About
A small firm, on purpose.
Early Media Group is Stacy Earl and Robert Earl, equal partners. We take on all four jobs of growing a business — marketing, pipeline, operations, and repeat business — because we do the marketing and build the software, and almost nobody sells them together.
Why we work this way
Most businesses hire a marketing agency and a developer separately, and inherit the gap between them. The agency isn’t responsible for what happens after the click; the developer isn’t responsible for whether anyone clicked. Both can do good work and the business still stalls, because three of the four growth jobs live in the space neither one owns.
We took the opposite position: own the whole line. It puts real limits on how many clients we can take, and we would rather have that constraint than the gap.
What we believe
- You should own everything. Domain, site, code, analytics, list, data — in your accounts from day one. Nothing about our working relationship should depend on you being unable to leave.
- A wrong number is worse than no number. Measurement without someone checking it is decoration. What that looks like →
- Rented audiences aren’t assets. Meet people where they are, then bring them somewhere you own. The argument →
- Fix the leaks before buying traffic. Paid spend into a broken path is the most expensive mistake available.
- Say when not to hire us. If the work you need isn’t work we’d do well, the useful answer is no.
The people
Who you’d be working with.
Two equal partners, with two different halves of the same problem. One gets you found; the other makes you worth choosing and builds the machinery underneath.
Brand, web & demand
Stacy Earl
Stacy has spent about twenty years in marketing — direct-to-consumer work and the business development strategy behind it — getting real people to notice, trust, and choose. She has led marketing for a consumer rewards app that landed at #11 on the 2024 Inc. 5000, a heart-health platform, and a national healthcare brand, as the senior marketing leader at two of the three. In some of that work she was emailing millions of people and responsible for growing both acquisition and retention — the two numbers any business lives on.
She has been building websites since 1999, back in the pure-HTML days, and has worked in custom code, WordPress, Wix and Squarespace since. So what you get is built to fit rather than a template with your name dropped in — and she will tell you honestly which platform is right for you.
Different products, same craft: work out who you are talking to, say the true thing clearly, and make it easy to act on.
#11 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 · 15+ years in growth · Building websites since 1999 · Executive MBA, Johns Hopkins · PMP
Getting found
Robert Earl
Robert is an Air Force veteran who has spent twenty-five years building affiliate-marketing sites that earn their traffic. His edge is structure: he organises content the way search engines — and now AI assistants — want to read it, so it gets found and gets cited.
That discipline runs through Racing Passport, his travel companion for race fans who plan their year around the grandstands, and through the licensing guides that have helped more than ten thousand people start real estate careers.
At his core he is a teacher. He builds everything the same way — with precision, patience, and the belief that helping someone understand a thing they care about is work worth doing.
He holds current Google certifications in Google Ads Search, Conversion Optimization, and Google Analytics.
16 years in search · Google Ads Search certified · Google Conversion Optimization certified · Google Analytics certified · Air Force veteran · 10,000+ people through his guides
Start a conversation
Which of the four is costing you?
If you’re not sure, that’s usually the finding. We’ll look at what’s coming in, what happens to it, and what your numbers say — then tell you plainly which of the four is worth fixing first, and whether it needs us.
Not ready to talk? Find out what’s wrong with your marketing first.
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