy and identity - Website design and development - Multi-channel digital marketing - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Print design – logos, sales collateral, trade show graphics Give us a call to start a conversation! Call 630-964-6056. Or book a meeting at https://vervemarketinggroup.com/book-meeting/ ## Company Information - Minimum project size: $5,000+ - Hourly rate: $100 - $149 - Number of employees: 10 - 49 - 1 Locations: - Oak Brook, IL (Headquarters) - Founded in 2008 ## Services, Focus Areas, Industries, and Clients ### Service Lines - 50% Web Design - 25% Branding - 15% Search Engine Optimization - 10% Content Marketing ### Focus Areas - CMS Focus: - 100% WordPress CMS - Platform SEO Focus: - 100% WordPress SEO - Content Marketing Focus: - 70% Blog Writing Services - 30% Copywriting - SEO Focus: - 35% Content development - 35% On site optimization - 15% Link earning & development - 15% Technical SEO - Branding Focus: - 30% Corporate identity - 25% Brand messaging - 25% Brand strategy - 10% Naming - 10% Product branding ### Industries - 20% Non-profit - 15% Other industries - 35% Consumer products & services - 15% Education - 15% Medical ### Clients - 10% Small Business (<$10M) - 90% Midmarket ($10M - $1B) ## Pricing Snapshot Average rating for cost based on this provider's reviews: 4.9 out of 5 **What Clients Have Said** *(This summary is based on verified Clutch reviews.)*: Verve Marketing Group offers competitive pricing, with project costs ranging from $10,000 to $60,000. Clients appreciate the good value for cost and their responsiveness, often noting that projects were completed on time and within budget. **Most Common Project Size**: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 15 reviews *(Pricing information for this provider is based on reviews where the project size was available.)* ### Pricing by Service - Web Design: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 8 reviews - Web Development: Less than $10,000 based on 7 reviews - UX/UI Design: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 2 reviews - Branding: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 2 reviews - Digital Strategy: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 1 review - Graphic Design: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 1 review - Other Design: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 1 review - Other Digital Marketing: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 1 review - Search Engine Optimization: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 1 review ## Reviews Clutch investigates each reviewer's identity and work history. 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[Learn More](https://help.clutch.co/en/knowledge/how-clutch-verifies-reviews) ### Verve Marketing Group Review Insights Overall Review Rating: 4.9 - Quality: 4.9 - Schedule: 5.0 - Cost: 4.9 - Willing to Refer: 4.8 ### Top Mentions - Timely (10 mentions) - Communicative (6 mentions) - Easy to work with (4 mentions) - Exceeds expectations (4 mentions) - High-quality work (4 mentions) - Collaborative (2 mentions) - Creative (2 mentions) - Establish clear expectations (2 mentions) - Hard working (2 mentions) - Helpful (2 mentions) - Reasonable pricing (2 mentions) - Receptive (2 mentions) - Unique expertise (2 mentions) - Adaptable (1 mentions) - Flexible (1 mentions) - Great project management (1 mentions) - Meets deadlines (1 mentions) - Proactive (1 mentions) - Professional (1 mentions) - Team players (1 mentions) ### Review Highlights **Excellent Project Management** Clients consistently commend Verve Marketing Group for managing projects efficiently. They are noted for their responsiveness, ability to meet deadlines, and clear communication, ensuring projects run smoothly. **Proficient in Website Redesign** Verve Marketing Group is frequently praised for their ability to redesign websites, making them more modern, user-friendly, and aligned with brand identity. Clients noted significant improvements in site engagement and user retention post-redesign. **Effective in Branding and Marketing** Verve is noted for their effectiveness in branding and marketing efforts, including logo design, marketing materials, and promotional campaigns, which often result in enhanced brand visibility and engagement. **Responsive and Reliable Support** The team at Verve Marketing Group is highlighted for providing responsive and reliable support. Clients appreciate their willingness to address issues promptly and their proactive communication style. **Strong Alignment with Client Values** Verve Marketing Group is recognized for aligning with client values, especially in projects involving nonprofits and educational institutions. This alignment often results in a collaborative and satisfying partnership. **Exceptional Customer Service** The company is noted for its exceptional customer service, with clients highlighting their attentiveness and commitment to understanding and meeting client needs throughout the project lifecycle. **Room for Graphic Design Improvement** While generally praised, there was occasional feedback suggesting room for improvement in graphic design quality. Verve Marketing Group has been responsive to feedback, improving designs upon request. **Occasional Timeline Misalignment** Some clients experienced misalignment in project timelines and expectations, leading to confusion and miscommunication. However, Verve often addressed these issues by setting clear expectations and boundaries. **Affordability and Value for Money** Verve Marketing Group is praised for offering good value for money. They are described as mission-driven and flexible with budgets, making them a suitable choice for cost-conscious clients. **High-Quality Design and Functionality** The firm is praised for delivering high-quality design and functionality. Their work often exceeds client expectations, contributing to successful project outcomes such as increased engagement and user satisfaction. ### Verve Marketing Group Reviews ## Portfolio & Awards ### Scientific testing lab increases site traffic 142% Particle Technology Labs (PTL) is a leader in the niche market of particle characterization testing. While quite successful, PTL believed they could do better outsourcing for a higher quality marketing effort.    