Jeff Pulvino

Jeff Pulvino is a self described serial entrepreneur best known for his involvement in the high profile scandal in which Pulvino's failed company, US Loan Auditors, and its partner company My US Legal declared bankruptcy after a multimillion dollar lawsuit and stealing from thousands of homeowners using deceptive marketing tactics.
Though cited as a client, he is, in fact, actually one of the principal owners of Creatine Marketing with both an office on premises, and acting as a sales consultant. While officially un-cited on the staff page, it's not difficult to find his ties to the company. Jeff is also in a long-term relationship with other Creatine Marketing co-owner, Jennifer Carr-Mount.
Any work by Creatine Marketing is actually self investment as Jeff's primary focus is promoting Creatine Marketing.

Creatine Marketing's Service Claims

Client Description

Creatine Marketing Client Page Capture 6/01/13

Jeff Pulvino came to us looking to expand his brand name, Jeff Pulvino. He was a successful entrepreneur, consultant and marketing expert.

Who is Jeff Pulvino?

Jeff Pulvino is a successful serial entrepreneur with the ability to develop visionary ‘next-level’ ideas and deliver them to marketplace while meeting the end-user needs with precision timing. Jeff has a solid background of product development and marketplace knowledge, developed around strategic observations and business intelligence. He is experienced with all aspects of operations specializing in sales, marketing, project management, organizational process development, and infrastructure expansion, all geared towards driving growth and increased revenues for higher profitability.
In his professional career Jeff has been involved with several successful start-up business ventures, most of which he co-founded. He brings real-life knowledge and experience in offering proven and tested strategies and solutions for taking your business to the next level.

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Services Provided:

• Website Design
• Logo Design
• Business Card Design
• Social Media Profile Creation (100+ profiles)
• Social Media Integration
• SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Shadiness Factors

• Jeff Pulvino is actually an unlisted owner of Creatine Marketing listed as a client for his personal endorsement
• Jeff claims he is a successful entrepreneur, but has no successful businesses to his name. The most well known company, USLA, is known mostly for its high profile failure
• Articles written by Jeff Pulvino are actually copy-written articles by Creatine Marketing staff writers. Jeff has no formal training in marketing, or social media.
• Despite the logo design service listed, none of Jeff's online profiles or his personal website show a logo
• Jeff Pulvino has a permanent injunction against him, barring him from business in the real estate industry for deceptive marketing tactics, and owes $15,000 in civil penalties over the next 3 years
• Jeff Pulvino is listed as successfully cofounding many businesses when he really moves from scam business to scam business every couple years including:
  • currently founding member of Creatine Marketing, unlisted
  • previously co-founded "property tax reduction" service called Prop 8 Associates with Shane Barker
  • previously cofounded equityflips.com, with Shane Barker
  • previously cofounded US Loan Auditors, famous for its high profile government shutdown, with Shane Barker
  • previously founded US Capital Investments, US Loan Auditors parent company
  • previously founded My US Legal Services, US Loan Auditors Legal division, along with Shane Barker and James Sandison
  • previously founded Cashout Options, with Shane Barker

Social Media Activity

Most of Jeff's online activity points back towards Creatine Marketing. Though apparently the most popular of Creatine Marketing's online personas, Jeff's profiles have very little social engagement and include automated spam and posts shared with most of the company's other profiles.
Most of the 100s of social media profiles, other than the top 10, have little to no active content and constitute online spam.

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Website built is actually customizable Wordpress theme named Temptation, available for $35 at Themeforest.

We admit that it is possible that the business arrangement between Creatine Marketing and this company may have changed or not be fully expressed as we have shown here. If we have incorrect information or you wish to clarify the information posted here, please feel free to contact us with the necessary information.

SwigTix

SwigTix is a yet to launch nightlife promotional tool aimed at providing a go between for consumers and their favorite bars & clubs. Despite a claimed 2012 formation, and supposed extensive background in nightlife management, the primary manager/owner for this company is real estate agent named Narmina Gasanbek and the company is actually listed at a private residence in Rio Linda, which is not exactly known for it's nightlife.

SwigTix website has for at least 6 months been a countdown to release, but the release date is always weeks away. There is little or no online presence and most all social media has been silent since mid February. Not a good sign for business less than a year old, and poor evidence of Creatine Marketing's success in "establishing an online presence".

