Thomas Petty Enterprises

About Thomas W. Petty

Thomas Petty has been a Digital Marketing Trainer since 2008 when he founded the company. His passion is helping business owners effectively generate results for their web marketing without turning into a full-time marketer. He loves teaching people simple, non-technical techniques that get an “Aha, I get it!” reaction.

The Nerdy Background

He has been involved with technology since 1989. He had a 21-year career at a Fortune 100 company, most of which was spent in the Information Technology arena. His background and expertise spans computer and server support, networks, data centers, web technology and software systems design and deployment.

He has taught many different types of coursework including Windows®, computer programming, networks, and WordPress® as well as a long list of webinars that have been attended by people from around the globe.

Thomas is only one of approximately 3000 HFI-Certified Usability Analysts® in the world, having been trained in web usability by Human Factors International.

He has owned his own digital marketing and SEO consulting business in Livermore, California since 2005, and works with many different industries to market their businesses on the web.

This is Digital Marketing for the rest of us!

No more geek-speak or nerdy terminology.Thomas Petty Enterprises, dba of the Bay Area Search Engine Academy, Inc. was founded in 2008. Our goals are to teach business owners, entrepreneurs and employees at small firms how to effectively market on the internet.

Technology has changed a lot in the last decade (Facebook and Twitter both became publicly available in 2006 and the first iPhone came out in 2007!), and the web has changed drastically right along side in that same time period.

Search engine and digital marketing has evolved from simple to becoming much more complex. Social media has changed the way we communicate, and the options available to marketers has gotten bigger and more difficult to sift through and rise above all the noise.

We’re here to help you sort through all the systems, tools, and products, and hopefully give you as a busy business owner and your employees a clear-cut path through the weed-choked forest to generate new business, without turning into geeks.

Our Goals

We want you to be able to have success, no matter how novice or skilled you are. Our goals are fairly simple:

  • Teach you the best way to market online in the least amount of time needed
  • How to effectively generate results – which means more leads coming in the door
  • Lay down the foundation so you can grow your business the way you want it to grow

Our solemn promise to you is that we will:

  • Use business language that makes sense to you as a business owner, not geek-speak
  • Give you the simple tools that get real results without using complicated systems
  • Show what you can ignore, and what are the most important things to pay attention to, and where possible, set it and forget it

“This guy really cares about his clients and goes the extra mile. I have been working in Internet marketing for a number of years with brands like Cisco Systems, creating with my team, compelling sites that generate a great deal of traffic. Tom taught this old dog some new tricks!

He recommended some new tools for the site that I had foolishly rejected in earlier sites because I thought I knew better. NOPE! He helped me understand how they would make prospecting and communicating with new clients so much more efficient.

The site is generating more leads and prospects than I have ever had. I am having a hard time keeping up with them.”

Nick P.
Business Owner, San Francisco, CA