In the first year, Verve Marketing Group developed a digital marketing program targeting the client’s niche audience with SEO-focused blog posts, email to current and potential clients, and social media marketing. The client saw a 142% increase in site traffic.   In 2022, Verve created a new identity to better captures PTL’s position as a leader in the particle testing industry and their particular strength providing insightful testing analyses.   Work included designing a new logo and website. The new PTL website not only modernizes PTL’s brand, but provides a much-improved visitor experience. This includes a complete redesign of the services pages that makes it much easier for customers to understand the purpose, benefits, and considerations for use of PTL’s 30+ analytical tests, as well as a new blog area that makes it significantly easier for visitors to find articles by topic. This site is a custom designed WordPress site.     ### New nonprofit website with upgraded functionality All-America Selections (AAS) is an independent nonprofit that trials and judges new flower and vegetable varieties each year. The AAS Winners website helps gardeners discover top-performing plants and supports the wholesalers and retailers who sell them. After a decade on the previous Verve-built site, AAS desired a redesign that reflected its merger with the National Garden Bureau and improved usability for both public and partner audiences. Verve created an all-new WordPress website with an evolved brand look that bridges both organizations while retaining AAS’s distinctive identity. The new site features advanced plant search functionality using multi-faceted filters that let visitors narrow hundreds of AAS Winners by plant type, region, year, pollinator-friendliness, and more—creating a far more intuitive user experience. With more than 650 pages and 6,000 images, Verve also implemented automated data import and retailer management, allowing partner updates to populate directly to plant pages. Technical highlights:• 650+ pages and 6,000+ images and documents• Custom WordPress theme with WPBakery page builder• Automated content import and retailer link management• Gated logins for judges and industry partners• SEO-optimized structure with domain authority of 52 ### Healthcare Provider Website & Logo Indiana Behavior Analysis Academy is a premier provider of ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) therapy. IBAA's previous website had been developed when the company began over a decade earlier and did not accurately reflect who it is today. Verve designed a WordPress website for IBAA with new branding and content organization. The new visual brand reflects the quality and personalized care patients can expect in IBAA's comfortable clinics.  The new logo design transformed the previous hand drawn illustration into an updated, simplified digital mark and logo that retains the essence of the original, but now in a more vibrant mark that is usable a wider variety of applications including scaling small to huge. ### NIV Website, Digital Marketing & SEO The New International Version (NIV) is the worlds' best selling Bible in contemporary English. The client wanted a brand refresh and website with new design and update to meet the stringent security protocols required by parent company and global media publisher, HarperCollins. Verve Marketing Group created an original, custom WordPress theme for this site. The new NIV website includes an updated experience for the high-traffic blog as well as presenting a new look and feel that captures the NIV’s position as both an accurate translation back to the original languages of the Bible – and yet, warm and inviting as an accessible and enjoyable Bible for devotional reading. This website was awarded Outstanding Achievement and Best Faith-Based Website in the 2024 Internet Advertising Awards (IAC) competition. ### MorningStar Mission Website & Digital Marketing Since its beginning in 1909, MorningStar Mission has had one main goal — to help people in need. With new leadership and a vision for accomplishing excellence throughout the organization, MorningStar desired a new website that would more accurately reflect the quality of the Mission’s programs and help visitors to more easily take action to become involved. Verve created an all-new experience for the Morningstar Mission website.  New site features help facilitate giving and engaging with the organization: • Donations can now be made directly on the site, rather than having appeals drive to a third-party platform. • A blog shares inspiring stories of lives changed by MorningStar, along with news and updates. • An events area of the site makes it easy for volunteers to find and register for upcoming opportunities to support Morningstar. Verve Marketing Group also creates the social media posts for Morningstar. Organic social is the second biggest driver to the MorningStar site. ### McCormick Place Convention Campus Website The Collection at McCormick Square is an interconnected campus of hotels, the Wintrust Arena, and the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. The previous site did not convey the stature of the famed destination and the sales team desired a new one that would elevate its presence and showcase the limitless possibilities of the campus. Verve Marketing Group created a new site that showcases the flexibility of the McCormick Square Convention Campus and the great city of Chicago. The new web design is now very graphically oriented as opposed to the previous text heavy design capturing the excitement and possibilities for events of every size made possible through a wealth of options in the interconnected building campus. ontent was reorganized and is now accessible through clear navigation grouped by the key considerations of meeting planners: meeting space, accommodations, food and catering and entertainment possibilities for meeting attendees.  Verve also created new floor plan graphics used by the Sales Team in proposals and presentations. The new graphics now provide the team with a consistent, clear, and flexible way to visually show prospective companies potential locations of their events within the interconnected campus. ### Continuing Education Website & Logo The Management Training and Development Association (MTDA)  provides management training courses on par with industry leader American Management Association but distinguishes itself with smaller class sizes and significantly lower fees. Positioned as the more personal, practical, and lower priced option for some of the most popular topics in management training, MTDA needed a visual brand that would be memorable and distinct from industry leader American Management Association. The site presents a rich diversity of imagery and deeper green and blue colors reflective of the personalized approach. And the site makes it easy for visitors to view course options, choose a specific session, and move through to easily register and pay online.  