Creatine Marketing's Service Claims

Client Description

Creatine Marketing Client Page Capture 6/01/13

Wanting help establishing an online presence, Swig Tix hired us to create and manage their social media accounts with the goal of engaging users and building a loyal fan following. In addition to social media management, Swig Tix also entrusted us in developing their animation videos and Prezi presentations.
Swig Tix was formed on August 2012 by a collaborative group of sophisticated, social life enthusiasts with over twenty years’ experience in nightlife management, entertainment, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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Services Provided:

• Social Media Management
• Social Media Profile Creation
• Video Animation
• Prezi Development
• Business Cards

Shadiness Factors

• Little to no online presence, and mostly not current.
• LLC Manager is actually real estate agent offering short sale and loan modification services, hardly the nightlife management expertise claimed
• Release date has been pushed back for months
• No animation work to be found, despite service listed
• Social Media accounts have low follower numbers, and high webspammer percentages (fake or low interaction followers), and virtually no diverse interaction (same few people on any posts)

Social Media Activity

All social media profiles have been completely inactive for months

Powered by Creatine Marketing

Website built is actually customizable Wordpress theme named Blend, available for $30 at Themeforest.

We admit that it is possible that the business arrangement between Creatine Marketing and this company may have changed or not be fully expressed as we have shown here. If we have incorrect information or you wish to clarify the information posted here, please feel free to contact us with the necessary information.

Creatine Marketing: A Suspicious Company With Equally Untrustworthy Clients

Marty DePaoli of Axis Energy Partners

a Client with a Fraudulent Past

The owners of Sacramento marketing company - Creatine Marketing made the drastic switch from the real estate sphere to the social media marketing world after facing highly publicized lawsuits from their prior fraudulent engagements and deceptive practices with US Loan Auditors. Unsurprisingly, as a local Sacramento marketing company in the present, Creatine Marketing has a list of dubious clients with similarly shady business practices who consult them for reputation management services to erase their pasts from the internet.

Dr. Marty DePaoli is the owner COO of Axis Energy Partners - a client of Creatine Marketing who benefits from their services. According to Axis Energy Partners' website, Marty DePaoli 'worked in the medical field for 20 years'. Quite the career change right? But wait hang on a minute, it also seems all too familiar given the company owners' trajectory from real estate loan auditing to online marketing within a year. Interestingly enough, Marty DePaoli was arrested along with his partner for insurance fraud that they committed while operating their chiropractic clinic in 2004.

"Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi said questionable business practices at the chiropractic clinic and at a Las Vegas management company involved alleged illegal kickbacks, overcharges and phony insurance claims." Gilbert Chan from SacBee.com wrote in the Business section. Marty DePaoli along with his partner received misdemeanor charges, and DePaoli faced 90 days of sheriff work and imprisonment.

Reputation Management to Mask Marty DePaoli's Previous Shady Business Practices

3 owners from Creatine Marketing leverage social media to boost Axis Energy Partners' visibility and credibility much like they have learned to harness the potential of social media for their own reputation management. Jeff Pulvino, Daniel Fleetwood, and Robert Black Jr., co-founders of Creatine Marketing help to promote an article written by one of their staff members.

Here's a description of "reputation management" services that the company offers:

"The real "meat" of the campaign, where we use our SEO expertise to generate positive reviews, and push aside the neutral / negative ones."

What exactly does Creatine Marketing mean by 'generating positive reviews to push aside neutral or negative ones'? Despite their claims, the only indication of their reputation management work comes from the owners writing positive comments on behalf of their clients, as well as providing the only interaction with their clients' social media pages. In this specific example, "CM Sacramento" is the only account liking Axis Energy Partners Facebook postings, and in the case of Daniel Fleetwood's public endorsement, the 3 likes come from Marty DePaoli (the owner himself), Axis Energy Partners (the company), and Daniel Fleetwood.

Axis Energy Partners is only one of several clients to benefit from the dishonest and suspicious business practices of Sacramento marketing company - Creatine Marketing - thus reader beware, while the company claims to be a successful online marketing company, don't let their self-promotion tactics fool you.

Original Article: http://goarticles.com/article/Creatine-Marketing-A-Suspicious-Company-With-Equally-Untrustworthy-Clients/7431995/

Reference Links for Marty DePaoli's Insurance Fraud

Sacbee
http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/05/ask-sacto-911-crime-qa-what-happened-to-chiropractor-accused-of-insurance-f.html

Three Suspects Arrested for Alleged Auto, Work Comp Insurance Fraud
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2004/08/03/44670.htm

Marty DePaoli Case Filing - El Dorado Superior Court
http://bit.ly/XSJPo4