GoBeRewarded Marketing Agency

I recommend GoBe to any business that wants a professional online presence. Everyone I've worked with at their company has been experienced in their field and a pleasure to work with. They completely redid our website and we have more traffic then before. I also like their photography and videography services. They offer a great service at an affordable price.

I'm sad to say that my experience with this company was less than "rewarding." After several years and several thousands of dollars "experimenting" with various ways to attract more clients, I finally came to the conclusion that Aaron and his crew would not be able to help my business grow. Communication was abysmal and a few times they didn't even bother to answer their phone. By the time I severed ties with GoBeRewarded, my business had dropped by over 50%. I now have a new website company working with me whom I pay the same amount that I was paying GoBeRewarded, and after only 4 months, my business is back up to where it was 4 years ago. Our next plan is for my new website team to completely re-design and upgrade the website that GoBeRewarded made for me by adding regular monthly blogs and new advertising campaigns and videos at no extra charge. And you might want to ask yourself... Why does a Marketing Agency that has been around for nearly ten years only have 20 reviews? My 10-year-old business has over 160 five-star Yelp reviews on my Yelp Page!

Owners of businesses...PLEASE STOP THINKING OF USING THIS COMPANY. You will regret it...you will lose/waste a lot of money and you will sadly waste a lot of time.
To start, Aaron Gobidas, the owner of GoBe Rewarded, pursued our business for almost a year after I initially contacted him about potentially doing our marketing. My husband and I had only started our furniture business a year prior when Aaron started calling on us and at first, I liked him. He seemed honest, sincere and he seemed like he would do a great job for us. BEWARE...THIS GUY IS A SLICK SALESMAN. He parades around as a marine with the utmost integrity but he is no more than a con man. I don't think he started off being dishonest. I think his success has caused him to detach from the everyday workings of his business and now he feels like he can treat his customers like manure and get away with it.
We ended up going with GoBeRewarded. We were promised a fully functioning website within 4-5 weeks, unlimited ongoing photography for as long as we did business with GoBe Rewarded, website upkeep and website/Google my business SEO. I paid Aaron in full to construct the website and in addition I paid in full for three months of web upkeep/web SEO, to start when the website went live as well as Google my business SEO to start once the website went live. I paid the sum of a little over $6000 to do this. Three months later, after having to request action on our work several times, GoBe Rewarded has walked away from the job without finishing the site, without doing any SEO and without refunding the the monthly upkeep, which had not even started yet. The website is not even halfway done, trying to get a photographer to the business took weeks vs days as promised after the initial pictures were taken and no SEO work has been completed on the website nor on Google my Business, as was paid for. When we severed the relationship, I agreed to pay for the website in full if the site was fully functioning, which I believed was fair, but I asked for a refund of the three months of web maintenance I paid in advance. When the web data was transferred, the website was nowhere near fully functional and they never sent the check for the full refund of the three months of maintenance.
This guy and his right hand man, Matt Witschger, are crooks. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stay away from this business. You will find yourself filing a legal claim against them like I had to do.
Update: Aaron says in his response that I treated his designers poorly... that is SO not my style. That NEVER happened. I worked with ONE designer...a brand new girl named Rachel... a girl I thought was awesome and told her so many times. She was just brand new and in way over her head which resulted in a half way done site that was turned over in 11 weeks vs the 4-5 weeks, as promised.
I hope Aaron can prove his allegations in court because we had to file a claim in Small Claims Court to get our money back. He owes us almost $3000 for services not provided...and that's giving him a break on the halfway done website. We HAD to use the halfway designed website they turned over. They gave us no choice because of the way the site was turned over to us. As anyone can currently see as of 7/24/2023, the website is not complete...no pricing, incorrect descriptions on products, not all products visible, no professional table pictures taken...the list goes on and on. Even Rachel said her bosses over promised during initial meetings.
Nice try Aaron. Just more of your lies.

It is with a heavy heart that I write this review. I want to share my feelings and opinions about Goberewarded, after having been in contract for 6 months with them. I have never written such a review, but I also haven't felt defeated, and decided after having worked with a business.

My wife and I have owned Balanced Body Therapeutic Massage for 11 years, a massage therapy studio in Encinitas, and I also own The Posture Guide, an online program that helps people with chronic pain. I wanted to get a local team to help us with our marketing, and I found Goberewarded through a member of the Encinitas Chamber of Commerce. Goberewarded told me that they specialized in local businesses. The first contact was promising, Goberewarded were responsive, professional, and eager to help. Fast forward to month 5, we found $0 of demonstrable ROI coming from the marketing campaigns, after spending $12,500 (including $2,500 of ad budget and $4,000 on the new website). I got really concerned.

I asked for help from Dennis Yu of Blitzmetrics, a third party that specializes in training marketing businesses. They found some problems that both GoBeRewarded and I could work on.

We asked Goberewarded, two male good offers: keep on working together and fix the problems together, or part ways. Goberewarded decided to part ways.

When I decided to work with a marketing company I wanted to collaborate with another business. I don't want to work with a business that takes my money, and leaves me alone when a situation arises, but that's how I feel right now. I hope that something comes out of this. I hope that my wife and I can pivot and recover financially from this, because we paid a hefty price for what feels like a distasteful experience.

Professional and Painless. I had so many interviews with other companies that wanted 3x the cost but couldn't deliver or offer the level of service "Imagine Podcasting" needed until I met with Aaron and his team.
The "brand video" they created for us is amazing. Simply put, stop looking. Go reward yourself. Grab a meeting with them. Experience relief!

I've been here a couple times for consultations for a shop I work for and the sales people are good but the prices are a bit much. I understand why the prices are so high but I'm not really positive it's worth it for the services they provide.
One of my coworkers had worked with them before and she was actually intimidated by them because they pushed what they thought was right not what she wanted for her business. She requested a logo and they just published one with her approval and when she voiced her opinion they said they'd mock up another and didn't.
She also said the photographers rescheduled on her a few times last minute, which was a pain because her employees would get presentable for head shots and make sure their schedules were clear of clients and meetings and webinars they'd conduct only for a whole day to be wasted because they didn't come.
With the consultations I went to, I was at first shopping around but even though they were a final contender, we went in another direction. They felt very pushy and the price for them to maintain the website alone was so high, they said we could cancel after a year and maintain it on our own but they didn't work with programs any of my team were familiar with or comfortable that they could maintain long term.
Maybe they'll be right for you, but for me, there were a lot of flags that I couldn't ignore.

Congratulations on your nomination "Business of the Year 2019" Vista CA Chamber of Commerce. What a honor and excellent local recognition. Wishing your company continues success. Thank you for the comprehensive evaluation of our websites and proposal.

Goberewarded is a top notch marketing agency. We have had Aaron has his team come out and lead workshops for us on Social Media and maximizing Google. They are a wealth of knowledge. I have seen their marketing genius in action with local businesses. I highly recommend their services.

My husband and I really love working with these people. We have noticed an increase in traffic to our orthodontic practice website since they redesigned it. They are quick to make edits and build extra pages as needed for our business. Great team - everyone is so nice and accommodating and we are super happy to partner with them in helping our business grow and succeed. They are great at website design and marketing. Thanks guys!!

Aaron his staff are the best! They are very knowledgeable and friendly. I really like the fact that they local, you can walk into their office and sit down face to face with your web designer or Google specialist. Not someone over the phone where you don't know where they are.