As part of the new branding, Verve also designed the MTDA logo. This incorporates the importance of the founder's longer term vision for worldwide training reflected in the visual nod to "global" in the letter "D."   ### Advocacy Nonprofit Website Woodstock Institute is an advocacy nonprofit that works to create economic justice and racial equity in the U.S. The previous website did not represent the stature of this 50+ year old organization. It was also difficult for visitors to quickly understand their areas of focus and find resources. Verve Marketing Group designed a new site with refreshed branding that captures the mission and vision of the organization through heavy use of imagery capturing the work and people that the organization serves. The project included migration and organization of over 3,000 blog articles going back over four decades. In the new information architecture, visitors can now easily find the content they need.  ### Legacy sporting goods company rebrands, new site Kiefer Aquatics is a leading ecommerce and brick and mortar retailer for the swim industry. While the flagship brand was highly respected in the industry, leadership had a vision to clarify the brands for both operational and marketing benefits.   Verve Marketing Group worked with Kiefer to develop the brand identity and then executed the new look and feel into key marketing pieces. This included designing a new – ·      Logo ·      Website ·      Brand Visual Identity ·      Packaging templates ·      Retail schematic ·      Email templates ·      Sales support materials   ### Digital marketing/SEO increases traffic 3,260% The New International Version (NIV) is the most-read English-language Bible translation worldwide and the number one selling Bible translation in the U.S. Verve Marketing Group created a refreshed brand identity and implemented it into a full brand campaign. This included a new website and ongoing digital marketing program with weekly blog articles, emails and social media marketing.   The results of the digital campaign included a 338% increase in overall site traffic after one year and 1,159% increase after 3 years—over 10 times the base year. The website was a Gold Award winner in the 2018 International MarCom Awards Competition. ### Nonprofit doubles membership with new website The National Garden Bureau (NGB) is the nonprofit marketing arm of the gardening industry.   Verve Marketing Group created a new website with a clean, modern feel and white background that showcases the plants, modern lifestyle imagery, and lots of white space. The site also made it easy for internal staff to create a variety of opportunities for NGB member organizations to create a variety opportunities for member organizations to target and promote to gardeners.   This site was a Gold Award Winner in the 2019 Hermes Creative Awards for nonprofit web design. Learn more about this project. ### Website & search marketing increases enrollments Cornerstone Children’s Learning Center is a NAEYC accredited early learning center for infants through pre-kindergarten in Chicago’s near north side.  Verve Marketing Group designed a new website in WordPress with a rebranded look and feel that showcases the warm and loving environment and quality program. New information architecture and page design encourages prospective parents to sign-up to schedule an in-person tour. Awareness, traffic and conversions on the site are driven through organic SEO, Google Ads, and local market print and digital advertising targeted to parents. ### Clutch Awards - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_web_design_company_illinois_2026.svg) - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_full_service_digital_company_illinois_2026.svg) - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_branding_company_women_owned_chicago.svg) - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_content_marketing_company_chicago_2026.svg) - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_web_design_company_consumer_products__services_united_states.svg) ### Industry Recognitions - Expertise best branding agencies in Chicago 2025 - 2025 Web Excellence Award McCormick Place website - 2024 IAC Web Award Winner - 2023 Communicator Award of Distinction Web Design - IAC Award Outstanding Achievement in Internet Adv - Gold Hermes Creative Award for website design - Best Marketing Consultancies in Chicago 2023 - Communicator Award of Excellence Websites 2021 - Best Branding Agencies in Chicago 2022 - MarCom Gold Winner for Ecommerce Web Design 2022 - Top Digital Marketing Agency 2019 by DesignRush ## Packages ## Verification Clutch verification provides an additional layer of data to help you make the right purchasing decision of business services. - Verified Client Reviews: 20 - Overall Review Rating: 4.9 Last Updated: 2026-06-13T02:30:34Z ### Business Entity - Business Entity Name: Verve Marketing Group, Inc. - Source: Illinois Secretary of State - Jurisdiction of Formation: Illinois - Date of Formation: December 11, 2008 - Status: Active - Last Updated: November 23, 2024 - ID: 66308537 ### Credit Report Results - International Credit Risk Assessment: Low Risk - Source: Creditsafe - Last Updated: November 23, 2024 ## Locations (1) ### Oak Brook, IL (Headquarters) - 2625 Butterfield Road, #138S - Oak Brook, IL 60523 - United States - 10 - 15 employees - Phone: 630-964-6056 ## Connections - Calvin Quarles (BOLINGBROOK COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH) - Saliha Basri (XiloTech) ## Contact Verve Marketing Group [Send a message](https://clutch.co/profile/verve-marketing-group) ### Connect on Social - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/verve-marketing-group/) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/vervemarketingchicagoagency/) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/vervemarketinggroup/)