Tacklebox was a critical partner in helping Tide Spin to craft its marketing, brand and tone of voice. Their team took an insights-led approach that helped us craft distinctive communication with messaging that connected with our target consumers. Tacklebox's leadership was deeply-engaged throughout and had a clear process to get from the briefing to winning creative. I highly recommend working with David Kelbaugh and the Tacklebox team enough. They have the strategic thinking of big-agency creative shops, but the agility to move quickly and keep pace in an ever-changing market.

Tacklebox is Conversion Energy’s full-service ‘go to’ Marketing, Branding, and PR firm. Our first exposure two years ago was a ‘rush job’ to set up our full marketing program for the biggest Plastics Recycling Conference in the U.S., and execute upon it for us with a full rebranding strategy, pre-show advertising, brochures, and booth design …all in a few weeks’ time… As a result of Tacklebox’s work, we won the ‘best booth in the show’ and walked away with a large number of solid leads! Since that time, the Tacklebox team has performed above our expectations, in the allotted time, and within budget expectations. Their experience and advice have been invaluable for our growth in getting word out about Conversion Energy and our website. We at Conversion Energy highly recommend Tacklebox for any marketing, branding, and PR job!

Krueger Steel and Wire recently completed a refresh and rebranding of our 77-year-old company. We participate in a legacy industry which normally doesn’t embrace innovation, especially relative to sales and marketing. The Tacklebox team embraced this challenge and helped direct our efforts so that we are now an industry-leading organization. David, Shannon and the Tacklebox Team quickly learned the vernaculars of our industry and helped us revamp our entire image by defining our brand, creating a modern fresh logo and visual identity, built a new website, expanded into the utilization of social media, as well as the creation of new brochures and advertising pieces. We have been so impressed by their service and support that we continue to use them in monitoring our website as well as to continue working on improving our website’s search engine optimization. Our new website and SEO efforts have generated more leads in the first few months than we had in the three prior years combined. This was my second opportunity working with Tacklebox as I worked with them several years ago at another company. Their services have only expanded and improved and I will continue to rely on their expertise!

David and the Tacklebox team are outstanding to work with. They are our partner, always listening, learning, and providing options. The Tacklebox team is professional, collaborative, trusting, and truly an extension of our marketing team. Tacklebox has been able to expedite my projects, completing them in 6-8 weeks instead of 3-6 months. They clearly outline the project, stay on-task, on-budget, and are willing to help guide us on how we can best use the information and improve our business.

Working with Tacklebox on the CEIR brand refresh was an eye-opening experience. Their professionalism and approach to uncovering key insights about the brand and how the exhibitions and events industry views CEIR were a process we were thrilled to be a part of and understand. Tacklebox gave the CEIR team a roadmap to efficiently and effectively implement our new brand and we highly recommend them for anyone looking to take their business to new heights.

Having been a past Chairperson of the Board for IAEE, I had the honor of serving again in 2020 - 2022. During the Global Pandemic and subsequent recovery, The Center for Exhibition Industry Research's work was even more relevant and important to the Exhibition and Events Community. CEIR information and data is the primary source of independent research and analysis of the global exhibition industry, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and important segments of the Global Press. However, CEIR needed a fresh look and strong representation of its Value and Strength. The CEIR Brand needed to match the power of the work. David Kelbaugh, Principal of Tacklebox Brand Partners and his team were selected to create and implement the new brand and accompanying strategy and communications. As a highly experienced Brand Leader, David brought years of experience with many of the world’s largest and most successful brands including P&G, Philip Morris, and in the exhibition industry GES and Craft Beverage. His understanding of what CEIR needed in the context of Best in Class Marketing led CEIR to embrace a 21st-century look, plan, and design. David and his team worked closely with the CEIR and IAEE staff, as well as the Board of Directors to frame the rebrand as a fresh and enduring representation of the exhibition and events community and its members.

We have engaged with Tacklebox on multiple corporate events, and they have been a spectacular partner to work with. Each year they have given us strong guidance on design and content that has always helped promote our brand, drive attendance and were pivotal to our event’s success. David and his team are very professional, creative and I would highly recommend them for any event you are intending to promote.

Tacklebox is smart, responsive, driven, and capable agency. David and the team were wonderful to work with! They supported us - on a very tight timeline - by helping us market our Craft Beverage Expo (Pittsburgh, 2023). They helped us with PR and paid social media campaigns. They helped us gain more national coverage than we expected and activated and guided the right influencers and bloggers to tell our story. They handled all of our marketing challenges with grace, responsiveness, and kindness. They were a great partner for us and we would definitely recommend working with them!