Badass digital marketing for CEOs · since 2005
Marketing that earns its keep.
CESSON is a digital marketing agency, born in a California garage in 2005 and based in Miami today. For over 20 years it has worked with CEOs and marketing teams on strategy, search, AI, content, advertising, websites, lead generation and analytics: one engagement, one senior team, every dollar accounted for.
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Who are you?
The buck stops here
Philippe Cesson sets the strategy, reviews and directs all the work, and answers for the result.
A named member of the CESSON team runs your account day to day. You meet the people who do the work, and the founder stays accountable for it.
The CESSON team · Four humans, one Cessonette
Over 20 years. Hundreds of rooms of CEOs. Zero fads sold.
What CESSON does
What are you looking for?
Marketing Strategy
A plan I believe in, and someone senior who owns it.
We write the plan, set the priorities and answer for it. Philippe Cesson sets the strategy on every account.
SEO
Buyers find us on Google.
We work to get you found by the buyers already searching for what you sell.
AI Search
When buyers ask AI, it names us.
We work to get you named and cited when your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude who to hire.
Content & Social Media
We look like the leader in our field.
We write, film, design and post the content that shows buyers you know your business.
Paid Advertising
Ads that pay for themselves.
Google, LinkedIn, Meta and YouTube, and traditional media too, at cost. Flat fee, no cut of your spend.
Websites
A website that sells.
Websites, online stores and apps whose only job is turning visitors into booked conversations.
Lead Generation & Automation
A steady flow of qualified leads.
The system that captures, follows up and hands off leads, so nothing falls through the cracks.
Analytics & ROI
I know what every marketing dollar brings back.
What your marketing produced last month, in plain words, on one page a CEO reads in five minutes.
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The AI Reality Check.
Twenty-five minutes on Zoom and a written report with eight grades: where your buyers’ AI names you, who it names instead, whether AI can read your site, and what to fix first. You keep the report.
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CESSON Digital Marketing
The whole gamut, AI included. We do the work, and Philippe Cesson answers for the result. Most engagements run $4,000 to $6,000 a month.
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CESSON Guidance and Badass Coaching, for AI visibility only. We plan, and in Coaching we draft; your team publishes. Buy online, start this week.
See AI OnlyThree things we put in writing
The buck stops with Philippe
Philippe Cesson sets the strategy, reviews and directs all the work, and answers for the result. A named member of the CESSON team runs it day to day.
No surprise bills
One flat monthly fee. We don’t bill by the hour, so call, text or email as often as you need. We answer within half a business day.
Reports in plain words
Leads and revenue from the data you already own. No jargon, no vanity numbers.
Over 20 years
Twenty years of not falling for it.
Every few years the way buyers find businesses changes. Over 20 years CESSON has been ready for every shift that mattered and has skipped the ones that did not.
Second Life. Google+. Microsoft Tag. We built in them, presented them, and then told clients to keep their money.
- 2005CESSON starts in a California garage as a marketing agency, just as digital arrives.
- 2006Social Dog, a social network for San Diego dog owners, a year before Facebook Pages existed.
- 2006–07Second LifeBuilt in it, presented it, told clients to stay out.
- 2010Social media for clients at scale. An early Sprout Social customer.
- 2010Microsoft TagA heated argument with a client that it would not last. It didn’t.
- 2011Google+Questioned Google’s own product manager. Told clients not to stress.
- 2015Mobile-first.
- 2023First AI work for clients, ten weeks after ChatGPT launched.
- 2026AI search visibility: being named and cited where buyers now ask.
In their own words
What clients say.
“About maybe a month ago I received the first phone call from a potential client; they found us on the web and said “can you help us?”… we wouldn’t have been found like this in the past. I know it’s because of the fine work CESSON folks did.”
“CESSON has been a significant asset to our company for years with their vast knowledge of marketing, technology, and social media. They have helped us grow our social media platform interactions, improve our SEO, organize our leads, and advance our website. We are thrilled to consider CESSON a valued partner of ours.”
“From website design and management to ideas on how to get the most out of your social media programs, any business can benefit from CESSON’s services.”
“CESSON was instrumental in developing Google advertising campaigns for our different products and services. They also produced a high-quality marketing plan that helped us reach out to the publishing community and sign a large publishing agreement.”
“The CESSON team is supportive, enthusiastic, inventive, and efficient. From building websites to social media they have my back and help and encourage me to push forward. Whatever creative idea I propose they seek the best way to promote it. They keep track of all the digital information it would be impossible for me to do. From looking at the bigger picture to creating top-rate visual content, they make it fun to work!”
“Our experience with CESSON has been phenomenal! Their team is engaged and current, and they create amazing content. Our social media profile has been taken to a new level and has greatly enhanced our business. Thank you, CESSON!!”
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the wonderful job you and your staff did on my website. Everyone in your organization that I have dealt with has been highly professional and easy to reach. Your creative staff provided me with a series of options I never could have thought of myself.”
“With CESSON you are delivered exactly what you are promised. For example, CESSON created materials for our library of knowledge that are simple and easy to understand, which serve their purpose perfectly. CESSON employees are very easy to work with and I’m very happy with the results.”
