Born in a California garage. Still here, over 20 years later.
CESSON started in a California garage in 2005, just as marketing went digital, and is based in Miami today. Over 20 years the team has been early on the shifts that mattered and has told clients to skip the ones that didn’t. CESSON clients stay seven years on average.
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 (2006). Google+ (2011). Microsoft Tag (2010). 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.
- 2007Incorporated in California.
- 2010Social media for clients at scale. An early Sprout Social customer.
- 2010sCRM and automation for clients: Zoho CRM, then HubSpot, then SharpSpring.
- 2015Mobile-first.
- 2023First AI work for clients, ten weeks after ChatGPT launched.
- 2026AI search visibility: being named and cited where buyers now ask.
What over 20 years adds up to.
how long CESSON clients stay, on average
Baillie Lumber Group, our longest-standing client: from 1 website to 14. Read the case study
presentations, keynotes and workshops given by Philippe Cesson to rooms of CEOs. Speaking
The reasons clients give for staying
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 your account day to day. Meet the team.
We tell you what to skip
Second Life, Google+, Microsoft Tag: we built in them, presented them, and then told clients to keep their money. Knowing which wave is real is most of the job.
No cut of your ad spend
Media is bought at cost in accounts you own, and software is resold at cost. Our fee is flat, so our advice and our invoice never point the same way.
Reports in plain words
Leads and revenue from the data you already own, on one page a CEO reads in five minutes.
We train your people
We would rather teach than create dependency. Baillie’s marketing team, trained by CESSON, now runs its own website updates and SEO implementations.
Everything stays yours
Your website, your ad accounts, your analytics, your CRM, your content. If we part ways, you keep it all.
One agency. Pick your starting point.
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.
AI Only
CESSON Guidance and Badass Coaching, for AI visibility only. We plan, and in Coaching we draft; your team publishes.
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, and what to fix first. For businesses with at least 10 employees.
Where CESSON has done the work.
Manufacturing and lumber
Baillie Lumber Group and its 14 brands, among them American Lumber and Wagner Lumber
Home building, construction and trades
A. Perry Homes, Pilot Painting & Construction, Outsource Low Voltage & Electrical Workforce
Healthcare
Anew Era TMS & Psychiatry, DiscoveryMD, Professional Arts Specialty Pharmacy, SpecialCare
Professional services
Law Office of Renkin & Associates, Tanya McVeigh, Attorney at Law, Advantage Benefit Solutions, SalesBrain, McGrath Training Solutions
Music, arts and nonprofits
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens, The Music Oasis, Greg Dayton, Lotty Carrington
Hospitality and local business
EatzNSB, River Deck Marina, A Space 2 Work, CTI Chauffeured Services, Quick N Clean
Yours first. These are the ones we know best.
We would rather use what you already pay for than add a subscription. Where we resell software, we resell it at cost.
Search and analytics
Google Analytics, Semrush, Ahrefs, Moz, Yoast, Rank Math, Yext, CallTrackingMetrics
Advertising
Google Ads, Bing Ads, Facebook Advertising, Spotify Ads, Nextdoor, Reddit, Apple Music
Websites, stores and hosting
WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Joomla, Wix, Elementor, Crocoblock, Cloudflare, Cloudways, AWS, accessiBe
CRM, email and automation
HubSpot, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Zapier, Twilio
Content and social media
Sprout Social, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Jasper, Rytr
AI assistants
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity
Payments
Stripe, PayPal
Industry platforms
CPA Site Solutions, Ordering, OfficeRnD, Artemis
Working together
Basecamp, Google Workspace, Office 365, Zoom, Dropbox, LastPass
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.
See what your buyers’ AI says about you.
Twenty-five minutes on Zoom. A written report with eight grades.
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