# Ampersand

> Ampersand is a privately held, full-service marketing, advertising, and growth agency in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by Heather Noel in 2010 as Mangold Creative, it renamed itself Ampersand on its tenth anniversary to express a model built around pairing: strategy with execution, marketing with sales, and an outside agency with a client's internal team. Its work spans brand systems, traditional and digital campaigns, websites, e-commerce, sales enablement, analytics, and ongoing outsourced marketing leadership.

- **Founded:** 2010
- **Headquarters:** Pewaukee, United States
- **Founders:** Heather Noel (Founder, Owner & CEO)
- **Products:** Strategy, Virtual Marketing Department, Branding, Traditional Marketing, Digital Marketing
- **Notable:** Reached 10 years in business and rebranded from Mangold Creative to Ampersand in 2020., Expanded from marketing into an integrated offer that includes sales leadership, CRM support, analytics, web development, and traditional media., Created a formal leadership structure in 2020 and a Product Manager tier in 2023.

## Products & services

- **Strategy** — Market and audience definition, competitive analysis, budgeting, calendars, KPI design, and sales and marketing goal-setting.
- **Virtual Marketing Department** — Ongoing implementation, budget management, analytics, marketing intelligence, and regular operating meetings for organizations that outsource marketing leadership and execution.
- **Branding** — Naming, identity systems, brand standards, positioning, campaign creative, and internal communications.
- **Traditional Marketing** — Print, direct mail, media planning, public relations, radio, television, photography, video, and event management.
- **Digital Marketing** — SEO, content, email, social media, Google Ads, digital advertising, campaign optimization, and reporting.
- **Web and E-commerce** — Web strategy, UX/UI, development, e-commerce, hosting, and maintenance.
- **Sales Services** — Virtual sales leadership, CRM support, sales training, team design, forecasting, pitch materials, and funnel reporting.

## Achievements

- Reached 10 years in business and rebranded from Mangold Creative to Ampersand in 2020.
- Expanded from marketing into an integrated offer that includes sales leadership, CRM support, analytics, web development, and traditional media.
- Created a formal leadership structure in 2020 and a Product Manager tier in 2023.
- Built public portfolio work for organizations including GE HealthCare, Waukesha State Bank, Drexel Building Supply, Community Smiles Dental, and GO Riteway Transportation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — The agency's main website listed an updated, seven-part offer covering strategy, execution, branding, traditional, digital, web, and sales services.
- **2025** — Portfolio materials featured Waukesha State Bank's 2025 community-banking campaign across billboards, direct mail, social media, posters, and print.
- **2025** — Ampersand advertised for a graphic designer supporting print, digital advertising, social media, and email creative from its Pewaukee office.
- **2024-12** — The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce published a member profile detailing Ampersand's operating model, leadership evolution, hybrid office, and community investment.

## Links

- Website: https://ampersandmke.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ampersandmke/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mangoldcreative
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ampersand_mke/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ampersandmke

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Last updated: 2026-09-21