Keep It Clean America is a Sacramento based cleaning company with an extremely poor online reputation including terrible reviews on Yelp mostly related to customers attempting to schedule schedule appointments repeatedly with them, ending up being no-shows and were unresponsive to calls and e-mails, and unhonored GroupOn purchases.
Creatine Marketing's Service Claims
Client Description
Creatine Marketing Client Page Capture 6/01/13
With over 10 years of professional cleaning experience, Keep It Clean uses the latest cleaning systems
for a deep clean that no other cleaner can compete with. Voted best in price, service, and professionalism, Keep It Clean has a 100% satisfaction guarantee in their carpet, upholstery, tile and grout, and duct cleaning services.
Jennifer, Robert, Daniel, and Nicolas, all upper-level executives and owners of Creatine Marketing wrote 4 or 5 star reviews on Keep It Clean’s behalf, violating Yelp’s terms of services.
The client page for Keep It Clean was created on December 25, 2012 at the same time that the fake positive reviews by Creatine Marketing’s owners were posted
Google lists Penis Enlargement page on Keep It Clean's website
Poor SEO rankings for simple common search terms
Roseville Carpet Cleaning
Sacramento Cleaning Services
Sacramento Cleaning Service
Roseville Stain Removal
Social Media Activity
All social media profiles have been inactive for months
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One of the Most Suspicious Marketing Firms Sacramento Has Ever
Seen
Scam artists tend to capitalize on emerging trends,
adjusting their strategy according to shifts in consumer activity. Creatine
Marketing claims to be one of the best marketing
firms Sacramentohas to offer. On
the surface, they offer web design and
marketing servicesbut internally they are a multilevel marketing scheme driven by their efforts in Visalus,
Organo Gold, X-treme Biz, and Solavei. Flashback to 2010 a well-known and
sizable company by the name of "US Loan Auditors" was brought to
their knees when they were slapped with a $60 million lawsuit by the California
Attorney General Jerry Brown, a class action lawsuit, and a lawsuit from Bank
of America. The key players named in the lawsuit were Jeff Pulvino, Shane
Barker, and James Sandison. Their crime? Falsely claiming they could help
troubled homeowners faced with foreclosure and the housing crisis, by going after
the lending scam artists who
provided them with bad loans. They claimed to be experts on predatory lendingand preyed on
desperate homeowners with little to no means of escaping foreclosure.
The outcome? As indicated by the official court documents,
civil lawsuits, nationwide news reports (here and here),
testimonials from various victims on Privatecomplaints.com, Ripoffreport.com,
and Complaintsboard.com,
and complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau, US Loan Auditors would overcharge on
a loan audit report, and tell the desperate homeowners they had a case against
their lending scam artists, keep
charging the victims a monthly rate of $1500. Either it would take them months
to actually submit paperwork to the court, or they simply wouldn't return
voicemails or acknowledge clients' requests to cancel payments.
CBS Local's "Call Kurtis Investigates" did a TV investigation on US Loan Auditors here:
According to the official court document, Jeff Pulvino was not an attorney or an authorized real
estate salesman, thus he wasn't in any legal capacity to be able to offer
professional advice on homeowners' mortgage or loans. Furthermore he was denied
his license by the certification board due to his criminal record including
multiple DUIs, driving on a suspended license, and attempted grand theft.
James was an attorney who had strikes on his record from
previous infringements, and became officially disbarred in 2011.
"Sandison stipulated to disbarment, admitting he
misappropriated more than $68,000 from Comcast and another $56,388 from a
client, and by allowing a resigned lawyer to use his name and client trust
account while holding himself out as as attorney.
He opened trust and business accounts without his partner’s
knowledge, misused those accounts, and did not maintain a proper balance.
Although he paid out some funds to Comcast, he misappropriated $68,332.07. He
did repay $33,000 of that amount. He also misappropriated $56,388.82 in legal
fees to which his partner was entitled."
One of the
Questionable Marketing Firms Sacramento
Should Be Cautious Of?
Now, this brings us to the present day in 2013. The
same individual gentlemen named in the lawsuit Jeff Pulvino, Shane Barker, and
James Sandison started another social media marketing company named Creatine
Marketing located in 3840 Rosin Ct, Sacramento, CA. Their
company is driven by profits from multi
level marketing scams that each of the owners participate in.
Shane Barker, now a former chief Marketing Officer of
Creatine Marketing now runs his own marketing company, Modera. Jennifer Mount,
former Executive Assistant at US Loan Auditors now works as a co-founder of
Creatine Marketing. Daniel Fleetwood, former Vice President of Sales at US Loan
Auditors, now also operates as a co-founder of Creatine Marketing.
