Many small business owners know marketing matters, but don’t trust what they’re getting for their money.

AdvisingIQ was founded by Chad Young in 2018 for exactly that reason. After 20+ years working across engineering, sales, and operations at companies like AMD, Dell, and industrial technology startups, Chad approaches marketing differently than most advisors: as a business system, not a collection of tactics.

Since founding AdvisingIQ, he’s worked with more than 50 owner-led service businesses that had tried “some marketing,” spent real dollars, and still didn’t have clarity on what was working, what was wasted, or what to do next. His focus: simplify the decisions, connect marketing activity to real business outcomes, and build systems you don’t have to babysit.

Chad Young, Founder

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Chad’s background spans 13 years as a design engineer at AMD, a principal IoT engineering role at Dell, and five years as Director of Solutions Engineering at Relayr. There he owned C-suite relationships, built technical playbooks, and maintained a 90% win rate across a $40M+ pipeline. That career built a deep fluency in how businesses actually operate and what it takes to connect strategy to results.

He holds a BBA in Marketing from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX.

What that means for your business:

• We help businesses grow.
• We help businesses find new clients.
• We help businesses generate more profit.
• We make marketing work for your business, not the other way around.

AdvisingIQ acts as your outsourced marketing department. That means real strategy, hands-on execution, and clear accountability. We get into your business, understand what you’re building, and run the marketing so you don’t have to.

When your business grows, we’re doing our job. When something isn’t working, we change the strategy.