A Family-Owned Cedar Rapids Firm Dating to 1923
Stamats is a marketing, research and consulting firm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Frank French and Herbert Stamats founded it in 1923 as a marketing services company, and descendants of Herbert Stamats and their families still own and manage it. It began in print publishing and added market research for education institutions in the 1980s.
Today it serves two main markets: higher education and healthcare. Healthcare clients include individual health centers, hospital systems, academic medical centers and bioscience research institutions.
Service Line Marketing to Referring Physicians
- SEO/AEO strategy
- Brand and design
- CMS and website design
- Content
- Digital marketing
- Enrollment marketing
- Print, podcast and video
- Research
Stamats applies SEO, GEO and AI search optimization practices to every project. For healthcare, it runs service line marketing aimed at referring physicians, patients and families, plus journey mapping, audience-based nurturing campaigns and attribution modeling that ties marketing to revenue.
UT Southwestern’s MedBlog Drives 40% of Web Traffic
Stamats has worked on UT Southwestern Medical Center’s MedBlog for more than a decade, growing from one service line to a health-system approach. The blog drives 40% of web traffic, publishes 85+ articles a year, and grew new website users 54% year over year. One patient story earned a 2025 Digital Health Award merit recognition.
Its top healthcare clients include Mount Sinai Health System, Evangelical Community Hospital, Mercy Iowa City and several health sciences colleges. It has mapped more than 314 patient or audience journeys and completed 17 CRM integrations.
RFP Submissions and Separately Priced Research
Pricing is custom. Organizations can submit an RFP.
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