Clear Marketing and Design has a true design team that offers professional work at affordable…read moreprices! The co-owners have extensive backgrounds in the field, and I love all of the design work they've created for me! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I have been trying to work with Inkstache for over a year for simple updates to my website. Over…read morethe course of that time, Case was unresponsive for days, if not weeks or months, at a time. While their work looks good from the outside, I unfortunately never got to the point where I can say they did good work for me. It should NEVER be that difficult to get a hold of someone who you hire to do something for you. As a small business owner myself, I can tell you if I did not reply to one of my clients, I can assure you they would never want to work with me again- which is exactly what this situation ensured for Inkstache. I will be taking my business elsewhere, where as a client, I am valued and taken care of in a prompt and professional manner.

I used to work here as an intern in 2019 so I'm extremely biased. With that out of the way:…read more Kinetic Communications is a gem of a company offering top-notch digital media design and development. If you need a website, you go to these fine folks. They have an impressive portfolio of past projects from local businesses to regional corporations like Jacks to public entities like the University of Alabama and Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport, so you know they know a thing or two about quality. Their office has to be one of the coolest things you've ever seen. It used to be a nightclub frequented by Johnny Cash, but it's been converted to a space rivalling Silicon Valley. It's got it all - LED lights, a gym, beer on tap, coffee, a full kitchen, giant chess, rooftop golf, and more. The main man in charge, Jay Brandrup, is an outstanding guy and very down to Earth. Even if you're not in the market for a finely-tuned digital marketing overhaul, it's still worth checking out as a passerby. Turns out a bright red train car on a cobblestone road makes for a great photo op.

We recently had Whiteboard re-do our website and make it more mobile app friendly. They did an…read moreincredible job - it is so easy to read and use and the price was great. The staff we worked with were very helpful, made great suggestions and were great to respond to our questions. I will continue to use them and would recommend them highly.

My new Start-Up has just finished working with Whiteboard-IT to develop a custom iOS mobile…read moreapplication. The staff is knowledgeable, and I was extremely impressed with the user interface and artistic design work. Our app's purpose is very unique, and Whiteboard-IT helped build it from the ground up. I would recommend their services to anyone, and plan on using them again for updates to our app.

I had great success with Lyons. I found them to be friendly, accurate, and fast. I will be using…read morethem again when needed.

BEWARE. This person advertises himself on his website (bearconsulo.com) and on various Freelance…read morewebsites. I hired him on Upwork. He convinced me to release $600 as a deposit on the work he was to perform. I did so. He disappeared. No response to me. No response to Upwork mediation. They eventually refunded money I still had in escrow but offered no support for re-gaining the funds released through their site to him. This person cannot be trusted to deliver anything. BEWARE. SCAM ARTIST.

