Sem Do-gooder
Kirkland,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, April 16, 2008
Many statements made by Matt (a young Captures salesman) are false. This one in particular.... "Captures and WMS are in no way affiliated with IA. There have been individuals who have worked here who also used to be employed by IA (not in upper management)" The fact is the two of Captures and WMS "upper management" are made up of ex-Internet Advancement employees. 1) Gill Walker (the owner) started off as a salesman for Internet Advancement, he saved his pennies while working for them until he was able to pay one of Internet Advancements own programmers to make him some sort of lead generation database and start his own company. 2) Brad Bartolone who is the President of Sales is also an ex-Internet Advancement salesperson, he is also one of Gill's closest friends, they have lived as roommates for a long time. So as you can see Matt is trying to put a friendly spin on his company and if you question me as a source, let me give you a little background on myself. I am an Interactive Marketing Executive who works in Seattle. I run and operate corporate blogs, I have personally planned and implemented the SEO of many large companies, but the truth is I have a dark beginning. When I started in this industry I started as an employee of either Captures or Internet Advancement (to protect my own career and family I am not going to specifically tell you which one because it would be a great hint as to who I am). I worked as a sales associate and I had no real education of how online marketing worked, all I knew was what my company told me, "you need to sell these people, if you don't they will never be successful and you wont get paid" I knew it was wrong they way I would pressure unsuspecting website owners into giving me what money they had. At one time Brad Bartolone gave me this little gem of advice, "...find out if they have a credit card. If they do find out what the limit is, and if it is too low then tell them you can help them get a credit extension..." he went further to say "..not only will this get you the biggest sale possible but they will love you for helping them get more credit.." I have since received a great education, maintained a great passion for Online Marketing (the real kind) and developed my own career. Until now I have never told anyone where my career truly began, but I am sick of seeing the SEO name get dragged through the mud because of irresponsible ownership. This will be the first of many posts, I plan on going through all of the entries on this site and others so that I can chime in with a thread of honesty.
Jayhawk
Cedar Creek,#3Author of original report
Tue, March 25, 2008
Internet Advancement utilizes high tech processes utilizing their own company connections og 4 GreatBuys, Atlas Solutions and ATDMT known as a severe risk TROJAN which enters sites obtrusively, exploits security flaws, tracks browsing activities with installed applications, installs without consent and disables programs and systems. Uses add ons and followups to steal your domain name and then re directs your traffic to their own servers to complete the grand larceny and fraud. Find it at ATDMT. Over many months it has been observed the taking and copying of web sites thru the temp files and controlled in the Int Explorer browser, in spite of three top security systems. An official report is now on file with the Washington state Attorney Generals office. They have informed us that new charges and investigations are under way now since Dec 07. I will fight these thieves until I die. They will learn that it is not nice to mess with retired military men their business and their incomes. Later report to list all involved in this fraud.