Senior B2B marketers helping pharma, biotech, healthcare, and technology companies across Chicago turn marketing programs into qualified pipeline. We understand the Midwest life science ecosystem and the technical buyers you need to reach.
Trusted by leading B2B companies
Where science meets strategy. We help Chicago-area B2B companies cut through the noise with marketing programs that reach the right buyers and build qualified pipeline.
When you hire Marzipan, you work with a small, focused team of senior B2B marketers. The people you meet during the sales process are the same people executing your strategy. No handoffs, no layers of project management between you and the work.
We believe in being straightforward and easy to work with. Quick responses, clear reporting, and a genuine commitment to your commercial success are what define the Marzipan experience.
Learn more about the team
Joe Chamberlain
Head of Digital Marketing
Paul Wright
Head of Operations & Automation
Thomas Thornton
Head of Advertising, Data & Analytics
Everything your marketing team needs, delivered by senior specialists who understand your industry and your buyers.
Numbers from our work with B2B and life science organizations.
Chicago is home to some of the world's largest pharma and life science companies, and the marketing bar here is high. We bring years of experience helping B2B companies in biotech, healthcare, SaaS, and professional services build programs that generate real pipeline, not just activity.
We are a small agency by choice. That means your strategists know your business deeply, care about your results personally, and have the bandwidth to give your account the attention it needs to succeed.
We work exclusively with B2B companies in complex markets. From Chicago pharma giants to Fulton Market startups, we know how to reach technical buyers and navigate long procurement cycles.
Your campaigns are built and managed by senior B2B marketers, not account coordinators. Every person on your team has years of experience in the industries we serve.
Impressions and clicks are not outcomes. We build programs that generate qualified opportunities and connect every marketing activity to your revenue goals through CRM-integrated reporting.
“Working with Marzipan was a turning point for our digital strategy. The new site is fast, scalable, and delivers qualified leads every week.”
Mike Thurogood
VP Marketing, Instem
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Run Your Free AEO AuditThe Chicago market has no shortage of agencies that call themselves B2B specialists. Here is how to tell the real ones from the generalists.
The best B2B agencies have direct experience in your sector. Whether you are in technology, manufacturing, professional services, or life science, your agency should understand your buyers, your sales cycle, and the competitive dynamics of your market. Ask for case studies in your industry, not just testimonials from unrelated clients.
One of the most common complaints about agencies is the bait-and-switch: senior people show up for the pitch, then you get handed off to juniors. Ask specifically who will be on your account, what their experience level is, and whether the people in the pitch meeting are the same people doing the day-to-day work.
A good B2B agency does not just run campaigns and send reports. They build the infrastructure to connect marketing activity to pipeline and revenue. That means CRM integration, lead scoring, attribution modeling, and dashboards your leadership team can actually use. If they cannot show you cost per opportunity, walk away.
Execution is important, but strategy is what separates a vendor from a partner. Your agency should be able to challenge your thinking, bring new ideas to the table, and connect your marketing activity to your broader commercial goals. If every conversation is about tactics and deliverables, you are paying for hands, not heads.
B2B buying decisions involve multiple stakeholders, longer evaluation periods, and higher deal values than consumer purchases. That changes everything about how marketing should work. Your content needs to educate and build trust over weeks or months, not generate impulse clicks. Your campaigns need to reach specific job titles at specific companies, not broad demographics. And your measurement needs to track the full journey from first touch to closed deal, not just form fills.
Most marketing agencies were built for B2C or light-touch B2B. They know how to drive traffic and generate leads, but they struggle with the nuance of complex sales cycles, multi-stakeholder buying committees, and content that needs to pass muster with technical audiences. That is the gap a specialist B2B agency fills.
Chicago has emerged as one of the top 10 life science clusters in the country, driven by major pharma and biotech companies (Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie, Baxter International, Astellas, Horizon Pharma, Tempus), world-class research institutions (University of Chicago, Northwestern, UIC, Argonne National Lab), and rapid infrastructure growth in innovation districts like Fulton Market and The 78.
That concentration creates intense competition and opportunity. The decision-makers you are trying to reach in the Chicago area are constantly targeted by your competitors. Standing out requires marketing that demonstrates genuine understanding of their challenges, access to Chicago-specific market intelligence, and execution at a level that matches the sophistication of the market.
We work as an extension of your marketing team. That means regular check-ins, shared project management tools, and transparent reporting on everything we do. Most client relationships start with a discovery call where we learn about your market, your goals, and the challenges your team is facing. From there, we build a tailored strategy and execute against it month by month.
We are not a local Chicago agency. We are a specialist B2B marketing agency that works with clients across the US and internationally, with particular depth in life science, healthcare, and technology. But we know the Chicago market well, we understand the local business ecosystem, and we have a strong track record of delivering results for companies in the area.
Book a 30-minute discovery call with our team. No pitch, no hard sell. We will talk about your goals, your challenges, and how we might be able to help.
A B2B marketing agency focuses on selling to businesses rather than consumers. That means longer sales cycles, multiple stakeholders, higher deal values, and content that needs to educate and build trust over time. For industries like life science and biotech, it also means understanding regulatory constraints, technical buyer personas, and complex procurement processes. A generalist agency simply will not have this depth of knowledge.
Building an in-house team that covers strategy, SEO, PPC, content, email automation, and analytics is expensive and time-consuming. A specialist B2B agency gives you access to senior-level expertise across all of these disciplines from day one, without the overhead of recruiting, training, and managing a full department. Most of our clients work with us alongside a lean internal team, where we handle execution and they focus on product marketing and stakeholder alignment.
We track metrics across the full funnel. At the top, we measure organic rankings, traffic, and brand visibility. In the middle, we look at content engagement, email performance, and lead quality. At the bottom, we track marketing qualified leads, sales pipeline contribution, and cost per opportunity. Everything connects back to your CRM so you can see exactly which marketing activities are driving revenue.
No. While we work with a number of companies in the Chicago area, we serve B2B and life science clients across the United States and internationally. Our team operates as a seamless extension of your marketing department regardless of where you are based.
We specialize in B2B marketing for life science, biotech, pharmaceutical, medtech, and healthcare companies. We also work with B2B SaaS and professional services organizations. Our deepest expertise is in industries where the buyer is technical, the sales cycle is long, and credibility is everything.
Paid channels like Google Ads and LinkedIn can generate qualified leads within the first 30 to 60 days. SEO and content marketing typically take three to six months to build meaningful organic visibility, though the compounding returns make it one of the highest-ROI channels over time. We set realistic timelines during our discovery process and report progress against them monthly.
