Why us?

It started with this small marketing firm, only 12 of us and few contractors. Kind of a boutique outfit. Fancy. Snazzy. Sometimes snooty.

And by gosh we got the job done. I’m still proud of the websites and marketing projects we did. You may have seen some of them.

But what happened was this —

Originally a handful of us created a custom software company. And back around 1998, while working with our customers, they asked us about marketing, as well as the software. And we realized that the question really was:

“How to promote your company or yourself on search engines?”

Because this became the key point. We helped with pay-per-click, and SEO, and media buys, but again and again the success of promotion online came back to Google, and as we focused more and more on marketing for our clients, we grew to twelve people. We had people working on programming, system administration, content management, SEO and PPC.

And all of it was about how to market.

Marketing Trumps Software

You see where this is going. Because we were helping our clients where they actually needed the most help, our business did less and less custom software and more and more marketing work.

And being in charge, I learned what works.

Not long after, I faced a significant move, and that led me to leave the company, and a funny thing happened.

A friend approached me, and asked how he could clean up a sudden mess that had developed under his personal and his business names. And as I was helping him to fix that, someone another call came in with a totally different issue, and then another friend decided it would be smart to set up some “advance protection,” and then suddenly it hit me:

• This guy has a problem.
• That guy has a problem.
• LOTS of people have the same problem.

Reputation is Everything … and the internet can flatten a perfect reputation faster than McDonalds can wrap a Big Mac and serve it steaming hot on a tray with fries and a coke.

The Web Never Forgets

As I began to focus on reputation protection, and reputation repair, slowly the shocking picture became clear.

Even worse cases than we know happen to people every day. There are a million ways to screw up, and another million ways to be hit by a freight-train while parked in your own driveway.

The web doesn’t forget.

So of everyone in the world, if half the people make the mistake of saying things about themselves that work against them later, do you start to imagine how bad it can really get?

Why Invest in Our Reputation-Management Services?

Of course, one reason (if you are acting before the problem) is that we provide our reputation-protection newsletter for free, to guide you to protect yourself as you go, and to outline steps you can take to build a wall against your reputation.

Years of Practice, You get Good

There’s nothing like years of practice for getting skillful, for understanding why *this year’s* new-whizbang way of talking to Google is different from *last year’s* whizbank approach that doesn’t work quite so well any more.

Years of testing, to you really *know* what works, and what will work next year … you just can’t beat it.

And we’ve got it. (So you can get it.)

We designed our company from day one to effectively provide reputation-protection and reputation-repair, and that’s what made it possible to assemble our specialist team, to revolutionize the art and delivery of reputation protection and repair.

Our Key Concepts, for Today and Tomorrow

First, do you already have positive established content already sitting on the web? Got a lot of it? News stories? News video? Press releases, articles, books, reviews, interviews, blog posts, guest blog posts, forum posts?

Because part of our strategy as we’re working together … move positive pieces up.

Repair

It’s a bit more complex than changing spark plugs in your car.

In, fact, repairing an online reputation can sometimes take a continuous effort … but not always. And once it’s done, in some cases you may need never come back. Just peek now and then to make sure everything is still lovely.

Our Unique Approach

We combine proven, cutting-edge techniques that will keep your online reputation clean for years. Not just days. Not just weeks, not just months. Clean for years.

What you really want is “sustained results” — something that works, works hard, works well, and keeps right on working. And frankly, while free money is swell, we’d rather not lock you into continuous monthly fees. Because it’s just not necessary. That’s just fair.

We take it as a point of professional pride that we do the work. We ourselves do the analysis, the mapping out, the writing, the site creation, the articles, the interviews — whatever it is that your specific situation will require — because we’ve got the experience to do it well.

And this fact is important: It will be our company doing it. Doing it right. Doing it with techniques that are acceptable and approved by Search Engines … and that are as effective, as powerful, as permanent as possible.

So that if ever there are changes, in the shifting sands of internet search and navigation, we’ve got the solid knowledge to shift our strategies, so that your money is invested in the most effective methods available today.

And your reputation is safe.

Because Reputation is Everything.