The TreeHouse SEM executive team has many years of successful business experience in many different industries. Combined with our expert level knowledge of SEO practices, this provides the absolute best campaigns focused on increasing revenue and return on investment.
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Steve DeVries serves as chief technology officer and co-owner of TreeHouse Search Engine Marketing. Leading the strategic direction and SEM methodology of the company, DeVries manages the search engine optimization technology, research and development, and client relations elements vital to drive the business forward.
Steve DeVries brings an expansive background in Web development and design as well as corporate marketing campaign planning. He has worked on the design, development, and marketing aspects of hundreds of Web sites. His experience encompasses e-commerce, lead-based and ad-based businesses in a wide variety of industries including real estate, clothing sales, athletic shoes and apparel, cell phone media, veterinary, personal fitness, moving companies, hotels and more.
One of the most coveted experts in the industry today, Steve DeVries was previously the lead technical consultant at a major San Diego-based SEO firm, where he achieved top rankings for major clients such as Entrepreneur, Vegas.com, Viacom, Workopolis and Ziff Davis Media. Steve DeVries roster of successes highlights the expansion of Entrepreneur magazine to achieve more than $2 million in additional sales and an increase of more than 500% in top five rankings for Plasma Concepts.
Steve DeVries' experience has brought him much industry attention and placed him in high demand as a speaker at industry events including Frost and Sullivan multi-day SEO training program, MIVA Merchant seminar and for various industry trade groups and in-house teams.
Brett Combs has built an extensive resume of achievements in the real estate business over the past ten years throughout Southern California and Canada. Brett gained his foundation in the real estate business from two generations of a family brokerage development company successful in both Canada and the United States. After graduating from University of San Diego with a Business and Marketing degree 2001, Brett Combs ventured out to start Pacific Shore Platinum Properties Inc. This forward thinking brokerage firm specializes in upscale home sales, high-rise condominium sales and marketing, and property management of a portfolio of over 100 homes in the coastal areas of southern California and Western Canada. Under Brett Combs leadership, the company's has achieved sales in excess of 300 million dollars in 2005-7. Brett has developed a strong presence in the market and has become a household name in the community, being recognized for his high level of customer service and global networking.
Brett Combs, president of Del Mar-based Pacific Shore Platinum, a high-end real estate brokerage firm, is a co-founder of Treehouse. His decision to buy 40 percent of the Treehouse, he said, was a "no-brainer." But, first he was a client.
Josh Jenkins began his career in the financial services industry as a registered representative, training under a veteran market guru with the primary goal of attracting new clients through creative marketing. Following years of intensive hands-on experience, Josh started The Hartwood Group, his first company, in 2001. The Hartwood Group, is a niche qualified plan advisory, for which he gained national exposure and later sold to a large national insurance wholesaler. The Hartwood Group was successful as a direct result of Search Engine Optimization and dominant web rankings. This led to leads and ultimately clients.
With the competitive advantage of Search Engine Optimization in his pocket, Josh Jenkins later co-founded a start-up institutional software company, which merged with a leading insurance conglomerate in mid 2006. Josh's web marketing experience placed him in the "expert" category. Josh Jenkins has co-hosted the Wall Street Financial Hour, a Southern California public radio show, and has shared his industry expertise through platforms such as Fortune Small Business Magazine, San Diego Business Journal, National Underwriter, California Broker and Entrepreneur Magazine's Radio Show, among others.
Josh Jenkins wanted to extend the reach of his marketing skills by exposing businesses from all industries to the power of search engine marketing. He is a co founder of Treehouse Search Engine Marketing.