About

NetMarketing-123 delivers all the ingredients to promote your business on the web:

PR – also known as media relations;
social media marketing – Facebook, Twitter, blogging, email campaigns, LinkedIn and more; and
search engine optimization – also known as SEO.

Baker, Ann VoorheesI’m Ann Voorhees Baker, founder of NetMarketing-123, and a PR and marketing industry veteran with 20+ years of experience. I head a virtual team of extremely talented experts in PR, social media, SEO, writing, editing, and graphic design.  Mostly I work with small businesses, entrepreneurs, and authors.  For some I provide full behind-the-scenes services to free them to run their businesses worry-free while someone else takes care of  online promotion.  For others who want to “do it themselves,” I provide in-depth DIY training.  Every client receives customized, targeted PR, social media, and SEO services at the highest level within a personalized one-to-one relationship with me.

My Background

I started my career as an attorney for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, then left the law when I started my family. In 1989, I founded the marketing & publishing firm, Hearth Marketing & Media, Inc., which grew to a staff of 16 full-time employees and as many independent contractors. In 2003 I sold the company and the magazines we published, and served for a few years as Director of Marketing & Communications for a public school district.  In 2005 I relocated to my native Los Angeles and founded the virtual firm of Publicity Pros, continuing my work with the most talented of the PR, design, and communications professionals I’d worked with from all over the country.  Over the next few exciting years of Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn and Constant Contact and a thousand other developments on the internet, my practice grew to embrace social media and search optimization as much as media relations.  I developed an online training program for SEO called WebTraffic-123, and a personalized PR lead-finding service for small business owners called PR-123. To better represent all the services that my company provides, I rebranded my agency as NetMarketing-123 in 2012.

I’m a frequent guest-blogger on other business and information sites, including CommPro, ExitPromise, Savor the Success, Amy Applebaum, and Patch.com.

My Philosophy

I believe firmly in the power of the internet to level the promotional playing field for small businesses, so for those smart and savvy businesspeople who want to pitch the media themselves, or learn best practices in social media marketing, or become proficient in search engine optimization, I gladly provide professional guidance and one-to-one training and phone coaching for powerful and do-able action plans.  Client DIY – a little or a lot – often factors into my client services, tailored to each client’s needs, budget, and skill set.

Before I’m “On the Clock”

I get to know your business, help you set clear goals for polishing your brand and building awareness, and work with you to build a complete and integrated strategy for achieving those goals. Once we have a clear plan in front of us, I execute with efficiency. If you come to me for teaching, I will bring you up to speed on how to pitch the media, practice social media, and implement web traffic-driving upgrades and tools, and give you complete instructions for how to follow best practices.

With NetMarketing-123, you always work with a seasoned professional who oversees your entire strategy, insuring that each piece works hand-in-hand with the other.  No novices here. No extraneous overhead. Just results.

Every week I send out a tip, tool, or discovery on the latest and greatest in PR, social media, and SEO.  Want these nuggets of information to come into your mailbox once a week?  Join my email list here!