Our Preferred Vendors

To be considered a “Preferred Vendor” by us, you must pay at least $5,000 in cash. We’re kidding. You need have worked with and impressed at least one of our clients or just blown our mind at a conference as a guest or panel speaker.

We’ve included some fixed pricing from our friends below to help you make a decision. Please keep in mind that every situation is different and that you may get a lower or higher quote based on your individual needs.

Local Splash

Where do you rank in the maps section of the local (and now organic) search engine results? If you’re not on the first page or moving your way up to the top spot in the A-J list on Google, then you should sign up for the Local Splash program.

Not only does this local SEO product get you higher placement in Bing, Yahoo! & Google, they also harness the power of mass syndication, posting your business on local destinations such as Merchant Circle, Yelp, Yahoo! Local, GLBC, Bing Local, and several other popular local search destinations.

Last Updated: 9/7/09
Services: Local/maps optimization, business directory inclusion, organic SEO & PPC services
Pricing: Click here for rate card
Contact Info: Click here to contact Local Splash

Harvest SEO

Based in the Philippines, Harvest SEO has been a reliable offshore vendor we’ve worked with for over a half a decade.

Owned Michael Turner, Harvest SEO provides quality content writing, link building, and search engine optimization services. It takes a few weeks to get started with Harvest SEO, but it’s worth the wait.

Harvest SEO Services & Prices

Last Updated: 9/7/09
Services: Link building, content writing, search engine optimization
Pricing: Typically $1,100 setup + $1k/mo. for a dedicated resource
Contact Info: Click here to contact Harvest SEO

Digital Eye

For high-end web design, email design and a tricked-out SEO CMS system, there is no better vendor than Digital Eye. Super fast turnaround on design comps and revisions, exquisite W3C-valid source code, and now they are offering custom Wordpress themes with installation for under $2k.

Gary Brewer, President of Digital Eye, treats each client as if they were his own. Gary ranks #1 in Google for the search term “relationship management specialist”, so he must be doing something right.

Digital Eye Services & Prices

Last Updated: 9/7/09
Services: High-end web design, email design & marketing, custom Wordpress themes, & SEM
Pricing: Click here for rate card
Contact Info: Click here to contact Digital Eye

Reflect Studios

Specializing in fashion and social profile-based web design services, Reflect Studios also caters to many other industries and individuals. Your jaw will hit the floor when you see your MySpace page after owner Adam Flatau gets his hands on it for a day.

Visualize your MySpace, Twitter, and website all themed with your brand and plenty of link bait for SEO. Flatau’s code meets W3C standards for XHTML and CSS with a reasonable amount of post-changes. Try the Red Label service for an affordable starter package.

Reflect Studios Services & Prices

Last Updated: 10/19/09
Services: Professional web design, simple & affordable custom websites
Pricing: Click here for rate card
Contact Info: Click here and select Contact for a quote

Aaron Michael Irizarry

You only think you know the impact of your brand until you’ve listened to Aaron Irizarry speak at a Local SEO Summit or Conference.

Aaron adds character to an otherwise very boring, technology heavy industry. His experience in molding a brochure website into a highly interactive and viral experience in unparalleled.

Aaron Irizarry is currently the Director of Interactive Media at Infoswell Media. He is passionate about User Experience, Front End Web Development, Web Apps, Product Development, and Experience Design having worked in this field the past 7 years.

He has built a strong online following writing and speaking about some of the practical aspects of these things on his blog www.thisisaaronslife.com, and other popular design blogs.

Last Updated: 9/7/09
Services: Basic web design/redesign, custom Wordpress theme design/installation, post-click optimization
Pricing: Click here for rate card
Contact Info: Contact Aaron | LinkedIn | Krop Portfolio | @aaroni268

Dinamani Haobam

Once in a lifetime a designer comes along who “just gets it” when it comes to knowing what customers want and delivering above and beyond for an affordable price.

Sailing swiftly below the radar for reasons we can’t comprehend, Dinamani has proven himself to be not just an unbelievable designer, but also a total wiz at CSS tableless coding (yes, valid W3C CSS/XHTML). In under a week you can have your design, revision, and Wordpress theme installed for about $1k.

Last Updated: 9/7/09
Services: Basic web design/redesign, custom Wordpress theme design/installation
Pricing: Design $500, Design+HTML $650, Design+Wordpress Theme $750
Contact Info: Contact Dinamani | Guru.com Portfolio | @dinahao

Rockstar Media

We haven’t used Rockstar Media personally, but they came highly recommended. Just one look at their website and you’ll see that the name says it all.

Hourly rate for Rockstar Media is $30/hour. Send them quote request to see what that means in terms of time/cost required for your particular project. This vendor specializes in user interface and design, HTML/CSS coding, and content management (yes, we’re referring to Wordpress themes again – seeing a pattern here folks?). Check out their website or contact them for more information.

Last Updated: 10/09/09
Services: Basic web design/redesign, custom Wordpress theme design/installation
Pricing: $30/hour
Contact Info: Contact Rockstar | Rockstar’s Blog | Rockstar Media Portfolio

McKenna’s Marketing

There are those in the Internet Marketing world who talk the talk, but then fall flat on their face when it comes to delivery. Susan McKenna does not fit that profile. McKenna’s Marketing more than walks the walk, more like runs laps around the walkers while standing in a class all of their own.

Featured on the cover of Response Magazine, in dozens of online publications and blogs, and a guest speaker at major Internet marketing events, Susan and her team will absolutely deliver what they promise.

Last Updated: 9/7/09
Services: Email marketing, social media marketing, & e-commerce websites
Pricing: Click here for rate card
Contact Info: Contact Susan | Susan’s Blog | LinkedIn | @mckennasmark

Crowd Surf

Need a high-end, high-impact, highly profitable social media campaign? If you are an entertainer, you won’t find a more experienced social media marketing agency on the planet than our friends at Crowd Surf.

With clients as large as Bill Engvall, Jade and her team are taking entertainment-based clients to a whole new level of social marketing, tracking video views, clicks, and impressions from every tactic they deploy. These guys aren’t cheap, but they sure know what they are doing when it comes to SMO.