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.

Keep It Clean America - Sacramento/Roseville

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.

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Services Provided:

• Social Media Profile Creation
• Social Media Integration
• SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
• Reputation Management

Shadiness Factors

• 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

Powered by Creatine Marketing

Website built is actually customizable Wordpress theme named Nebraska, available for $45 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

Creatine Marketing: Brought to You by the Same Scam Artists of US Loan Auditors, My US Legal, and US Capital Investments

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 Sacramento has to offer.  On the surface, they offer web design and marketing services but 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 lending and 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:

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=5366609

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:

     "Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
     Domain Name: CREATINEMARKETING.COM

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.