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.

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.

Your sloss fest app is hot garbage. Thanks for making this finely crafted piece of excrement that…read morecan't even handle push notifications. Seriously,you literally had one job and couldn't do that properly, leaving thousands stranded without shelter. A bullhorn worked better than your app did. Why would anyone hire your company to do anything when you can't handle such a simple task? Your performance in this regard is like a wet fart in a crowded elevator. Well done.

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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 contacted this firm or in particular the only employee of this firm to build a website for my…read morecompany. Well the promise time of site development was 30 days well it took well over 90 days and when the site was launched 40% of the site was non-functional. I contacted Mike the only employee and owner of the company to develop the functionality he promised he would in the beginning. Well after months of playing phone tag and spending $99 a month to get the service he stated he would have working day one never was completed. I missed 6 schedule investor presentations as the site was never completed to full functionality. Well after finally getting fed up I discontinued his service when he decided to forward my domain name to show a derogatory message in which my customers were sent to. I found this to be childish and extremely unprofessional. If you review the sites he has developed on his site you will notice one is no longer working, two the social media tags do not work and none have a working blog. This is typical of his work. He is very unprofessional and he fails to respond to any request to address issues which his client may have. I have spoken to two other former clients of his which have had similar if not worse issues. He charges $3,000 to develop a site which you can have done for $299. The other issue is his inability to meet and discuss in person the details of your site are also of issue. Do not do business with this firm/gentlemen.

From the owner: Visuex is a Web Design and Digital Marketing agency based in Birmingham. Whether you need…read moreassistance with your website, SEO, Social Media campaigns or more we provide cost-effective yet impactful solutions. At Visuex, we create Visual Excellence.

They put a web site together and someone in the name Bob Hanson was working on my site…read more They charged me, but the web site is whipped out from my phone and from PC incomplete. I want them to finish up the worn but instead some robotic person is communicating via email now. I could update my review if you guys return my call or email properly.

The guys at TechNola have been handling our advertising and search engine optimization for almost 3…read moreyears now. I cannot say enough good things about them. They are innovative, creative, open-minded, professional and friendly. They really know their clients and treat them with the utmost respect. They know their field and invest the time to understand the client's field as well, so that they can put together an appropriate, comprehensive, multifaceted advertising campaign that really gets results. They continue to monitor those results, so that changes can be made if necessary. I really like how their reporting is precise and simple to understand. They are transparent in the reporting and answer any questions you have in regards to the data that is included in the reports. I really don't understand how another review could say they were unresponsive. We have always found everyone at TechNola to be personable, kind and professional. Bottom line, if you are a big fish looking for a new agency, or just starting out and need some help with your marketing, call TechNola. I think you will be impressed with what they can do.