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Specializing in Direct Response Marketing & Automating Client Acquisition Systems
Helping Local Business Owners Acquire More Clients
Stephen Pendola
Build million-dollar brands that create financial freedom and long-term business success.
Dominate search results & expand visibility to becoming the go-to business in their region.
Generate thousands of new leads for their most profitable services.
Streamline and automate systems, giving them more time freedom and scalability.
Develop an automated sales process that converts leads into paying customers with less effort.
Establish a credible, recognizable brand that makes them the obvious choice in their market.
Turn their website into a revenue machine, optimizing for conversions, increasing lead generation, and turning traffic into booked clients.
Create powerful online assets beyond their website, including Google Business Profile, local directories, high-converting landing pages, and social media channels that generate leads on autopilot.
Master Google Ads to attract high-value leads consistently and profitably.
Rank #1 on Google for highly competitive keywords, making them the most recognized business in their market.
I've Helped My Clients To:
While working with me my clients have built highly profitable businesses through systematizing their sales and marketing processes.
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Hi I’m Stephen, a results-driven entrepreneur with a proven track record of implementing systems that have scaled multiple companies to seven-figures in various industries. As a Client Acquisition & Automation Expert I specialize in direct response marketing and automating client acquisition systems that generate immediate and measurable results.
My journey began when I launched an e-commerce brand that I transformed into a thriving seven-figure business in just 14 months. Drawing on that experience, I founded Thrive Locally and Photographers Advantage to empower business owners with expert consulting and agency work. My unique skillset has helped numerous businesses reach significant revenue milestones between six and seven figures.
As an accomplished entrepreneur, I blend real-world business building with innovative marketing systems to support my clients. Let’s work together to help your business grow.
About Stephen
Photographers Advantage is a results-driven marketing agency dedicated to helping photographers scale their businesses and build million-dollar studios. Through expert strategies in SEO, Google Ads, and client acquisition, we help photographers attract high-value clients, increase bookings, and create sustainable, profitable growth.
Photographers Advantage
Thrive Local Marketing empowers local businesses with proven marketing strategies that drive quality leads and increase revenue. Leveraging advanced techniques in SEO, Google Ads, and Facebook Ads, we help our clients dominate their markets and achieve sustainable growth.
Thrive Locally Marketing
Companies
Supported platforms
Who you surround yourself with shapes your success, and I strive to align myself with leaders ahead of where I am so I can grow rapidly and in turn, become an even more valuable asset to my clients. I continually invest in my development by working with industry experts, ensuring I bring the most up-to-date strategies to help your business thrive.
Investing In Excellence
Robert Herjavec is widely recognized as a leading business expert, motivational speaker, and executive producer on ABC's Emmy® Award-winning hit TV show, Shark Tank.
Robert Herjavec
The High Performance Coaching certification I received in 2017, is designed to provide business leaders with high-level performance strategies, alongside influence and leadership principles that drive sustainable success. This certification allowed me to adopt a positive future-focused approach to everything I do, ensuring momentum and long-term growth.
High Performance Institute
Brendon Burchard is the world’s leading high performance coach, a New York Times bestselling author, and one of the most-watched, and followed personal development trainers in history.
Brendon Burchard
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
— John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Testimonials
Now we dominate Google’s first page for highly competitive keywords, helping us capture more traffic
Danny 4x his sales revenue
Stephen helped us dominate Google’s first page for highly competitive keywords, helping us capture more traffic and become well known in our industry. His marketing campaigns brought in high-value leads, and nearly 4X our sales. With his campaigns, our Google Ads became highly profitable, and his Facebook ad strategy nearly doubled our profits. Game changer!
Working with 'Stephen' allowed me to build a highly successful and sustainable Company
Tiffany Built a 7 Figure business
Stephen helped me build a 7 figure business using SEO and paid advertising. He built systems that allowed me to eliminate the hours I was spending on busy work so I could reinvest that time on scaling. Working with him allowed me to build a highly successful and sustainable business that allowed me time freedom to enjoy life.
now My business runs on autopilot without my constant attention
Jenny increased profits
I was spinning my wheels and working 14 hours a day. They tore apart my company and rebuilt it with the proper systems, processes, and automations that allowed me to increase profits and get my life back. My business now runs on autopilot without my constant attention. My team is closing leads and onboarding new customers easily. I’ve never been more confident as the CEO of my company.
The team optimized my website for conversions & secured the #1 spot on Google
Lynn tripped her income
The team transformed my online presence, optimized my website for conversions, and performed SEO, securing the #1 spot on Google and helping me generate a steady stream of high quality leads for the main services I wanted to sell. Working with them has absolutely changed my life. I now have a reliable business I can count on.
Working with Stephen Brought in a steady stream of leads, which made a huge difference for our business
Garrett has a steady flow of leads
My brother and I run a local business, and we were struggling to get more visibility in our area. We didn’t really know how to expand our reach or show up more on Google. Working with Stephen changed everything, he helped us get seen not just in our local area but in surrounding areas too. He also built online assets that brought in a steady stream of leads, which made a huge difference for our business.
Inspiring Articles Featuring Stephen Pendola.
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Stephen Shares His Expert Knowledge On Medium Magazine
- The 8 Pillars Of Business You Must Master To Build A Thriving Company
- Build a Dependable and Scalable Marketing Strategy with The Flywheel Approach
- The Triple Threat Marketing Method Responsible For Millions
- Why SEO Offers the Highest ROI Marketing Strategy
- How to Turn Your Website Into a Lead-Generating Machine: The Essentials
- The Power of a Solid Sales Process: Automate and Close More Deals