I wish I could rate Bear Consulo less than 1-star. I see after a year, the story is still the same…read more This is a long review but I feel people need to know just how bad this web designer is. I hired Bear a little over a year ago to work on a project for me. I own a website design and digital marketing company here in Los Angeles and we needed some additional help. Our company prides itself on excellent customer service and Bear made us look awful. We found his listing on Craigslist. He lived up by Sacramento and I figured that was pretty local -- same state and not located overseas. We chatted on the phone and I felt he was a great fit. Shared my same sentiments on customer service and values. My plan was to test him out on one project in hopes of giving him a lot of our overflow work. The first project I gave Bear was actually a pair of websites. This client had two divisions and wanted separate websites but with the same overall design -- just different color schemes. Bear and I settled on a price and he began designing. Initially, he sent some quick designs back -- they looked pretty amateur. The client liked it nonetheless and we began the coding/development phase. After a few weeks, I began hounding Bear for timelines. On Monday, he said "it'll be done by Friday." So I told the client that and he was excited to see his new website. On Wednesday, I noticed that nothing had been done on our development server. I emailed Bear to confirm we were still on for Friday -- never heard form him. Thursday, still no work done and I emailed him again -- still nothing. Friday morning nothing had changed and I emailed him -- didn't hear anything. In order to keep up our great image with the client, I cleared off the rest of my Friday, Saturday and Sunday to clock in and put Bear's website together. Filling in pages of content, creating sub-page design, etc. It was awful having to basically budget three days of work (and my weekend) to a project I never intended to have a hand in, reverse engineer Bear's sloppy code and deliver something -- anything -- to the client all while trying to buy time and save face. Bear finally contacted me that next Monday afternoon and explained that he had gone through some family drama. His wife had left him, taken the kids and disappeared. He supposedly spent all weekend trying to locate them with the police. He offered to send me copies of police reports -- I declined. Reports are easily fabricated so that doesn't prove much to me. He apologized profusely and said he really needed the money and asked if I had another project. In fact, he was willing to take one at a lesser rate to make up for the problem. He played to my sympathy and I gave him another, more complex project. I know, completely my mistake, but I thought this was a one-time fluke. The design phase on Project 2 was done and Bear began coding the site on our development server. In the meantime, I kicked him a third project. Bear was working on Project 2 and Project 3 concurrently. The same situation began happening. He would promise "end of the week" deadlines and then I wouldn't hear from him. I'd monitor progress on our development server and could see that Project 2 (in the coding phase) had absolutely no work being done to it. Meanwhile, the client emails are stacking up and I'm running our of excuses. Bear never even delivered a design for Project 3. Here's the direct email quote from Bear on 12/7/2015: "Definitely by end of this week, looking for sooner. You can safely tell them Friday though." I never heard from Bear again. No design was ever delivered on Project 3 and Project 2 was abandoned. That Friday I was left scrambling to put together a design for Project 3 to send the client because he "safely" assured me he'd deliver. He literally left me high and dry on these two projects without so much as another email. I started digging into Project 2 as to tackle some of the work on my own and show the client progress was being made. It was a simple Wordpress website and I couldn't find the correct stylesheet. I dug into the HTML to find the reference URL and noticed it was being stored on another server. Now I began to fume -- what was going on. I followed the URL and noticed that Bear had been farming out this project to some Filipino web designer. Wow, completely unacceptable and the precarious position it put me in to have such a critical element stored on another server oversees and at somebody else's control. Web designers use this tactic to ensure payment is received after transferring a website to your server. If you don't pay, they kill the stylesheet and your site comes down, forcing you to pay. Was the plan to shake me down for more money by holding a large client's website hostage? I'll never know. I challenged all of the money I paid Bear via Paypal and Visa, both agencies ruled in my favor and refunded me. I would never do business with Bear again.

In July of 24 I was invited to a Christmas in July party where all businesses were asked to drop a…read morebusiness card into a box for a raffle. I ended up winning a drawing for $2500 in ad spend with IHeart. I was asked to come in to set up my advertising. I agreed to pay use the $2500 credit in conjunction with another $2500 monthly ad spend. We started in October and I was committed to using Rob Conrad as my endorsee for my business. Rob retired in October and my ads were going to be changed. I knew Rob personally and had an experience that felt good. I didn't want another person to do my ads but I continued to allow JT to do them. I received a bill in November $2500 over the agreed upon amount which would have included my credit. I contacted IHeart and spoke about this with Kelly Flannagan. She assured me I would have the $2500 credited to my account and to continue ad spend. In December I received another bill $2500 over the agreed upon amount. I contacted Kelly Flannagan again and was assured she would get this fixed. In January I received the bill from December for the same amount a third time and contacted Kelly advising her I wanted to cancel IHeart Media's services. I did pay my 3 agreed upon amounts of $2500. However, I am being billed for $7500 roughly in an outstanding amount. I contacted the President of Marketing Black Fulton who acknowledged that the amount was overcharged but wanted me to continue spending money with IHeart in order to receive my credit. The credit would be free advertising for three months under the request that I pay for the past due bill they overcharged me. In a since they are blackmailing me to pay what I do not owe in exchange for more advertising. This is not right and they are refusing to DO WHAT IS RIGHT. So I am sharing my experience with all local businesses. Folks do not do business with IHeart Media.

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