Now why is this relevant? Let me reference former US Loan
Auditors accountant, Paula Sontra's legal affidavit from back in October, 2010
“I was also told by Pulvino that he, Barker,
and Sandison are planning to start several new companies, and that they are planning to hide any association between these
new companies and their individual names because of their "bad
credit history," and especially Sandison's name because
of the bar issues," by which I assume he meant the disciplinary
charges for embezzlement and other misconduct that the State Bar recently
filed against Sandison.
I was told by Pulvino they would like to form
these new companies quickly and that
they will be Nevada corporations. I was also told that they would prefer to
establish each one as a separate entity because if legal issues arise with
one or more of them, the others could be
kept going. Pulvino told me that they may obtain a separate
office space for each company, preferably different suites in the same
building.”
Sure enough, flash forward to 2013, Jeff Pulvino is a co-founder of CreatineMarketing, without any public acknowledgment on the website's team page, and Shane
Barker and Jeff Pulvino are publicly listed as reputation management
"clients". The company's business license is a Nevada business license under the name of Next
Level Ideas, Inc and listed under Daniel Fleetwood, former Vice President of
Sales at US Loan Auditors.
Who is Creatine Marketing? feat. Nicolas Fordham & James Sandison
James Sandison, a now disbarred attorney, works in the
"legal department" at Creatine Marketing. His name is also nowhere on
the company's website. The company (as shown in the second video) are preparing
to use two separate office spaces in the same building at 3840 Rosin
Court. The man shown in the video Nicolas Fordham, runs MXSWeb.com and X-treme Biz, MXSWeb's
affiliate marketing program.
Creatine Marketing is now housing members of Organo Gold,
Visalus, and X-treme Biz, all affiliate marketing schemes with questionable
business practices. Jeff Pulvino, Daniel Fleetwood, Robert Black, and Patrick
A. Weller all operate parts of Organo Gold whilst working under Creatine
Marketing. Interesting enough, Organo Gold had claims filed against them by the
Federal Trade Commission for its false health claims. http://www.krgv.com/news/special-investigation-organo-gold-federal-investigations/
Creatine Marketing's domain name was set up in October 1st,
2010, around the same time the owners of US Loan Auditors were publicly
handling their lawsuit and subsequent bankruptcy, so as Paula Sontra officially
stated, Jeff Pulvino made the immediate move to establish Creatine Marketing
after the downfall of US Loan Auditors:
Created on: 01-Oct-10
Expires on: 01-Oct-13
Last Updated on: 15-Jan-13
Registrant:
Next Level Ideas"
They advertise for sales rep positions on Craigslist:
"Creatine Marketing is looking to hire experienced and
aggressive B2B sales representatives IMMEDIATELY! No direct marketing experience
is necessary.
Real Estate, Loan Officer, Mortgage, Car Sales, Computer Sales, and any
B2B Sales experience is all preferred."
Now given the business owners' history with US Loan Auditors
it seems suspicious that candidates with real estate experience would
be preferred for one of the supposed best social marketing
companies with no real public ties to the real estate industry. What would the
"leading experts in social media marketing" want to do with former
real estate salesmen?
SNAP Social and X-Treme Biz:
Just Another Multilevel Marketing Scheme
SNAP Social is a
social media aggregate platform that Creatine Marketing supposedly developed
with the help of professionals in India, and one that they plan to sell via a multilevel marketing
scheme. The truth? While the owners and sales reps at Creatine
Marketing falsely tell people that they developed their own
"original" platform, the third party tool actually comes as a courtesy
of Sendible. For $99 a month, Sendible
allows businesses to white label the tool and re-brand it for the purpose of
reselling it to clients.
SNAP Social and X-Treme Biz original presentation
SNAP Social and X-Treme Biz Platform
Sendible: Look Familiar?
Other shady business practices Creatine Marketing employs?
Creatine Marketing uses unlicensed Microsoft and Adobe software on their
company computers such as the Windows operating systems and the Adobe Creative
Suite.
Although the industry that these individuals
have shifted to is different, the tricks are the same. Jeff Pulvino,
Daniel Fleetwood, Jennifer Carr Mount, and James Sandison, all former employees
of US Loan Auditors, now work under the same roof again under the guise of
Creatine Marketing. If they manage to fool you with their smoke and
mirrors, then they truly are "experts" at reputation management.
