behind ace digital

I've done what you're doing right now.

You’re running the business. You’re also picking the agencies, reviewing the copy, watching the ad spend at midnight, and trying to figure out if any of it is actually working. There’s no one in your building who can see the whole picture, so by default, you do.

I held both jobs for ten years. I started in marketing, in radio, digital advertising, and agency strategy, before I ever owned a business. Then I bootstrapped my own beauty brand from a brick-and-mortar shop into a national e-commerce business, doing all the marketing myself the whole way. I exited that brand with a system that finally worked.

That's the experience I bring to your business. Not as another vendor for you to manage. As a founder who's already done what you're trying to do.

20 years +

Operating across SEO, inbound, outbound, loop marketing

2M+

In waste eliminated from client tech stacks & vendors

amie burkholder growth architect

tech stack architecture

SEO & LLM visibility

paid media strategy

web architecture

conversion optimization

marketing automation

20+

Years operating across inbound, outbound, paid media, organic marketing,sales and operations. 

7+

Industries served — consumer products, real estate, SaaS, professional services 

2M+

In waste eliminated from client tech stacks, vendors, and ad spend

1

Strategist accountable. No vendor handoffs. No siloed reports.

why ace digital exists

You shouldn't be the one running the marketing too.

You’re the founder. And somehow you’re also the de facto marketer. Picking the agencies. Reviewing the copy. Watching the spend. Second-guessing the website at midnight. There is no one else in your building who can see the whole picture, so by default, you do.

I held both jobs for over ten years. My marketing career started before my first business. Radio promotions. Newspaper digital advertising. Agency-side strategy. I learned the inside of the industry before I was ever a buyer of it. Then I built my own brand from scratch. Brick-and-mortar first, then a national e-commerce business. I bootstrapped it. I ran it. And I did the marketing myself the whole way through, because I knew enough to know I couldn’t trust most of the people pitching me.

I exited that brand with a system that finally worked. Most of the years before that exit were the system not working yet.

That's the experience I bring to your business. Not as another vendor for you to manage. As a founder who already wore both hats so you don't have to.

So when a founder tells me their marketing isn’t working, I don’t reach for tactics. I reach for the questions I wish someone had asked me a decade earlier. Where is the spend going. What is the offer actually doing. Is the tech stack helping or hurting. Which vendors are producing real pipeline and which are just sending reports. The questions are unsexy. The answers compound. That’s the role I built ACE Digital around. The marketer and the founder, in one person, who already learned how to do this right and now takes the job off your plate so you can run the business only you can run.

What Comes Off Your Plate

When I run your marketing, this is what I handle.

All of it. The strategy. The team and the vendors. The tools and the data behind everything. The campaigns. The numbers I'm reporting on. Most agencies handle a slice. I handle the whole thing, so you don't have to manage them, the tools, or the strategy in between.

Strategy & leadership

The direction

Positioning, messaging, channel priorities, vendor and team oversight, and founder advisory on pricing, offer, and go-to-market. Tied to revenue, not vanity numbers.

I architect

Getting found, getting leads

SEO, content, local and AI search visibility, Google and Meta ads, Local Service Ads, and the ad creative engine that feeds them. The full inbound and outbound mix.

Conversion & engagement

Turning leads into revenue

Web design and conversion optimization, email and nurture, sales follow-up workflows, social media, and brand work. The pieces that decide whether traffic actually pays.

Operations & truth

The foundation underneath

Tech stack, CRM, marketing automation, analytics, and reporting. The unglamorous infrastructure that decides whether anything above it actually works.

Hand it over.

The first call is a working session, not a pitch. We look at where the system is leaking and what it would take to fix it. If the answer is to work together, we will both know.