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Thrive Creative

100 S. State Street
Suite 419
Chicago, IL 60603
+1 773-451-5397

Founded in 2012, Thrive Creative is a strategy-focused marketing agency that exclusively serves a global community of heavy-equipment industry companies.

Combining human-centered design with digital technologies, our specialized team of strategists, designers, copywriters, UX architects, developers, and project managers guide clients through journeys of transformation that turn challenges into opportunities, and brands into legacies.

We do this through four core services:

Product Launch Services

Product Launch Services

They’re called “launches” for a reason— because they set things in motion. Product launches raise eyebrows. Cultivate excitement. Get people talking. When done right, they bridge the gap between logic and emotion and boost anticipation to a boiling point. 

Whether you’re launching a new product within an existing product line, launching an existing product to a new market, or launching a new product altogether, our strategy-fueled launch campaigns build buzz and achieve results.

  • MARKET/CUSTOMER RESEARCH
  • COMPETITIVE RESEARCH
  • AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION
  • POSITIONING REVIEW
  • MARKETING STRATEGY
  • VISUAL DESIGN
  • CONTENT DESIGN & STRATEGY
Brand Transformation & Creation

Brand Transformation & Creation

There comes a time in every brand’s history when it must transform itself. Smart brands understand that even if your primary audience doesn’t change, the way that audience behaves over time certainly does. Attitudes, cultural context, technology—they all play a critical role in how your brand is perceived from year to year. 

Brand transformation is a fearless decision to implement a new strategy, tell a new story, and to craft a new identity. It’s an exciting opportunity to shape a new look and feel that announces to the world exactly why you have mattered, and why you still matter. After all, a brand transformed is a brand revived. And the start of a new and important chapter in your legacy. 

  • BRAND POSITIONING
  • IDENTITY SYSTEMS
  • WEBSITE & APP DESIGN
  • UX DESIGN
  • BRAND ARCHITECTURE
Customer Acquisition & Retention

Customer Acquisition & Retention

Audience growth doesn’t happen by accident. Neither does keeping your core group of loyal brand evangelists engaged —the ones who’ve been coming to you for years, supporting you at every point in your journey.

Instead, audience growth and retention is the result of a carefully planned customer acquisition and retention strategy. Often, this begins with a review of your positioning, and then a deep analysis of the problem you’re solving for your customers in order to understand how they feel about your solution. Finally, we locate where your customers gather, interact, and engage—in both physical and digital spaces— so we can deploy the right message to the right place at the right time.

  • BRAND POSITIONING
  • BRAND STRATEGY
  • CUSTOMER RESEARCH
  • AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION
  • MARKETING STRATEGY
  • CONTENT DESIGN
  • VISUAL DESIGN
Industrial E-Commerce & Technology

Industrial E-Commerce & Technology

Technology should be transformative. Maybe you’re selling products from a catalog and want to explore an e-commerce offering. Perhaps you’re selling equipment and other products through a dealer network and looking for additional direct-to-consumer options. Or maybe you’re just looking for creative ways to integrate your technologies so they do more than they’re currently doing.

Whatever it is you’ve got in mind, our tech offering is designed to uncover your pain points, integrate your analog and digital experiences, and harness the true power of your technology stack.

  • DIGITAL PRODUCTS
  • FULL-STACK DEVELOPMENT
  • CMS IMPLEMENTATION
  • ECOMMERCE
  • TECHNOLOGY AUDITS
  • AUGMENTED REALITY

Leadership

Chief Executive Officer

Timothy J. Hillegonds

Chief Executive Officer

Partner, Vice President of Content

Michael R. Chalmers

Partner, Vice President of Content

Amit Patel

Executive Creative Director

Imad Khan

Associate Director of Technology

Current Job Openings

We’re looking for creative, driven people who like to do good work and get shit done. If this sounds like you, drop us a note.

jobs@thrivecs.com

We’d love to hear about your business and brand, even if you don’t quite know what you need. No pitch. No pressure. Nowhere to go but up.