GoEngine

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the owner of a personal injury law firm.

For what projects/services did your company hire GoEngine, and what were your goals?

We needed to come up on the top of the first page of Google in a increasingly competitive space.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

After extensive conversations with go engine and having reviewed their proposal and had others review it they appeared to be the best fit.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and campaigns.

They analyzed our current website and social media in online presence. Then they gave us a proposal of what they could fix or improve and a timeline and budget for measurable results.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

I worked most closely with Harrison although Dennis and I did have a few conversations.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The results have been extremely encouraging. They have consistently been able to explain why are SEO strategy is working in certain areas and not in others.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

I have the ability to contact them 5 days a week and also set up online meetings and propose new ideas.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

I have been pleased with their communication style professionalism and availability.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

We have experimented with different ideas on the website in some of those experiments have backfired. When that happened they were quick to acknowledge the results and move swiftly to change the website for better SEO results.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m an attorney and I own a personal injury law firm, the Marks Law Group.

What challenge were you trying to address with GoEngine?

There’s a huge difference between having an internet presence and getting the phone to ring, and we wanted to work with an agency that understood that. We needed to be seen by potential clients, so we looked to GoEngine’s services.

What was the scope of their involvement?

I started by providing GoEngine with all of my data across all platforms, including Google Maps. The team also put together a document that accurately analyzed the performance of my website. They took all of that and conducted digital marketing efforts for us. 

How did you come to work with GoEngine?

I chose to work with GoEngine because I liked their confidence; they reassured us that they could do what we were asking. Nine out of ten times, an agency will promise to deliver but it will be total garbage, so it’s very valuable and refreshing to have GoEngine on board. 

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in March 2021 and I’m still engaged with the team.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

GoEnginge has gotten good results. They’ve done what they said they will do and have helped our firm become more visible to potential clients online. The number of qualified leads we now have is more than what we had before working with them.

How did GoEngine perform from a project management standpoint?

They’re able to understand what we need and execute it. We use Google Meet for video conferencing and I sometimes reach them through text messages.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The best part of GoEngine’s services is the consistent results. Being strategic is a strong suit of theirs. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

I have been asked many times to complete a form for the ACH check, but I’m not ever going to do that again since we lost thousands of dollars through that. It’s fraudulent.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Be sure to discuss all of your ideas with GoEngine but be open as well to any that they will recommend. Have faith in their process and be prepared to try new things that are outside of your comfort zone.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the owner of Some Web Studio, LLC. We design and develop websites for small to large businesses looking to modernize their online presence.

For what projects/services did your company hire GoEngine, and what were your goals?

Our challenge is properly positioning our clients in search results. We understand the basics of on-page SEO and the requirements for a good launch, but GoEngine definitely takes SEO to the next level for us and they produce the results we are looking for, page 1 rankings.

How did you select GoEngine and what were the deciding factors?

Dennis, the founder of GoEngine, is an old colleague of mine, and when I started searching for SEO companies to contract for me, I couldn't help to notice not many were offering as much transparency, and GoEngine provides results and they stay on top of every step in their processes to show you how rankings increase.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and campaigns.

GoEngine helped from the very beginning with consultations, strategic plans to keyword research, and identified a project plan to get started within the first week. Their team started week one with research and topics for SEO. Within the first month, they had the plan in action and content-ready for the site.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

There were 2 people that I worked with directly. Harrison was helping with writing the content, and Dennis (the owner) helped with driving the project plan and implementation.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Within the first 2 weeks, we were able to see a 40%+ increase in user sessions, which aligned with our goal in getting more visitors.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

We utilized Google Workplace, Slack, and traditional phone call methods for managing the project workflow.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

I think the most impressive and unique experience is working with GoEngine and how transparent they are with their process. I felt very involved in decisions and it felt like an extension to my company rather than contract work.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

I feel like an area for improvement would be a little more time spent on market research to align topics with more modern solutions.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I am the founding partner of a private law firm in Chicago. We focus on criminal defense, with a little bit of family and injury law as well.

What challenge were you trying to address with GoEngine?

There are a million lawyers in Chicago, so the problem for us is never how to do the cases, it’s how to get the cases in the first place. A lot of criminal defense traffic is dominated by a few bigger players, and I wanted a partner who could help me increase incoming leads as well as the quality of those leads and the overall conversions that they translated to.

What was the scope of their involvement?

They started by creating a fantastic logo and immediately engaged in discussions with me about different ways in which I could reach out to people. They opened my eyes to all kinds of different marketing strategies, including ones that lawyers practicing for 30 years don’t know about, and we targeted a few specific areas to start with. From there, they have handled all of the advertising work themselves both on and off the website, and I field the leads that they bring in.

What is the team composition?

I primarily work with Dennis (Owner), as well as a few of the other main partners who work with him.

How did you come to work with GoEngine?

A friend of mine recommended them to me, and I reached out from there. As a young lawyer, I was a little hesitant to make the investment at first, but they ran me through a whole site audit and detailed proposal process that gave me a lot of confidence in them moving forward.

How much have you invested with them?

The cost of the services is around $10,000 a month, so in total, we’ve spent about $240,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together around October 2018, and the project is ongoing.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

All the work they’ve done has been incredibly successful so far. Obviously, as with any SEO work, it takes a little while to ramp up. But I went from using nearly 15 different providers to just GoEngine, and I currently don’t have enough room for all the client files I have as a result.

With the previous company I worked with, I was getting about a 150% return rate on my investment, which is obviously good but doesn’t do a lot more than just cover your expenses. Almost immediately after starting with GoEngine, I jumped to almost a 500% return rate, which has astronomically improved our business. I hired other people, got a bigger office and a telephone service, and increased the amount that I was able to charge per lead on top of all of it.

How did GoEngine perform from a project management standpoint?

They did a great job of keeping me up to date on how our progress was going and answering any questions that I had. I am really impressed by how engaged Dennis has stayed with the project down the line, which was very different from the experience I’ve had with other companies.

The timelines that they promised were the timelines they stuck to completely, and that level of honesty is a huge part of the reason that I’ve stayed with them for so long. Their communication was consistently open and honest, and they were always willing to explain everything that they were doing so I understood it.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Their team really came on as a silent partner with the firm from the beginning. A lot of marketing firms, especially working for law firms in Chicago, will put you on the list but make you compete with other attorneys for their time. Right away, GoEngine was invested in building our business as if it was their own.

For the first couple months, there wasn’t a lot going on because they were committed to doing everything necessary to build a sustainable and successful marketing model. But they promised that by January, my phone would be ringing off the hook, and that’s exactly what happened.

Even since then, they have consistently worked with me on how to expand everything that we’re doing. They will reach out any time they hear of a new format that could help, so the investment on their end is never in doubt in my mind at all.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I genuinely don’t think that there’s anything they need to be doing differently in terms of the work. The only I think their company needs is more recognition, because they’re an up-and-coming company and will probably have a lot more business as soon as more people know about the results they can deliver.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the managing partner of a Criminal Defense Law Firm.

For what projects/services did your company hire GoEngine?

I hired them to build a new website and to handle our SEO as well as a variety of smaller tasks.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We found them on Clutch. 

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

We already had a website but our SEO was lacking. GoEngine came in and redid our website, improved our google performance and has become our go to source for all thing marketing.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

I have worked with 2 of them directly but I know they have other team members

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Everything has been a smashing success.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

It has been good.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The results.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

There are a few areas.